The record-union., 1897-02-20
VENDIG AFTER STUART.
SUIT TO BE BROUGHT AGAINST
THE FIGHT PROMOTER.
Charged With Violating Contract to
Share With Him in the Corbett-
FitZsimmons Contest.


well-known sporting man of this city
& Hummel, to begin legal proceedings
against Dan A. Stuart of Texas for
failing to keep signed agreement
whereby Vendig and Stuart We're to
share the expenses, profits or losses of
bringing Corbett and Fftzsimmons to-
gether fer a fight in a prize ring.
Vendig claims that the agreement was
signed in June, 1895, and that Stuart
has violated the contract.
Reviewing the case, Vendig said that
Stuart promised that the counsel fees
would be 81, 800 and the rent of the
arena 50, 800 Vendig claims that he
told Stuart to go ahead, but after the
latter reached Texas he wrote a let
ter saying that the cost would be very
much more. In reply to this letter Ven
dig says that he wrote Stuart to go
ahead and draw on him whenever he
needed money. 1t is now a matter of
history that the bout was prohibited in
Texas, owing to the action of the Leg
islature, and after a fruitless attempt
tc bring it off in Arkansas, Stuart pre-
sented an itemized bill to Vendig for
am additional bill of ST 1,300
When Stuart and Vendig parted at
Little Rock, Ark, in the autumn of
1890, Vendig says that Stuart promised
to follow FitZsimmons to Australia, and
that he told Stuart to go ahead, and
that he would be with him in anything
he should do. A month later Vendig
received a wire from Stuart, who was
then in Houston, Texas, stating that he
had offered $4,000 as a purse for Cor
bett and Fitzsimmons to fight in Texas.
This proposition, Vendig says, he noti-
fed Stuart that he was willing to abide
by the agreement. Stuart came on to
New York with articles signed by F'itZ-
simmons to sign Corbett, as we'll as a
verbal contract to fight Maher. When
the articles We're presented TO Corbett
be refused to sign, but said in the pres
Hotel that he would fight the winner
OF the F'itzsimmons-Maher battle.
Maher signed the articles for a $10,-
900 purse, and Stuart left the city to
get Fitzsimmons' signature When
Fitz signed Stuart wired Vendig that
he had to give F1zsimmons 81 900 for
Going SO. The arrangements were also
all perfected for the bout at FL Paso,
but when it was found impossible to
bring the fight off at that place, Ven
dig says that Stuart and he agreed to
bring it off at Langtry. Stuart said
that there was a goose egg" before
them, but they both attempted to bring
the fight off, so as to show the public
that they meant business, and that
they could easily recoup their losses
by bringing F'itzsimmonS and Corbett
together later on.
One hundred and ten people paid to
see the fight at Langtry, and when
Stuart and Vendig compared notes they
found they had lost $4,000 on the
speculation. This showed a total loss
under the articles of agreement of nearly
$50, 900, half of which Vendig paid.
Fitzsimmons made a tour through Eng
land, and on his return he was met in
this city by Stuart, and with Vendig' S
consent Stuart travelled over Mexico to
secure a battle ground on which the
Corbett-F'itZsommOns fight could be
pulled off. Fitzsimmons and Corbett
signed the articles of agreement for the
coming fight, and Stuart went ahead to
make arrangements.
Vendig claims that Stuart failed to
correspond with him, and later the vita
scope company was organized, with
Vendig holding Is per cent. of it's capi-
tai w H. Wheelock called on VendiS
for funds, and Vendig says he advanced
him 81 1866 80 in accordance with an ar
rangement which Vendig made with
Stuart
While the Dallas promoter was hunt
ing for place where the fight could be
brought to a successful issue, Vendlg
claims that he received letters from
Stuart informing him of his progress,
and that later, when they met Start
produced papers which showed that it
would take $4,000 to Insure the bring
ing off of the contest. Vendig says that
he told Stuart, when apprised of this
enormous expense, that he could not
stand for more than % per cent. of it,
and Stuart said he could ont afford more
than that himself. From that time on
Vendig asserts that Stuart made sew
eral engagements to meet him, but broke
them all.
A few days ago Vendig received tele-
gram from Stuart dated Carson, New,
which said that Stuart was willing to
give Vendig pooling interest in the
event, but nothing more. Vendig felt
that he was being frozen out, and imme-