El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-16


Governor Nash got in his work in
such way that Judge HOLSTER grant
ed permanent injunction against the
<Jeffries-Ruhlin glove contest that was
to have taken place last night.Th case
Will be appealed to the supreme court
and will likely come up next week but
If Governor Nash has his say so it
Will never come up, or at least not for
so long time that the promoters will
go some place else to have the fight.
There are sparring matches and
glove contests in Cincinnati every
week and nothing is said about them.
but let two prominent men sign arti-
c1es for contest and all kinds of
trouble arise. Sharkey is sparring ev-
cry afternoon and night this week in
one of the local theaters in Cincinnati
with Bob Armstrong. the colored
heavyweight, and Governor Nash has
hot said a word about it. Twenty
round contests have been pulled off
there every month for several years
but because it is not for the cham
pionship of the world it is all right
and no one cares.
1t is hard blow to the members of
che Saengerfest association that this
fight has to be postponed. They are al
most 100000 in debt and at the sug-
gesteion of Mayor Fleischmann or
ganized an athletic club to give en-
tertainments to remove the debt. The
n mbers number hundreds of the
most prominent business men of the
Queen City. and that Judge HOLSTER
should grant an Injunction in the case
Just tried before him, is the same as
saying that the members of the San
gaerfest Athletic association together
with Mayor F1eischmann, who grant
ed permit under a certain provision
in<the state law for the contest are
open violators of the law If such is
the case. they should all be arrested
and fined according to the law. But
such will not be the case. The gen.
tlemen were not violating the law. as
several noted jurists. who followed
the case from the start, said that the
state made no case at all against the
promoters of the fight. 1t is now said
that Judge Hollister granted the in
JUNCTION on an order from the chief
executive of the state. who, in reality.
has noting whatever. to do with the
courts.
Jeffries and Rubin have both let up
in their training. but will keep in
good condition, ready to enter the
ring at weeks notice, as soon as the
supreme court decides in the matter
Should higher court sustain ruling of
Judge HOLSTER, it is altogether prob !
able that the fight will be held in Car !
SON City, Nevada. where Dan Stuart !
is now having a large arena built. |
ready to-hold a fistic carnival early in !
the spring
The Saengerfest people gave an en- !
in their building on last |
Sunday before about ten thousand |
people. Rubin attended the enter |
tainment, which was given by local
athletes. After the entertainment was
over, Rubin, in company with Billy
his manager, started across
the strete to catch car, when some
one called him and he stopped, and
started back. just as an electric car
came along, and he got off the track |
just in time to keep from being killed. |
There were thousands of people on |
the sidewalks,and women tainted 1t |
was a narrow escape for the Akron |
giant His overcoat caught on car and |
was torn. Only a week before Rub |
lin was almost run over by a runaway !
horse and says that there is a hoodoo |!
hanging over him that will not be |
broken. Denver Ed Martin, his spar |
ring partner, says, however, that it is !
4 SIRE sign that he will win his fight |
with Jeffries when the contest comes /
f |
There seems to be chance yet that |
Sharkey and Maher will get together,
1nd If they do, they ought to put up |
: good fight. Sharkey is not the !
nan he used to be. and Maher might !
,e able to give him the proper trim
ming. Their meeting before the Lenox
Athletic club in New York was a very
A,r-f<. - L..
hey were warned by the police that
he contest must be only a scientific
;parring match, and that if any vic
GUS blows were struck, they would be
lrrested. Thus warned, the men tried
o SO box as to keep the authorities
tut of the ring, and at the same time
lecide the contest at one blow. Shar-
ley did all in his power to induce Ma
Ter to lead for him, in the hope that
lie might put the Irish champion out
With his counter. Several times he
eft himself wide open in his attempts
o coax the desired lead from Peter,
Tut Maher was exceedingly cautious,
more SO, perhaps, than was judicious.
1t last Maher did get skelp which ,
ent Sharkey to his knees and to the
opes AS he turned away. think
ng that Tom was knocked out, the
ailor jumped up. and running after
is man, struck him from behind
earful blow. 1t was so sudden and
nexpected that Jim Colville. of Bos- {
on. who was the referee. didn't see it I
elivered. The police instantly filed :
he ring and stopped the bout, which
1aS declared a draw
The opinions of the spectators were I
ivided as to which one would have :
ION the fight had it not been inter +
upted by the police. but the general ,
pinion at the time was that Shar- {
aY would have WOn although Maher 4.