People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — Fitzsimmons Proclaimed Champion. [ARTICLE]

Fitzsimmons Proclaimed Champion.

New Obleans, Oct. B.—At a meeting of the members of the Olympic club Tuesday night Robert Fitzsimmons was proclaimed champion heawy weight of the world. This action was taken after Corbett’s positive refusal to fight Fitzsimmons od the*ground that the latter was not in the heavyweight class.