The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-11

breakaways and with one arm free but
both are allowed by the rules Of the London
Il Is pIaiTIy sn tbs inisntIon of tbe oneens
berry rules that both hitting with one arm
free and hitting in the breakaways should
be allowed. i suppose that some will differ
from that, but il really looks to me as
though the thing Is too plain TO admit OF
any other construction than that | have
simmons declare they prefer TO fight the
other way. it is all right. All / want is
Tor them to agree TO something"
Corbett took the road this morning in
company with Jeffries and covered ten
miles at a lively pace. The roads are rap
idly drying up and ii is possible. with care
10 get along on them without sinking into
the soil to the knees. In the afternoon he
took the same course of work that he has
gone through during the last ten days
Yesterday. in his boxing bouts. Corbett
made ii unpleasant for both Woods and
Jeffries. The former he knocked fiat with
a left swing on the jaw and the latter he
knocked out with punch in the kidneys.
Both were at work to-day and none the
worse for their battering.
JULIAN AND FITZ ANGRY.
The receipt of Siler's letter raised a
storm at Cooks ranch and Martin Julian
declared that, in his opinion Corbett had
a talk with Siler and induced him to issue
the letter. Fitzsimmons asserted it would
not be right for him TO agree on anything
until he and Corbett had entered the ring
he had always fought under the Marquis
OF Queensberry rules, he declared, and that
was what he wanted to fight under this
time. Julian then took the stand that when
man is knocked down and his seconds
throw water on the fallen man with the in
tentlon OF reviving him, il should be a
ground for FORGETTING the fight, and he as
serted that he was going to insist that this
be agreed upon. Then Fftzsimmons de-
clared that he would fight under the Mar
qufS or QueenSberry rules and that If they
did not suit Corbett he would fight under
the rules of the London prize ring. He has
fought all his battles under the Queens
berry rules" said Fitzsimmons, and they
should be good enough for him now
Both Fitzsimmons and Julian declared
they did not want any hitting with one
hand free and on the breakawayS Both
insisted that breaks should be clean and
no hitting should be allowed until both
hands were free. FitZsimmons. above all
things, insisted that no agreement should
be made before the men entered the ring.
This his strong point and he stuck 10
ii with all the obStnacy with which he was
capable. and that is saying great deal;
t1tzsimmons did very little work to-day.
In the morning he ran TO town and back,
covering about ten miles, and in the after
noon he boxed with Hickey and Steiner
and punched the bag for short time.
Dan Stuart this morning appointed Mala-
chy Hogan. of Chicago. referee of the
welter-weight and feather-weight cham
pionship fights between Mysterious Billy
Smith and George Green (Ioung CorbetD,
and Martin Flaherty and Dial Hawkins, re-
spectiVely This was done by Stuart after
a conference with George Siler.
j. A. r. Elliott, of Kansas City, holder
of the wingshot championship trophy, who
is to be one of the competitors in the live
bird shoot, arrived here to-day. He stated
that he would do the best he could to hang
on TO the trophy, and he did not see how
he could lose.