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Show THAT GREAT PURSE. The Biggest Money Ever Offered for a Fig-lit. CORBETT MAKES A STATEMENT. The Champion Expects to Slake S75,-OOO S75,-OOO This Season Jack SlcAulifie .- at Juast lllatehed to Fight Barge - Billy Murphy, the Australian, Challenges Johnny - tfriffln Coa-tello Coa-tello Sleets With an Accident The Latest Sporting Sews. The tremendous purses that the Coney Island Is-land Athletic club and the Crescent City Athletic club are offering to Hall and Fitz-rimmons Fitz-rimmons for a fight at one of these clubs are just now the talk of the sporting world. The Coney Island ciub Friday offered to put up $-5,000 to secure a meeting between these two men at its house, and later it raised the amount to $3S,000. This Is the largest purse ever offored to any two men to meet in the prize-ring. Judge Newton of the Coney Island club called upon President Noel of the Crescent City club at the St. James hotel one morning morn-ing last week and had a talk with him in regard re-gard to the size of the purse the New Orleans Or-leans plub was willing to offer. The sum was mentioned, and Judge Newton asked: "If we give Fitzsimmons and Hall $30,-000, $30,-000, in heaven's name what will we have to pay for the Corbett-Mitchell argument?" . ,"That's just the point," replied President Noel. "The Crescent City club," he went on, "practically had the Fitzsimmons-Hall fight, but the Coney Island club kept raising our.figures, and we only met them in justice to the fighters. We are not anxious to pay over 20,000." "Can't we come to some understanding in the matter?" asked Newton. President Noel suggested that neither club make a bid for the fisrht until Saturday at 1 o'clock. That, he said, would give them time to decide upon the largest amount they could give in justice to themselves. Judge Newton, it is reported, agreed to this, and the two men then parted. This was at 11 o'clock. About an hour later Bob Fitzsimmons rushed into President Presi-dent Noel's apartments and said that Judge Newton had offered him ?3C,000 to get the fitfht for the Coney Island Athletic club. "Now, what will you offer?" asked Fitz-simroous. Fitz-simroous. "Not a cent," replied Noel. "Judge Newton New-ton and I agreed not to make a bid until Saturday. If he has broken his word it will not affect my action. I gave him my word of honor that I would not make au offer until Saturday, aud I won't, even if I lose the fight" ?.VVhen Mr. Noel was seen by an Associated Press reporter later on he seemed at a loss to understaud Judge Newton's conduct. "Perhaps the fighters," he said, "fooled him with the story that I had offered $34,000, and that he would have to bid 136,000 to aret the prize. At any rate," said Mr. Noel, "I don't like his actions."- Judge Newton said that be had violated no trust If $36,000 is paid for the Fitzsim-moBS-Hall fight, it will cost a fortune to secure se-cure the Corbett-Mitchell affair. -'" Corbctt Makes a Statement. Jim Corbett went over to New York in a hurry last week to meet President Noel and Judge Newton, and meeting a number of newspaper men, aaid: "I have a statement to make," said he, "and I want you to hear it I want to fight Mitchell, and I'll meet him next September. And he is the only man I'll meet in Septem- ber. You see, 1 am the champion ot America, Amer-ica, and I am ready to defend that title against the champion of England or the champion of Australia. Now, then, who is the champion of Australia? Both Goddard and Jackson claim the title. When they settle set-tle the question I will meet the champion. As for Mitchell, he insulted me once at Miner's theater, and I want a whack at him the worst way." "The Coney Island club will offer a purse of 525,000 for such a contest," put in Judge Newton, "and September will just suit us"." "I will fight before the club offering the biggest' money." "What have you to say about Jackson?" said the reporter. "Why won't you fight him in September?" "Beeause my theatrical contracts will not permit," was the reply. "I'll lose $25,000 by cancelling for Mitchell, but I am willing to do so for reasons of my own. I have a big scheme for the World's fair which will make me a rich man, but I will take a chance of losing money if Mitchell will only coine to the front I have read that my signature sig-nature has been affixed to articles to box the Englishman. This is not true. I am not bound to any club or any persons. I can fet just as much money to tight Mitchell or ackson a year from now as I can at present, and you see neither of' them is growing yountrer. That is all I shall say about pugilistic pugil-istic affairs at present." Jack McAuliffe called on Corbett and occupied oc-cupied a box in the theater. The histrionic ability of Sullivan's conquercr surprised the light-weight champion. "If I couid act like that" Jack exclaimed, when Corbett slapped Charley Twitchell's face with his glove in the third act, "I'd never fight again." Corbett made his first bow to a New York audience as an actor at the Grand opera house last night He expects to clear $75,000 this season. Jack McAullfib Is Matched. Jack McAuliffe says that he has signed with the Crescent itv;Athletic club to fight Burge, the English :light-wf ight champion, twelve rounds or more, at 18 pounds,, for a purse of $15,000.'. Burge Is expected to arrive here in a few weeks, and it is said he has also signed to fight at New Orleans. - In spite of the tact that McAuliffe declared de-clared b.e cevet- would enter a ring again, after his contest with Myer, the probabilities probabili-ties are he will do more boxing than any of the champions during tbe next six months, lie has apreed to have a ten-round "gro" with Billy Myer in Chicago soon. In addition addi-tion to this Jack has taken on a match with Patsy Kerrigan of Boston. This will alic be a ton-round contest. McAulilfe's new play will be ready for him In December. Killvd la a Goal Mine. H. J. Hammel, a minor in the employ of the Pleasant Valley Coal company's Winter Quarter mine at Scofieid, was killed yesterday yester-day by a blast. The deceased was working at a coal pillar, and after lighting a shot he was unable to get away before the blast caught him. lie had been in the country only one month, and leaves a wile and four j ckildreD, who are in Belgium. . |