The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
THEY WILL TRAVEL
IN PRIVATE CARS
Some Of the Sports Who
i Will See the Big Fight
in Nevada.
Special Pullman Palace : Car
Parties Are Already Being
Organized.
Dan Stuart Will, Next Week, Select
the CITY Where Corb tt AM F u
simmons Are to Meet.

+. A month and a half distant is the date
when Jim Corbett and Robert Fitzsim
will n:er the ring somewhere in Nevada
and pummel each other for the delectation
of few Thousand people, the worlds
heavy weight pugilistic cham pionship D and
some fe W thousand dollars: Still tnee event
is having its effect already in the usual
affairs. of the community, Just as water
gains; speed as it nears the fall.
+ In the lobby of the Baldwin Hotel,
where the sports gather thickest, the big
fight holds more than its share Of the con-
versatlon as against the probable per
formance Of 1.-The thoroughDre at the
morrow sfaceg. =
. Everybody seems Interested, not. so
much in tho outcome OF the fight, which
is accepted as too ne; Ryan even thing for
much comments but in. the number of
people who Will attend from this State.
'1he :raee-track contingent will furnish
at least 200 men and boys willing to spend
their time and money to- be in the swim
OF pugIlism. Theft thousand, it is SUR
missed, will be made. up. by downtown
sports, business men and men of leisure.
It is expected that 1000 more will leave
from. different parts of: the State, making
a sum. total OF about 1900 man from Cali
fornia, having enough surplus coin to
throw away about Si09 each in a little fun:
LAS Charley Kingsley said: yes sterday;
when asked il he would be at the ringsi6e :.
::'Dt course Pll b. there; who won ?:'
Kingsley is a bookipaker and all around
sport His. world will be there. surely,
the; rem aiRder of the universe, as he:says.
'cuts.no ice. =. =: -
:. >AE am. going there. in a. a.>special: train
chart red. by Johnny Farley" lie, added.
a will h ~ Loot
sleep and eat aboard our Pul Imam. That
will" save us from the djscqinforts of ii
country. hotel: and of: the: disaGreeable
crush, and hustle that m ust' necessarily. go
with "a trip ON the free-fnr+afl train |.
don't know what.the expenses of:'such a
trip Will be- but we can pool Is suest share
and share alike, 'Fave- "a. good: time, with
plenty: of. comfort, at "a very reasonable
/: Judge. Joe Murphy OF the Oakland race
. track: Charles Bacon of the Hoffman,
Billy KENNEDY OF the Olympic .Ciubr Ec
Callinan and J.. Ness OF Portland will all
Join different. private excursions, -: 3
T. Kehnedy has alreadY secured his rooms
in Carson, trus ting that.the fight will take
+ place in that city: :. =
Voss, who is heavy hacker OF: Fitzsim..
mons arrived here a. few: days ago to see
+ rowtl~ wres tIe+at the .0ly nTpic Club. He
will remain.~ here until he secures his
berth ON some one Of the private trains: =: =:
| = ]. IS: Purdy,: the ex-railread man and
present: grain speculator;: Will. pro baby
orange an excursion party. Charles
Asher of the. Baldwin Hotel also. has
something of the kindin view. But moth.
ine decisive can be done until Dan Stuart
announces positively in which city the
battle will take place.
Harry Corbett. the brother of Pompa-
dour jim, will leave here to-day so as to
secure the best possible location in or
around Carson for the big fellows train
ing quarters.
Police Commissioner Moses A. Gunst,
whose familiar face has been seen at the
ringside of every fight worth witnessing
in the past decade, Will not attend the
Corbett -Fitzsimmons mill. Mr.. Gunst is
not in good health, and he proposes leav-
ing this City for Carlsbad about the last OF
H. xt month. At present he is busy trying
TO have the Legislature pass bill allow
ing officials indefinite leave OF absence
without. paw instead of the present law,
which provides a term of sixty days alb
sence in such cases on full pay.
But while Gunst does not see his way
clear to attend the fight he is doing much
TO assist in seeing that California and this
City are well represented at the ring side.
In speaking OF the affair last evening
William K. Wheelock, the partner of Dan
Stuart, said:
There has never been in the world OF
sport an event of such magnitude, nor one
calculated to inspire such widespread in
terest the forthcoming contest. San
Francisco, owing to her close proximity
TO the scene OF hostilities aud the fact that
one OF the combatants is q local man, is
pre-eminentIy interested in the isshe, and
there cannot fail to be large. attendance.
both from the Cityjtself and from many
other Californian points. Nose Gunst, in
fact, assures me that he has arranged for
a private party of at least 100. and Lou