El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-25
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FitZ Should Retire.

There seems to be little hope tina
COrbett and Fitzsimmons will ever gre
together again and the chances rathe
favor the retirement of the presen
champion within the next year.
kid Mccoy is apparently the onl.
boxer now in sight who will cballeng
Fl zsimmons with hope of securing
contest, and at this time the KIDD ha
other fish to fry, and whether he cal
| fry them to a rich brown turn is a
present problemat. cal.
COrbett has his money posted, but ap
parently lacks the zeal he once pos
sessed, for he has quit talking of g
match and is evidently waiting Micaw
her-like for something to turn up
Had the Maher-Sharkey contest gone
off all right, it is possible that Brady
would have had something to excite
F'itZ into match.
NO PLACE TO FIGHT.
Besides the lack of sincerity on the
part of F'itzsimmons greater obs acle
now stands in the way of pulling off a
fight between Corbett AID Fitzsim-
mons. They have no place in sight
now where they could fight with any
chance of securing a large purse.
While Dan Stuart might arrange an
other carnival at Carson, he is not in
a position to secure the free advertis-
ing which gave the first contest even
the patronage it received.
Stuart is far from being the game
loser which e.has been represented to
be by the tinkering writer's. To bold
up ones friends in order to avoid a
personal loss is not the sort of game
ness that the average sportsman can
applaud, and Stuart shook down the
newspaper men at Carson and Jackson
vile in way that speaks i'll of his
hopes for the future.
vERISCOPE TOO PROMINENT.
Brady has not the following in New
York which has been used to line his
nest with greenbacks, and he is not
in position to do much toward pulliog
off a big fight. The veriscope has
been cons ;dered above the spectators
and one is never sure that fight will
be decided upon the merits of the box
ers because of the desire to make the
pictures sufficiently exciting to enter
tain those who stayed at home.
parsons" Davies has always stood
we'll with the newspaper men, and
might be given strong support in
any effort he made to promote fstic
carnival. 1t is doubtful however, if he
would 90 into such an undertaking.
Reports recently received from New
York Indicate that boxing. particular
ly among the heavyweigh ts, is fast
losing public support and San Francis
any great duration. Altogether, the
prospect for carnival in the near
future is rather dark.
MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
Fitzsimmons is sadly in need of a
head and manager as well Standing
at the top of the pugilistic ladder and
M htg div Gf tho frht-
ers that ever pulled off shirt in the
ring, he is today one Of the least ap-
preciated of any of the champions,
past Or present.
The fault is entirely his own. He
had the opportunity TO retire, for which
he publicly announced his attention
both before and after the fight with
Corbett. His record was one on which
he might well have quit the ring for
good and for all. Bluster and false
hood were the causes of his down
fall.
Instead of meeting Corbett in the
spirit to which the fallen
champion was entitled, F'itZ sneered at
his defeated rival and so belittled his
own victory. He knew that the man
W HON he had defeated was game TO the
core, and that Corbett's pride was
more deeply wounded by defeat than
any physical suffering by blows which
he (Fitz) had delivered, and yet, in
stead of meeting the plea for another
in manly way, he in
that Corbett was only bluff
hng.
Now he seeks to appease the public
by lame attempt to give ear to John
l. Sullivan. an old man who long siuce
passed the stage when he was fit to
fight for the championship. Such bal
derdash is nauseating and is given
publicity only by those who do not
know that the public dislikes it or by
space filters.
Unless Fitz changes his present
course he will lose all that he gained
by his victory at Carson, and year
from this time the public will ask:
What has become of Fitzsimmons?'