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All Details for the Great Heavy Weight Battle Were Satis-factorily Settled Yesterday.PURSETO BEAN ENORMOUS ONEConey Island Sporting Club Offered 66 2-3 Per Cent, of the Gross Receipts and a $30,000 Guarantee.CORBETT AND FITZ CHALLENGED.Dells Were Promptly Accepteil by Sliavkey’H and Jeffrie** Managers •~A Remarkable Meeting,yTom Sharkey and Jim Jeffries will fight at the Coney Island Athletic Club Oct. 23 or within a week of that date. The purse will be 66 2-3 per cent, of the gross receipts. All this was settled last night at a meeting of managers held In the Vanderbilt Hotel.The meeting was remarkable In many ways. Considering the magnitude of the fight and the amount of money it ■will undoubtedly draw, it was singularly iharmonlous and businesslike. Long -before the time set the big guns of pugilism began to arrive, all tacturn and apparently unconcerned. At 6 o'clock Tom O’Rourke. Martin Julian, William A. Brady, George Cook, John Consldine, Alex Brown, Sam Austin and a number of lesser lights were grouped in the corridor waiting for Mat Clune, who had been appointed to receive the bids and award the contest to the club bidding highest.Coney Gets the Fight.After several mysterious conferences between O'Rourke, Brady and Julian and anxious Inquiries for the rumored $160,000 bid from the West, it was decided not to wait any longer for Clune. There were but two bids in; one from the Lenox Athletic Club and the other from the Coney Island Sporting Club. The hotel clerk was asked to open the envelopes, and there was cons.derable “rubber-necking” as he opened the Lenox bid. Sixty-five per cent, of the gross receipts,’''he read aloud,Brady twirled around nervously and saidj Coney Island gets the fight.Then the other envelope was opened, and it contained the following letter:Tom O’Rourke and W. A. lirady.On behalf of the Coney Island Sporting Club I make the following bid for the proposed Jufrrics vs. Sharkey contest: Sixty-six mid twii-thlrd. por cent.- of the gross receipts, together with a guarantee that tho boxers’ share shall not he less than 530,000. Enclosed you will And a certified cheek for id.SQU to he deposited wkh the final stakeholder as the Coney Island Sporting Club's forfait In case we succeed In getting the match.MARTIN JULIAN. Brady looked at O’Rourke and said, “Coney Island gets the light.” • ;O’Rourke nodded assent, and the incident was closed. 'Then there was a littie fun. As the group mov^d away tiom the counter John Consldine stepped up and saldjLV Gentlemen, I want to match Corbett against the winner of the fight.” Quick as a Hash Brady turned to him and replied:“JYiffrles will fight anybody. We’ll takfi you on.”Considlnc then repeated his challenge to O’Rourke, who snapped him up quickly and agreed to match Sharkey against Corbett, and fight him four weeks after he fought Jeffries. Then Julian stepped up and said to O’Rourke and Brady:“Will you light Fit*?”.O’Rourke agreed to take on Fitzsimmons two months after Jeffries' contest, and Brady, for Jeffries, said that he would fight him two weeks afterward.For awhile challenges and acceptances passed to and fro so rapidly that everybody’s head buzzed. O’Rourke smiled grimly, and said:“Yes, we’ll fight Fitz and take Corbett on as a preliminary.Considlnc did not like this exactly, and tp show his good faith offered to place a forfeit, and later in the evening did place a forfeit of $1,000 to bind any match that , might be made for Corbett.Practically all the details are set-vied for the greatest pugilistic contest In the history of pugilism. The articles of agreement signed by Sharkey and Jeffries four months ago covered all the necessary details.,They agreed then to fight straight Marauis of Queensberry rules. In talking of their plans Brady and O'Rourke both said that the fight would be held at night, and that pictures might be taken of the contest, blit they would not be. allowed to interfere in any way. The purse will probably be the largest ever fought for. George Siler will referee.
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World
New York, New York, US
Sat, Sep 02, 1899
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