The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-19

create part OF CDlS national character
istic trounced out of him one eventful
day in January last. Providence has
| been kind to Plimmer, and he has so
far escaped the fate of his countryman.
It is, however, doom deferred, not
averted l am confident he viii yet
come to grief. He cannot 90 on forever
tossing bluffs around promiscuously
without being called down by some
body. He will have to make good his
bluffs some day or else be called down
by the public. He claims that he is
only one hundred and ten pound man,
and yet persistently refuses to accept
the challenges of Charley Kelly and
other first-class American bantams at
that weight. He cannot get down to
one hundred and ten pounds any more
than I. and too well he knows it II
he could, he would not let slip such
golden opportunity of raking in the
| good American dollars his countrymen
love so well. as meeting with Charley
Kelly would afford. II he is sincere in
his assertion that he can l will pit
1 boy-a friend of against him
at one hundred and ten pounds
/ for any amount of money. But 1t
/ is waste of time to make any such
proposition to Mr. Plimmer. He is
simply striving to make capital out Of
| his challenge to me for a projected
| British tour. When he returns to Eng
land he viii placard the bill boards of
London and the English provincial
| towns with large pictures of himself,
under which will run the legend:
Billy Plimmer, champion bantam of
! the world and challenger of George
Dixon" Perhaps he may go the length
| of clubbing himself my "sonqueror" ~
on the strength of an outrageous de-
| cision he once got over me IN four
round bout in Madison Square garden.
/ In his case as well as in that of
Charles Mitchell there is no limit to
'ELondon assurance"
Mr. PIimmer modestly disclaims any
ability as letter-writer and ayers
/ that the epistolary shaft aimed at me-
! is only his second effort in that direc-
ton. Well, all can say is that If he
keeps on improving and learns to fight
as well as he can write. he viii soon be
at the head of the class. But to get
down to business. l viii make him a
proposition in which there win be none
of the rhetorical embellishments" or
''specious arguments" which Mr.. Plim-
mer so severely condemns, but of which
he is apparently striving to make a
/ corner" l cannot meet him ON June
| 90. the date on which ! was to bat
| tie Critic, the Australian champion, III
Boston. My manager, AIR. oRourke,
had already accepted the offer of Wal
ter Edgerton, the Kentucky Rosebud,
| with whom recently had an unsatis-
factory contest, to take CRITICS place.
! grievously suspect that Mr.. Plimmer
! knew this when he was penning his
bold defiance. will, however, gladly
meet him in Boston ON July G, when /
have permit for another boxing tour
| nament. for any number of rounds.
will take him at his own proposition
that he gives me five pounds, on the
fallacious hypothesis that he can get
to one hundred and ten pounds-and
| ngree to weigh IN at one hundred and
fifteen pounds at three p. m. on the day
of the meeting. And L will be more
! L
that he weigh in at one hundred and
ten pounds. He can GO at the same
weight as land am sure he would) at
that hour. Planners talk about Civ
| ing me five pounds was written with
the intent to deceive. He would have
the public believe that would weigh
one huudred and fifteen pounds and he
but one hundred and ten, but he cum
ningly stipulates that ] must get 60
the one hundred and fifteen pounds,
but does not restrict himself TO the
one hundred and ten pounds limit, to
which ! know he could not possibly
get. The truth is, that he Is really as
big man as myself and weighed
fully as much when we met in Madison
Square garden last August. The only
difference between US was that he was
in the finest possible fettle and ! IN
poor condition. That, however, was my
own fault, and ] do not offer it Is
: any plea of extenuation for not whip
! ping Pimmer as 1 ought to have done,
but merely to state facts as they are.
held him bit too cheap and he man
: aged to stay the four rounds, and to his
credit be it said made q fine showing.
That was unjustly treated IN the de
cision of the referee, sair-minded sports
men, l think, will admit. The contest
should have been declared draw.
But l am not crying over split milk.
!, What's past can't be mended- l have
! however, made every possible effort &c
, get on another meeting with Plimmer
but he has assiduously avoided me.
. have time and time again made every
possible concession as TO place, weight
and finances that a man could to bring
) about that result. ! even once offered
Plimmer three Thousand dollars tC
stand six rounds before me. bat 1t was
: 10 use. Nothing could induce him &c
} jeopardize the idle glory which his
four-round bout with me brought him
, I trust now that he VIII stick TO the
J brave words he has so boldly spoken
, and that his courage won't, ike Bot
Acres, ooze out OF his fingers ends, rs
the hour of tryst approaches. He met
me before, he proudly boasts, at one
: hundred and eighteen pounds and hC
: should not be AFRAID 10 do SO again. He
certainly could not object TO my going
three pounds below that limit. weigh
ing in at P. n, on the day OF meeting
q 9 o.,