This week is one of big fistic events
in New Orleans, and the city is full of
sporting characters. Under the aus
pices of the Olympic Club, the Crescent
City is the scene of the most elaborate
pugilistic programme in the history of
the ring, the battle-ground for the
world's feather-weight championship
contest between George Dixon, of Bos
ton, the present champion, aud Jack
Skelly, of Brooklyn ; for the world's
light-weight championship, between
Champion Jack McAuliffe, of Brook
lyn, and Billy Myer, of Streator, 111. ;
and for the world's heavy-weight
championship, between John L. Sulli
van, of Boston, and James J. Corbett,
of San Francisco. The stakes and out
side bets of the principals $17,500 for
Skelly and Dixon ; $20,000 for Mc
Auliffe aud Myer ; and $45,000 for
Sullivan and Corbett ; in all, $82,500
very comfortable figures for auy per
son, be he prize-fighter or man of
peace, to contemplate. The arena of
the Olympic Club, the scene of the
contests, is one of the best appointed
buildings of the kind in the world, and
will seat 10,000 people, it is said. The
club is a very liberal oue, and the
largest purses and the immunity from
police interference that it has offered
pugilists, have caused it to become one
of the best patrons of the ring.
The first fight took place Monday
night between McAuliffe and Myer,
the latter being knocked out in the
fifteenth round.
The second fight of the series took
place Thursday night. Dixon won in i
the eighth round.
In the contest last night for tha
heavy-weight championship between
Sullivan and Corbett, the latter was
victor, knocking his opponent out in
the 21st round. 1
BUSINESS AND NO BLOW.
