Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-02-01
CHALLENGE TO SMITH.
Peter Burns Wants to Fight Him
For Five Hundred,
Manager Quinn in Earnsst-New Ar.
rivals Yesterday-How Mahsr
Trains-About Referee
George Stler.
(El Paso Tines.)

Yesterday morning a fresh consign-
ment of sports arrived from st. Louis,
Dallas and Fort Worth. They applied
to the bureau of information for rooms
one month, and report that large crowds
from the cities named will arrive in FL
Paso on the 18th and 18th OF next
month. Referee Siler, of Chicago,
writes that ne will be here early next
week and that Chicago will send several
hundred people to the carnival.
Another large crowd visited Fitzsim-
mons training quarters in Juarez yes
terday and watched the Australians
superb exhibition of bag punching. Lou
Housemsn put on the gloves with Fiz
Just for fun.
Houseman is very silent on the subject
as TO who he thinks will win the big
battle. AS sporting editor of the Chi
caeo Inter-Ocean he will pay frequent
visite to both camps and must therefore
keep his thoughts to himself as to who
he thinks will win. until few days be-
fore the fight and then he can inform
his Chicago friends through his paper
just what he believes will happen when
the two giants meet in the ring.
Makers daily routine for training is as
follows: Gets up in the morning at
o'clock and takes bath, then goes for
Ill liz hoS lzfa
O'Clock takes an eighteen miles run,
returning to his quarters at 10 O'Clock
to be rubbed down. Eats lunch at
o'clock; at 1:30 sprints $50 yards for one
hour and then punches the bag for one
hour. He then boxes with his trainer
until 4 o'clock, rms to his cottage and
jumps inta bath. He eats supper at 6
o'clock and then goes visiting; returns
home at $50 to play cards and retires at
$50.
Manager Quinn, OF the Mahsr combi.
nation, authorizes the TImes to issue
the following III ilIenge:
"Peter Burns is ready to meet Billy
Smith, of Ell Paso, to hghv to finish
for $500 side and any purse that may
be offered and If Billy Smith cannot
put up $500, Burns will fight him for
gate money. Let Smith speak il he
wants the fight"
That is stiff talk and Billy's admirers
in Ell Psso now have an opportunity to
back him. Ia their friendly bout at the
opera house last Saturday night Billy
Smith gave Peter Burns a black eye
with bis wrist, and Burns would no
doubt like to have an opportunity to re-
turn the compliment. There is also some
talk about match between Billy Smith
and Jack Stelzaer.
By the way, il you want to pronounce
Peter Makers name correctly you must
give the ga" the same sound as the "a"
in sat"
Soldier Brown, the champion heavy
weight Of the Pacific coast, is expected
in Ell Paso every day. He is coming to
box with FitZ during bis training.
WHO GEORGE sILER IS.
George Siler OF Chicago was chosen
to referee the Maher Ftzsimmons
match.
Siler Is well known to the sporting
fraternity. Twenty years ago he Was
light weight champion Of the east, and
it wss not many years sgo that Prof.
Mike Donovan boxed SIler and said
that he could handle himself bstter than
most Of the latter day fighters. The
last time Siler had on the glove in pub
lie was in 1893 at the old Peoples thea
ter in Chicago, when he met McAulIffe
for four round go and made q good
showing.
OF late years Siler has been a writer
on sporting topics. He was sporting
editor on the old Chicago Globe, now
defunct, and afterwards became official
referee Of the Columbia club of Roby,
Ind. He "a now connected with Chi
cego paper.
George Siler knows ell there is to
know about pugii!sm, and is as ''square"
man SIS lives. He has never been inl-
plcated in questionable fights, and his
ability ard fairness as a referee are
everywhere recognized.