Salt Lake Herald | 1898-06-30 | Page 2 | M' Coy-Corbett Fight

H7COYCORBETT FIGHT A Conference Wrangle and Nothing Accomplished New York June 29A meeting was held today to arrange the preliminaries for tho McCoyCorbett fight but after several hours discussion was adjourned with nothing definite decded upon Corbett was accompanied by his manager William Will-iam A Brady and McCoy who did not attend was represented by William Gray of the Hawthorne club of Buffalo Gray offered 12500 for the fight John S Barnes late manager of the Olympic club of London offered 15000 for the fight to come off In England Sam Austin representating the Broadway Athletic club offered tO for the fight Barnes then raised his bid to 0 for the fight in this country and was followed by Tom ORourke of the Lenox I Athletic club with the some bid Considerable Con-siderable wrangling ensued over the different dif-ferent bids and the conference broke up without anything being decided on Saratoga Regetta Saratoga N Y June 29The first of II the fcurcornered intercollegiate boat races will be rowed here tomorrow when the freshmert crews will m et So I far there is not much betting on the result Columbia leads slightly in favoritism fa-voritism and the Pennsylvania and Cornell are about an even choice for second place The Wisconsin men are not looked upon with much favor ON THE DIAMOND Chicago Chicago 12 New York 4 Louisville1 Louisville 4 Baltimore 3 Plttsburg Pittsburg 4 i Brooklyn 3 Cleveland Cleveland 3 Boston 0 2 St Louis St Louis 3 Washington CincInnatCincinnat 9 Philadel I I