The San Francisco call., 1896-12-19
ECHOES OF THE
LONG GREEN FIGHT.
Both Pugilists and Their
Trainers Are Still in
Town.
Friends Will Give a Compli.
mentary Benefit to Fitz-
simmons.
Programme of Interesting Turns Sug.
gested for the Affair - The
Division of the Purse.

Wyatt carp and his patron and eT,
ployer, Long Green Lawrence, are happy
They got away with the job put up II
bunco Prize-tghler Fitzsimmons-and the
end may not be yet.
The garnishments which kept the purse
in chancery amount to not more thar
$4,000. This will leave $1,000. According
to the testimony OF Trainer Billy Smitt
Earp is to receive $2500. Then it is to bt
presumed that General Barnes fee vii
not be less than $1,000 for his eloquent de
tense of public morals and his scathinl
denuncia1ion OF that brutal exhibition
known as prZe-ight. He succeeded II
convincing the court that his client
Sharkey, had committed felony, anc
that he himself by attending the fight a:
q spectator was a law-breaker. But ht
appeared at the fight as a private indi-
vidual, whereas, in court he was in the
role OF lawyer, supporting and urging
the enforcement of the law. That was
easily worth $1,000. 1t was reported that
Manager Lynch was to get $4,000. That
would leave $500 to compensate 0harkey
for receiving the caulifower ear and the
poke in the stomach, and to pay Drs. Lee
and Ragan for their services.
If carp gets $500 he should give Long
Green Lawrence at least $1,000 forinduc-
ing Gibbs and Groom to appoint MIN
referee.
Civic Federation talk has evidently had
very little effect on the principals of the
late gladiatorial tasco, for Dolh Fltz and
Sharkey, their managers and seconds are
still i'll town. Sharkey still holds forth in
all that splendor of blue suit and brass
81 of no
Baldwin attired in clerical garb.
Julian said yeste rday that he is yet un-
determined about when the party will go
East. He doesn't intend to be ''bluffed'
out of the City, anyway.
In regard TO the kinetoscope PROPOSE ton
he didn't care to say much. If CorDett
was satisfied he and FltZsimmons were
also. Nothing on their part should inter
fere with the contest.
Julian feels pretty sore over the manner
in which the Cornishman was robbed. He
admits as much. but the fact that Sharkey
Will get so little of the purse acts as a
soothing lotion to his Indignation.
Several gentlemen interested in the
manly art have approached Julian with a
proposition to give FitzsiInmons a COM
pHmentary benefit before he leaves for the
East. The pugilist and his manager say
that they are not in need and do not care
when it was represented that the affair
was intended as a testimonial of ad-
miration for the prowess of Mr.. Fitzsim-
mons Julian consented to take the matter
under Amusement until this afternoon. l!
the benefit takes place at ell it will be held
in WoCdward's Pavilion. FItzsimmons
will give an exhibition of boxing and
there will be many other interesting feat
ures.
II hoe banp s,,r1au+ad that tho fol1owip n
programme would insure packed house /:
Living pictures-Colonel KowalSky en-
joyIng an esthetic snore.
Long Green Lawrence balancing $40, 900
sack OF gold on his chin.
Wyatt carp illustrating the method of
getting the drop on prize-ighter.
General Barnes convincing the court
that his client, Sharkey, had committed a
felony.
DR.. Lees exposition of the value of TO-
dine in priZe-ring surgery.
Manager Lynch explaining why he
worked for Sharkey for nothing.
Willie Hearst explaining why the Jour
nal blows hot and the Examiner blows
cold on the fight
Jake Rauer lecturing on the necessity
OF having strong strings TO a purse.
Other equally interesting features could
be introduced. But even the few attrac-
pack the pavilion.
The Civic Federation will meet next
Monday, but it is not expected that any
steps will be taken to secure indictments
by the Grand Jury. The federation al
lowed the Corbett and other prize-fghts
to go on without protest, and il is not
likely that it will prove inconsistent with
its course by creating trouble now. after
the death-warrant OF boxing-matches in
this City has been read
Charles Wesley Reed, formerly the legal
adviser OF the federation, resigned about
three months ago, when the federation
declared its intention of putting a ticket
of its own in the field to be voted for at
the November election. He saw in the
proposition a fatal blow at the usefulness
of the federation.
He said yesterday that he had been one
OF committee appointed by the fedora
tion to commit mlsGemeanor by attend
ing the Corbett fight for the purpose OF
acquiring the knowledge necessary for a
report upon the wickedness of pugiiism.
Mr.: Reed enjoyed the bout Immensely,
and the committee reported that it was a
most interesting spectacle and altogether
humane, neither of the pugilists having
been manned for life or killed. The fed
Grafton dropped the matter then and
there and has allowed several prize
tights TO be held here since that time.