The San Francisco call., 1897-03-16

| sonites see short session and conse-
quent early departure of the visitors, thus
depriving them of a grand opportunity to
reap a golden harvest But it cannot be
helped now, and the only thing to do Is
to make the best of bad job. The original
programme was to have at least two days OF
! fighting and continuation of the champ
ionship live-bir shoot until probably the
end OF the week, and the shopmen,
restaurant helpers and hotel men eagerly
| looked forward to the grand clean-up.
| They will have to do some lively work
now to even half fulfill their expectations
Dan Stuart had bis reasons for making
this important change. He found out
that his chief support in the way of at
tendance was to come from the Pacific
| Coast, with San Francisco as the center,
! and not from the East as he had joyfully
anticipated.
The East has asr'iallen down" on the big
Texan shamefully. Trainload after train
load of sports were promised by New
YORK, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia,
| Cincinnati and other big cities, but not
one of these promises was fulfilled. There
is not one big special en- route to Carson
| from the East, am told.
ward to see the big fight are taxing the
regular overland and will, therefore, drop
into town singly and unannounced.
All this, of course, was a disappoint-
ment to Stuart and something he had not
expected.
Now that the coast people are to form
the bulk of those who are to be at the
arena, Stuart has recognized their claims
regarding the programme. Most of them
want to start back for their respective
homes and places of business on the
evening of the 18th.
This being the case there would scarcely
| be corporal's guard at the ringsde the
following day to witness the so-called
small fights. Dan must make hay while
the sun shines if be wishes to come out
| even on this mammoth venture, and ne
| must cater to the masses while they are
in Carson. This is why he decided to
crowd his whole show into st. Patrick's
day.
The Corbett- -Fitzsimmons battle will
| take place first. The two big worlds
| championship aspirants were notified to-
day that they will be required to be in
their respective dressing-rooms at the
arena at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning.
| / am given to understand by Stuart
that the fight will begin no later than IL
| o'clock, as at that hour the sun, ii it is
shining, is in its most advantageous posi-
tion for the taking of kinetoscope mega
| tives. The management figures on this
contest being over by lunch time.
| The arena will then be cleared, a two
hour intermisslon will be ordered, and
| then the place will be reopened for the
scraps between Mysterious" Billy Smith
and George Green, Dal Hawkins and Mar
tin Flaherty. Spectators will be permit
ted to see both of these latter contests for
one admission, and this will be just half
| of what it will cost to see the heavy
weight battle.
| Now, regarding these two little" fights.
l will say that among the sports now
gathered here strong opinion prevails
| that one or even both of them is quite
likely to eclipse "the fight OF the cen tury,"
as it IS called, so far as an out and out ex-
hibitiol OF fighting is concerned.
| The excitement and discussion attend
| ant upon the main event of the carnival
| these side issues have been to a great de-
| gree forgotten and IL is not SO surprising
| when one stops to consider the magnitude
of the worlds championship contest.
| Nevertheless. these side affairs are going
to be well worth seeing, or am poor
| Judge of ring events.
Take the contest between Green and
Smith, for instance. Who does not know
what 10 expect when these dashing welter-
weights get at each other? Both have
trained hard and faithfully. Both are
am bilious, and both are very close to the
championship rung OF the ladder.
| I saw both of these lads to-day, and it
was difficult to determine which was the
most confident and determined to win.
So far as condition goes l will venture 10
say that Green has little the best OF the
| situation.
| He has suffered nothing by reason of
the change of climate, has entirely recov-
cred from the cold he contracted by being
capsized in the Carson River. and his
spraned thumb is as good as ever. He
weighs to-day just 146 pounds. and ex-
poets to enter the ring pound heavier.
| Billy Smith. while good enough to fight
| a good, hard battle, shows some evidences