The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-30
CHALLENGE FOR "FITZ"
BRADY ASKS "BOB" TO GIVE COR
BETT ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY.
He Proves His Sincerity by DepOsitinG
$1,000 to Bind "a PugiIistic Match
for $4,000 "a Side.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Wiliam A. Brady,
manager of James j. Corbett, to-day made
public the following challenge to Robert
Fitzsimmons, champion pugilist of the
world:
James j. Corbett dissatisfied with the
result of his late contest with you at Car
son City, and not believing that you. are
his superior either as a boxer or tighter,
and being Of the opinion that the majority
of the American public shares his belief
that he can defeat YOU if ever YOU are man
enough to grant him a return battle on
equal conditions, has deposited to-day $3.50
as q first deposit to bind match for $4,000
a side, the person or persons offering the
largest inducements to have the manage
ment OF the contest: AS you have said TO-
day that your wife has withdrawn her OBJ
iections to you again entering the ring,
there is no reason why the arrangement
should not be speedily contaminated; for
you, in my presence at Carson City, gave
Corbett your word of honor that If you
ever entered the ring again you would give
him first chance. 1t is useless for you to
attempt to deceive the public and try to
boom your private interests by attempting
to force Corbett to meet some second or
third-rate boxer before he shall be entitled
to your notice. He will not agree to meet
Maher, Sharkey or anyone else. He claims
the chance that he gave you-the right to
proved himself in your class on March y
last, and it was only by the greatest KIND
of fqke that you are now titled champion
and ! do not believe that you will ever for
get until your dying day the beating that
he gave you then, and if ever he secures
the opportunity to again face you in a
twenty -four-foOt ring, | will guarantee you
that he will prove conclusiVely and beyond
a question of doubt whether or not he is
in your class
Dan Stuart who managed the Fitzsim-
mons Maher and Fftzsimmons-Corbe
bouts successfully said to-day that he
would leave for the West next week, and
hoped that he would secure the signatures
of both F'itzsimmOns and Corhett 20 arti-
ces of agreement for a ring contest. which
he proposed to bring off next summer, prob
ahly in the State of Nevada. He said that
as matters stand now he does not antici-
nate any trouble in getting Corbett to sign.
and he is equally hopeful of gaining the
consent of FitZsimmons to meet the big
Californian in the ring once more. Just
what the amount of the purse which he
would offer would be Mr.. Stuart refused to
say Mr. Stuart would like to have the
contest take place not earlier than next
July, and said that he would like to ar
range a meeting between Kid Mccoy and
Choynski or some other good middle weight
to take place in the same week as the Cor
bett-Fitzsimmons bout. If he can succeed
in making arrangements for both contests
Stuart said he would offer excellent in
ducements for the winners of both these
bouts sufficient to meet six months later,
so that in the event of Mccoy and Fitz-
simmons winning they could settle their
differences as to their respective proweSs
within the year 1898. Mr.. Stuart expects to
be in Chicago by the latter end of next
week and said it would be no fault of his
If the big fellows did not come TO an agree
ment