St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
WHERE FITZsIMMONs MUST LOOK.
FOR HIS NEXT CHANCE TO
FIGHT.
WILL JIM ENTER THE RING7
He SAYS HE WILL, AFTER HIS
STAGE SEASON HAS COME TO
AN END.
ANOTHER YEAR OF JAW BATTLE,
However. Seems Likely Before the
Two Can Be Pitted Against
Each Other.

Friday afternoons fight at -Langtry,
Tex, was but another instance Of the
utter futility Of attempting to figure
out results in a prize fight. Maher, who
was considered as having strong
chance to win, scarcely less than even
in betting. not only did not make any
annoyance for his doughty Australian
antagonist, but went out so soon that
Fits money was much easier than
signing postoffice orders OF cutting
coupons off bonds. One might give him
writer's cranp; the other wear the
skin off his thumb. Meeting Maher
did not endanger either
Now will he meet Corbett? Cerbett
said he would-but that was before
the fight Before the fight, John L.
Sullivan, who has f1attered himself
that he pretty nearly knew a good
thing when he saw him stripped, Sully,
in letter to the New York Journal,
said:
critical blow. When he met Fitz before he
Was green TO the ways Of pugilism, and was in
very poor condition. He is twice the man now
that he was then. He is stronger and he can
punch harder, and he has grown exceedingly
clever. He has had the benefit of good advice
and has been ambitious enough to improve
GllHSeu Dy DOING with really clever men. For
these reasons look to him to defeat Fitzsinl-
mons. and am backing him heavily TO do so.
John was not the only one. Corbett
said:
The fight will not come off AS sure as you
are born, if they pull that fight off every last
one of them will go to Jail. L learned my little
lesson at Hot Springs. l never thought from
the first that the fight would come off. Why
If it had, | would have been there fighting in
stead OF Maher, but I'm not going TO chase
frxT root rcr thn laz.r
However, If the fight is pulled off successfully,
| viii fight the winner. Ii they don't fight,
F1tzsimmons is the man will go for. | know
We can't fight in America. My contract eX-
pires May l, and if, in the meantime l am not
matched, l am going to Australia or England
next May, and will try to get some Of the
prominent sporting clubs to offer purse for
contest between myself and either Fitzsimmons
or Jackson
But that was before the fight. Per-
haps Gentleman 90 Jim has changed
his mind since he saw how Peter got
it. Corbett can change his mind in less
time than any one else in the bust
ness, unless it is Brady. Corbett's
conduct for year has given rise to
widespread impression that he is Ell
Their lazy or scared. Neither is exactly
what people like in fighter. Corbett
is rapidly coming to a place, however,
where he will have to fight some one.
He can't live on old fights always, and
when the show begins to lose money,
Brady will take it off the road and in
sist that Jimmy get into the ring or
quit. OF course, he can string along
a little while on the claim that Makers
eyes We're not in shape, and may stave
off the final dissolution for bit, but
II VIII have to come sooner or later.
1t is singular thing, by the way,
that every one Fitzsimmons ever meets
has something the matter with him
after the fight. 1t might be that way
with Corbett, and if it should, in spite
of the great disparity in their weights
1t would scarcely be more of a sur
prise to the pugilistic world than some
of the other victories by which Fitz
has risen from obscurity to his pres
ent position in the front rank
1t does look as though Corbett would
have to fight or shut up. Where they
can tight is a question. The United
States has singular disadvantages. Cor
bett suggests Australia. F'itZ should
make no objection, but the money OBJ
ject might not be forthcoming there
The kaleidoscope people might save
them, by carting them off to come pri-
Vate barn and setting them together
like rats in a pit, before the fast-fash-
ing camera. 1t is to be hoped, how
ever, that something can be done to
place pugilism on its proper plane, and
call it down from the purely oratorical
position which it held up to Friday.
Stanton Abbott has been matched
to meet Paddy Sheehan, champion of
Lehigh Valley, for six rounds, at a
boxing show at South Bethlehem, to-
morrow. Abbott is also matched to
meet Eddie Connolly, who recently
knocked out Maurice Hagerstrom in
one round, the contest to be decided
In the Farragut Athletic club, in Bos-
ton, March II.
Joe Harmon is to meet Paddy Pur-
tell, of Kansas City, for eight rounds
The contest is to be decided in the
new Manhattan Athletic club, Feb. 27.
Denver Ed Smith says: Il will fight
Corbett for $4,000 side in private and
the $1,000 forfeit now deposited can go
On that match. I want to see if the
ex-ehampion means business or wheth-
er his talk is one of his old-time bluffs
In my opinion Corbett never fought
any one but a has-been. Sullivan was
gone when he fought him, and every
body knows what a back-number Nit
chell was"
The DiXon-Marshall fight has been
changed from a finish fight to one of
fifteen rounds, and will take place be-
fore one of the clubs in Boston on
the 18th Of March. Walcott and Bright
Eyes will fight twenty rounds before
the Long Island City club on March s.
The Barry and Murphy match will
take place at the same place in the