The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-03-04

IN New York Monday afternoon to arrange
match O'Rourke, Sharkey's manager,
has accepted Fitzs challenge and says
he will agree to anything Bob wants,
and will bet as much as he wishes at tho
ringside, The fight win probably take
place at Coney Island. and Tim Hurst sill
be the retire..
The managers Of Corbett and Jeffries
progressed another step in arranging for
the fight in May. After some dickeriug
Brady finally assigned the fight to the Sea-
side Sporting club Unless something else
hobs up, which would not be surprising.
TO train aud fight. In New York the pub
lie seems to be as suspicious Of the 10 as
ever. 1t is like pulling teeth to make
any one on the outside think there Is
really going to be a contest. The feeling
is being helped along by reports from Hot
Springs which say Jerhries is ailing with
chronic disease and can not possibly
fight for many months. 1t is probable
that Jeffries' condition is exaggerated.
That is nearly always the case where q
champion is concerned. If there is any
thing the matter with him the reports
probably make 1t worse than it is.
Now that everything has been arranged
satisfactorily to all concerned, the fighters
will resume training. Corbett will return
to Lakewood, n j., after spending the
next few weeks at his California home,
will come to his former training quarters
at Asbury Park. where he has prepared
for all his championship battles. The fight
crs are to receive $500 each from the club
TO defray training expenses.
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rrho TINA ie not Far off v-hnu tha hasa-
ball situation must be cleared up and
every lover of the game given a chance
to enthuse over his fayorite team for ths
coming season.
The question before the baseball public
just now is. how many clubs will be
The majority of the magnates would like
to see the eight-club circuit. but they
claim 1t will be AMIDST an impossibility
to bring that state of affairs about this
season, owing principally TO the condition
of affairs in Baltimore.
Louisville and Cleveland being out OF
the question, the pinch comes at Balti-
more, for the magnates have given 1t out
that they will make no further effort to do
business with the Wagners of Washington,
who are supposed to have placed figures
too high to suit the circuit committee.
The best washington can expect Is what
the courts may allow for damages which,
In all probability. would be very light II
based on the winnings of the club since
It's organization in 1892.
This places three cities-Louisville
Cleveland and Washington--out OF the
troublesome class and brings the concen-
trated fire OF the big guns on the syndicate
which controls the Brooklyn Baltimore
frachises.
Says Tim Murnane; THE circuit COM
mittee will have no reason for meeting
before the Baltimore muddle Is straight
ened out, even should that time be ex-
tended into the middle of next month In
1889 the league schedule was not given
out until April 1. and there is no need o!
an early schedule this season.
81 reason thusly on the eight-culb prop
osition: Freedman will not make move
to strengthen his New York team unless
assured of an eight-cub circuit. This
would mean a big loss to the league,
Brooklyn in particular. Ebbetts has rea-
soned this out, and l believe Hanlon and
Abel have fallen in line. but will not show
their hands while the ground question
league can do no business with a club that
has not a lease of at least three years OF
their grounds, as the old organization
will insist on controlling the grounds
for a number of years III every city they
buy out TO give UP league bail.
Should Washington decide to give up,
leaving Baltimore alone, there would be
nothing left for the league to do but
make out schedule for eight clubs This
% he ftfGt inn rA
would never try TO force the league to
a nine-club schedule, and If it tried
could never stop the other clubs from 60
ing 1t alone.
Brooklyn is not In a position to fight
unreasonably for Baltimore, for tho SIM
pie reason that preservation is the
first law of nature. and Brooklyn is COM
mendably DESTROYS of remaining a full
grown partner of the new eight-club
league. a circuit made up of the best play
ing cities as we'll as the grandest array
of players ever known in this country.
To me the eight-club circuit looks like
10 to / shot"
The sad misfortune which befell Harry
Weldon, the famous sporting editor OF the
Cincinnati Enquirer. who was stricken
by paralysis on Sunday last will be sin
cerely regretted by sporting men the
country over. Mr.. Weldon edited and
largely contributed to the most generally
read sporting page in the world. He made
the Cincinnati ENQUIRER a standard author
ity on sport and gave it the most inform
ing, newsiest. most reliable sporting page
of any daily in existence.
AS baseball writer he was prolific. His
forte is his fine ability to foregather the
news Of great prize fight. He is the
best prize fight reporter that ever went
down TO the ringside. The Cincinnati En-
quirer Immediately prior to big fight was
always eagerly sought by the cognoscenti,
for they got deep down, inside stuff that
the flash" experts of New York dailies
would never secure. He was the original
Corbett man. the original Jeffries man,
the original Mccoy man. He was FIRST to
see merit in Terry McGovern and Bob
Fitzsimmons.
Mr.. Weldon was secretary of the St.
Louis Baseball club in 1885. He resigned
that position at the end of the year and
ever since has been with the Enquirer. He
IS the best-known. the most popular Of
American sporting writer's. Though he
was in receipt OF a princely salary from
the Enquirer, he is a poor man, for he
never buttoned a pocket, never inquired
Whose hand took the money out of II.
He is beloved by his confreres of the
press as well as by baseball players,
turfmen. pugilists and all other sporting
men with whom he came in contact.