St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-21
THE EVE Of BATTLE
ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT MA
HER AND FITZ WILL FIGHT
TODAY.
SPOT STILL KEPT SECRET.
MAHER SAID TO BE IN MUCH BET.
TER CONDITION THAN WAS
| EXPECTED.
"A SHORT FIGHT IS PREDICTED,
And q Hurricane Battle From the
Start-RumOrs OF Trouble at
the Ringside.

Ell PASO, Feb. 20.-The pugilists and
the crowd bound for the fight left on
the east-bound train over the South
ern Pacific. leaving here at 1905 u. IN
The immediate members of the Maher
and Fitzsimmons parties are provided
with railroad tickets to Langtry, Tex
and sleeping car berths to Del Ro,
Tex, the second station east of Lang
try.
At the depot tickets were sold these
who wanted to go to the prize fight
to the town Of Langtry, 400 miles away.
The train will not reach there until
after L o'clock tomorrow, and there Is
no telling when the crowd will set
back. The fight will take place pr !
ably about half-past 2 o'clock. There
is only one place betw. Ell here AMI
Langtry where it is possible for the
fight to take place, and as it is guard
ed, it is probable that no attempt VIII
be made to stop there. The prize fight
Ing train consisted of SIX or seen
coaches and three sleeper.. the latter
of which were crowded and the fu:Jner
comfortably filed.
Soon after 10 p. m. FitzSimmons
started for the train accompanied by
Martin Julian, Jack Steiner and Will
lam Mccoy, all of whom will probably
be in his corner. Fitzsimmons went to
sleeping car which was lying on
side track. A state room had been set
aside for his party. He remained at
the house Of Dr. A. K. Albers until a
few moments before the train time.
During the long wait for the train, the
Rangers seated themselves in a row
along the station with their Win
chesters resting on their knees. 1t did
not seem that there were more than
200 sports ready with the $35 or more
required for a ticket and railway fare.
The newspaper correspondents formed
a considerable portion of the crowd.
Ell PASO, Tex, Feb. 2O-Peter Maher,
followed by rangers to the train bear
Ing him from Las Cruces, N. M, and
accompanied by others on the trip. ar
rived here at noon today He left the
train at the smelter, three miles out.
Rangers were posted at every point
from the railway station out to await
him. A carriage was in waiting at the
smelter, and into this Maher, Hall
on run, reached this city Hot after
the carriage came two mounted rang
ers, with their horses covered with
foam. Maher had evaded them After
reaching here, Maher remained in hid
ing several hours. Then he appeared
on the streets with his trainers. MAX
ing no effort to conceal his movements.
The Irishman looks better than could
QXnGcta6 q hoe no Il
the "alkaH eye' and whose training
has been interrupted. He has little
to say. "PlI be at the ringside, and
I'll make Fitzsimmons know he has
had a fight is the substance of what
Peter has to say.
Everybody predicts a short fight, a
hurricane battle from the call Of time.
Jim Hall, Buck Connolly, J. J. Quinn
and probably Philip Lourie will be in
Makers corner. Jack Everhardt Will
lam Mccoy, Jack Stencil and Martin
Julian will probably care for Fitzsim-
mons.
There are a dozen rumors as to the
place of the meeting. One is that a
run will be made to NogaIes, on the
DETERMINATIONS line, near which
point the fight will take place The re-
port that is generally credited is that
q special train will leave at 10 o'clock
tonight on the Galveston, Harrisburg
& San Antonio railway, ITS miles from
Ell Paso, when the extra cars will be
attached to the train and brought
back to a point near Fort Hancock,
which will be reached about daylight.
Fort Hancock is about fifty miles
south and near enough to the Rio
Grande river to be within walking
distance. The crowd will cross the
river and the
FIGHT WILL TAKE PLACE
on the Mexican side Credence is given
to this because it is announced by Sec
rotary Wheelock that the trip to the
grounds will cost each person about a
dozen dollars. 1t g probable the spec
tators will be aaassd to buy round-trip