The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1897, Page 4

R.SPALDING. // W WATSON W.JKELLY M. GEARY “THE CALL’'S” SPECIAL WRITERS AND ARTISTS IN CARSON. L 6. MANSFIELD. ONE WORD FROM SILER AND THE BATTLE BEGINS | entirely, because of lack of enthusiasm On the Eve of Their Struggle Both Gladiators Are Confident. EACH IS IN RARE CONDITION.| Corbett the Choice of the Experts and Heavy Bettors-——Attendance Will Be Light and Dan Stuart Is a Loser. CARSON, Nev., March 16.—When all | the tickets are taken in at Dan Stuart’s mammoth arena to-morrow and the b office receipts are counted up, it will be found that the big Texan has met an- other financial Waterloo. Stusrt deserves | sympathy, for he went into this gigantic protest with enthusiasm and spent money | lavishly in order to make it a success. He is probably “in the hole” at least $50,000 | to-night. Not enough tickets have been sold to come anywhere nesr paying ex- penses. There is a large-sized string atfached to | the kinetoscope concession. Tie latter is | really Stuart's only hope. If the day is| good and is clear enouzh for photography | and the machine works as it should, he | may get out of Carson without having to | walk; but with these ticklish conditions attached he can see no sure money at ail. And even this does not near the end of his trouble. I referred in my dispaiches last night to the fact that Martin Julian, Bob Fitzsimmons’ manager, had come into town with a compiaint to the effect that he and his brother-in-law were not getting -enough ous of the kinetoscope privilege. Fiizsimmons had been promised by Stnart fifteen per cent, and Corbeit the same. Julian thinks now that Stuart is hable to make too much money and wants the sharing to be done on the basis of one- third each, that is—Fitzsimmons, Corbett and Btuart. This was the demand he made last evening, and Stuart told him that he would never agree to it. with a new demand. He had been doing some figuring, he said, upon what might Martin | went away in a haff, but came back to-day | b2 Stuari’s profit out of the kinetoscope experiment, and he decided that if it was successful $13,000 would be little enough for Fitzsimmons. Julian said he wanted this amount in advance and in cash. Mr. Stuart, while inciined to scorn the rotund little manager's proposition, abstaiued from indulging in strong language. It would not do, he argued to himself, have a row with Julian or Fitzsimmo: t this late stage of the game and jeopardize the fight. He was quite conciliatory, and | invited Martin into the rear room of his headquarters for a quiet little talk. Just what transpired there nobody knows, and neither Julian nor Stuart will tell; but whatever it was it evidently was to Julian’s satisfaction, for he went away wearing a pleased expression and a tri- umphaut swagger. 1 am given to under- stand that Stuart, after explaining about the contingency upon which hinged the Kkinetoscope privilege, promised to raise Fitzsimmons’ allowance in case the pic- tures proved to be a success. The heavy falung off of the Eastern visitors to the fizht is something that has hurt Stuart’s pocket seriously. When he was making his plans for the arena he was given reason to believe that at least | twenty spec:al trainloads of sports would set sail for Carson from such cities as New York, Bosion, Philadelphia, Cin- cinnati, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis and Salt Lake City, and that these, joioed with the throngs that promised to come from California and Oregon, would easily make up a crowd of at least 25,000 spec:a- tors. With such an attendance at the prevailing rates of $40, $20 and $10 for ad- CHARLEY WHITE, Corbett’s Principal Trainer, Who, With Billy Delaney, Will Second Him in the Ring. mission, a golden Juture was staring him in the face. The Californians bave ful- filled the Texan’s expectations, but the Easterners, from whom he expected his greatest support, have “thrown him down,” as the expression goes. Out of all specials talked about in the East only one is on the way, and that is simply a remnant of what the Siler-Hogan excur- sion of a series of trains was intended to be. There are about eighty aboard, in- stead of the 1200 counted upon. All the other Eastern specials were abandoned and a desire to cling to, rather than part with, dollars. “The trouble is,” said Billy Madden, in attempting to explain the Eastern short- coming to-night, “the kind of people who usually attend these sortof affairs have | not got money to spare nowadays as they had in tne good old days. They all re- tain their customary zeal over prizefights and their hankering for seeing them. I know hundreds of sports who would be only too glad to journey to Carsox, but theycould not rake togethera healthy enough pile. There is another thing that hurts the fight, and itis the impression age and refused to die out, notwithstand- ing tue fact that both men were training harder than they ever had in their lives, and that their bitterness toward each other had grown apparently to tremend- ous proportions. Now Dan Stuart feels the effects. Peo- ple will not journey across the contiaent to see a fight to which isattached the slightest shadow of suspicion. This is not saying that anything wrong bas been noticed in connection with the prelimina- ries of the fight of the century, and Ionly refer to it as an iliustration to show why it is that Stuart’s vast arena will not hold the thousands to-morrow that he ex- pected. True to their promises neither Corbett nor Fitzsimmons did any work to speak of to-day. In fact the Cornishman made it a complete holiday and did not take his customary spin into town. After break- fa<t this morning he donned his working clothes and heavy shoes, atd in company with two of his trainers went out fora jog on the road leading from Cook’s ranch o the Nevada penitentiary. Here Fitz- simmons put in half an hour frolicking with the guards and other prison attaches, JAMES ] COREETT. that prevailed through the East that Car- son was nothing but a dinner station and that besides being buiied beneath snow it could not accommodate a hundred visii- ors, much less several tbousand. They bad visions of tramping around all night on sleet-covered sidewalks, bedless and hungry, and did not like the prospect. They stayed away rather than take a chance.” Madden does not know all. One of the greatest injuries the biz project received (and tnis is admitted by Stuart himself) was tne publication of a story to the effect that Corbettana Fitzsimmons met one morning last week on a highway and in- dulged in a quarrel for the particular ben- efit of an “‘exclusive’’ San Francisco jour- nal. The story itself was all rightenough because of its spectacalar attributes, even ifit had been true, but what hurt Stuart was the development that both Corbett and Fitzsimmons accepted money for the parts they played. This caused the sport- ing world to grow suspicious. They ex- changed knowing winks and whispered that it Corbett and Fiizsimmons would accept money for engazing i a little trick like that highway episode they could Le induced to engage in a fake fight for a proper sized sum. Some people are already glad to have a chance to point out that the fight is not to be *“on the square,” and they can be scarcely blamed on account of the fre- quency with which big events of this character bave turned out tc be disap- pointments. A story floated out from the East at least a month sgo to the effect that either Corbett or Fitzsimmons had agreed to “lay down’’ at Carson for a very large sum of money, but when this was run down it did not reach any relfable took a bath in the hot mineral plungeand then sped home. His run dia not take in over three miles altogether. He termed it | simply a little loosening up exercise, in- tending to keep his joints easy and wind ontap. ‘The rest of the day was con- sumed in lounging about the ranch and talking with the many visitors who went out to have a look at the man who hopes to win the world's championship laure!s from James J. Corbett to-morrow. The fact that only one day was left to tell the tale of the great battle—one day between Fltzand his future—had no ap- parent effect on the temperament of this famous lanky fighter. To all appearance he was ¢s confident as ever of the outcome of the meeting, and when talking of to- morrow’s event was careless and even flip- pant. He adhered to his old story that the fight would be short and sweet. He does not expect the fight to last over eight rounds at the outside. Fitzsimmons will do no work whatever to-morrow morning with the exception of a little jaunt of a mile or so before break- fast. He will then rest until 9 o’clock and in company with Roeber, Steizner, Hickey and Julian will drive in to the arena. Mrs. Fitzsimmons will go to the ringside an bour laterin a separate conveyance, having made up her mind finally to at- tend the fight. Corbett’s last day at Sha Springs was characterized by no work indoors whatever. It was announced yesterday that he had finished his training, the punching-bag was exhbausted and folded THE easlest thing to give children for a Cold and the most effective remedy is Dr. D, Jayne's Expectorant, - source. The rumor, however, did itsdam- | Pus For constipation, take Jayne's Paluless Sanative up, the boxing gloves stowed away and the handball court deserted. Just to keep himself limber and to hold his wind Jim went out on the road and took a jog to within a few hundred yards of Carson. This was repeated in the afternoon. The conclasion of the latter performance was a grand sprint for his training quarters, the big fellow covering a distance of at least a quarter of a mile. “This is my last run, boys,’” he shouted as he passed a party of friends driving in from the sorings. Jim intends to take a half-mile run early in the morning. This is scarcely customary with pugzilists on the morning of a great battle; but Corbett has asserted all along that he 1s differently constituted from most fighters and requires a differ- ent line of work. He says he has always found it beneficial to indulge in a sharp but not vrotracted sprint some hours before entering the ring, and he does not intend to diverge from the prac- tice on this occasion. It was announced to-night that Billy Madden, the celebrated Eastern sport and w..nager of champions of the arena, had been selected to act as master of cere- monies to-moirow at the amphitheater. Billy Jordan, whose familiar voice and figure have graced every ring event of prominence in San Francisco, is here in Carson, and it was the ambition of Jor- dan’s friends to have him serve at to- mcrrow’s great event, well knowing that the old chief would thus be rendered the proudest man on earth, But fate and the fight promoters ruled against “Our Billy."” Madden's friends had the inside pull and Jordan can now earn no more distinction than serving one of ‘‘those prominent at the ringside. When Fitzsimmons goes into the ring to-morrow morning he will be accompa- nied by Ernest Roeber, Jack Stelzner an Dan Hickey. These are the men who will serve as Bob’s seconds. Martin Juhan, of course, will go into the ring with Bob, but it is understood that assoon asthe timekeepers are ready to sound the gong Martin will retire and take a seat beside his sister, Mrs. Fitzsimmons. It is not altogether settled to-night just who will be in the corner with Corbett. It was thought several days ago that the matter bad been disposed of. Jim had announced that his handlers in the ring would be Charley White, the old reliable Billy Delaney and big Jack McVey; but since this decision was reached Professor John Donaldson, who has served in Cor- beti's corner in most of the Californian’s battles, has arrived in Carson, and so has Jim Carr of San Francisco, who was be- hind the Olympic Club idol in his famous barge fignt with Joe Choynski. Both of these late arrivals are reckoned as mascots for Corbett—they consider themselves as such and so does Jim him- self, The limit to the number of seconds allowed in the ring has been placed at three. White and Delaney cannot be spared and so it remains ior the third choice to be made between Donaldson, Carr and McVey. The big wrestler is satisfiea to withdraw and the question isnow whether Doaaldson or Carr will go along with Cor- bett to the ring. In response to a notice sent out by Dan Stuart, William A. 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