Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-06-17

far escaped the fate OF his country man'
tits. however, q doom deferred, not
averted. I am confident he will yet
come 20 grief. he cannot go on forever
tossing bluffs around promiscuously
without being called down by some
BODY. He will have 10 make good his
bluffs some day or else be called down
by the public. He claims that he is
only a one hundred and ten pound man,
and vet persistently refuses to accept
the challenges Of Charley Kelly and
other frst-class American bantams at
that weight. He cannot get down to
one hundred and ten ponds any more
than l, and too we'll he knows 1t. III
be could, be would not let slip such
golden opportunity of raking In the
good American dollars his countrymen
love so well, as q meeting with Charley
Kelly would afford. II be is sincere in
his assertion that be can l will pit
boy-a friend OF mine--agsinst him at
one hundred and ten pounds for any
amount OF money. But ii is waste or
time TO make any such proposition to
Dir. Plimmer. he is simply striving TO
make capital out OF his challenge TO me
for a projected British tour. When he
returns TO England he will placard the
bill boards of London and the English
provincial towns with large pictures OF
himself, under which will run the le-
gend: "Billy Plimmer, champion ban
tam Of the world and challenger OF
George Dixon" Perhaps be may 60 the
length Of clubbing himself my con
Queror" (?) on the strength OF an outra-
geouS decision he once got over me in a
four-round bout in Madison Square gar
den. In bis case as we'll as in that OF
"Charles" Mitchell there is no limit to
London assurance"
Mr.. Plimmer modestly disclaims any
ability as a letter writer and AYERS that
the epistolary shaft aimed at me is only
his second effort in that direction.
Well, all that 1 can say is that IL he
keeps on improving and learns TO fight
as well as he can write, be will soon be
at tbs head of the class. But to get
down to business. 1 will make him a
proposition 10 which there will be none
Of the rhetorical embellishments" or
SpeciOus arguments" which Mr.. Plim-
mer so severely condemns, but Of which
be is apparently striving to make
corner" l cannot meet him on June
%, the date on which l was to bat
tie Critic, the Abstraction champion, In
Boston. My manager, Mr.. O'Rourke,
had already accepted the offer of Walter
Edgerton, the Kentucky Rosebud, with
whom l recently had an unsatisfactory
contest, to take CRITICS place. l griev-
Ously suspect that Mr.. Plimmer knew
this when be was penning his bold def
ance. l will, however, gladly meet him
in Boston on July 6, when l have a per-
NIT for another boxing tournament. for
any number of rounds. l will take
him at his own proposition-that he
gives me i've pounds, on the fallacious
hypothesis that he can get TO
one hundred and ten pounds-and agree
70 weigh in at one hundred and tif-
teen pounds at three D. m. on the day
Of the meeting. And l will be more
generous than be. l will not insist
that he weigh In at one hundred and
ten pounds. He can 60 at the same
weight as l land l am sure he would at
that hour. Plimmor's talk about Civ
ing me five counds was written with
the intrnt 10 deceive. He Wotld have
tbo public believe that l would weigh
one hundred and fifteen pounds and he
but one hundred and ten, but he cum
ningly stipulates that l must get TO
the one hundred and fifteen pounds,
but does not restrict himself TO the
one hundred and ten pounds limit, to
which l know he could not possibly
get. The truth is, that he is really as
big a man as myself and weighed fully
asmucb when we met in Madison Square
garden last August. The only differ
ence between US was that he was in the
finest possible fettle and in poor con-
dition. That, however, was my own
fault, and do not offer il as any plea
Of eXtenuatiOn for not whipping Plim-
mer as I ought TO have done, but mere
ly to state facts as they are. l held
him a bit too cheap and he managed TO
stay the four rounds, and TO his credit
be it said made a fine showing. That l
was unjustly treated in the decision Of
the referee, fair-minded sportsmen, l
think, will admit. The contest should
have been declared draw.
But am not crying over split milk.
What's past can't be mended. l have,
however, made every possible effort to
get on another meeting with Plimmer,
but he has asSiduously avoided ne.
have time aud time again made every
possible concession as to place, weight
and finances that man could 10 bring
about that result, even once offered
Plimmer three thousand dollars TO
stand six rounds before me, but it was
no use. Nothing could induce him to
ieopardize the idle glory which his
four-round bout with me brought him.
/ trust now that he will stick to the
brave words he has so boldly spoken,
and that his courage won't, like Bob
Acres, ooze out of his fingers ends as
the hour Of trySt approaches. He met
me before, he proudly boasts, at one
hundred and eighteen pounds, and he
should not be afraid to do so again. de
certainly could not object to my going
three pounds below that limit, weighing
in at 3 p. IN. on the day Of meeting.
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