The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-10-04


James Makes a Big Talk.
PORTLAND. Me-. Sept. 28. Robert
Fitzsimmons-Dear Sir: have read
in the morning papers your very am u.s.
ing challenge to me. You say the
Olympic Club offers u purse. Well.
maybe they do, but | have never
heard from them ~ yet. You put
$4,000 In the Olympic CLUBS hands.
Why don't you put 1T up in some
newspaper office or some place where q
man can see it, or is the Olym pic
Club backing you? However. that's
neither here nor there. | suppose you
are afraid If you put the money up in
any other place besides the Olympic
Clue SOMEONE else might cover it. 1t
is not necessary for me to give reply
TO your challenge, because you are well
aware that | will not accept it, unless
you prove yourself Ii cham pion heavy
weight and not middlew weight. |
must acknowledge that AIS u middle
weight you have no equal, tut all you
ever did in the heavyweight class was
10 defeat Peter Maher and Joe Choyn-
ski, two second-cass heavy weights,
and since the both of these men have
been defeated by Joe Goddard
Of Australia. second-class man.
No one knows this better than you. l
suppose You think the public will say
you are very brave man to challenge
nue. and fight me. Why should not
you do so. 1t Ia just like buying lot
terry ticket TO win 5000 Tor 81. All
you have to lose is 81, and it is the
same case in fighting nae. If / de-
leated you, of course, you would say,
He ought to beat me, l am only q
middleweight,' just as when 1 beat
Sullivan, it was said he was an old
man. aud Mitchell, 'he was a light
fellow. he was too small Now, Mr..
Fiizsimmons. if you really want to
fight for the championship of the
world, you certainly, if you are on the
level, want TO prove yourself champ
ion heavyweight and not u middle
weight. All you have to do IN the
world to fight me for the cham pion-
ship is TO prove to tho world that you
are capable of defeating any heavy
weight outside of me.
Robert, You're Liar.
lyon say / promised to give you q
match if you defeated Choynski or
Creedon. When you say that, YOU
know you lie. / never even noticed
you and do not intend to unless you
prove that you are champion heavy
weight. You want to Jump over the
heads OF all these other people and take
the dying chance with me, yet / will
fool you.
Must whip O'DonneIi First.
"Steve O'DonnelJ, my present spar.
ring partner, an undefeated man, has
$4,000 that he can defeat you. He
will box on from one round to u lin
ish. for fun or for money. Now, how
can you expect me TO recognize you
when this man stands ready with the
money behind him to prove to the
world that he is your superior. IT, you
will meet Steve O'Donnell and defeat
him | will accept an offer of $25, 900
from the Olympic Club and |
will give you all the fight you
want. If you want TO fight
me this is the only way you can ever
get me to make a match with you, for
there is no power on earth that will
make me notice you until you have
defeated Steve O'Donnell, and any
further talk from you | will consider
simply bluff.
II put myself in record in black and
white that if you defeat ODonnell /
will fight you for the championship of
the world aud all the money you like.
This Is positively my ultimatum.
Yours truly, JAMES ]. CoRBErT,
champion of the World"