The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-04
DAN STUART ABOUT
PUGILISTIC PROMOTER IS ONCE
MORE PRACTICALLY A WELL
MAN.
FITZ VERY MUCH PUT OUT.
INDIGNANT OVER A STORY TO THE
EFFECT THAT HE Is DRINK
ING.
BOTH MEN VARY THEIR EXERCISE.
COrbett Goes Out for a TVveIve-MiIe
Run and Fitz Tries Bicycle
Ride.

CARSON, New. March 3-Dan Stuart,
who has been very i'll for the past fort
night, walked to his office this after
noon. 1t was thought that the pro-
moter Of the great carnival would be
forced to go to San Francisco for
treatment. His laborious efforts to
carry his carnival to a success have
been a burden, and he fell a victim to
a common ailment in the mountains.
which, in the East, would be called
pneumonia. Mr.. Stuart, however.
while feeble and still feeling the eff
fects of this altitude, will probably
remain here. He expressed himself as
we'll pleased with things at the race
track. He said the structure would
be completed by next Monday. Infor-
nation given out at Stuart's office to-
day would seem to indicate that many
women will take advantage of the OPP
portunity to see a real glove contest.
A clerk said that at least fifty letters
from all parts of the country had been
received from women who desired to be
booked.
Bob FftZsimmOns was very much an .
nOyed today by a story that had been
widely circulated to the effect that he
had recently exercised very little care
IN his training, so far as an indulgence
in stimulants was concerned. When
he came to town last night the New
Zealander was certainly in a happy
frame of mind, but this is not an. I'M
usual condition for him, and there was
no good reason to believe that his play
fulness was due to liquor. AS a matter
of fact FitzsimmOns was simply over
Joyed upon receiving a telegram an
nouncing the fact that his wife had
left New York for Carson. Bob gave
an exhibition Of wrestling with his big
dog in Stuarts office, while a crowd
jostled in front Of the establishment
IN an effort to get a glimpse. Martin
Julian denounced, in most emphatic
terms, the yarn that Fitzsimmons had
been drinking. Under ordinary cir
cumstances Bob's manager is an even
tempered fellow, but today he lost
control Of himself and started on a
hunt for the man who had originate l
this tale.
'Fitzsimmons is in good condition, "
said Julian. HE never was a drinking
man, and has not the slightest inclina
ton to indulge in alcoholic beverage
L would not be in the least surprised
If some of the smart men at Corbett's
quarters put this yarn out, just as they
circulated the story that Bob was try
ing his best to break an arm or Ies
in order to get out of fighting that big
duffer. Bob has not taken a drink of
whisky in months, with the exception
of a day or two after his arrival in
Carson, when he took two or three
drinks Of hot scotch for his cold. No
body need have the slightest fear that
he won't be ready to fight two weeks
from today.
The auburn haired fighter varied his
programme today by indulging in a
bicycle ride for short distance over
the muddy road. He then took a six
mile sprint around the foot hills. When
he returned to quarters, Bob an
nounced that he would not wait fo1
afternoon, but would finish exercising
before lunch. The next two hours were
devoted to bag punching, boxing AM
wrestling with his trainers.
Corbett, too, made a change in his
usual work. In the first place he tooF
twelve-mile run through some of TIL
picturesque foot hills. Jim and his
companion, Al Hampton, of San Fran
cisco, returned covered with mud
Hereafter instead of putting in tw0
or three hours each morning at the
hand ball court, the champion will ex
ercise in the road.