The herald., 1896-02-22

simmons bowed and grinned his usual
capacious grin and then hurried away to
dress himself.
Maher was unconscious fifteen seconds
and it was fully minute after he had been
carried to his corner before he gained full
consciousness. He was not disposed to
talk much He is no talker at any time
and would have little to say If he had won.
"He got me good and hard and that was
all there was to it," he said. n heard the
referee counting and heard the men IN my
corner calling me to rise, but could not
rise. When L knew anything at all was
in my corner and they were rubbing my
face with water"
Fltzsmmous was very modest consider
ing tile brilianl victory he had won.
81 could have put him out the nrst
punch he said, "but didn't reach him
hard enough. There was never minute
! since the match was made that have an
ticipated any other result than this. am
sure of him at all stages of the game. tie
was afraid the minute he put up his hands,
and knew it. 1t was just like the hrst
fight l had with him in New Orleans. |
could have licked him long before if
tried, and yet people are saying to this day
that he had me nearly whipped. just got
in on him with my right and caught him
squarely on the side of the Jaw. | knew
it was all over when | landed on him; II
was dead easy from the start"
THE JAW NOT DISABLED
Ell PAso, Tex, Feb. 2l.--After Fitzsim-
mons and his party had come up to the
railway station Ernest Rector, the kiueto-
! scope man. came to him with proposition
to fight Maher SIX rounds in front Of his
machine, which would not work today be-
cause OF the dark weather. Fitzsimmons
readily accepted the chance, but said he
Il, n1,r h(l
per cent. of the net receipts from the exhi-
bition of the pictures. This was carried to
the Maher party, and in the carrying 1t
was so distorted that Fitzsimmous was
made to say that he would bet $1,000 that
he could stop Maher at any time within
six rounds.
| Quinn, the backer of Maher, came rush.
ing back to see titzsimmons about the
proposition. The new champion dis
claimed having said anything of the sort,
and a war of words resulted. Challenges
for all sorts of sums were hurled back and
forth. but by the time the train had pulled
out of Langtry for Ell Paso nothing had
been done.
81 don't care about fighting before the
kinetoscope." said Fitzsimmons. LIVERY
time they want me to do it they want me
to give the other fellow all of the money,
and l want some of it myself. will fight
Maher again, of course, If the money Is
put up, but I don't fight before that ma
chine unless get $4,000 cash and 80 per
cent of the receipts"
The special cars awaiting the fight spec
tators at FL Paso depot were attached to
! the regular train on the Southern Pacific,
which was 45 minutes late coming into I'll
Paso. There we're five cars. About 100
persons bought tickets at the station, put
| ting up $11.65 each. The tickets to he
fight were $40, and those who wished
could secure sleeping car accommodations
| for So.
| A quieter and better behaved lot of visit
ors to prizefighJ never gathered. Fitz-
| simmons and his party occupied next to
| the last sleeper in the train of nine cars,
| Maher and his party were in the one i'm
medately ahead of Fitzsimmons. The
run to Langtry is $50 miles. 1t was with
out momentous incident. At Marathon
about 8 O'Clock in the morning, Fitzsim-
mons espied a big black bear chained to
the corner of an adobe house about 500
| feet from the track. Fitzsimmuns logged
over to the bear and scraped up an ac-
! quaintance while the engine was taking
| water.
General Mabry and twenty-six of his
| Texas rangers, with heavily laden cart
ridge belts, horse pistols and Winchester
| rifles, accompanied the train. The rangers
and the Acknowledgement witnessed the
fight and enjoyed it. But those who had
| the best view of the show were the villagers
!
been looking for it week or more. They
were perched on the cliffs on the Texas
! side of the river, and had birds eye view
| of the arena beneath and they cheered at
| the Knockout more loudly than those close
at the ringside. The village of Langtry
about fifty residents. Del Rio is sixty
four miles away. A special train from
| Del Rio and Eagle Pass brought in l75,
which with those from Ell Paso were all
| that there were about the ring.
| A more perfect place for the fight with
out interference could not be devised. 1t
is all but inaccessible, and from the Mex-
can side cannot be reached except by
| coming up or down the stream for long
distance. Once the banks were reached,
the troops could fire from the cliffs upon
those who might he beneath. Two hundred
Mexican troops were at Eagle Pass, ready
to move upon advice from the governor of
, Caohuila, in which state the fight took
| place, but it would take them two days
| forced marching to reach the spot of the
! fight.
ihe weather was threatening, and just
! as the train pulled into Langtry the drops
began to fall. A light rain fell until Just
before the men entered the ring, when it
| practically ceased, but came again in oc-
| casional spurts.
! The general opinion among the sporting
men who witnessed the fight was that it
| was u IllOSt DrIllldlb uIlCudlueQ VIC
| tory for FitZsimmons. Maher may not
have been in as good condition as the Aus
| tralan, but he could not have been out
| fought so quickly no matter what his con-
| ditiou might have been, had he not been
| outciassed in point of skill. The general
| opinion is tha Ritzsimmons is capable of
! giving Corbett, or any other man on earth,
desperate, hard fight at any time.
| FitzsiInmons weighed 165 pounds and
Aaher about $50.
| the crowd disappeared from Langtry al
| most as quickly as 1t had come, and it was
/, not in the neighborhood over two and one.
half hours all told. The west-bound reg.
! uar train for Ell Paso was held until 6
| o'clock. and when it went it carried with it
the pugilists and nearly every person who
| had come down to see the fight. The one
special train from Eagle Pass started on its
homeward way as soon as the fight Was
| over.
| SOME ANCIENT HISTORY
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Fitzsimmons and
Maher were matched in this city Decem-
ber 5, 1898.
After the Hot Springs fiasco Dan Stewart
went back to Dallas and thought the mat.
ter all over. He had not given up the idea
| of bringing the men together. He looked
for another place where battle might be
brought Off, and found it near Ell Paso,
| Texas. He secured titzsimmons' consent
for fight for a big purse, and then came
north TO look Up Corbett.
Arriving in this city he learned of Maher's
! tictc GfIlOnnalI and Of Cnrhoft3e