| Show CORBEITS STAR SUFFERS AN ECLIPSE Lanky Bob the Reigning Sensation Sensa-tion at Carson City HE IS GREATLY ADORED WELLSATISFIED WITH HIS I QUARTERS AT COOKS RANCH Hundreds of Seats are Being Sold Daily From the Architects Plans Stewart Wants to Arrange for Wolcott and Green to MeetBat Masterson Will Have Charge of the Peace Preservers Police Arrangements Ar-rangements Said to be Perfect Carson New Feb 20Corbetts star was partially eclipsed this afternoon when Fitzsimmons pink face shone from a car window on the Keno traim The Cornishman was accompanied by Ernest Roeber Dan Hickey and Martin Julian the latter having met the party at Reno I Holding his great Dane wrestling dog by a strong leash Fitzsimmons led te crowd of several hundred to the Arlington hotel where he usurped Cor betts position as the greatlyadored He behaved like a schoolboy and gave the glad hand to all who claimed acquaintance To the talent Fitzsimmons appeared ap-peared a trifle lean and drawn but according cording to his own statement heex pected to take off at least ten pounds entering the ring at about 178 I suppose I will have to keep under un-der cover for a few days but that mile running track will do me until the ground is fit for road work Roe ber and Hickey will keep me busy at present I hope Jack Stenzler will be here in time to work with me for a few days prior to the fight I he dont I will get another heavyweight Verv little work will do me in fact I am fit now barring a few pounds of beef Half a hour after his arrival Fits simmons went to Cooks ranch and looked over the quarters which he said suited him exactly He returned Ito I-to Carson for the night and will move out to the ranch early in the morning bag and baggage I Corbetts work this afternoon lasted 50 minutes and he begged Woods and McVey to make it an even hour but they excused themselves After lunch the champion trainers and apparatus were bundled off to Shaws Springs Jim and Joe Corbett tested the new handball court finding It even better than they expected McVey and Woods were called in for 30 minutes work which terminated the days training Outdoor exercise will be impossible for a week at least but this does not annoy Corbett in the slightest In an Interview sent out by the Chicago Chi-cago Associated Press Julian is quoted as saying he intended to picket a gang of toughs from El Paso and New Orleans Or-leans about the ringside to prevent Corbett followers from breaking through the ropes should the admirers of Corbett attempt I Corbett denounces Julians alleged I I statement as uncalled for and damag ing to the prospect of a successful contest con-test Julian himself denies having intimated in-timated any such purpose Dan Stuart had this to say I have not seen the Interview but can assure you that I believe that neither Corbett nor Fitzsimmons will plant any rooters around the ringside We would not allow i and even if they did smuggle such characters in our police arrangements arrange-ments are so thorough that no disturbance dis-turbance is possible Bat Masterson who will have charge of the deputies is a man of national repute and he has gathered together the most fearless fear-less and determined body of law preservers pre-servers ever collected in any arena Protection for our guests was my first consideration and I will guarantee that nobody is molested Stuart is feeling much better tonight and expects to be in his office early next week Prints of box and reserved seat diagrams I dia-grams are yet incomplete though hundreds hun-dreds of tickets are being sold daily I from the architects plans In his anxiety to match George Green against a man of his class Stuart today I to-day agreed to allow the Californian 230 expenses to meet Joe Wolcott for f Ir tp IJo t I a 3000 purse It is possible that the loser will receive 500 but all hinges upon the decision of Tom ORourke I Wolcotts manager from whom Stuart exnects to hear hourlv Green will train with Corbett at Shaws Springs Wolcott may double up with Fitzsim mons but nothing definite in this respect re-spect has been agreed The upon contest con-test will take place the day before Corbett and Fitzsimmons meet A few hours of sunshine gladdened the hearts of all this morning but Fitzsimmons brought a flurry of snow with him at 330 and an hour later the storm was in full blast Predictions are at a discount but old timers are confident that March weather will be amblike and balmy A dozen sporting writers from the east flocked in with Fitzsimmons and are now adding their imprecations to those af the colony which preceded them Julian Is puzzled regarding Corbptt While he has no opportunity to get a glimsse of Corbett stripped and at practice still he managed to slip a friend or two Into the Ojjera House where Corbett had been practicing daily with his trainers and has received ceived reports from them Julian Is said now to entertain a suspicion In other words he thinks that Corbett and his friends have been encouraged in the spreading of rumors to the effect that he was not right In the hope that Fitzsimmons might grow careless In his own preparatory work while the truth of the matter is that he is In better fix than he has been In Year A private telegram was received here yesterday which has had a decided disturbing effect on the friends and admirers of Fitzsimmons and caused fulians face to blanch I was to the eirect that the tall Cornishman had seriously injured his right arm near the elbow while taking exercise en route to the battlefield There were no particulars to these further than the bar announcement and nothing def nite will probably be known until he arrives here to tell the story with his own has Julian after he had recovered from his first scare was disposed to treat hp matter rather lightly I i had been anything serious he said I would have received a telegram before i this Fitssimmons manager is in lined to think that Bobs Injury will be found to be a wrench or a bruise received while wrestling with one of his trainers Oscar Will Meet Solly Kansas City ilo Feb 20 Oscar k Gardner the Omaha Kid has accepted ac-cepted the offer of the Broadway Athletic Ath-letic club New York to fight Solly Smith March 18 for a 1000 purse Gardner will go to New York next week to train Theonen are to weigh in at 118 pounds the evening of the fight Out i the Tenth Toronto Ont Feb 20ack Hanley of Philadelphia and Fang Gerard of Chicago met in a 20round contest at the Princess theater tonight before about 2500 people Both men weighed in at 137 pounds the contest being for the lightweight championship of Canada Can-ada Gerard had the advantage in height and reach and succeeded In knocking his man out in the 10th round Big Night in New York New York Feb 20The principal event at the polo A C was a 20round bout at 150 pounds between Paddy Pur tell of Kansas City and Con Doyle of Chicago The men put up such a good fight that Referee Billy Madden declared de-clared the bout a draw The preliminary bout between Joe ODonnell of Yonkers and Billy Rollins of New York was stopped in the fourtn rounud and ODonnell awarded the decision de-cision The second preliminary go was between be-tween Billy Rotchfort of Chicago and Jimmy Rose of New York eight rounos at 120 pounds Rotchfort was awarded the decision at the ned of the bout I FAR AND ERNE I They Fought a Bloody Battle in New York Last Night New York Feb 20 Martin Flaherty of Lowell Mass defeated Frank Erne of Buffalo in a 20round bout at the New York Athletic club tonight Erne put upa game battle under tremendous tremen-dous difficulties as his left eye was cut open in the fourth round and bled In a terrible manner all through the fight Flaherty was the aggressor and had not a mark to show at the finish In the Lowell man Erne met a harder I game than he had even with Dixon The spacious gymnasium of the club was crowded to the very doors when the opening bout set for ten rounds at 117 pounds between Bobby Wilson oJ Jersey City and Frank Smith of California fornia was put on The judges were C Coster and E W Kearney of the New York Athletic club and the referee was Arthur Moore of the New I York Athletic club Wilson had his man practically out in the seventh round The referee stopped the bout after two minutes and I fifty seconds giving Wilson the decisIon j decis-ion Smith sprained his ankle badly i going down under a right swing and jihad j ji-had to be carried from the ring The second pair Joe Youngs of Buffalo Buf-falo and Johnny Hannigan of Pitts burg were announced to box ten rounds at 122 pounds Youngs had the best of the bout throughout but Han nigan put up a game fight Youngs had him groggy for the last three rounds but was too tired to put the Pittsburg boy to sleep and the latter kept on his feet to the finish The Judges agreed on Youngs as the winner win-ner nerErne and Flaherty got into the ring at 1020 They had weighed in at 12o pounds Erne had the best cf the ErE l I opening round but his mows were light j Erne ifrutl a Uf left on the 1 > ody andcrossedrrlght to the jav in the third He met Flahertys rushes with both hands and had the best of the round Erne ran into a hard right fierce on the mixup eye cutting i and they had a i In the next Erne put hard swings on I the body and got away cleverly Flaherty had a trifle the best of the fifth with a couple of hard swings j that shook Erne up Flaherty chased his man to the ropes in the sixth and planted a left on the nose that drew blood 1 I The seventh as also Flaherty round He put a hard right on the mouth drawing blood and just as the bell rang shot a left to the eye cutting cut-ting i afresh Erne opened the eighth with a great rush and landed right and left Flaherty sent a terrible left hook to the bad eye but the Buffalo boy came back with a couple of hard swings and honors were fairly even Flaherty made a mark of the bad I eye In the ninth and Erne was covered I with gore I A couple of heavy swings to Ernes left ear in the eleventh made that member add to the supply of blood He countered Flaherty sharply twice but the Lowell man had all the best of the work work Erne rushed in with a storm of blows on the body and head In the fourteenth four-teenth but the Lowell lad clinched and then forced Frank to the ropes In the sixteenth Flaherty landed with terrible force five times on the damaged I dam-aged eye and on the jaw and Frank was very near Queer street when the bell rang I Flaherty put an awful left on the good eye in the seventeenth and had I Frank badly punished but just as the bell rang Frank sent in a right and left that floored Flaherty who was caught unprepared The nineteenth was all in I al Flahertys favor Ill the last round Erne stayed on the defensive until the bell rang I without any further damage Thr judges agreed on Flaherty as the winner applause win-ner and the decision was received with ALL NOW SEBENE Aquatic Differences Between the Varsities Settled I New York Feb 20The aquatic differences I dif-ferences between the big varsltiesr which have been agitating the colleg iate world for the past month were harmoniously and finally adjusted at a meeting of the representatives of Yale Harvard Cornell University of I Pennsylvania and Columbia held in I this city today I was decided that all the races would be held on the I Hudson at Poughkeepsie The Harvard Har-vard Cornell and Yale varsity race I was fixed for June 25 As this is Harvard class day the crimson if she so desires can have the race fixed a day earlier The freshman race was fixed for June Of course Cornells agreement with Columbia and Pennsylvania called for a race between the three and accordingly the date for their varsity encounter will be July 2 and for the freshman race June 30 This will give the crimson and white a little time to recover from the effects of their other struggles The meeting today was most harmonious harmon-ious and the outcome was most satisfactory satis-factory to all the Harvard and Yale graduates in this city who were more than anxious to see the hatchet buried WHEELING WORLD A Affirmation and n Denial of n Split in the West Chicago Feb 20fl M Welsh California fornia member of the racing board of the League of American Wheelmen left for home last night He said there was no doubt in his mind that a split in the league was inevitable unless the views of President Potter and his followers fol-lowers were modified He asserted that he had consulted with the consule wih te prom Continued on Page 2 v oU liJ I I CORBETTS STAR I SUFFERS AN ECLIPSE SUfERS ECPSE I I Continued from Page 1 I inent cyclists in Chicago and they agreed that such a rupture in the L A W was imminent The western i and southern states are becoming more restive as they see no move on the part of the new administration to I yield a point to them The appointment i appoint-ment of a racing board Is now awaited and will probably be the signal for a demonstration by the opposition to the league 11 Fuller the other California Califor-nia member of the board will remain in Chicago and Chief Consul Kerrigan will remain in the east for some time until he finds that no concession can be secured In favor of the coast cyclists Tickets for the Fight Chicago Feb 20 Tickets for the CorbettFitzsimmdns fight will be on sale in this city March 13 and 1 for continuous passage on the day of sale the return limit being March 25 Under an appeal of the Great Western rate for the round trip to Nevada from St Paul of 72SO has been made Many passenger men here are disgusted at the action of the Chicago and Alton in forcing the 7650 rate from Chicago Railroad men have been canvassing the city to ascertain the expected business busi-ness on account of the fight and they claim to have found only 25 men with money enough who Intend to go to Carson Car-son The others it is claimed are going go-ing only on paper Got a KnockOut Blow New York Feb 20 Boxing exhibitions exhibi-tions at Coney Island received a knockout knock-out blow yesterday at the hands of the appellate division of the special court when i reversed Justice Gaynors decision de-cision compelling Mayor Wurster to give a theatrical license to the Turf Athletic club The application had been made by Eugene J Cumiskir secretary of the club on June 19 1896 after Mavor Wurster had refused to issue a license because he had learned from reports made to him by his private pri-vate secretary and the police that the proposed exhibitions were but a guise for prize fights Cumlsky then applied for a mandamus which was granted bv Justice Gaynor in an elaborate opinion in which he held that the mayor under the law had no right r to refuse a license to any one who applied for It The city at once appealed ap-pealed and its appeal acted as a stay until now thereby preventing the Turf Athletic tions club from giving any exhibi Oxford Won London Feb 20The interuniver sity game of football between the Oxford Ox-ford and Cambridge teams was played today and won by Oxford by a score of one goal to nothing At New Orleans New Orleans Feb 20 Todays race results Threequarters of a mile Tragedy won Ettalre second May Ashley third Time 120 Threequarters of a mile Henrica won Surveyor second Double Dummy third Time 120 ½ One mile Renaud won Bizarre second sec-ond Sir John third Time 151 Seveneighths of a mile Domingo won Bob Clampett second Spring Time third Time 136 Threequarters of a mileI command won Jim Maddox second C C Rum rill third Time 123 Threequarters of a mile Catherine won Prince of India second Graefln third Time 120 At Oakland Oakland Cl Feb 20 Weather cool track muddy Four favorites won Six furlongs selling Shield Bearer won br a head Mainstay second Peril third r a dik Time 119U Hermonlta Ika L Winchester Win-chester Encino and Jerome S also r Mile and a furlong selling Frank Jau bert won St Aignon second Babe Murphy Mur-phy third Time 202U Five and a half furlongs selling Mer cutie won Selgfried second Ezcklal third Tlmel13Vi The Elmwood stakes for 2yearolds four furlongs ITO to winnerThe Cheat won Roxey Murphy second Estro third Tlme51l The Thornton stakes four miles 5 to winner Schiller won by six lengths Lobengula second by 40 lengths horn hlll third Time SW Three starters Thornhlll broke down One and threeeights miles hurdle handicap five hurdles Three Forks won Arundel second J O C third Time 243 I |
