The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-08
GOSSIP OF BOXERS.
Jack Dempsey Keeps His Eye
Fixed Upon Seattle.
STILL WATCHING THE MARINE
Thinks Fitxsimmons Better Man Than
Barke-yohn l. sullivan Talks
About Peter Jackson.


h1reh on Monday night was bumper. and
az -.-vnth of his reception made him feel
~ a. l,e has not lost one jot Of his popular
itv through his defeat by the n arine. de
Is hooking better than he has for hve years,
and altogether, things are rose color Win
him inst at present He said tnc other
day:
II am not particularly anxious to ngns
ANYBODY lust now, but / am in the ousi-
ness. and If anybody will make it an OBJ
iect for me to tackle him / will do so. L
am told through the papers that club il
New Orleans is anxious to have me fight
Robert Fitzsimmons before it. and has Of
fered 8 good-sized purse for such fight.
think il little strange that have received
no word direct IL this is so. It seems TO
me that If I am expected to be one of
the principals / ought to be con-
suited in the matter" / explained
that had heard that the secretary of the
club could not find Dempsey's address.
.WeIl, am here now in New York, he
replied, sand guess it will not be difficult
to reach me- Jack has kept close eye
on Eitzsimmons's movements since he
arrived in this country, and he is satisfied
that the Australian is an out-and-out good
one, but II any club In first-class standing
will hang up suitable purse he will fight
him. OF course be would like the purse to
be as large and fat as possible-a 5000 one
IS tempting-and he will back himself in
by.bet for from IS, 900 to $40 900. He would
like the by-bet to be made when the purse is
offered. OF course this Is what Jack would
like, but we don't always get our desires
in this world, and Dempsey may have to
content himself with o moiety of his
wishes.
He is contemplating trip to England
and Ireland, where Jack Burke is making
good deal OF talk about q fresh match
with him. The Ormonde Club has signi-
fed its willingness to hang up $500 for
fight between Dempsey and Burke. but
the Nonpareil will hardly cross the her
ring pond in search of battle and Doodle of
this character while there is better man
than Burke on this side of the water to
face twice the amount of wealth to gain by
30 doing. NY opinion Of the matter is that
Jack has his eye on the far Northwest
The Marine is there now, pretty badly
sprung financially. He is matched to fight
Young Mitchell in Seattle in October, and
If he wins with that game fighter he will
feel pretty cocky, and when the money he
gets out of the purse is gone he may feel
more disposed to make q fresh match with
Dempsey. Should he be defeated, Jack
will Immediately make an ofter TO Young
Mitchell. Should he meet and defeat the
victor of this match. the blot on his escut-
cheon will be cleared away, and he will
again be the Nonpareil without question
from anybody.
AsI say, think this is Jacks present
programme, but circumstances may change
Il at any moment. place very little faith
in Jack Burke's representations that he has
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$4,000 that he can defeat Dempsey. Still.
he may have them. and If he has I think
Jack will be only too happy to accommo-
date him. Dempsey is out for the stuff,
and between Bur .e, the Marine and Fitz-
simmons, think that he would give the
Irish lad the preference, for though he can
hardly fight now at less than twelve stone,
he ought to be the easiest OF the trio to con-
quer. John L. Sullivan strongly advises
Dempsey to go to England and Ireland, and
j think Jack is ambitious of Old World
laurels.
Dempsey has more champions in his
sparring combination than ever saw col
lected together before. He thinks very
highly of Tom Mccarthy, strapping big
youngster of 20. who recently went through
Billy Baker, OF Buffalo. in the liveliest style.
Tom Is ready to fight Dom McCaffrey, Jack
Ashton, George Godfrey, Joe Lannon or
Jack Fallon, but TO my mind there are two
well for him TO leave out He is q strong.
powerful, stiff young fellow, but there is a
lot in boxing that he doesn't know yet /
think the Southern fighter Felix VAGUE
lin, would be good match for him. and If
some OF the New Orleans clubs were of the
same opinion, fight between them ought
not to be difficult TO bring about.
! had long talk with John l.. Sullivan
the other day, and he told me that in all
probability he would never fight again. 81
never fancied fighting Peter Jackson" said
he, land / only considered doing so be-
cause If ! did not good many people
might think l was afraid of him.
watched him closely, and don't want to
be boastful. but / think / would not
have had very difficult task with him. /
see Joe McAuliffe is making cracks about
what he intends doing with me when he
defeats Slavin. That is all right, and l
wish him luck with Slavin at that. He is q
big giant, but he has neck like an os.
trich. / am through with lighting. and
between you and me, don't think there
will be much more of il. 1t looks as if
they would stop IL everywhere in the big
cities before long, and no one can pull a
championship fight off against the law"
Wishing for little Information asked
the big fellow if. in all his various fights, he
had ever received any punishment which
had bothered him seriously or affected him
week or two after the contest
Never" was the reply. II give you my
word l have often. after have had a good
long rest, been sorer after hard exhibit
ton bout than | ever was after any of my
fights. To tell you the honest truth, / have
seldom been hit real good end hard. Now,
take my fight with kilrain. for instance
They saw he is hard puncher, but he
didn't hit me hard. / have been blamed
because didn't do him up quicker. Now,
the fact OF the matter is that il is very
hard thing TO whip man quickly under
prize ring rules If he is az all clever and
won't stand and fight you. l hurt one OF
the knuckles of my right hand on his head
early in the fight and that made me
cautious. He saw that ] was trying
10 knock him out. and he would have given
could. / saw his game, and i thought,
His skull will last longer than my
knuckies. I'll just let his head alone and
punch his body OF course that policy
and his runaway tactics made the fight last
a good deal longer than it would otherwise
There's where 1 would have had an ad.
vantage with Jackson. He Is quick on his
feet and he would have done a good deal
of trotting around the ring. but intended
10 prepare for that / would have trained
for long fight, and as he couldn't go down
at will, he would have had either TO turn
some time or give me the butt of his ear,
as Sade did, at some stage of the affair
and then / would have tried 10 give him q
dose OF pepper that would most likely have
made things interesting"
Dave Campbell, 1.-The heavyweight
champion of Oregon, Is another of Demp-
sey's stars who is after light. He wants
chance at Ed Smith. of Denver, and,
failing q meeting with him. he is ready
Tor a go with Godfrey, Cardiff or Ashton.
A Western man who knows Smith well
says '.he is no good unless he has Bat
Mayterson or half dozen other solid man