The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-17
PRIZE FIGHT GOSSIP
CORBETT GETS A CONCESSION IN HIS
MATCH WITH sHARkEY.
Fitzsimmons Wants $4,000 Damages
for Injury to His Reputat ton
other Sporting News.

NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-Macon Macormic
in his weekly sporting letter. has the follow
ing gossip of the prize fighters: Jim Cor.
bett was hardly off with his match with Kid
Mccoy before he was on with the new IN
the shape of a match with that rough and
ready ex-mariner Tom Sharkey This match
grew out of the challenge Corbett pub
lished Monday morning TO any man in the
ring, but especially to Fitzsimmons, Shar-
key or Jeffries, who were mentioned by
name. The ex-sea soldier lost no time
accepting it, for Monday afternoon he had
his manager. Tom ORourke. deposit $3.50
with Honest John Kelly as a forfeit Or
earnest that he meant business. OF this
fact there is no doubt as he always means
business. The mex. day they signed arti-
cles which bind them to meet before the
I.enox Club for purse of $4,000 in a TWEEN
ty-round contest. which is to take place ION
the 22d day of next November Seventy
five per cent. of the pursa is to go to the
winner and the short end of ii to the loser.
Corbett, for the first time in a long while
scored point In the articles of agreement
when he got Sharkey to consent not to hit
In the clinches or in the break-aways He
Will have a hard time, / opine living up
to this agreement Honest john Kelly
will be the stakeholder of this match. He
was chosen i'll preference to AL Smith, on
account of the Gilsey House trouble.
Col. Jim Breslin. of the Gisey House.
has hardened his heart and set his face
dead agin" the scrappers, and he will no
longer permit them to lounge about his
Ralafiai hostelry or TO be. catered to there
IN. Bob Fitzsimmons evidently thought the
Iact that he is the champion would ex-
cept him from Colonel Jirn's ban, but he
round out his mistake when he undertook
10 iuIlcn there early in the He
uehled the mock turtle soup his stomach
yeafned Tor. and when he asked for an ex-
pidhduon from the handsome proprietor he
sot, SO TO speak. a verbal punch in his so
clal solar plexus that knocked him galley
west and crooked
Forthwith he hied him to his lawyers.
ana by and with their advice he has sued
the Jovlal boniface for $4,000 In his le-
Breslin mortified and humiliated'' him by
telling him that he didn't want his patron-
sase ana requested him to leave his prem
Uses, literally turning him out of the house.
F1tz gees on to say:
:, That plaintiff is accustomed to earn his
throughout the United States s and p otbnr
parts OF me world, and that his income,
success a an well being depend upon the
esteem ana popularity with which he is re-
sarded by the said public as a person Of
character and behavior; that his said bust
ness requires him to travel continuously
and extensively, and requires that he shall
I'VE and be entertained and received al the
pest ana ana most ma respectable and proper inns
custom heretofore
long and loud when he read this complaint.
The idea that Bobs income is dependent
vpIn the ne !, 1a ana o. popularity with
person OF proper character and behaviorl"
] had an idea that the fact that he was
the champion of the world and a fighter
OF phenomenal ability was the prime fac
tor or his vaudeville value. / partly gath
cred this, idea from his Autographs and
Int &t,,f
However, jury will determine the mai
Ter. Bob's card. written for him by his
press res. age agent. is an amusing bit of pathos.
trial II IS likely to be what the lawyers
san causus celebre, or in plain Eng
fish, "a celebrated case" For a coliple of
years the Gilsey, of an afternoon and often
OF evenings, too, has been the favorite
iisounging place Of scrappers and their satel-
years made the house his home and on ac-
count OF his squareness and honesty he has
pya9, ae e the iavorits stakeholder of the
IusihsIc fraternity. Farson Davies has
made the house his stopping place while in
New York. and when Tom O'Rourke be-
came the manager of the Lenox Club he
received his mail there and made ii a
sort OF downtown convenience for match
making. Presently its regular habitues anf
patrons began TO complain because of the
influx OF the Scrapping fraternity especial
" when its dark-skinned celebrities mad
bett and Mccoy had their run i'm lis foye
that the patience of its good-natured PRO
p 5i Was exhausted, and he issued his
eulct tnat henceforth and FOR all time Il
come he would entertain no pugiiist Their
is one thing that must be said in Fftzsin
monss behalf. however, and that is mai
never knew him 10 raise a row or disturl
anee IN any hotel or public place. He h;,
peen mixed up In several unruly affair
but they were not of his seeking or maxim.
lie has always been on the defensive q
sueh occasions. believe in England an.
australia the Keeper OF a public house ian
motel Is certainly public housel Is hour
to harbor and entertain all patrons wi
properly behave themselves and are ali
20 pay their footing. Fitz evidently thinl
the same law holds good here We shall s..
Disputes Feather-Wcight Honors.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.--Martin Flaheri,
the Lowell (Mass.) feather-weight pugils