The herald., 1897-02-11
THE SITE Of THE PUG MILL
Lies Somewhere Between Reno
and Carson
BOTH PLACES WANT 1T
And Make All Sorts OF Offers to Fight
Managers
Parson Davies Is Arranging q Side Show O
Fisticuffers Second Only to the
Wouid-Be Champions
Associated Press Special Wire

| Associated Press Special Wire
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.-W. X.
Wheelock, who, with Dan Stuart is ar =
ranging the Fitzsimmons-C Corbets :
| fight, arrived today from Reno. He
! came to meet Stuart Wheelock pro-
| fessed ignorance of where the fight
| would take place. He said that only
! Stuart could settle that.
| Said he: mo one has any authority y
| to say where the battle will take place.
In fact battle ground has not been de-
| cided upon and will not be until Stuart
arrives. However, it has been deter
mined that either Reno or Carson Will
| get the contest. Either city can pro-
| vide the requisite arrangements AS
| far as location is concerned one is rs
| convenient as the other The residents
| of both cities want the fight badly an
| are making all sorts of offers to US. The
| business men of Carson have promised
| to put up building for the ring, and the
Renoites have offered a pavilion that l
| think would accommodate the crowd"
| Wheelock said the fight would take
place about noon on March 17th, so peo-
| pie from the city and the Pacific coast
| generally would be compelled to stay
| over only one day in Nevada. They
could leave this city on the 18TH ar
rive in Nevada on the morning of the
| 18th, see the fight in the afternoon, leave
| for San Francisco in the evening and
arrive here on the morning of the 18th.
| Dan Stuart skipped this city tonight
| in his haste to get to Carson. He was
| expecting to arrive here tonight on the
| Southern Pacific overland, but he
caught the Central Pacific eastbound
| Ia - =
through to Reno.
TRAINING QUARTERS.
CARSON, New, Feb. 1O-Harry Cor
bett departed for San Francisco this
evening, having failed to make any ar.
rangements with the proprietors of
Shaws springs for accommodations
there for his brother Jim for training
quarters. So Jim will probably train
| at Steamboat Springs, as was first
| planned FitzsimmonS will train at
Shaw's springs, short distance from
this city.
THE PARSONS PLANS.
CHICAGO. Feb. 1O.-"Parson" Davies
of Chicago has a plan which is pretty
| we'll developed to hold fistic carnival
just over the line from Utah, near
enough to attract he crowd that will at
tend the Corbett- t-F'itzsimmons battle
Arrangements for this additional Neva-
| Au Seti Hlfo al al c oO Ldl dQN duCGQ tIldl the
"Parson" feels confident they will go
| through. Davies has been in Chicago
| for some time working on his scheme,
and he left last night for Pittsburg,
| where he is to meet Quinn, Maher's man
| ager In reference to the scheme The
matches that are to be decided at this
meet are of much importance, and the
| preliminaries toward making them have
| already been gone over with, and it only
remains to clinch them. This the Par
| son" hopes to do within week. so that
| the men may get at least a months
work near the battle ground. The star
| event Of the Davies carnival will be a
meeting between Peter Maher and Joe
| Choynski. The public is not quite sat
/ ist1ed with the result of their former
meeting. in which Choynski was de-
feated and ring patrons are anxious to
nave them meet again. A middleweght
| event may be arranged between Joe
Walcott and Billy Stiff. Negotiations
are also pending for a match between
Bob Armstrong and Jeffries, the Cali
1ornla heavyweight. These, 1t is in
tended, shall be an attraction at the
carnival. Jimmy Barry and Jimmy An
thony are all but matched, and McAu-
| life, Anthony's manager, is willing the
Dantams shall serve as another star at
traction. The four bouts already sched-
ufed are as high as any four bouts that
| could be arranged, leaving out the
championship contest between Corbett
and F1tzsimmons. and 1t is thought these
contests would attract quite as large
a crowd as the big fight. The exact To-
| cation of the Davies carnival has not
been selected, but it will be held at a
point convenient for those. who visit Car
son City
MAKING MATCHES.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 1O.-Parson Da-
v1es arrived here this evening to con-
suit with John Quinn, Peter Maher's
manager, in relation to a match between
Maher and Sharkey to be pulled off
| during the carnival which Mr.. Davies
has just about completed arrangements
| for. The "Parson" announced lust pre-
vious to his taking the train this even
ing for New York that his propose d
carnival will be held at Reno New, on
March 15 and 16, two days prior to the
Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight at Carson.
Mr.. Davies says he can secure a purse
| or $4,000 for a go between Maher and
| Sharkey. and Mahers hacker has ac-
cepted the proposition. The fight be-
tween the two men and the fate of the
Davies carnival now depends upon
Sharkey. II he accepts the carnival
will take place, and will have on the
Anthony. Denver" Ed Smith and
Choynsl1i; Armstrong and Jeffries and
! Maher and Sharkey
FITZ FEELS FINE
NEW YORK, Feb. 10-A large crowd
of sporting men assembled at the Lib
erty street ferry and followed Robert
Fitzsimmons and his party across the
river to the Baltimore and Ohio station.
Fitzsimmons expressed his ability to dis
pose of Corbett under any and all cir
cumstances. Dick Ricky and Ernest
Roeder, wrestlers, and several other
sporting men were of the party. which
will stop of at Omaha, Denver and Salt
! Lake.
WILL KNOW TODAY
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 10.-Dan Stu
art came here tonight on hiJ way from
San Francisco to Nevada. He was her,
but twenty minutes. He said that b,
tomorrow the public will know wher,
| Corbett and Fitzsimmons will fight ane
also what the T.ilroad fares will be
1 He said he would have at least one goot
fight besides the Corbett- -Fitzsimmon.
battle, and it might be Dixon and Erne
He would like we'll cough to brinf
Maher and Sharkey together at tina,
time, but would not give any fancy purse
for them, and Manager Lynch must no
imagine he can dictate any terms to him