The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-11
Thirty-five Thousand Dollars Held
Out to Bob FitzsimmOns.
ALL FOR A FINISH FIGHT
IF CoRBETT FAILS TO PUT HIM
OUT IN TEN ROUNDS.
''This Is NY Ultimatum,1 Says Jim,
ct Am Tired of This Chatter
Proposition Amuses Fitzsimmons
Julian Will Consider No Pro-
posal Till Corbett Whips Maher.

st. Louis, JAM 10.-At the close of the
second act OF James ]. Corbett's play
"a Naval Cadet" at Havlin's theater
tonight, Corbett stepped before the cur
tain and announced that he offers Fitz-
simmons $4,000 for a finish fight, the
entire sum to go to F'itzsimmons if Cor
bett fails to put him out in ten rounds.
Corbett intended to issue this chal-
lenge on Jan. H. but decided to make it
public tonight The challenge reads as
follows:
THE CHALLENGE.
Robert Fitzsimmons: Neither of us
is qualified for oratOry, and the public
is not entertained by your wrangling
over what is palpably an honest propo-
sition, more to your advantage than
mine.
LAS 2 last inducement TO overcome
your obvious reluctance to meet me
again, | will make that proposition still
more favorable, thus:
Your profits from your four greatest
battles were:
Battle with Dempsey, $4,000; battle
with Maher, 0,000; battle with Hall.
$1,000. (The offered purse was $4,000,
but the club failed.) Battle with Cree
don, $4,000; making a total of $780, 900.
You made nothing out of your fight
with me, for, having no hope of Win
ming, you sold your chance for the
purse for Is per cent of the profits on
the veriscope.
Therefore, $780, 900 represents your re-
ward in gross for the five greatest con-
tests of your life. Now, listen what /
offer:
MONEY TALKS
"a purse of $4,000 stands ready to
be offered as a prize for a meeting in
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$4,000 of my own, conditionally, that
you agree to box me to a finish. This
makes $35. 900. l offer you this entire
sum if l fail to stop you in ten rounds,
with two provisions, viz:
THAT the contest must continue
to finish; and
'-2.-That I shall have something to
say in regard to the appointment of a
referee, who win not be unfairly preju-
diced IL your favor.
This is my final proposition. Take it
or leave it. If you really want fight
it offers it. If you want money-a
sum is ready, exceeding your gross re-
ceipts IL five great battles. If you
want reputation, you can make it bet
ter by meeting me than by meeting all
others together. If you doubt this. ask
the public each night when you ex-
hibit.
TIRED OF CHATTER.
THAT is my ultimatum. 1 am tired
of this chatter. l want work, not talk.
Paper gabblings do not suit me- and
abuse IS a towards weapon.
IF this, my last offer. Will not make
you meet me like a man, it is because
your Carson bruises are still aching so
painfully that $35, 900 cannot tempt you
to endure their certain renewal. This
is the only excuse you can offer, or that
the public will accept.
The tree -ot success is too hard to
climb. admit. 1t may be that you
are satisfied with the small fruit ripen-
ing on the lower limbs The great prize
can only be won by reaching to where
my name was, is, and shall be.
But whether you will so venture or
not, this, my last challenge to you-and
to bind which l shall post $4,000 forfeit
the minute you accomplishments nailed
where you must see and cannot avoid it, !
: (Signed) JAMES ]. CORBETT."