The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-11
JIN'S BID IS RAISED
PRESENT OF $4,000 IF FITZ WILL.
STAND TIP FOR TEN
ROUNDS
SOME STRINGS ATTACHED.
CONDITIONS IMPOSED REGARDING
A REFEREE AND FIGHT
To A FINISH.
JULIAN STICKS TO HIS STORY.
He Is Not Even Dazed by the
BriiIiancy of the COrbett
Bluff.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan. 10.-At the close
of the second act of James J. Corbetts
play, a Naval Cadet" at Haylin's
theater tonight, Corbett stepped before
the curtain and announced that he Of
fers Fftzsimmons $4,000 for a finish
- fight. the entire sum to so to Fitgsim-
mons if Corbett fails TO put him out
in ten rounds. Corbett Intended to is
sue this challenge on Jan. l., but de-
cided to make it public tonight The
challenge reads as follows:
Robert Fitzsimmons: You are iniuring your
own best interests, Mr.. FitzsimmOns, by
Offering abuse as your reply TO my courteous
letter of December Neither of US is qualified
for oratory and the public is not entertained
by your wrangling over what is palpably
honest proposition, more 10 your advantage
than 70 mine.
As a last tnducement to overcome your OBJ
vious reluctance 10 meet again, I will
make that proposition still more favorable,
thus:
Your profits from your four greatest bat
ties We're: Battle with Dempsey, $12. 900; bat
tie with Maher, so, coo; battle with Hall So
OOO CThe offered purse was $40 coo, but the
club failed) Battle with Creedon, $1,000, max
ing a total of $50, 600. You made nothing out
or your fight with me, for having hope
OF winning, you sold your chance for the
purse for 10 per cent of the profits in the
vertsCope. Therefore, So, 000 represents your
reward in gross for the five greatest contests
DL your lie NOW listen TO what l Oner.
A purse of 5000 stands ready to be offered
as a prize for a meeting in the ring with
you. To this I will add 80, eco of my own
conditionally that you agree to box me to a
finish. This makes $S5, eco. I offer this entire
sum If I fail to stop you in ten rounds-wlth
two provisions, viz:
First-That the contest must continue to a
finish and,
Second-That shall have something to say
In regard to the appointment of a referee who
will not be unfairly prejudiced in your favor.
This is my final proposition take it Or leave
' 1t. II you really want q fght-it offers one
II you want money! sum is ready, exceed
Ing your gross receipts in five battles II you
want reputation, you make It better by
meeting me than by meeting all others to-
gether. II you doubt this, ask the public
each night when you exhibit. That is my ultt-
matum. I tired of this chatter want
work not talk Paper gabblings do nat suit
me, and abuse is a towards weapon.
II this, my last offer, will not make you
meet me like a man. it is because your Car
son bruises are still aching so painfully that
even $50, coo cannot tempt you 10 endure their
certain renewal. That is the only excuse you
can now offer or the American public VIII
accept. The tree Of success is hard to climb
I admit 1t may be that you are satisfied
with the small fruit ripening 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 1 shall post $4,000 forfeit the moment
you accept-remains nailed where you must
see and cannot avoid it.
James J. Corbett
Fitzsimmons was affectionateIy
stroking the neck of his big dog Var
rum last night when reporter
showed him a bulletin from ST. Louis,
announcing Corbett's offer
What are those figures" asked
F'itz, for they were a little blurred and
he could scarcely trust his own eyes.
The reporter said the figures made
$4,000.
We'll. what do you think of him?'
was Fitz's only reply.
Julian was more communicative. al
though no more satisfactory to Cor
bett. it would seem.
Accept that?" said Julian. How
can accept it? He hasn't made US
an offer yet but what there's been A
clothes line attached to every 25-cent
piece of il. He's got paresis That's
what's the matter with Corbett [
told Stuart last night what Fitz would
do and we're ready to stand by that,
and that's the only proposition we
have to make to COrbett He can
make all the grand stand plays he
wants to with this stage money of
his. Funny isn't it, he has S35. 900 now
when he couldn't get $4,000 backing
for side bet when he was the sup
posedly invincible and unbeaten cham
piOn of the world. Now he's a. has
been. or il he isn't it's up to him to
go out and show it by whipping Maher,
if he can. He's doing nicely. These
bluffs keep his show advertised a lit
tie, kind o keep up the interest, You
know, but when the season closes in
San Francisco, he'll drop out Of sight
in Frisco and never pop his head up
again"
And Julian smiled as he thought of
the gate receipts at the ''only cham
pion" show on the boards, reaping in
the shekels at a POI gait.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1O.-Dan A. Stuart
arrived here tonight from st. Paul,
- where he went on a fruitless endeavor
to induce Fitzsimmons to enter the
ring again with COrbett. ct said all 1
could say" said Stuart and made
every frducement I could make, but it
was all of no use. Fitzsimmons and
Julian stood pat on the issue that
Corbett must first defeat Peter Maher.
L shall now offer a purse for Corbett
and Maher, but I shall not hound Cor
bett into the match. I shall make the
offer TO him and he will, of course, do
as he chooses"