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Show HE IS FADING AWAY. The Formidable Ex-Captain of Police Rapidly Succumbing to the Sweating Sweat-ing Machine. M'AULIFFE AND MYER ARE TO MEET. The Fistie Tournament at New Orleans to Open With the Event John L. Not Drinking, Rut in it... Plumage HasebalL The once formidable Lange is fading away. The monstrous "bay wiadow" that pulsated like an ox's heart aud which is responsible br tne'ramt, stoop in his powerful shoulders is ru'iddly disappearing. Cn irley is in training. Th s swinging of clubs, "the putting of bells, the skipping of ropes, the punching i f bags, the fight with an appetite that whn allow :d full latitude thought nothing of knoc! ling out the family porterhouse, tell the tory of his decline in fat and his rise in muslular tissue. Champion Williams, the gianiinks, has floated the pennant too long; mud, again, he may be dialing under the recfciil deu in which he agreed to knock Lange out in ten rouuds. It is to dispute this thflt he has gone into active training, and -Jim's next fight :s pretty certain to be with iltn- In u'm aud fettle there will be a wide dlf-Arenc8 dlf-Arenc8 of opinion among the sports, aud I insidiable money will likely change I buds. I w 'iltb'iri- dispatch from New Orleans says: M 'esidvut Noel is in receipt of a telegram. A itiug that McAuliffe has agreed to pay tne 000 forfeit claimed by Myers. As a ciinch-B ciinch-B to the good news, Short, chairman of the 9 htest committee of the club, received this fternoon a telegram, stating that McAuliffe ;ad agreed to tisrht Myer before the Olympic 'ub for a purse of $10,000. The fight will -mke place on the Saturday prior to Septem-y- er 7th, the date fixed for the Sullivan-Cor-'""eu contest. Another dispatch from Hot prings says that McAuliffe has agreed to c '.eposit a $5000 forfeit for his appearance in jhe ring at the stipulated time. Should he 'ail to materialize one-half the amount will i fo to the club aud the rest will be pocketed j'by Myer. The weight agreed upon will be SS8 pounds, three pounds in excess of the Regular light-weight rules, i in reference to the Fitzsimmons-Hall affair, af-fair, the club odicials say that Filzsimmons has agreed to all the conditions named in the articles, but that Hall is kicking about the fisrht taking place in the same week as that fixed for the big mill. In regard to this iShort will tight during that week or not at Sail. Arrangements for the Sullivan-Corbett Ttttrht have bieeu progressing smoothly, and j there will be no hitch possible in bringing I off this event. Im Another dispatch to the same journal I from Chicago announces the arrival of the t mighty Sullivan in that city yesterday and adds : "I am going up against a hot game," he said, "and so for that matter is Oorbett. Of course I expect to win. I do not think it was fair for the Olympic club to force me to deposit ,27M) as a guarantee for my ap-pearauce. ap-pearauce. The fact that I have bet $10,000 on the side ought to have convinced the club that I was in earnest. I'm bound to be there, however. I've deposited the money required, so that there can be no kick. It will be the light of my life, aud I propose to win. I weigh 243 pounds at present pres-ent and will have no trouble in reducing myself to the proper weight. I have not yet decided where I will train, nor have I selected a trainer. I'm a strict teetotaler, and have not touched a drop of liquor for three months." i The results on the diamond were a? follows: fol-lows: Cincinnati, 8: Louis 3 Washington, 3: Philadelphia,!. Pittsburg, 9: Louisville, 2. I T'.ostoii,?; New ork.J. Brooklyn, 13, Baltimore, 0. Cleveland, 0: Chicago, 3. Omaha, 1 : Toledo 3. Kansas Ci ty, 14 ; Columbus, 5 ' Minneapolic, !); Milwaukee, '.1. |