El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
THE COMING '.FIsTIC CARNIVAL
A Few Details About the Fitz COrbett
Prize RING Racket.

The sporting editor of the ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat has arranged for three
fights at the coming ''carnival." He
says:
Dan Stuart seems determined to
achieve fame as the head and front Of
fistic carnival. Now that he has Sc
cured the signature of FitZ and COrbett
to the heavyweight championship he
designs to have Lavigne and Charlie
Mckeever battle for the ightwej ght
cham plOnship, and Maher and Sharkey
for what might be called the lieuten-
ant heavyweight championship. La
vigne has come to terms and McKeeYer
is willing and as for the other two
Maher VIII Ger tafnly consider Sharkey
an easy mark. Whether Dan Lynch
will let Sharkey do battle or not is open
to question, for Stuart wants Siler to
act as referee. There is no chance to
fix Siler. Where he Officiates the
fight mas got to be on the level, and
there will be no chance to have a de-
cision arranged in advance to suit a few
gamblers. But as de from Sharkey
and Maher, there will be d world of in
terest in the settlement of the other
two affairs. Both the heavyweight and
lightweight championship titles have
flaws Corbett resigned the heavy
weight and then took it up again, while
Sharkey and Fitz fought for it in Fris-
co. Fitz won and Mr.. carp gave the
decision 10 Sharkey. The title of
lightweight champion is bestowed
upon Lavigne by general consent, and
surely no one has better right to Sc
| fend it. Neither has any one more
| license to aspire to it than Charlie
| McKeever. Stuart has excellent ma
terial for his carnival, which, if his
plans are carried out, will prove the
greatest since Sullivan, Myer and
Shelly were laid low by Corbett, Nc
Aulitfe and Dixon in the arena of the
Olympic Athletic club in New Or
leans. Stuart, of course, keeps the
details of his plans to himself, but
there seems little doubt that he will
follow the same method he used in
getting Maher and Fitzsimmons to-
gether in the little Mexican valley OPP
posite Langtry. Tex. Those desiring
to witness the fistic duels will meet in
Ell Paso along about March II, where
they will be given tickets at so much
each "a good chunk, presumably and
then they will board a train and be
carried to a point where the battles
can be fought without interference.
Stuart's persistence and his success in
bringing Maher and E'itz together in
the face of apparently insurmountab BILE
obstacles. have given him a high stand
in the confidence and admiration OF
the sporting element, and where he
had one man to witness his last fight,
he will have hundred this time"
James J. CorbetG turned up in st.
Louis the other night the picture of
health. He will quit the road after
after his Kansas City and Chicago en-
gagements and go into active training.
He has engaged Charlie White, his
old trainer, and John McVejgh to pre-
pare him for the fight. OF the coming
fight he said: although I have no
official information 1 am Inclined to be-
lieve that the battle will take place in
Nevada. If it does | will train in San
Francisco. On the other hand, should
Mr.. Stuart order US to get ready for a
go in the south of Mexico [ will do my
II aiming in the vicinity of El PasO."
a Corpus Christi dispatch says: It
is a well known fact among certain
parties here that while Dan Stuart was
in Corpus Christi last May he held
several consultations with a leading
Brownsville attorney. the result of
which was the lease of an island in the
Rio Grande from the Mexican govern
ment. Several knowing ones here as
sert the probabilities are that the
Orbett-tItZsimmOns fight will be
pulled off on that island, which is about
ten miles from Brownsville.
A dispatch from Brooklyn, n. Y,
OF Jan. 10 sayS:-After the performance
at Hyde and Bebmas Theatre. this
afternoon. Bob Fitzsimmons, with some
friends, went to a nearby saloon, where
they drank quite freely. At midnight
an 1S-year- old newsboy, with bundle
of papers under his arm, entered the
place. Fitzsimmous grabbed the pa
pers from the boy and called him
vile name. The lad turned and smashed
Fitz on the nose. Fitz started in to
beat the boy. The crowd interferred
and whipped Fitz. The lights were
turned off and the police were called
FItZ is now locked IN the saloon, await
ing the arrival of the police.
The City of Chicago and Cook
county are to be consolidated. as that
will reduce the taxation and improve
the municipal government. The
population of Chicago will be increased
200, 600 by the move