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Show WORLD OK SPORT. A Salt I.uke Wrestler's Experience With Coutrubaud Opium IfltssimmoBB and Mnber, Local interest in sporting matters is at present concentrated in the light between Mahcr and t'itzsimuions which takes place before the Olympic club in New Orleans on Wednesday night. The betting fraternity who nsuully have a strong favorite in rencontres ren-contres of this kind arc plunging very lightly, and while some of them have a "hunch" His not strong enough to induce them to dig very deep. The Wires will begin to burn tomorrow, however, aud a change may come over the horizon. George La Blanche who was recently knocked iu a punch and that by a coou has fixed the date for another go with his colored brother, and on the night of March 34, will undertake to redeem his reputation. Things are apparently coming very rocky for the man who once defeated the 'Nonpareil. John Cuddlhee whom tho sp orts of Park City remember as the wrestler who defeated bitf McMlllen of the lumber lum-ber regions had abjured thu sawdust saw-dust and the arena until a few days ago when, as a dotective iu .Seattle, he was unwittingly dragged into It again. The story was extant that a smuggler from Vancouver wns trying to unload a trunk of contraband opium iu tb e towu. John sniffed the aromatic stuff, and for ten days chased the cargo from place to place. Finally he landed on 1t with a half-Nelson, and the trunk and smugg ler went down In police headquarters. The key was sum ndered and the lid of the trunk laid back. It was filled with the canned goods, and, a chemist called in, an analysis was made. Again the wrestler's wrest-ler's dream of fame faded. It was not opium but an ama'.guni of sawdust and molasses. The shivering wretch who bad brought it in had himself been victimized. He had paid 11500 for a counterfeit stock of opium on which he expected to realize foOOO. The ex-champion ex-champion may not enjoy the laugh, but he Is drawing it in job lots. Anticipating the fierce demand for news from the Fitzsimmons-Maher tight in New Orleans Messrs. Keeley A Iteilly this morning morn-ing effected arrangements with the Western Union to receive the bulletins as fast as they arrived at their various places of business. I |