El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-19
Sports and Sportsmen

Onlo the question arises. VIII tney
fight some other place. Manager Brady
has received offers from all over the
United States and Canada but says
that the fight has been declared of.
He also said that so far as he was con-
cerned the two men would never be
signed to fight again. Brady says that
he is tired of arranging contests only
to have them called off and that he
has too much other business to look al
ter to go into that business any more
But the knowing ones only smile and
wink the other eye. Brady is the
greatest manager of glove contests that
ever appeared before the public and
he knows il and will be seen getting
ND another fight before the spring is
over.
Otto F1oto. the well known Denver
sporting man. is hot after the contest
and has made a good offer. There is
a squabble now on in the Colorado leg
islature about prize fights and Floto
has been assured by both factions that
If the fight can be secured there will
be no law to prevent it's being held in
Denver where they are holding con-
tests between lesser lights every week.
1t seems that a bill was lately passed
in the Colorado legislature that knock
ed the old prize fight bill out and at
present there is no law in that state
against the holding of fights of any
kind. Floto has offered a purse of
$4,000 and will deposit forfeit that
there will be no interference from the
law.
Dan Stuart is also working on the
quiet to secure the fight for his big
car val to be held in Carson City, Ne
vada. in April.
a number of sporting and business
men of Fit. Erie. Ontario. Canada, have
secured a permit from the Canadian
government to build a club house in
which all sorts of games might be
held, not excepting boxing. Thomas
Kinney, who is at the head of the
movement. says that it is his intention
to bid for all of the big contests that
are to be held in this country and that
he has sent a bid to Manager Billy
Brady for a fight between Jeffries and
Rubin.
Louis NJ. Houseman. the well known
Chicago sporting writer and boxing
promoter. has made novel offer to
Jefries and Rubin. He will guarantee
them a purse of $4,000 and besides give
them a bonus of $500 each to engage in
a Greeco-Roman wrestling match at
TattersalTs in Chicago. The men
laughed at the idea at first but are
now seriously considering the PROPOSE
ton and may sign articles for the
match. 1t would undoubtedly draw a
great crowd.
The decision of Judge HOLSTER in
Cincinnati that JeffrieS and Rubin
contemplated and were about to en-
gage in a brutal prize fight evidently +,
worked the wrong way with Rubin for !
Thursday afternoon while Sparring
with Denver Ed Martin. his sparring
partner, he got mad and when Martin
hit him a little harder than Rubin
thought was necessary he lit in and
put the negro out. There were sew
eral spectators and when they saw that
Rubin was in earnest they tried to
separate the two men. Martin saw
that the only thing that he could do
was to try and defend himself and they
went at it and the spectators were
forced to stand aside or get hit.
The two men fought like fiends for
several minutes when they fell to the
floor while clinched and were separat-
ed. Rubin was none the worse for
the fight but Martin was somewhat
battered up. Billy Madden, their man
ager, said that they often get warmed +;
up and he has to separate them. They !
SPARED six rounds at Marietta. Ohio,
on Saturday night and all went well, /
SO it was just little case of sulks with ,
Rubin and Martin could do nothing
but defend himself.
Charley Mitchell, the English heavy /
weight pugilist, has arrived in New :,
York and now the sports are talking /
of all kinds of matches. Mitchell says |
that he did not come over especially to
look for fight but that he is willing
to take on any of the bigfellows. Nit
cheIl was the first man in the world
to make John L. Sullivan measure his
length in the ring. 1t was in Madison
Square Garden in New York before
great crowd of people and happened /
several years ago when John L. was
in his prime. Mitchell had just come
over to this country and John L. I'M
derestimated the ability of his oppon-
ent and early in the fight Mitchell sent
him to the floor while the spectators
held their breath. Such a thing was
thought to have been impossible. Sui
livan won the fight but not until he
had received a terrible drubbing.
Mitchell says that he would like to
take Corbett on again. But he is not
anxious to fight and he certainly does
not have to for he is one of the richest
men that ever entered the professional
arena.
In an impromptu match race at
Tanforan the other day Joe Frey de-
feated Articulate in a most sensational
race. 1t had been arranged that Can
more should go against Art1culate but
the race was declared off and John
Schorr consented to start Joe Frey ;
against the crack Articulate. Tommy
Burns was on Joe Frey while Tod Sloan l
had the mount of Articulate. Burns
got half a length the best of the start
and l-ant his n1acp the Dalr talrlV