Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07

Omaha special train of Pullmans VIII leave
the union depot bound for Carson City, the
scene of the great fight. There will be three
cars in the Omaha division, and five cars
from Pittsburg and Cincinnati. and they VIII
be attached to the Union Pacific's train NO
I, the grandest of all transcontinental trains
the Overland Flyer" The Omaha cars are
all drawing room cars, the biggest, hand-
soonest and most thoroughly equipped that
traverse the west, and the Omaha patrons
OF the excursion can well congratulate them
selves OH the good things that have been
prepared for them. With two commodlous
dining room cars on the train what further
advantages could be desired, when you take
into consideration that 500 pays the bill,
transportation, sleeping accommodations,
from the time you leave Omaha
until YOU return, and a gooa
seat at the big contest. 1t will
be such a trip as few can hope to enjoy in
a lifetime, whipped across the country with
almost lightning speed, and amidst every
luxury human ingenuity can devise, what
more could be asked? The complete
itinerary of the journey Is appended for the
purpose OF giving prospective passengers an
idea of what they may expect.
Train No. leave Omaha at S:2O a. m.
Marsh arch i, 4; ,e aryiye os at o at mo AT D. i M March II; a;
IS. arrive at Reno at $40 a. m; March 10;
leave Reno at 9:l5 a. m. March 10, arrive
Train No. 3-Leave Carson City March
1S, arrive at Reno March 1s; leave Reno at
sos a. IN. March IL, arrive at OSuen at D
a. m. March 10; leave Ogden at $40 a. m.
March 20,
Apply at my office at The Bee or at Frank
Bandle's cigar store, southwest corner Fiji
teenth, two doors from Farnam street, for
full particulars.
And now about the fight. The general
opinion is gathering volume with every pass
ing day that 1t will be the most exciting, the
n,out tarrt6c and dnaDpratp Of all the fStiC
encounters that have taken place since the
memorable contest of Yankee Sullivan and
Tom Hter at Point of Rocks, Md, way
back in the winter of 40. That was a
tremendous fight, and caused just as over
whelming interest among all sorts of citizens
of those days as the little affair set down
in the books for st. Patrick's Day In the
Morning, What the outcome will be Is still
the paramount query in the minds of the
millions, and will be until one or the other
has topplcd over on that padded floor and
is tolled off into the land of baskerville by
the knotty index finger of George Siler.
While Corbett is still ostensibly the favorite
the case Is an extremely paradoxical one, for
the Corbett cohorts, while blatant in their
declarations of Jim's towering supremacy,
have the gall, in a majority of cases over
the country, to demand even money from
the B~itzsimmons contingent. No one has yet
heard OF the Dryers, the Smiths, the Wake
legs, the Johnsons or the Ordways placing
their thousands against the red-topped lads
hundreds, notwithstanding the fact that when
the match was first made a steady
deluge of Corbett money was alleged
to have set in in New York. Boston and the
other big metropolitan %centers, The consen-
sus of opinion as gagged by the forecasts in
last Sundays Bee should make Corbett an
odds-on fayorite In reality as well as in
the iatulency of his jacobinical followers,
The truth is :he American public knows II
all too we'll, that on the line of their re-
s~pective achievements within the magic
circle Fitzsimmons should be the odds-on
boy, while Corbett with all his supposed
redoubtableness should be hold
Ing the short end of the speculative argu-
.ment, But it is this anomalous situation
that is enhancing the interest in the mill,
that is with many fanciers of the sport, but
i must acknowledge that / am not of their
number. Prejudice does not enter into the
case with me, although / have plenty of
cause to feel dlsgruntled with the ex-cham-
pion, but l am not, and so far as his fight
ing affairs are concerned | always have and
always will play fair. But | like to see
men accorded their just dues, and grow sus-
picious whenever / see selling platers made
f~avorites over stake horses. But we will let
all that go, and 20 on and chat about the
fight.
To me the men look nicely matched. and I
do not believe that either man is justified
In his claims Of holding a pipe" While it
lasts | expect to see a terrific fight, but !
differ with numerous others; / do not look
for 1t to last long. With two such fighters
as Bob and Jim. and with the vlrulency
ranking within their respective thoraclc de-
partments. ! think 1t Is win or lose in fast
time. Corbett might be able to prolong
the matinee by the utilization OF the two
superior traits he possesses over the cadav-
erous Cornishman--speed and readiness in
boxing tactics-but Fitz could not stretch II
out by the resort TO any of the capabilities
he is known to possess. His record is all
nEThM5s long my throat was