The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

took down $1,000 of it for making Peter
quit at the end of the twelfth round.
Fighting between high class men was
considered profitable game in the Cres-
made master move when they arranged
the three nights fight tournament, in
which John /. Sullivan and Jim COrbett,
Jack McAuliffe and Billy Myers and
George Dixon and Jack Sicily were the
contestants. The amount of purse
money hung UP for these three contests
was $1,000 divided as follows: Sullivan
and COrbett, $4,000; McAuliffe and My
ers $4,000. and Dixon and Sicily, $1,000.
The fights were all well attended and the
club undoubtedly cleaned up nicely.
The battles took place on Sept. 6, Z.
and & 1882, and resulted as follows: Dixon
beat Sicily in eight rounds, Corbett beat
Sullivan in tWenty-One rounds. and Nc
Auliffe beat Myers in fifteen rounds.
The game looked so good to a number
of New Orleans sports that they organ
lied the Crescent City club bid ard Sc
cured the FitZsimmOns-Jim Hall fight for
$1,000 This huge chunk of guaranteed
money for fistic encounter was the talk
of the country, but, as it afterward
proved, it was all On paper. as the club
did not live up to it's agreement. 1t
probably would have made good the
expectations, but as the box office did
not show the amount offered. the club
members refused to dig into their jeans
for the balance. The fight took place on
MaFCn y, 1895, bod winning IN INe Jour
round and receiving, 1t is said, 5000 in
cash and the balance of the winners end
of the purse in Unacceptable paper.
That was .he last big purse offered at
New Orleans. and the game, after the
George Lavigne-Andy Bowen fight on
Z &c. II, 1894. and from the result Of which
Bowen died, petered out. The next big
purse $4,000, was hung up by the Duval
Athletic club of Jacksonville. Fla. for
tie Jim COrbe,,-Charley Mitchell fight,
which took place at the fair grounds of
that city on Jan. p. 1T, and which Cor
bett won in the third round.
In June. 1895, Dan Stuart offered 81 goo
for a fight between Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons, to take place at Dallas, Tex, but
the governor of the state would not per-
nit the battle to take place, and on Oct.
81 after the fighters had gone to Hot
Springs. Ark. to fight, and the state au-
thOrities also interfered, the fight was
declared off. Stuart however, was
bound to break into the game and on
Feb. q, 1896, after being chased from
pillar to post, he had the pleasure of
seeing FitzsimmOns knock out Peter Ma
her in Mexico, opposite Langtry. Tex, in
one minute and a half, for which he paid
the fighters $4,000, all but 1000 of which
went to the old veteran. On March II,
1897. he brought Fitz and Corbett to-
gether at Carson City, New, for a $50, 900
purse. and made fortune from the NOV
ing pictures of the contest.
The game opened in New York City in
the following year and with it came enor-
nous receipts for promoters and fight
ers. The banner event was the Jim Jeff
ries-TOm Sharkey fight, which netted the
fighters nearly S70,UOJ. The last big fistiC
event in New York City, under the Hor-
ton law regime was the fake contest be-
tween Jim Corbett and Kid Mccoy or
Aug 80, 1900, and in which the Kid lay
down in the fifth round. The financia
end of the Marquis of Queensberry rule
game at present is where it started from
nearly twenty years ago-San Francisco