Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-23
YOUNG GRIFFO.

take me on again for a second and n de ciSive meeting, and want him to keep his word I promise on my part that will give him an opportunity to retrieve him. self at any time and place.
 Of course expect to whip Horace Leeds on March I, although he is taller and heavier than I, and after am through with him and NcAuliffe I will take on anybody anywhere near my size. In fact, If 1t is made m object, 1 will go up against some big fellows, just as did in Austra- lla. where faced Dan Creedon. n middle weight. for eight rounds and made a draw with him. l have met lots of other big chaps at home and never was whipped. The night told Bob FitZsimmops in New Orleans, just after he thrashcd Dan Cree don, that l would bet I could stay four rounds with him meant 1t, although all the newspaper boys laughed nt me, think ing l was joking. do not think that any chap, no matter how big ho Is, has any cinch in lulling mo to slumher in four rounds, They couldn't in Australia, and don't see what license they have to do 1t hero,
 The chap I would most like to meet again Is George Dixon, first, because want to settle our two draws, and. sec ondly. to choke of the eloquence of Dix on's oratorical manager, Tom O O'Rourke, who Is continually Clanoring through the newspapers wherever ho goes for another bout with mo for his coffee and cream complexion cd youth. Barkis could never have been moro "willin" to marry the plump and pleasing PcgRotty than am to cross arms again with Dixon. The sooner the better Mir. O'Rourke, so trOt your lit tie man out
 This Is one of my first letters for the press, and may be excused If I criticise some people who mako practice of writ ing instead of fighting. In my country a fellow would be laughed out to sea who pretendcd to be n champion and kept writ ing instead of fighting. I know I fought every fellow who posted a challenge backed with money. and other champions did the same thing. Suppose the chal- lengcr is not in your class" but in an inferior class! Why, so much the better. You arc picking up some very easy money. What nonsense, then, it is for James J. Corbctt and chaps like him to put off a challenge with tho idiotic excuse, You are not in my class" That is what he did with Bob Eitzsimmons after trying to kill of Peter Jackson with old age before he would consent to meet him.. In striv- ing to do this ho wrote columns of what lawyers call spacious arguments, consumed tons of paper and wasted gallons of ink. Public opinion at last forced him to give up writing and mako bluff at least at Fighting. He finally agreed to meet Lan- ky Bob in the squared circle, and public opinion should force him to keep that agreement. Bob, on the other hand, Is pretty near as bad. He, since his arrival in this country, got into the fashionable habit of talking about his ''class" and for n time would not meet Dan Crecdon. Jim Hall, Peter Maher and Joe Choyn- ski because thoy, forsooth, were not in his class" He would make himself a middle weight or heavyweight, as the situation requires. Finally he got broke-bank- ruptcy is great leveler-and then he went in and licked them all.
 Peter Jackson Is now trying the samo game over in England. He has disdained the challenge of Frank Craig, The Harlem Coffee Cooler" because Craig is mot in his class" |" That monument of cheek, that biggest buffer on earth, Charles Mitchell of England, for years staved of dangerous men in this same fashion ard bluffed his way through the world as a great fighter There never was n period in his career at which there were not dozen men at least who could whip him. And, by the way, give Mitchell credit for his capacity to "jolly" the world at large. "Chawley" never was a champion of any sort, of any country. John l.. Sullivan was champion of America. Jem Smith champion of Eng