Show NEVADA HAS HAD HADI I Many Great Ring Battles Have Been Fought in the Silver State Dy Dr E W Chicago Aug It Is to ho bo Ne Nevada Nevada vada again after all And acry eye In Ute the sporting sparling world mo may be turned toward the Silver state on Labor day dar darif if Stanley and Sam Langford hook hoole lip p In a finish battle for the mill championship of the world a battle that is liable to emphasize the i present ring supremacy of oC the black blackman man maD I Nevada ever oel has hag been heen the tho home of I pugilistic enterprises Almost every everything thIng that ever eer happened In a Nevada ring If not an actual surprise was a matter of deep interest to followers I of nf the tho rin ring And this battle battlo will bu be beno buno no exception for It is doubtful if a i contest of more and excitement could hO framed up ip than thon a finish contest be between between tween the premier white and the black terror Dacic In 1897 or perhaps a trine trifle ProbablY was wag in the tho fall or of I Stuart wIdely known at as asono ono of the richest and most powerful or of Americas sporting sparlin men caused to tobo tobe bo be passed In the far western state a abill I bill legalizing glove gloe contests of un nfl limited length It was Ct a measure that took nerve to rather father but Dan had the I nerve nere anti and the money moner He also had a motive He was wil wild i ito to become ono one of the thc worlds greatest and to that end dreamed of untold wealth In the tho Sliver state when he hc would hc 10 able to have hae I practically It a a monopoly of f all al the big battles iii the world I IDan Dan also aleo had an strong all the tim lie He wanted anted to a bat battie tie tic Jim Corbett then cham I i plon Ilon of the world through his hi defeat i of John 11 l SullIvan and harley I MItchell then champion of England I or 01 claimant of the title anti ann Bob J Fitz Fitzsimmons itz simmons ThIs was what was general generally ly Ir termed tanned at the tho time as the hattie of the century tOI foi the negotiations open I Ing In HOG arid and culminating In 1907 leading up to the tho fight were elo full of o unusual terms The men were match matched matched I ed In again In and finall were carted to Hot Springs Arl where It was ns thought to decide the struggle at Park Parle I Corbell on the scene after being chased d out ont of one state after an 1 other hut but Fitzsimmons did not and the Of cry went up II that he was sho show showing Ing the white feather He claimed then that he hc was ns afraid to go to Ar Arkansas Arkansas kansas because of the tho hostile attitude of the authorities It was va afterwards proved that thal Fitz Fitzsimmons simmons was right and that there was no chance of deciding the contest at atHol I Hot Hol Springs Stuart in the tho hain having sJ nt thousands of dollars to decide the struggle announced haq lie he had decided to 10 transfer fer it to Lo Car Carson son CIl City NtH Ne and this ns done dOll March 17 O being the date dale set sel for fOI forthe the For months and months the interest was kept at fever heat heal and the battle I justified the Interest for a more picturesque and sensational struggle I never was decided lit In any ring Fitzl Fitz simmons won in the tho fourteenth round aHel having the better of the mIllIng In the early stages anti and was wason I on the map mal for Cor all time as a fighting center I Since that thal contest In tho valley that St Patricks lay day there have hae been many man many hard hord fights In Indifferent indifferent different parts of Novada and the strange glamour that surrounded the I buildings seems to hove have been carried ovel to the others It is 15 the only place in tIle the union that permIts finish hat bat batties ties tics of unlimited duration I Ely Is a mining camp and as such hopes bOIS to lut on the tho map and got get about In fine gratis graUs adver Using through th the medium o of this great groat battle Ely had min minIng mm Ing stocks to sell sehl and will 1111 sell much that Is had bad rand and perhaps some somo that Is good to the tho strangers who Ill visit the the thc first week In September Nobody so scorns oms to care how much ad I Ely sets gets If the tho fight goes goos through And as there thore Is Isa Isa a purse of oC hanging banging In the hal bal ance It looks looka as If the lighters fighters will willee I Iee ee to It Il that there Is rio no faIlure I Last of all let lol us hope that does docs not break brenk any bones honos on the tho hard skull of the black man Ho will neeL to have hae more marc than he over eor and hoe have them in line fine worl ing trim I lie he faces aces this fellow |