, 1890-10-23

delivered, the most deliberate i0ul
ever perpetrated In n prize ring. !
was dazed and weak from that
cowardly blow, and my seconds Inn
medlately claimed the fight for me
on foul. But l never yet won
fight on q foul and | would
not win from the Marine In that
fashion. Besides, the referees hesi-
tation had put him I'm n bad position.
So / refused to win on foul aud
evened matters up and took the
referee out of fix by continuing the
round till we were pulled apart.
never fully recovered after La
Blanche hit me that foul blow. l
have tried every thing short of strik-
ing him to bring him into u contest
with me again. But he has again
and again refused. Nothing
but necessity would get him to face
ME now.
OF course I lost no championship
when l faced La Blanche. l was
giving him twelve and one-half
pounds, and after he defeated me
was still middle-weight champion
Of America, which, suppose, means
the world.
A great many of my friends have
written to ask me whether or not i
am going to England. don't
know. am considering the mat
ter. 1t all depends on what / find
out to be the prospect. What would
be the use of my going to England
at present? They have number Of
good men there-Toff Wall, Bill
Goode aud Ted Pritchard-but no
body knows which one of these
three IL the best, and they all claim
to be champion middle-weights of
England. l would like to see them
settle the question among them
selves, and when they had finally
found out who was the real cham
pion 1 would be willing to make II
match with him for reasonable
terms, and toss up to see whether
he shall come to America to fight
me or / shall go to England to fight
him. don't know how good these
English middle.weights are. They
have not fought any of the Ameri-
cans of note, and we have therefore
no means OF comparing them; but
Judging from the tate of other Eng
lish wonders, like Wallace and Jem
Smith, they are no more than n
match for tirst-class American
fighters Of their own weight.
| / don't know anything about
Bob Fitzsimmons, the latest impor-
|tatlon from Australia, except that
he whipped Mccarthy in much
quicker time than l did. That may
mean that he is better than ] am,
or 1t may mean that he IL n rusher
who does all his fighting In three or
four rounds and then goes to pieces.
Mccarthy is an awkward man to
hit, but they say Fitzsimmons hit
him hard and often. l may say
right here though, that anybody
who looks over my record will see
that many Of my fights have been
long. That does not mean that the
battle was long, but only that / was
cautious and would not risk my adj
vantages by trying to wind up mat
ters in hurry.
In my last fight with Mccarthy
had him whipped in the seventh
round and did not know 1t. He
was staggering all over the ring,
but | suspected q trap and would
not go near him all the remainder
of the round. "Jack," he said af-
terward, ~ was done for in the
seventh round If you had followed
me up. / was blind and
dizzy and almost out" Nc
Carthy Is the most good
natured man I ever fought with.
We used to train together and he
spent half his time chatting me and
telling what he was going to do
with me when we fought. He
would sit down and tell me exactly
where he was going to hit me and
how hard. Even when we were
Fighting we were talking pleasantly
to each other and laughing over
each blow till Mac got dizzy. l
begged him to give up but he would
not do 1t, he was too plucky, though
he had not one chance in thou
sand then. So lie had to go out.
All the same he Is as good friend
as have In California to-day.
| have no plans ut present, or rath-
er / have great many plans and
have not decided on any of them.
have u great many offers from the
atrical managers. / have my own
company to consider and also have
inducements to go to England,
Australia and home TO Oregon where
my family Is. am undecided as
yet AS To what 1 will do.
JACK DEMpSEY