The Red Cloud chief., 1896-02-28
FlTZ is AN EASY WINNER
Defeats Peter Mahrr In one Round which
Lasted Just One Minut. and u i,aif.

the bottoms of the Rio Grurdc river ON
the Mexican side. one mile and a half
from 'hc l.angtry depot. It took Fitz-
simmons just min" seconds To defeat
Mahcr and become tine heavyweight
champion Of the world. The knock
out blow which ended The only ro,A
fought and won the tight. was one ot
ti'Asimmon's famous upper hooks. IL
was 4:2j when time was called, and
one minute and thirty seconds later
Mahcr was lying on the platform I'M
able ,o respond when the ten seconds
had licked away. Corbctt has chal.
lcng"d IL" winner to fight anywhere.
for any purse or none at all.
S~hNDERSOS. Texas. Feb. 20. 49, The
fight party which left III paso last
night reached this place shortly after
noon ON It's way to the fighting ground.
we were over an hour late here and
VIII not reach l.apgtry until about 3
CLOCK this afternoon. From Iangtry
we are TO cross the Rio Grande into
the state of 'oahuila, IN Mexico, where
the night will take place. Dan Stuart
tells me that the ring has arlcady
beer but up within a mile from the
station at Langtry. The only thing
likely TO prevent n fight this afternoon
q ri "a t. 80. l,, .l.I -. -
ont the plans OF the Einctoscope peo-
pie.
There are ten car LOADS Of sports in
II train, and Fita and the Irishman
are IN separate cars. Fitz and Maher
nre IN excellent condition. and each
OF victory. Makers ewes
are nearly well and ne Will re able to
enter the ring and M, up IA good fight.
TAEEH, Texas. Feb. 2".-Train No.
~ OF the Southern Pacific, carrying
the prize fight party. has just passed
Vhis station. 1t is two hours late. II
Is u on the present schedule to
reach Langtry, 40 miles east of here,
the supposed battle-ground, about $3.50
O'Clock, Denver time. II is thought to
be exceedingly doubtful whether the
arrangements can he perfected so
az to pull the fight off before dark, in
which case it will he pulled off early
morning. The party was
all well and in good spirits when the
train passed here.
Ill PAso. Tex, Feb. 80. -Fitzsim.
mons and Mahcr, their hackers, train
and seconds and the crowds bound
the fight left this city ut :i:O5
last night in IL special east
train over the Southern Pacific
railway. The immediate members of
the Maher and Fitzsimmons parties
were provided with railroad tickets to
Langtry, Tex, and sleeping car
TO Del Rio, Tex, the secon
station east of Langtry. The
Southern Pacific tracks run close to
the Rio Grande river near Lanptry.
{ nd it is aid to be Stuart's intention
To cross the river into the Mexican
state of Coahuila, and that the ring
be pitched AZ the foot of MOSQUITO
The region is very mac
To Mexican troops. the noun
tains dropping close to the edge of the
and IL is expected that the fight
viii take place in one of the valleys
on the river bank.
just before the train pulled out il
was discovered that every available
of space on the trucks was occu-
pied by hoodlumS bent on beating
their way TO the fight. Bat Master
took a survey of the situation and
that the imp,cunious sports
would have II long walk back to FL
Masterson's plan was to get his
men together n clear the trucks OF
the train when they reached a point
80 miles east OF here. Several clam
bcred TO the roofs of the coaches.