St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-17
WILL CLAIM THE FORFEIT
As MAHER,S EYES STILL HAVE
MORE SAND THAN THE
AVERAGE PUGILIST.
coRBETr IN puG1LrsTIc HuMoR.
Declares His Intention of ChalIeng-
ing the Winner if n Fight
Occurs.

be no fight tomorrow. That much is
certain, no matter what comes later in
the week Makers eyes are still i'm
proving, but he will be in no condition
to enter the ring tomorrow Julian I'M
doubtedIy will claim the forfeit tomor-
row, but he declined today to express
any opinion as to what he would do,
but Buck Connolly came in from the
Maher camp at Las Cruces today to
attend the conference arranged yester-
day between Julian and himself. His
train was late, however, and Julian, in
common with about everybody else was
at the bull fight at Juarez. Late in the
day Connolly met him and asked him
to agree to a poStponement until Fri
day Julian would agree to nothing.
Connolly then asked him to come over
to Ell PaSo and hold a conference to-
night. Mrs. Julian had friends invited
to dinner and dinner would be late.
He, therefore, declined Mr.. Connolly'S
invitation to confer. Some more talk
enSued, but no agreement was reached.
Julian promised to come over to Ell
Paso at 10 o'clock tomorrow, and said
that he would then decide upon his
action. He demanded that Maher be
brought in from Las. Cruces, and that
he SuD1lll 10 dHOlHSf eXdIulHdlloll ne
is somewhat fearful that Makers eyes
may be getting well more rapidly than
reported by his friends, and that he
will work in several days condition be-
tween now and Friday. Connolly OBJ
jected strongly to bringing Maher to
this city, but finally said he would do
SO if it was absolutely necessary.
"Maher simply cannot fight on Monday,
said Connolly. His eyes are better, but he
is not able to endure strong light, let alone
the glare of the sun. 1 told Julian it would
be of no use for him to claim forfeit, for If
he attempted it l would have Peter at the
ringside and prevent him from getting the
money. he cannot get any forfeit If Maher
appears at the ringside. The articles say the
forfeit can only be claimed If one of the men
fails to appear. They do not say that a man
must fight in order to prevent the payment of
the forfeit. If 1 have my man at the ring
forfeit and tell you he will not get 1t. We
will take Maher to the ringside blind as he Is,
and then refuse to fight if Julian insists on
claiming the forfeit. He will have appeared
at the ringside and fulfilled all conditions for
the violation of which any forfeit can be
claimed What good is it going to do Julian
Continuing, Connolly said he would positive
ly refuse to allow Maher to enter the ring
in his present condition or until his eyes
are well.
~ would not let him step into that ring
for $1O,OOO'' he said. HE has no earthly
show to win as things are now and all the
lISH oil over TIE cOuuITy WHO nave DeC money
on Maher would lose They would blame me,
and justly so, for the loss Of their money.
Maher will not fight until he has a chance
to win, no matter what it costs me personally
l am sure he will be able to win by Friday,
and want to wait until that time. What
Julian and Fitzsimmons will do 1 cannot tell"
SMALL FIGHTS OFF.
All the small fights have been de-
clared off. There never has been
strong probability that they would be
lA1
work this morning. There was for some
time chance of the Everhardt-Leeds
match being brought about, but the
management refused to take chances
on giving away the secret of their bat
tie ground and everybody agrees that
one fight will be the limit. AS only one
can be had, it was decided that the big
one should stand, and the others went
by the board accordingly. The man
agement viii pay all forfeits on the
small fights, $3.50 to each man; and the
fighters are at liberty to go home as
soon as they like.
Julian and FitZsimmons are much
disguised over the outlook and have
no hesitancy in expressing their opin-
ions. They claim to have been ready
at any time during the past month and
the other side was not They have en-
gagements in the East for the latter
part of February and are anxious to
keep them. Whatever is the outcome
of the conference tomorrow there Is
certain to be a warm time while 1t
lasts. Stuart's confidence is still SUI
preme. He is doing no talking these
days, but simply replies to all ques-
tons. Il am ready to pull off the fight
any time, and the sooner the men get
together the better I will be pleased
The managers Of the fight are con-
fronted with new obstacle. The por-
ton Of the purses subscribed by the
citizens Of Ell Paso expires by limita-
ton tomorrow if the fight is not off by
that time; some of the subscriptions
are unpaid and the chances are now
they will never be paid. Nearly all of
the prize fighters went over to Juarez
this afternoon to attend the bull fights.
Four horses, worth about So each, were
gored to death, four bulls were tor
tured and slain, and the arena was
covered with blood. The MeXicans, as
usual, howled with delight at the spec
tacle. but fighters came back Disguised
to the last degree. Fitzsimmons,
Leeds, Barry, Walcott, Everhardt and
Dixon were there and all of them are
still trying to figure out how a people
who can tolerate the sickening sight
of the bull pen can object to prize
fight with gloves.
Fighting is golf to this blooming
bloody game" remarked FitZsimmons
in wrath after he had seen the third
bull butchered. There are very few
sportingmen left in Ell Paso now. Al
Smith, Jimmy Wakeley and a few
others are at Hot Springs, thirty-six
miles away. The majority of the
others have gone home.
During the fight one Of the horses
was horribly .mangled by a bull and
was galloping around the ring frantic
with pain. Fitzsimmons, who sat near
the box of Gov. Ahumada, arose and,
walking up to the governors inter-
prefer, said ASK him how he likes
that sort of thing"
The governor replied that he saw
nothing bad about it.
WELL" said Fitzsimmon, task him if