The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-03-08
DREAMED TO DEFEAT
Fitz, in His SLEEP, Send, Corbstt Into
Complete OSlitsration.
TWO BOASTING PUGlLlsTS
Jim Declares That He and Bob Are
the Best Men In the Fighting
Business 1o-Day-Sun-
day In Carson.

Carson. New, March The good
little boys and the good young men OF
Carson city and vicinity who. as
usual thing spend their sundays in
church and Sunday school, for the
larger part played hockey to-day, and
made formal calls upon the famous
pugilists at Shaw's Springs and Cooks
ranch. The weather was bad and the
roads worse than the weather. They
were In stronger force at Corhetts
than at Cooks ranch because Corbetts
headquarters are more easy OF access.
corbett spent his time between break
fast AMI noon doing as near nothing as
he possibly could and he came very
near To doing the job 10 perfection.
shortly after lunch he took up the
mass OF letters that comes To him daily
and with kid Egan To read the freak
letters he made rapid progress with
the large amount Of correspondence
After he had gone through with hls
trainers four times each. Hampton and
Joe Corhett played handhall with him.
several games being repled OF in rapid
succession. All told. Corbett worked
two and onc-half hours aud finished in
excellent shape, Lot In the least dis
tressed. II never was better In my
lifc," said Jim. and I viii keep right
un getting better until the time of the
hight, and " I meet with no accident
such as Is likely To happen to any man
In training. ! viii give very good ac-
count of myself. II ought To he good
night. he said musingly, FOR II Is ccr-
tain that Fitzsimmons and myself are
the two best men In the lighting bust
ness to-day. There is no man who can
beat either one ~ US. and II we are
ever beaten by an outsider II will he by
somebody who Is going To- school at
present. ] mean by that that the man
who Is going to lick Fltzsimmons or
me has not grown up yet. The thing
lies between us two alone, and the wins
ner Of the fight, II II IN won by fair
fighting and on no tcchniCality. will
have every right to call himself the
best man In the world"
There was nothing new at Cooks
ranch to-day except brand new
dream that Fitzslmmons turned out
This II the third or fourth dream that
Fitzsimmons has had bearing on the
result OF the tight. and they have all
tended In one direction. toward the
everlasting annihiiation of one Jamea
J. corbett. II man could he dreamed
u'Nu lUtb ut1tHt anu tOInDlfte
obliteration there In no doubt that Cor
bett would have succumbed long ago.
This dream was that F'itzsimmons had
won the fight In the NTH round. and
Fitzsimmons declared that II was So.
blamed vivid and distinctly like; un-
derstand what | meanT' that there Ia
no possibility of II going wrong with
him ON March II. II tell you II was as
real as could be-" said Fitz. II saw
the whole thing Just as plain Rs any
thing on earth. ] had him going In the
fourth round. and then just sailed In
and finished II up In the NTH"
'Tll show you how did II or rather
how ! dreamed ! did It," he said with
a laugh as he rose to his feet. II did
II Just this way" and the lanky light
er did "A combination ~ the two-step
waltz and the kangaroon hop. waving
his arms around In manner that
made the air seem a tangle Of frcckled
fists and hairy arms. closing up with a
lungc that would have tested the en-
durance Of slab OF boiler plate.
'See?' he asked. but nobody did 'see. ''
and so Fitz went through II again To
his own delight and the confusion Of
everybody else. "Oh, I tell you | can't
lose On that dream" he said. 1t was
regular corker. I saw the whole
thing just as plain az | an going to
see II In the ring. ! can't lose"
Fitz did most OF his work in the
morning to-day. but az n usual thing
he does less on Sunday than ON week
day. His work this morning varied In
"A way from the work he has done dur
ing the last 10 days. save that he did
less of II. lie shouldered shotgun,
and for "A time tramped through the
sagebrush bomharding the little birds
and big rabbits with net result OF on.
small feathered specimen which he
called a quail" and others familiar 10
the locality termed IL a yellow tailed
snipe." This afternoon he spent quiet
~ In his quarters playing cards and
checkers with his trainers.
Charley white, one of Corhett's
trainers. said to-day that he confident =
ly expected his man To win inside OF IL
rounds.
George Green Young Corbett." who
Is to fight Mysterious Billy" Smith.
had narrow escape from drowning
this forenoon while boat riding on the
Carson river near Empire lie and his
trainer. Bob Macarthur was In the
boat. the latter being at the oars. Me-
Arthur attempted to grab a small oh
ject floating in the water, hut failed to
touch Il. Green made long reach for
II and leaned too far over the side. up
setting the boat. Green Is good
swimmer. but he was taken with a
slight cramp and but for McArthurs :
aid must have gone down. Both men
were exhausted when the shore was
reached and were chilled through
shortly after 3 O'Clock In the after
noon Corbett donned his long bath
robe and hurried into the wuudshe,l.
where he toiled away at the little wind
lass with which he develops his
strength in the hands and forearmS
and then punched the bag for - min
utes This work over hc sprintcd for
the handhall court and spent three
quarters of an hour In the hardest kind
~ work. all gone through without the
slightest rest He first went at JEFF
fries. and waded intp him in a manner
that made that gentleman look a tribe
nervous. Thcn he took on E.dgren for
round and then IcNey came out To
be knocked around the handhall court
IN the livCliest Kind OF manner for
three minutes OF wrestling.