The herald., 1896-12-15
gentlemen OF THE RING
Show Up in Court or the
Arena
SHARKEY THE SAILORMAN
Has Not Yet Told How lie Got His
Hurts
Many Less Famous Pugs Furnish Some
Amusement for Admirers of the
Manly Art
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec l4.-The
| Sharkey Fitzsimmons controversy had
another airing in court today, and sew
eral of the stars of what has been styled
the pugilistic melodrama" appeared and
gave their testimony. Prominent among
these was Fitzsimmons himself, who
presented some interesting evidence con-
cerning his own conduct in the ring and
| the precautions he had taken to make
the fight a clean and open one. Martin
/ Julian occupied the stand for some time
and detailed everything that he was
| questioned about in a conversational
manner that held the attention of the
crowd.
| DR.. D. d. Lustig. examiner of the Ma
! tional club, told on the stand how he hal
examined Sharkey and Fitzsimmons be-
| fore the fight and how after Sharkey was
knocked out he applied for admission to
Sharkey's dressing room. He was ac-
companied by four other doctors, who
rendered their services to Sharkey in
view of the report that he was injured.
All were refused admission, but the next
day Lustig and the other doctors were
summoned to examine Sharkey in his
room.
DR.. Lustig testified that Sharkeys in
juries in the groin might have been Gre
ated by various causes and might have
been caused by artificial means, such as
| injection of water. He did not think
| Sharkey's injuries were severe enough
| to incapacitate him or keep him in bed.
If Sharkey had been struck foul blow
as he claims Lustig says he would have
| collapsed at once.
Bob Fitzsimmons then took the stand
| and denied that he had ever struck
+, Sharkey foul blow. He illustrated the
| blows he had given Sharkey. He said
he knew an hour or two before the fight
| there was a conspiracy to decide the
fight against him, and told how he had
protested to Groom and Gibbs of the
National club and how they refused to
| select another referee. He said that
| during the fight he was extra careful to
| avoid an appearance of a foul blow,
knowing he had a crooked referee to
| deal with. He said he fought at long
range and took no chances of commit
ting a foul.
| tried to agree on referee; how the club
| had selected carp; how Police Commits
| sioner Gunst and Riley Grannon had told
him carp had been fixed, and how when
he called Earp's attention to Sharkey's
| unfair tactics and fouls, carp said FitZ-
| simmons was doing as much wrestling
as Sharkey. Julian was asked for pos
tive proof of fraud, but could produce
nothing more than hearsay testimony.
| He quoted Riley Grannon as saying he
! had overheard carp and Joe Harvey a
bookmaker, discussing the fight. Harvey
said: rs it all right?" carp had re-
piled: You can depend on me-"
Danny Lynch, with whom General
| Barnes opened up Sharkeys side of the
argument, made some remarkably lurid
| allegations and was on the stand for
| over an hour.
The court was crowded again with ca
| ger listeners. They not only filled the
space set apart for the general public,
| but overflowed into the body of the room
and occupied all the window sills. Once
| in their anxiety to hear what Fitzsim-
mons had to say they broke down por-
ton of the railing that is supposed to
separate the common citizens from the
attorneys and reporters. The judge
sternly rebuked their action and told
them that if they smashed anything
more he would order the room cleared.
Sharkey was there all day. He sat in
the jury box and took in every detail of
the evidence wearing an extremely ju-
dicial air that seemed to sit well on his
thoughtful and disfigured features.
TO BE COLLECTED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14.-Superior
against Bob Fitzsimmons in favor of
James F. Carroll: lightweight pugilist,
for 5000. The claim was for training ex-
penses in New Orleans.
FOUR FAIR FIGHTERS.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 14--Joe Cans
of Baltimore knocked out Charley Roch-
cite of San Francisco in the fourth
round, and Jack Ward of Newark, n. j.,
was awarded the decision over Jimmy
Anthony of Australia in a ten-round
contest tonight. The first pair fought at
1872 pounds and the latter at 112. Roch-
cite put up good fight until near the
swung his left on the head, staggering
! Rochette, and before he could recover
Cans put his right straight on the point
of the jaw. Rochette went down, but
rose in dazed condition and swung
wildly until a rain of rights and lefts
on the head caused the San Francisco
man to go down as the gong rang. 1t was
apparent he could not respond and ref.
cree Young MITCHELL declared Gan.
: winner.
Anthony Ward fight:
In the first round Anthony forced mat
ters, lending well on the body with thu
right, but got several left swings on tn
head and neck. Anthony kept at hi
; man in the second, jabbing Ward in tn,
| face with his left. Ward landed a har,
right swing over Jimmy's left eye, ,caus
ing the blood to flow.
The third round was a clever exhbi
ton with Anthony forcing Ward aroun
the ring. Just at the close Ward pu
:, vicious left swing in Anthony's face
= staggering the little Australian. In tn
fourth Anthony jabbed his left on tn
i, nose and face, bringing the blood in
;, steady flow. Ward got in two or thre
hard rights on Jimmy's ears.