The San Francisco call., 1897-02-16
RENO'S SPECIER
HAUNTS CARSON
Alarm Caused by Repeated
Threats of Preventing
! the Fight.
...
Delegation Of Citizens Sent to
Appease the Rival City's
Residents.
If Carson Loses the Mill the Reno
University Will Lose an
Apr opriation.


son Tomorrow morning, and tbs people
here are all agog tonight over the pros
pect OF getting a good look a the man
who once won the title of champion pugi-
. list OF the world, and who boasts that he
Will defeat Bob Fitzsimmons and gain the
belt for keeps. Every body is talking
about 1t.
Martin Julian, the sleek and rotund lit
:le manager OF the Australian boxer who
declares with so much confidence that
James J. Corbett vii! leave Carson minus
the championship and all of his ring lau-
|, Teis, Is also due to arrive tomorrow, for the
purpose of sc lecting permanent training
quarters for his red headed brother-in-law,
and the good people OF Carson are talking
about this event, too.
But these two notables of tho sporting
world DO not by any manner of means
constitute subjects for the bulk of the dis
cussiou that has been going on to-day and
to-night-that is, discussion of real seri-
Gus nature. Thers is something else in the
air, which while it only calls for pooh,
: pooling IN some quarters has had a ten
dency in others to create alarm and fear
that, after all the cunning work done to
engineer the now famous prize-tg hting law
through the Nevada Legislature and thus
.. IN axe the way clear for Dan Stuart, the
great battle may be lost to Carson. They
fear the activity among the anti-hght
people of Reno. The Reno representatives
in the Legislature fought the Garrard bill
in the beginning, but after It had become
q law, they and their constituents appar-
emily fell into line and said that after all
it would possibly be a good thing for the
fir
their support to the project. This support
developed into desire on the part of
Reno to have the contest take place within
It's boundaries. This, as is now known
from one end OF the globe to the other,
was denied. Now Reno is showing her
teeth, and the announcement comes from
there that if there is any power on earth
to stop the mill it will be utilized.
Trae, this cry has been heard for sew
eral days, but not until to-day has it been
taken seriously, and now the alert Car
sonites are busying themselves to offset
the threatened effort to deprive them of
their prize. Several prominent men of
this city quietly left for Reno to-day as
. tenn porizing committee. Their object is,
if such : thing is possible, to induce the
Reno malcontents to shed their antag-
onistic tendencies in the interests of the
State generally. They primed with
arguments to show that Reno will benefit
quite as much as Carson, if the contest
takes place, and with other persuasive
speeches.
Nv bile we know in our hearts that the
Reno kickers cannot stop the fight, still
we realize that reports of possible trouble
constantly going out to the world are GO
ing 10 interfere with the attendance, par
ticularly that which we expect from the
Eastern States" said one of the Carson
teTnporizers this afternoon. Eve want
them to stop talking that's all, and that's
@ what We intend to ask them to do. We
d. don't want any body frightened away from
here. After the big fight, if they want to
talk about repeating the Garrard bill, We
will listen TO them and give them chance
to try their strength in the Legislature,
but not now."
But caiolery and persuasive eloquencs
are not, if what is being whispered about
Carson tonight be true, the only tempor-
izing mediums used upon the recalcitrant
Renoites. The whispered story is that
when gentle methods fail, an open threat
is-to be hurled at the people of Reno, and
one that Is calculated to cause beads of
perspiration to ooze out upon their brows
Pending before thi. same Legislature
which made it possible for Carson to en-
Joy the big punching match is a bill in
which Reno asks for an appropriation of
S78 900 for the university located there.
Reno needs this money badly. Now the
prospective threat is that if Reno persists
in throwing obstacles in the way OF the
great fistic event, the Carson sta tesmen
and their allies will make it their busi-
ness to block the passage OF this appro-
priation bill.
All of this trouble and tribulation may,
4 after all, be for naught, for Corbet; him
elf to-day removed from the reach of the
e2enoites the weapon with which they ex-
pected 10 slaughter the show. Corbett
was billed to give an exhibition in Reno
tomorrow night, and the authorities there
announced that under the very bill which
is to permit the prize-fght Corbett would
have to pay $1,000 license for this exhibit
tion. Lawyers said that this was not so,
and advised the athletic combination to
90 on with the show without taking out
any license. This was what those of the
Reno population who are aiming to make
trouble wanted. The plan was to throw
the entire matter into court, and work it
up to the Supreme Court, where it would
hang hre until after the 18th of March
. thus making fasco OF the big fight.
This play was foreseen, and Corbett sim
ply wired that he would not appear in
Reno. 1t is doubtful now if he will show
anywhere in Nevada previous to his meet
ing with Fitzsim mons, except right here
in Carson, where he is safe.
Genial big Dan Stuart, the promoter of
the coming istic carnival. had been living
in hopes for several days that he would be
enabled to precede the Corbett- Fitzsim-
mons contest with, among others, battle
between those Two famous lightweights-
kid" Lavi-ne and Joe Walcoit. He re-
ceived d ispatch to-day from Sam Fitz-
patrick, who is handling Lavigne, that
put an end to his desire. In this telegram
[ Fitzpatrick said his man would positively
Anot meet Walcott.
J Fhis, while disappointing, makes the
prospect all the brighter for battle be-
tween George Green, San Francisco's
famous welter-weight, and the winner of
the Ryan-Tracy match, which takes place
on the 24th inst. Stuart says Green is one
of the greatest fighters in the world ald
he would like TO find better man than
either Ryan or Tracy Tor him.