The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-02-01

Just now there Is q great deal OF In
terest in tho coming ilstlc carnival
which is to be pulled of" in Mexico,
opposite I'll Paso. In Just two weeks
from to-day. "Joe" Donovan. the well
known western critic sizes up the men
in this way:
First in Importance in the big round
up Is Peter Maher and Robert Fitzslm-
mons.
ION form Fitz should win," says the
general prophet. .Qf course, having
done It once why should he not to It
AGAIN." So far as form goes that Is all
right, but there are Nccidents-luclSy
swipes-and these two OF all boxers are
just the sort likely TO do such things.
In the first fresh squirt or two they may
get together and churn and II may be
order, but II 1t lengthens out trine Il
Is almost sure TO be Fttzsimmons who
will win. According to everybody who
has seen him in the cast, Peter has OF
late come to be a hurricane hook-hitter
with both hands, developing the spec
ialty OF winning In q round or so. A
few years ago he did not appear 70
know enough TO take any quick advan-
tages. In case Fitzsimmons wins, he
will likely bother round year or two
before COMING TO terms with another
hard man. II Maher Is victorious. he
gives promise Of being quickly ready
for another and II is by virtue OF this
that victory over the Australian
would meet with great popular ap-
provaf.
outright Eyes' Collins and Waicott
As interest generally goes with the
weight OF the contestants, other things
being something nearly equal.> next Of
Importance on the big programme
should be the melting between Walcott
and Bright Eyes Collins. but then
there Is a large and lurking suspicion
that bright Eyes" IL not going to pan
out what the Texans crack him up to
be. He Is choice of the Texas fancy, u
Scrnpper without a record, that they
want TO stack up against the Barbados
midget. The southwest has been In the
business mostly OF putting on the mar
ket superior quality OF gun fighter;
cushion-Eloye gymnastics Of the big
cities. In Il country where man 10
hanged for swipinE cayuse, Is not
pnlatabie; II is like ice-cream to a saw
age. II Is very probable that they have
no champion in such an uncultivnted
place to put against one OF our good
Everhart and Leeds.
Next down the scale of weights we
come to Jack Everhart. the tough
fibered lightweight of New Orleans,
and Horace Leeds. the quaker cham
piOn. These men have never met, and
they seem to size up almost OF mold.
with what advantage there may be ap-
pearing to favor Everhart, In the
spring OF 1898 Leeds, who had Just
emerged from the amateur honors, got
on the stage with Jack McAuline,
whom he succeeded in upsetting and
making something of a reputation for
himself. outside OF Jack McAullne
and few old ones there were no light
weights TO amount to much then; new
men were wanted and Leeds looked ms
though he had something in him. In
July OF the year in which he made q
showing with Jack McAuliHe he de-
fcated Al O'Brien, the well-known Phil"
adelphIh lightweight, in eight rounds,
The following October he met Billy
Ernst before the Coney Island club for
a purse OF s., 800. which was won handi-
Is by Leeds in eight rounds. During a
short bout with Owen Zeigler he SEEM
ed to make about such a showing rs
Jack Everhart has since done with
Zeigler Leeds lost some OF his stand
ing In 1895 through bouts with Charley
McKeever and Young Critic. Going
four rounds with McReever in January,
1895, he Is said to have been out-boxed
completely, till n chance blow he landed
In the last round put MeKeeVer nearly
out voung Grfffo met him short
time afterward at the Seaside club,
Coney Island, outpointed him and got
the decision in twelve rounds. Since
then Leeds has been on the quiet list till
the present match with Everhhrt at
Steuart'S projected carnival.
Jack EverhRrt wRs the aFst light
weight In this country to explode the
Stanton Abbott championship idea,
He put the Englishman out at New Or
lenns in twenty-five rounds, for a purse
OF 81, 500. August 81, 1894. Abbott since
has dritted to more common levels,
though lots OF people at that time were
fond OF cracking him up as the best
tolengnge Jack McAuliffe for the light
weight championship
DI,on and Marshall.
The featherweIght class IN the big
carnival is to be represented by Cham
p!on George Dixon and Jerry Marshall
These constitute the second pair OF
blnckH matched for the Stuart. show;
Stunrc says he believes in keeping color
together, Marshall is n long-rcachlng,
pldgcdn. breasted, spidery fighter, al
WAYS working along the defense. These
make him 10 hard to land on. He has
been straight liver, so that now Mt the
age of thirty. he Is probably yonnSer