Show FIGHT DECLARED OFF STELZXER AND PURCELL DO NOT GET TOGETHER There Was Not Enough Money In the House Fcr the Winner to Flag n Tomnle Can With and Stelzner Declined to Scrap For Nothing While Purcell Did Xot Display Any Easernc r to Do Battle For si Small Amount Money ViI Be I Returned Williams HOle From the Coast I Steizner and Purcell did not meet last l evening as was announced would I be the case te I was not due to any fears on the I I part of the principals in the proposed I contest for both men seemed willing I to but the audience was enough fight wa a slim one there being only fiftytwo I tickets sold and when the expenses and percentage came to be deducted I from this sum the best way it can be figured would result in the winner I getting 7 So after the preliminary bouts were ended the referee of the club made the I announcement that Stelzner declined to go on and fight for fun I The management of the club announced I an-nounced that all tickets would be paid tomorrow at room 43 OMeara block I Of course there were many disappointed disap-pointed ones in the crowd But it could not be helped Saturday evening even-ing is an unfortunate one for an event of this kind the patrons of the sport generally being engaged in business j up to 10 oclock and unable to attend I After the matter was settled last j evening both principals were seen and I i I expressed themselves Purcell said he j I could not blame Stelzner for not wanting I I want-ing to go in for the small amount of cash there was in sight He did not feel justified in fighting himself Stelz I ner said he did not want to take chances on a battle for the small I amount represented He has spent his own money in training for three weeks I and while he is not broke by any means is able to live and can make a living doing other kinds of work he will rot go in the ring for any common sum of money such as was taken in last evening even-ing There were two preliminary event last evening Edwards and Gatewood being the principals in the first three round bout which was so lively that the little colored man was bleeding freely from the nose at the end and I Bob Thompson and H Kimball the latter putting up three good rounds Jim Williams returned from the I coast last evening looking none the worse for his defeat at the hans of Sharkey whom he will meet again if i arrangements can be made for a finish fin-ish fight Jim says that the newspaper newspa-per accounts of the battle were all wrong as to weights that his opponent was at least twentyfive pounds heavier than he While Sharkey is avery a-very hard man Jim says he was not defeated by him had he been let alone The limit of time was ten rounds and Williams declares he could have stayed had his seconds let him alone When the sponge was thrown ne up he was on the floor trying to save a little time tme In the first two or three rounds Sharkey forced the fighting and in I the second Jim landed on the jaw and sent him to the sawdust He broke his thumb in so doing and was handicapped handicapp-ed on that account but he is of the opinion that he should have been allowed al-lowed to stay In the rounds where Sharkey rushed him he had to fight in order to stand an equal chance but in a finish fight where he could play awaiting I a-waiting game Jim believes he could land his man all right |