The evening times., 1896-02-07
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES
Wilson and Kelly Getting Into
Shape for Their Battle.
TO MEET NEXT THURSDAY
Pat Raedy Taking Care OF the Former
at the Walkaway Headquarters.
Glum-COrbett Makes Bluff-La-
vigne Bested by Newspa per Man

| NOW tndt tHe ar ~ illeu VIII tne MaDer-
Fitzsimmons battle. it would not be unin-
teresting to know OF the terrible feud that
has existed for several years bet ween Eddie
| Giguere, the diminutive and irrepressible
comedian Of 1.-The Derby Winner Company,
which is now playing for the first time in
Washington at the Academy of Music and
| Arthur Dunn, who was with the same or
| ganization last season. The story refers to
| hard battle one hot summer night in
| Chicago, and Giguere tells it In his own
| peculiar style. Ibid you know" said Gi-
| guere, while perched upon a saw-buck be-
| hind the scenes, that until last week Ar
thur Dunn and / had not spoken a word
| to each other for two years? Well, thereby
hangs tale.
In the summer or '93 Dunn and ] were
engaged to Manager Tom Grenier of the
| Chicago Lyceum to appear in buriesque
! of the 'Mikado.' in which we were 10
| give i friendly three-rOund glove contest
as wind-up. Well, everything went on
all right until about two or three days
before the piece closed. which was to be on
| Sunday. Tom Grenier and the stage man
a ger took me confidentially aside one even
| ing and said: Eddie, you want to look out
| for Dunn. He is fixing to knock you out
| So that you might be on your guard
| Then they went 10 Dunn, SO it seems, and
said: Dunn, you had better keep your
eye peeled for Giguere Sunday night. He
| is la ying for you and means business
We'll. Sunday night came. and knocked
out Arthur in the first round; knocked him
silly. so that he refused to go on again, and
didn't give him an opportunity to show
Sc.
not just caught him under the jaw and
sent him spinning.
I'VE never spoke again until last week
in Chicago. Arthur came where / was
performing and we made up. We had
friendly chat, but he is still sore about
that knock blow"
The last statement shows conclusively
the blood-curdling character OF the con-
test. and when it is understood that neither
combat tant is bigger than a full-sized minute
the above incident will appear all the
funnier.
Preparations for the wilsou-Kelly glove
contest, which takes place before the
Young Mems Athletic Club on Thursday
night, February l3. are progressing rap
idly. The mana cement has secured good
preliminary bout between a couple of local
sparrers that should prove TO be an inter
esting contest. The wbite-Lyons go"
which was to have been put on as u curtain
raiser, has been declared off.
Wilson is getting into shape for the battle
at the walkaway Athletic Club under the
direction of Pat Raody. who recently re-
turned from Astoria, l.. l., where be was
training Kid Mccoy for his fight with
Tommy West, which took place at the
Manhattan Athletic Club last Friday night.
Kelly Is doing his work at Doc Rays
farm, and, from reports, was in such coed
shape when he went into training that it
win not take him long to put on the finishing
touches. He is as hard as nails and viii be
a tough nut for the local man to crack.
The race track followers who are still
quartered in Washington and they are n OF
a few. were a glum looking lot today after
they had read the account in The Morning
Times OF the treatment OF the Maupin bill
in the house of delegates at Richmond yes
terday. When the bill first came up the
race people scored such 4 decided triumph
that il was thought the battle was as good
as won.
This sudden opposition to them. attended
by the strong support OF the Maupin meas
ure, however. cast a dark shadow over the
camp of the faithful. What was the mat
ter" they asked. Wouldn't the track
people give up enough. OF were they hold.
ing Off to make their fight in the Senate.
knowing that there is their stronghOld?'
The latter explanation was accepted as
probably the most plausible, and those who
had all but given up hope cheered up and
said wait until that bill gets to the Sen
ate. As that's about the only thing they
can do it remains to be seen what that body
will do with 1t.
The vigilant win not be in commission
this year. Commodore Gould consulted
with A. Cary Smith about changing the old
cup defender into a schooner, but has given
up the idea for the present.
This will be q disappointment to many
yachtsmen, who anticipated a great year
OF schooner racing with the Vigilant. Co.
lonia and Emerald in commission. 1t
would not be a long job to change the rig
of the Vigilant, and Commodore Gould may
get the racing fever again before the season
opens
Artful Jim Corbett tries to explain |
his retirement mistake this way:
That retiring of mine was a bluff. or |
bit of diplomacy. / figured out the whole |
matter, and fixed it up with Brady to make
a bluff at retiring. You see, 1 calculated |
that Maher and Fitzsimmons would chase
me all over the country talking fight. so as
to make themselves cards. l lost n pile |
of money on the Fitzsimmons fiasco, and