The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-01
A STATE AFFAIR.
Nevada Will Try to Glorify Her
Shame.
A Bill Proposed for a Cham
pionship Belt
MADE OF PURE SILVER
To Be Awarded to the Winner
Of the Big Fight.
A Majority of the Legislature
FavOrs the Measure.

Carson, New, March Mot content
with legalizing the contest for the
worlds pugilistic championship, AS
semblyman Tim Dempsey proposes to
introduce a bill in the legislature
within the next few days asking for an
appropriation of 49, 900 for the purpose
of having made a gorgeous belt of sill
yer with diamond studding, to be pre-
scented to the winner of the great bat
tie.
The bill is being drawn up at the
present time and it provides that the
secretary of state shall deliver the belt
on the 18th of March along with a GER
tfficate and affidavit notifying the world
of the significance of the trophy. 1t is
intended to have on the belt a reproduce
ton of the official seal of Nevada and a
fac smile of the signature of Governor
Sadler to the approval of the measure.
1t is claimed that a majority of the
members of the legislature have Signi-
fed their Willingness to vote for the
bill and that Governor Sadler has al
ready given his consent to sign the act
if it passes.
The governor will not admit this to
outsiders giving as an explanation that
he never signs a bill of any kind until
he has seen and read it thoroughly, but
says he approves of the idea of a NeVa-
da championship belt.
Corbett says that the idea that he
will weigh in the neighborhOod of $50
pounds when he enters the ring is err
roneous, for as a matter of fact, he ex-
poets to tip the scales at 165 pounds,
which is three pounds lighter than the
weight at which he fought Peter Jack
son.
Speaking of Fitzsimmons' weight, he
said yesterday:
His dropping back into the middle
weight class for this occasion looks to
| me like looking for soft place to fall
! He scents defeat and wants to be pre-
| pared to say when the fight is over:
| oh. COrbett ONLY licked a rniddIewei chit
! and am still the champion of my
| class -
Several members of the Boston Att-
| 1etic club have forwarded to Corbett a
forearm exercise machine that was only
| patented last week. With it they send
! their compliments and hopes for the
| CalifOrnian's victory. The machine is
a handsome combination of oak and
German silver and is shaped like a
| small Indian club with a suction rod
running through it. Corbett will give
| it an immediate trial
Mr.. Davis will arrive here on Tuesday
morning and will leave for home again
on Wednesday night. 1t is probabl
/ now that Mrs. FitzsimmonS is relieved
| by her mothers death from her con-
! slant watch at a sick bedside that she
| will come in from New York in a few
days and join the Australian, remaining
| with him till after the fight.
Green and Hawkins are comfortably
settled at Empire and have better and
| more convenient quarters than either
! Corbett or Fitzsimmons. Green now
| weighs lat pounds and will fight at 146
| Hawkins scales 100 and will reduce only
two pounds before his fight The two
! boxers punch the bag, skip the rope
and row on the little river in front of
| their quarters for exercise
! EitZSimmonS' cold seems to have left
him entirely with the approach of
| warmer weather He keeps cheerful
| and confident and eats heartily of eV-
erything that is placed before him