The herald., 1897-08-04
AAA1 LIN W.
Put Up Money to Bind
Their Bargain
THE MAHER- -SHARKEY FIGHT
MAY NOT BE HELD AT SAN
FRANCISCO
Dan Stuart Pulling the Strings to
Bring Corbett and Fitzsimmons
Together Again
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
NEW YORK, August 3.-Representa-
tives Of Maher and Sharkey met in the
city today and made second deposit Of
$25O0 of the $4,000 forfeiture for fight
between the pugilists. The offer of
Zeke Abrams, of the Knickerbocker
Athletic club of San Francisco, of $40, 900
for the fight to be pulled off in San
Francisco was taken up. An answer
was returned saying that the offer would
be accepted If the conditions Of the arti-
cles were satisfactory. In the message
the club expressed the desire for October
IL as the date for the fight but Maher's
manager wants the time extended two
weeks as he is anxious for Maher to train
at least eight weeks before the fight.
Maher is in Ireland at present and may
not be back in this country for two or
three weeks. Makers manager insisted
also upon the Knickerbocker club put
ting up substantial guarantee before
the articles are signed and said he would
also demand that every dollar of the
purse be in the hands of the referee
when the men stepped into the ring.
decision was reached.
Dan Stuart said today that he would
not offer even $4,000 for the Maher-
Sharkey fight, for he did not think it
would be good drawing card. He said:
II have an idea of giving another boxing
carnival at Carson City at which 1 ex-
pect to pull off three fights.
"One, 1 hope, will be between Corbett
IN. 1. L. H.
her and Goddard and one between Dan
Creedon and Kid Mccoy. do not in
tend to try and secure the fight between
Creedon and Mccoy if Billy Brady is
after it, but if he does not want it
will try.
II leave for England tomorrow, where
I expect to remain for eighteen days.
When I return I will hunt up Corbett
and Fitzsimmons and make the men an
offer. If the fighters give me definite
reply I will offer them better induce
ments than I did for their champion
ship fight.
Il am willing to give big purse for
Maher and Goddard, for I think they
would be a good drawing card. The
winner of this bout I would match
against the winner of the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons fight for the championship of
the world
A CARSON CARNIVAL
SAN FRANCISCO, August 3-William
A. Brady is going to hold a carnival of
sport in Nevada this fall. While prize
fights will be the principal attraction, there
will be other events in the sporting line,
such as horse and bicycle races. The car
nival will last several days and will be
pulled off probably in the early part of Oc-
tober. Reno and Carson are expected to
be rival bidders for the fights. The main
attraction is expected to be the Sharkey-
Maher fight. Creedon and Mccoy will be
offered purse of $4,000 for a finish fight,
out. If George Green wine in his fight
with Walcott he will be offered $4,000 to
meet Tommy Ryan at a satisfactory
weight. George Dixon and AL Greenfield
have been rendered $500 purse. Lavigne
and some man in his class Eddie Connolly,
Kid Mcfarland or the like will meet him
for a $500 purse. Dave Sullivan and Jim
Barry will be the little fellows who will
meet for a $2500 purse.
A MILL DELAYED
SAN FRANCISCO, August 3-The twen-
ty-round glove contest between George
Green and Joe Walcott will be postponed
Green injured his right hand while boxing
at the Olympic Club and he has asked that
the National Club change the date from
August 20 to August 26.
O'Rourke, manager of Walcott, at first
demurred. but finally agreed to accede to