The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-05

ONE or JACKS NINBLE TRICKS
bring him into contest with me again,
but he has again and again refused. Moth
ing but necessity would get him to face me
now.
OF course lost no championship when I
faced La Blanche. was giving him twelve
and one-half pounds, and after he de-
feated me / was still middle-weight cham
pion of America, which, suppose, means
the world.
A great many of my friends have written
to ask me whether or not l am going to
England. I don't know. l am consider
ing the matter. It all depends on what /
find out to be the prospects. What would
be the use of my going to England at pres
emit? They have number of good men
there-Toff Wall, Bill Goode and Ted
Pritchard-but nobody knows which one
of these three is the best, and they all
claim to be champion middle-weights of
England. would like to see them settle
the question among themselves, and when
they had finally found out who was the
real champion, would be willing to make
q match with him for reasonable terms,
and toss up to see whether he shall come
to America to fight me or shall go to Eng
land TO fight him. / don't know how good
these English middle-weights are. They
have not fought any of the Americans of
note, and we have therefore no means of
comparing them. but judging by the fate
of other English wonders like Wallace and
Jem Smith. they are no more than q match
for first-class American fighters of their
own weight.
don't know any thing about Bob Fits
simmons, the latest importation from Aus
traIia, except that he whipped Mccarthy
in much quicker time than / did. That
may mean that he is better than am, or
it may mean that he is q rusher who does
all his fighting in three or four rounds and
then goes to pieces. Mccarthy is an awk-
ward man to hit, but they say Fitzsimmons
hit him hard and otter. l may say right
here, though, that any body who looks over
my record will see that many Of my fights
have been long. That does not mean that
the battle was hard, but only that I was
cautious and would rot risk my advan-
tages by trying to wind up matters in
hurry.
In my last fight with Mccarthy l had
him whipped in the seventh round and
did not know it. He was staggering ali
over the the ring, but | suspected a trap
and would not go near him all the re-
mainder of the round. Jack" he said
afterwards, 81 was done for in that seventh
round if you had followed me up. / was
blind and dizzy, and almost out"
Mccarthy is the most good-natured
man I ever fought with. We
used to train together, and he spent half
his time chatting ne 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.
/ begged him to give up. but he would not
do it; he was too plucky. though he had
not one chance in q thousand then. So he
had to go out All the same, he is -
good friend as / have in California to-
day.
have no plans at present, or rather I
have great many plans. and have not de-
cided on any of them. have agreat many
offers from theatrical managers. have
my own company to consider, and also
have inducements to go to England, Aus
tralia and to stay here in Portland, where
my family are. JACK DEMPSEY.