Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-28
only condition / will name is this:
Fitzsimmons must post $4,000 in cash

only condition I will name is this:
Fitzsimmons must post $4,000 in cash
as a guarantee that he will fight on
the level and lot fake, the referee,
whoever he may be, or the newspapers
to judge. Sharkey will post a like for
felt under similar conditions. The rea-
son ] shall insist upon this part of the
programme is that / believe Fitzsim-
mons, when he fights again, will try
to get all the money, win or lose, and
| want to make him meet Sharkey on
his merits. Any referee of standing
will suit US. So far as the Lenox Club
is concerned, it cannot afford to stand
for anything unfair. Fitzsimmons can
get just as square a deal here as in
some other place, and he knows it. /
do not believe Fitzsimmons wants to
fight, but | make this offer with the
hope that | am wrong. So far as Fitz-
simmons and Jefries are concerned,
the Lenox Club will not offer a purse
for them at all. Whenever FitZsim-
0 shows that he means business
in making a match with Sharkey l will
cover his $500 forfeit with cold cash.
Sharkey a beat Fitzsimmons and
he's got plenty Of money behind him
that says so. Money, by the way, car
sneak MANY I9DoI-9 raS"
Tommy Hogan and Jack McClelland
are in active training for their 20
round bout, which is to take place in
Williamsburg next Thursday night.
Dan Stuart, in a published inter-
view, states that he don't think
O'Rourke will permit Sharkey to meet
Fitzsimmons. Stuart contends that
Corbett is not a dead 'un yet, popular
opinion to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
When "Mysterious' Billy Smith col
lected his share Of the purse after beat
ing Billy Edwards, of Australia, on
Tuesday night, he said he would fight
Tommy Ryan, CT Syracuse, a twenty
five round bout in five or six weeks
for a good sized purse before the
Lenox Club. Ryan not long ago left
the welterweight class and tried his
luck as a middleweight. He whipped
Jack Bonner handily and then looked
for a match with either Fitzsimmons
or Mccoy. Unable to olinch a bout
with either of these stars, Ryan mott
fed O'Rourke to match him against
any good man that might bob up.
O'Rourke accordingly asked Smith if he
would take Ryan on at 145 pounds.
You bet l WILL" responded the mys-
terious boxer. There's a man I know
l can whip"
Il am authorized to make a match
Tor Ryan said O'Rourke.
60 ahead and make it," replied
Smith. I'll be ready to fight him in
five or six weeks, and twenty-five
rounds, too"
you can consider yourself matched,
then" remarked the manager of the
Lenox Club. "IIl send articles to you
in a day or two"
And after Ryan is disposed Of"
Smith, "Tll take on your black
WoIcott
Ryan and Smith are old enemies.
They have clashed in two sensational
fights with honors about ven The
time they met was at Coney Is
land several years ago. In the eleventh
round Smith had Ryan practically out,
but the police interfered. After a min
ute's delay the battle was resumed.
Ryan proceeded to turn the tables, and
when he had Smith in distress in the
seventeenth round the police jumped
into the ring again to stay. Later
they met at Maspeth. Smith again
lost his head and was disqualified for
using foul tactics. In their coming
fight the men will weigh in at 8 o'clock
in the afternoon on the day Of the
encounter.