The morning call., 1894-09-12
ALL A BIG BLUFF.
Peter Jackson Will Not
Fight.
FLATLY REFUSED TO SIGN.
Besides Insulting the Sioux City
Representative.
FLATLY REFUSED TO SIGN.
NOW HE IS GOING TO ENGLAND.
His Excuse Was That He Did Not
Want to Advertise Jim
Corbett.

CHICAGO, Sept 11.-Jackson has re-
fused TO sign articles to fight Corbett.
Edward Lloyd, representing the Sioux
City Club, met Jackson and his manager,
'Parson" Davies, at the Briggs House at
noon. LLOYD produced the papers which
Corbett had signed in New York. Jackson
glanced over them and at once said they
would not do. II will fight for your purse
and side bet OF $1OOO," be said, 'but the
fight will have 10 come off within three
months"
That's the idea, exactly" said Davies.
"Corbett is on the stage now, and we
don't intend TO advertise him unt:l next
May or June. THIS agreement calls for a
fight between May 10 and June Is. Now
YOU people name your place and make the
time within three months and Jackson will
sign"
This Lloyd said he could not do. and
Davies proceeded 10 pick flaws in the
papers. He declared that the deal did not
look honest. No place was named; there
was no specification as to whether the
men would fight ten rounds or ten years,
or to a finish, and the whole matter had a
peculiar look. Jackson chimed in with
the objection to fighting at any place. 81
want to fight before a club and in a
house," he said. II don't want the affair
to take place in field or in a tent"
Lloyd became considerably excited over
tie 1un Davies poked at the papers, but
kept bis temper and tried hard to obtain
the necessary signatures. He declared
positively, however, that he could not
bring eff the fight in the time specified by
Jackson.
"Its three months or nothing" de-
cared Davies. and jackson added, That's
right"
well. It's off,, said Davies. as he picked
up his hat; al did not like the looks of
his thing anyway"
1t was announced later that Jackson
would leave for New York tonight and
immediately sail for the West Indies, when
ne will go to London.
1T is apparently useless to try to get
fight NitI Corbett," the pugiIist said. 81
sguld not afford 10 lie around doing 9TH
iug all winter. while Corbett was on the
stage making money out of the advertise
ment this fight would give him. / will try
London for WHILE
WASHINGTON. Sept. 11.-Pugirst Cor
bett is the lion of Washin gton sporting
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| honor at an entertainment given by the
| Columbia Athletic Club of this city. In
an interview he swears that Peter Jack
son is afraid to fight him. Champion Cor
| bett talked freely with an Associated
| Press reporter tonight concerning Jack
sons refusal TO sign the articles fora fight
under the auspices of the Sioux City
Athletic Club next year He expressed
| his hearty disgust at JacEson's actions and
| reiterated his oft-repeated views of the
| cOlOred mans fear to fight him. Corbett
insisted that Jackson's object on to those
| portions Of the articles that failed to point
| out the place of fighting and the duration
nf the contest was very trivial and ought
| 10 have no consideration in the minds of
the people. He pointed cut, in this con-
nection, that in his fight with Mitchell
there was no certainty regarding the place
and time of the fight even the day before
the battle. All Jackson was now after,
he said, was to secure bis $4,000 deposited
in Chicago and then get out of the country.
"Wn you accommodate jackson by
agreeing to fight him within three months
as he desiTes?" the reporter asked.
Certainly. l will fight him in three
months or in two weeks or even to-mor-
row, IL it were possible" replied Corbeit.
| ''BUt what is the use of saying that, for
Jackson knows the Sioux City Club cannot
make arrangements to pull off the fight in
that time. First jackson SAID he would
| not fight me in the South. Now, when
there is an opportunity to fight in the
North, he shows his an Willingness to meet
me by refusing to sign the articles for
contest"