The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-03-18

mons has pursued" said Mudoon, "and
with the exception of White. who has
been with Corbett. | think Fitzsimmons
mas had the best men in his camp. There
is not man in Corbett's camp who. can
come anywhere near Hickey IN the point
of science. Corbett has trained for the
night by doing things that he will be
trained ON very little else. Fitzsimmons,
on the other hand has done ,he sort of
work to make him strong and has not
run the risk of making him stale by do
ing that which he will be compelled to
do when he faces his antagonist A man
may become intelligently stale by training
as well as stale in the physical sense, and
there is very little difference in the two,
save that the mental staleness is the
worst of the two. know that Corbett
is in finer condition, as far as his body
is concerned, but at the same time
have never seen him so nervous as he is
at this time. Fitzsimmons is as steady
as it is possible for Il man to be, and
there is not the slightest symptom of
nervousness about him. He will fight Il
careful battle, and if Corbett beats him
he will be truly entitled to be called
champion. There are some things about
Fitzsimmons that ! do not like. do not
fancy the color of the whites of his eyes.
time, after looking over the course of the
training he has done, | must say that
like the amount of the work ne has done
and the manner in which he has done it,"
FitzsimmOns and his party will leave
the house at Cooks ranch shortly after
8 o'clock in the morning and will drive
directly to the arena. With him will be
Julian, Hickey, Stezner and Roeber.
These are the men who will be with him
IN. I.t. n,,I kh,..
be in the carriage when they leave his
ranch. Louis Houseman of Chicago will
be time-keeper. Upon his arrival at the
arena Fitzsimmons will go directly to his
dressing-roOm, which is on the west side
of the big frame structure, and after a
rub down he will be dressed for the
fight. He will wear black shoes and green
silk tights Around his waist he will
have belt of red, white and blue silk,
the belt having in its center an eagle with
wings outspread. The belt will have to
be taken off as soon as the time for the
fight arrives. and Fitzsimmons will fight
in the green tights alone.
Ex-senator John J. ingalls, of Kansas
came in today, wearing II troubled look.
Il have never been to a prize fight,
he said to Il reporter, but | want to see
one before | die"
He visited both fighters this afternoon
and was pleased with their condition. He
said Corbett appeared to him to be the
better athlete, and he was inciEed on
this account to think he would be the
winner.
This afternoon special from San
Francisco pulled in, composed of nine
Pullman sleepers, the first to reach here.
When the train left San Francisco it had
ten coaches. but one was left ut Reno,
to be attached to the local train. Most
of the passengers were spOrtsmen from
San Francisco, hut there were aiso dele
cations from Los Angeles and Marys-
vile, each of the latter cities having Its
own car The Olympic Athletic club Of
San Francisco was represented by d
large number of members. tf-- '---.---
A special from the east the first one
also came i'm. 1t was made up of Pull
man cars, two from Chicago, two from
Salt Lake. one from Omaha. Cne from
Kansas City, one from Indianapolis and
one from Toledo. All the lower berths
were occupied. but many of the upper
ones had hot been taken. There were
about $50 people on board. The only
nOtables were Jack McAuliffe and Harry
Phillips of Montreal, who took John L.
Sullivan to Europe.
When asked this afternoon how many
people he expected to attend tho fight.
Dan Stuart said he was confident 10000
| would witness the battle He had expect.
ed more to attend from San Francisco
but for some reason many of the patrons
of the prize ring of that city had decided
not to come