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Show IS FITZ "LEARY?" The Sluerger Indulges in Some Very Suspicious Sus-picious Prattle for a Real Game Sport. THE STORY BETWEEN THE LINES. i.ynort and Yonng Williams not Likely to Meet The Itaiitams "Fight to a Lraw Records of the Stick and the Sphere. Kangaroo Fitz, if the press reporters are quoting him correctly, is disposed to make the preliminary bout with Hall a strictly vocal one. Fitz should avoid these things, for if ten percent of what his antipodean rival says of him is true, he will need all the wind his bellows is capable of holding when he ent'-rs the ropes. Again, every part of t'.ie country bas a bigger flow of natural gas than i- can possibly handle, and give every human well a chance to exhaust itself. Zion I has it m -jl brigade and when it holds up its his- JVri holy horror of vocal lighters it ah. ..om experience. Fitzr-immons io again credited with saying yesterday in New York: "I can whip him, though he will be a heavy-weight." Well, the public don't care anything about a differences of five pounds and if Fitz persists in this kind of argument some people who are now prepared to back him will suspect that he ext eels defeat and is already hunting a soft spot on which to drop or else showing the tips of a white feather. The truth is Hall is no bigger at 105 titan Fitzsiiunions is at 15, and th's thing of preaching into the public on the eve of battle that if he is whipped whip-ped it m ill be by a heavy weight that he was at a disadvantage, that he was unable to eat more than a family porter house at the last meal. Comes nearer coniirmiug all ttiat Hall has said of the Australian rival those all that couid have been said. Heretofore the sporting public has looked on Hall's shois at the tall sycamore as a bit of vicious badinage but it is willing to confess its mistake mis-take on just such puny claims as Fitz has set uo in New York, Go on and hammer; don't howl! 4. fm- g The result of the league games yesterday wr. as follows : S Louis, 9: Pittsburg, a. C icinmiti, 0; Cleveland, 2. I itirc-re, !; Brooklyn, 10. I 1 .isville, 4; Chicago. 8. ti e games between Boston and Washing-tor Washing-tor (few York and 1'hiladelphia were post-pqjg post-pqjg d on account of rain. i W e tight between McHugh and Norton, bat'liins, at Columbus last night resulted in a raw. McHugh was the favorite at the ringside and had odds in the betting of 2 to 1. In the ninth round McHugh fractured his arm and the fight was tame from that out! At 2:20 a.m. the tight was declared a draw in the thirty-seventh round. Neither mat scored a knock-down during the contest! con-test! 7 It. Corrigan's Riley makes his advent on thnturf this year with every promise of swa pping the big events before him. His req nt performance at Memphis has thrown hit? far along in the books. 1 : |