The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-11
BRADY SAYS CORBETT
EX-CHAMPION TO BE THE NEXT
OPPONENT OF CHAMPION
JAMES JEFFRIES
RUHLIN rs SEEKING BATTLE

willing to Make Match, Winner
to Get All and Loser to Walk
HOme-WOuId Prefer That Fight
Be to n Finish, and Suggests Car
son eligibility Brady Settles the
Controversy by Naming COrbett.
NEW YORK, Nov 1O-Manager Brady
has announced that Corbett, not Fitz-
simmons or Rubin, will be Jeffries' next
opponent.
Gus Rubin, the Akron giant. has posted
500 to bind a match with Champion JEFF
fries His manager. Billy Madden, in
creased the sum to $1,000 and declared
that he will raise 1t to $1,000 If Jeffries
or his manager will cover 1t as a side
bet.
Rubin is evidently in earnest in his
ambition to attain the championship. He
certainly believes he can defeat Jeffries.
Madden is even more sanguine.
"Ruhlin means business" said Madden
He knows and l know just how good
Jeffries is. Rubin fought him twenty
rounds two years ago TO draw Jeffries
may have improved since. So has Run
lin."
Rubin would rather fight Jeffries to a
finish and suggests Carson City as the
scene of combat
"Of course if Jeffries won't consent to
that" asserted the Ohioan, I'm willing
to fight a limited round affair in New
York, but I think finish fight is the
only real test. Jeffrles should meet
me. AS an inducement I will consent
to let the winner of the fight take it
all"
Madden said that the Marquis Of
Queensberry rules require a champion to
defend the title within at least six
months after he has gained it. If JEFF
fries does not hold to this Madden will
take Rubin about the country proclaim
ing him the champion.
FITS CHALLENGE.
Robert Fitzsimmons also wants to re-
trieve his lost laurels. He demands a
return match with Jeffries. who defeated
him last June at Coney Island. F'itzsim-
mons manager, Martin Julian. posted
$500 and issued a statement and a chal-
lenge. In his statement he contends that
FitZsimmons is Jeffrtes' only legitimate
opponent at present. He adds:
On past performances FiuZs mmons
claim to a return match cannot be de-
ni6d. True, Jeffries has beaten him, but
even the friends of the present champion,
as we'll those of Fitzsimmons, are
unit in declaring that Fitzsimmons, who
lost the laurels was not in the form
which hitherto had made him inYincible
and surely is destined to make him cham
piOn of the world for the second time
should Jaffries dare enter the ring with
him again.
In the eight rounds that Fitzsimmons
and Sharkey fought in San Francisco
Bob did twenty times more damage to
Sharkey than Jeffries did during the en-
tire twenty-five rounds at Coney island.
Besides BOb's superiority over the sailor
was so great that he held him safe at
all times. something which Jeffues did
not succeed in doing at any stage.
AS TO Corbett having a prior dim to
a match, that is ridiculous, as thare are
half dozen men in the business at pres
ent who can beat him and again. il is
the money he wants in the saloon bust
hess and has no intention of ever fighting
again.
DENIES He WAS DRCGGED.
a story circulated today to the effect
that Jeffries was drugged during his con-
test with Sharkey at Coney Islard last
Friday night was emphatically contra
dicted by the champion and his manager
today. When Jeffries heard of the story
he said:
Well, they're rot satisfied with say
ing that Siler gave a wrong dsc1sion, but
they are trying 10 show that I was kept
in the fight by the use of hypodermic
injections. This thing about the needle
being used is a lie. 1t never has been
necessary to use such a thing on me, and
if it were 1 would not permit it. I can
win my battles vi hout the assistance Of
any drugs"