The evening times., 1896-12-03
LOCAL AND FOREIGN COMMENT ON THE FRISCO FIGHT
Fitz-Sharkey Affair Called a Fake
by Experts Here.
FOUL CLAIMED TOO LATE
Mike ScanlOn Is Certain Bob Was
Party to the Scheme-His Tricky
Talk in the COrbett Affairs Re-
caIled-The Contest With Maher
and the Division of the Purse.

Michael Scanlon, "Bin'' Dickson and sew
eral other sporting men were IN group
this morning, eagerly discussing the fight.
',Fitz is n faker,'' said Scanlon to The
Times reporter. II know what l am
talking about, and l haven't any grudge
against Fitz. either. When he was here he
was around my place all the time.
MY opinion is that the whole fight
last night was a fake simply for the purse
there was in il. Why, sharkey was fore
ing the fighting in the seventh.
besides, Fitz is not u knocker- out.
He is not puncher He has lot got
muscle enough. He ouidn't thit hard enough
to put man out All the talk he made
about knocking sharkey out in four rounds
was stiff
''Sharkey has a shady reputation, and
1t was IA cold deal between the two for the
money. I'd like to see Sharkey get into
a ring with FitZ. III bet he'd knock him
clean over the ropes.
Il am not fond of Corbett, but l think
he could lick Bob if he had to do it, But
neither Will fight the other if he can help
il. Why, you remenIbcr T. they fought through
The newspapers for nearly two years.
FITZA MoNEY-MAKER.
"Fitz is making money. and don't you
nal ke Il mistake. Why, read The TIMES $
story of the fight, and common sense VIII
tell you that the affair wasa fake.
Bill Dixon and the others nodde d appruv-
tngly a. all Scanlon said.
Another keen observer of fiStic events
in SchoOma her's said
''of course, II was Il fake, and nothing
else. 1t shows that on its face. Why
didn't Sharkey claim the foul when il
was made. think the thing was premedi-
tatcd and that carp was fixed TO award
II on an alleged foul ut the time lie did
More of this sentiment was expressed
at the downtown sporting resorts.
said one sport: when Fitz went to
Texas to fight Curbett after all the hlow-
ing off they had in the papers, the sheriff
went To him and said he would guarantee
protection if Cnrbett went into trai. ing
there. FitZ refused and, 80, clearly showed
he did not want to meet Corbett."
He hadn't dollar to get back from
Texas: couldn't even raise enough for the
fare. ST he fixed up the fight with Peter
Maher. That was a fake. Maher was
fixed TO be knocked out, and it was done
in half Il round. Maher went to ireland
soou afterward, and showed four or five
thousand dollars around.
''Maher hadn't cent before he met
Fitz. They divided the purse between
them.
RINGSIDE HIPPODROMES.
Then Fitzsimmons goes to New York
and fixed up a fake contract with Corbett.
They hadn'C IL dollar up and IL Smith eN
posed the crooked scheme. Smith is the
squarest man in the business. He's m ade half
a milton ANA MS wori Is good. H.'sstraisht,
and they found it out when he said they
had no. out M anv forfei- with him.
II think Fitz does crooked work for
money, and tn. others amt any better
Take the Choynski- -Fitzsinmcns fight in
Boston," remarked another sporting man:
that was big hippodrome. Choynski all
hut had Fitz out and then lay down and let
himself lose Why, he all but forced Fitz
over the ropes.
"A mother case of crpokedness in the ring
was the Dixon Erne fight. The color"d man
was the fresher of the two, and they Were
standing a the end OF twenty rounds. The
decision should have been a draw, hut the
referee was fixed and surprised everybody
by giving the fight TO Erne.''