The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-19
Even Were His Eyes Well He'd
Be i'm No Condition.
THE r FIGHT LIKELY TO BE SHORT.
Peters Best Plan Is TO Rush. and Bob
Likes That Sort of Thing.
On the Day After Tomorrow the Men
VIII Meet, Unless the Irishman
Finds a Way To Back Ont On,y Two
or Three Hundred Spectators Ex-
pected.

El Paso. Tex. Feb 1S-Prixeight mat
ters We're very quiet today. Not more than
corporafs guard Of sporting men are an
hand waiting for Friday. and it IS not sure
that all OF them wili remain that long.
Eftzsimmons went back 10 his work this
morning. and appeared In ri Paso for on.y
few minutes, shortly before noon. lie is
In magnificent condition. lie had nothing
to say in regard TO the situation. except
that he expected 70 win. and very quickly
He is very sore over the loss of his $i.tto
forfeit money yesterday. and if he defeats
Maher the latter Will get a worse licking
than he might have received had Fitzsim-
mons obtained what he considers his rights
yesterday.
Fitzsimmcns laughed when told OF the
interchange of kilograms between Corbett
and Julian, and repeated what he had said
in the early morning about his willingness
TO meet Corbett II will fight him any
where he likes. at any time he likes. in
London or in this country. All / ask is
place where We can be safe from interfer-
ence. would not go through again what
! have been through down here for all the
championships that We're ever made. /
can HEX Corbett. and will lick him II ever
We get in the ring together. That's all l
have TO say about him. When / have
whipped Maher / will be champion of the
world by virtue of Corbett's own action IN
giving the championship TO Maher, and
Will accommodate Jim with a chance TO
get his championship again. won't keep
his waiting. either
COX. Ahumada left Juaraz this morning
:or various points i'm the territory of his
province. He has come to the opinion that
there will be no trouble and that his pres
ence OH the border is no longer neces-
sary. Before leaving he said: should
the fighters give battle on Chihuahua soil
hafs
tators and newspaper correspondents, ana
not one will escape a three years sentence
in prison.
III reports from Las Cruises may be re-
lied upon, Peter Maher's eyes are improv-
ing. and the Irishman is going about the
New Mexican town with shaded glasses.
Jimmy Conery says that Peter. between
boils and "alkili eyes" has not done more
than ten days all told of good honest train
ing. Buck" Connolly declares that his
charge will be In the ring on Friday and
that ne thinks Peter viii be in reasonable
shape then. so far as his eyes are con-
cerned. DR. G. Randall declares that while
Maher NAV, he should not attempt TO
fight under a couple of weeks.
Should the men fight. the battle Is ex-
pected to be short and sharp. 1t is the
plan of the Maber party. If they must
fight. to send their man after FftZsim-
mons with rush. In the hope OF getting
Fitzsifnrnens orr the go and landing him
by a fortunate blow early In the proceed
ings. II is. in fact. about the only hope the
in-conditioned man has. He can scarcely
hope to play a waiting defensive game
with the lanky Australian. IL FitZsim-
mons carries out his intentions he VIII
also sail in from the call of time. Fitz-
simmons has heard OF Maher's plan of bat
tie, and he proposes going in on the same
lines and ending his adversary in quick
time Therefore the few who will see the
fight expect short but exceedingly lively
mixing. Enoch Rector says the battle viii
not last more than three rounds. Others
say five Will be the limit. Few think il viii
last eight or ten rounds.
Dan Stuart says there will be fight un-
less the principals or one of them fails.
He is ready to fulhll his part. as he has
been since he declared there should be
fight near Ell Paso. He does not care now
II there are only newspaper men for spec
tators, he will fulfill his engagement. II
is probable there Will not he more than go
or 800 at the fight. The would-be specta-
tors have nearly all disappeared. and the
strangers in town are principally from the
country surrounding.