The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-19
NEXT BIG RING BATTLES
APPLYING THE "DOPE, TO THE
FITZSIMMONS-SHAR
FIGHT
THE RED ONE OUGHT TO WIN
Inspector Mclaughlin and COrbett
Close TO n COIIIsiOn-PIan to
Help the Weldon
Fund.


fight at Coney Island next Friday night.
The men are to go for a purse OF $2ooVV'
SO the press reports say, of which tstate
the press reports specifically and with
deal Of vehemepce) the winner is to re-
ceive 70 per cent and the loser % per cent.
This will be the second meeting of the
two men. On Dec. 2, 1896, the pair came
10 a clash at San Francisco. One Wyatt
carp, an Arizona outlaw, declared Shar-
key the winner in the eighth round on
foul-as cold-blooded and high-handed a
decision as was ever handed down in any
ring F'itz had beaten the sailor into an
unrecognizable pulp, and a a juncture
where E'itz could not lose and Sharkey
could not win, carp interposed his pre-
negative, disqualified Fitz and pronounced
Sharkey winner. The claim was that
Fltz had landed below the belt, though
outside of Sharkey, Danny Lynch and
the referee there was not man in
Mechanics pavilion who saw FiZ land
anywhere below the sailors neck and
Jaw 1t was the most bare-facted bit
of robbery ever attempted, and, despite
legal appeals and the most popular pro-
tests. Sharkey collected 800 of the $lO-
O00 purse.
This is recalled purely for the purpose
or trying TO get bit of dope out OF
the former meeting of the principals in
Friday nights heavyweight mIX-up. Inc
mere relation of the incident above will
not suffice however. Those who saw the
fight then will make all manner of allow
snces for the aging of Fitzsimmons and
for the advancement Of Sharkey. Before
they forfn-any very definite line on
the pair there is one phrase OF the
Frisco affair which should be given seri-
known,
known beyond cavil or doubt that the
man who managed Fitzsimmons in his
- engagement against Sharkey had S9''VO
In the pool boxes of the Frisco rooms
Wagered on the even money pfopoSlloh
that Fitzsimmons would not win in six
rounds When the gong changed for cor
ner'' at the end of the sixth round, this
manager of Fitzsimmons had pocketed his
own and the other fellows $500, less the
usual commission of the pool seller. 1t
was moi until the seventh round therefore
that Fitz really started TO tight, and IN
the eighth so completely and overWhelm-
ingly larruped the sailor that carp, haV-
ing undertaken to save d sinking ship, did
SO.
So that in figuring on Fitzsimmons and
Sharkey. You will have to throw out the
first six rounds of the Frisco battle and
the referee TO the contrary, chalk up q
two-rouud victory for Fitzsimmons
1t Is pretty difficult matter to handi-
cap cheaters. whether they be of the four
or two-legged sort. l did not like Fitz-
simmons winning fight against Ruhlin
lie has pretty well all of his old punch
ing power, bat he has grown loggy of
foot and shiftleSS or slow, or both, in de-
Tense In his fight against Rubin, Fitz-
simmons took punch after punch from
the man from Akron without attempting
to get out of the way or evade the leads.
Had Ruhiin's left been capable of ehec-
live work a winner other than Fitzsm-
mons would have been returned.
again. there are those who believe tina
Sharkey viii never wholly get over the
drubbing he received at the hands OF
Jef1lies, and that it WAS this beating
which made Ruhln's win over Sharkey
t:oly On the showing of FitZsimmons
and Sharkey against Rubin, of course,
g the way is clear enough. 1t must be
borne in mind, however, that the rela-
tive showing Of two men against a com
mon opponent has been used before with
more or less disastrous results. If Fitz-
simmons fights as open a battle against
Sh3Tl,ey as he did against Rubin, this
seli-same sort of reckoning may again
be set 1t n2ught. Under a careful men
torship, FitZsimmons may win. If he
starts in to swap smashes with the husky
marine-as he did with the less husky
Ruhlin-Sharkey viii have better than an
even chance to win.
Jeffries announces that he will meet
the winner Of the Fitzsimmons-Shark
fight If the victor will take him on be-
fore the funeral march of Mr. Horton s
pet fight enactm mt in New York. On
the s,rOke Of the midnight hour a week
- from next Friday night prize fighters
and prize fights viii be under the ban of
Assemblyman Lewis prohibition bill.
Thus IL viii be seen that the winner of
the Fitz-Sharkey fight and the champ on
viii HAY t0 oar Ia Of n
week after qualifying for the honor. Both
EitzsimmOns and Sharkey have agreed
10 take Jeffries on, providing. however,
that the victor is not bunged up or his
fighting weapons impaired any in quail
flying. If this battle should be ar
ranged 1t viii demonstrate that there is
nothing quite so accelerating as mort
bund prize fight law in bringing boxers
together. Years ago it took world
OF nagsing, taunts, Vituperation, chal-
lenges newspaper exploitation and tele-
graph tolls TO arrange a match between
premier heaVyweghts. Here we have
= the spectacle Of "a pair ready to lock
horns in seven lays. 1t took nearly
eight months to bring Sullivan and
Mitchell together at Chantuiy. Sulli-
van and Kilrain snarled at each other
five months before they finally toed the
scratch at Richfield. Cocbett and
Mitchell .adulged in personal cross-iiring
and Bliingsgate FOR nearly half a year
before the malodorOus victory of Cor
bet at Jacksonville. Corbett and Sui
Ivan met at New Orleans after five
months of challenging and counter-chaI-
longing. Reckoning the time lost by the
fight that failed at Dallas and again at
Hot Springs FitZsimmons consumed the
better part of eighteen months in ladling
out the solar-pleXus punch, which put
Corbett away at Carson City. 1t was
three years between North Judson, Ind
and New Orleans, and all the while the
Afycr were carrying around shoulder
chips. III these days seven days appear
10 be about long enough to condition and
fight in
The alleged fight between kid Nc
Coy and Jim Corbett looks bad at this
distance. The row between the pair,
after a firm friendship Of years, savors
of nothing more violent than stage real
ism. Thst the pair will draw an enor-
nous house is certain. 1t has long since
become evident that New Workers like
to be humbugged, and Will divorce them
selves from their money In order to be
at the death Of anything ''fakey'' One
Eyed Jimmy, Connolly admits that
cloud blood foight with suspicion and
YOU viii I'LL your bleedin 'ouse with
coin. Tie smart 'uns wants to be there
AMI see Ger themselves"
IT was hoped that the pennant winners
of the National league and American as,
sociation could be brought together in a
seven-game series for the worlds cham
p.onship and a purse OF S., 900 zhelr
swell the Harry Weldon beSeft fund
bot it looks now as though the dates for