The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-16
WREATHSSTII.l.G GREEN
BUT THE MODERN SORT ARE OF
THE ELONG" RATHER THAN
THE CIRCULAR CLASS
BOXING NOW A COMMODITY

Securing Stock of Celebrities
for Circus PurpOses-Jim Jetfries
BECOMES a Puppet in the Hands
of the Man Who PaImed OFF Cor
bett as n Real Prize Fighter.
Laurel wreaths crowned the brow Of
| the ancient gladiator who staggered to
the forum to receive the prize and the
plaudits of his kind, after having dis
posed of an antagonist with the cestus,
instead of the padded pillow" of today.
Those wreaths We're green, and in that
sole respect the reward of the modern
glove gladiator is similar He, too,
strives for the green-the |long green"
Glory no longer forms part of boxing
or pug1lism. 1t is question of dollars
and cents-principally dollars. The shrill
shouts of the 'fakir' who stands before
the tent of the sideshow of the circus
and tells Of the living skeleton. the fat
woman and the wild man of Borneo is
no longer the postmaster shell man of
the rubes The boxing promoter has him
faded. The Billy Bradys and Tom
O'Rourkes can give the ordinary circus
"fakir" cards, spades, big and little ca
sino and four aces, and then beat him
out. He simply isn't in it.
JEFFRIEs A PUPPET.
Just as suggested at the close of the
famous meeting between Jeffries and
F'itzsimmons, the new champion has
proved one Of two things-not a second
John L. Sullivan, but the plant tool and
'Jack-in-the-box" for Billy Brady JEFF
fries, poor, deluded simpleton told the re-
porters after his victory over FItzsim-
mons that he did not propose to become
an actor-that he was in the fighting
business, and that he would be ready to
meet any aspirant for the title of cham
pton. Then everybody shouted Bravo!
Here is second John L. Sullivan. Now
Will we return to the enjoyment of real
fighting champion But, alas! Poor JEFF
fries! He had signed a bit of paper hand
ed him by Billy Brady-"just a matter of
form. you know''-in which he promised
to be good, and not fight save when Billy
Brady said for him to do so. Corbett had
his theatrical engagements" Jeffries
has his contract with Brady. Neither
could fight without the consent of the cir
Gus man, and he says fight only when
there is q wreath of long green in
sight for his man-and another for Mr.
Brady.
JEFFRIES CALLED DOWN
There is g. big fellow out West who
bears a name similar to that of the new
champion. It Is Jefferds. Jeffries has
met Jefferds. He knows that Jefferds is
not easy" Sam Thall, who was Brady's
Man Friday when the circus director had
Corbett. and who is also Brady's employe
in charge of Jeffries, made a little match
for Jeffries. He arranged that the cham
pion should stop Jefferds in four rounds.
Jefferds was willing. Brady was cabled
Not for Brady was his response And
1t is said that he at once wrote a letter
to Sam Thall. asking that worthy If he
had suddenly gone "daffy''-if he wanted
to get Jeffries whipped before they got
their money out of him, etc. At any rate
Jeffries was compelled to back down
He, the champion, the alleged new Sui
livan, to use plain words, "crawled' out
of meeting with a man the people who
are interested in boxing scarcely know
Not a second Sullivan, that. All the
Bradys in the world could not have in
duced, or forced, Sullivan to back out of
match once made.
CIRCUS IN THE FALL.
Billy Brady is now In Europe arrang-
Ing for the giving Of a circus In the fall
II will be a hummer in its way True,
there will be every evidence Of an Ger
weening desire for wreathS and other
forms of long green,' such as were
not given gladiators OF old-but that
will disturb Billy Brady, not William is
long since passed disturbances of that
sort. He has his conscience in leash.
and there is no likelihood of It's breaking
away. Brady has arranged for a meet
ing between his mon 9y-makcr, Jeffries,
and Charley Mitchell, to occur in Lon
don, or hon the hother side Sept l.
Jeffries is to stop Michel inside Of
ten rounds. It doesn't make any differ
ence to Brady whether he does or does
not. The money will be "cut" Ask
Mitchell. He is in the circus business
himself. He is not q living skeleton.
but has a neat way o; expressing his
views on the duties OF prize fighter
especially one named Mitchell. Hi loikes
rare beef" says Charley. Hand hit
takes coin to buy beef" In other words,
when Mitchell fights" there must be A
"cut." That suits Brady. There must
also be a cut when Brady fights.
SHARKEY. THEN CORBETT.
After Jeffries has met" Mitchell. he
will be pitted against one Geoffrey
Thorne, another English boxer, of Iater
day than Mitchell. Thorne weighs less
than 100 pounds, and as there is no chance
for Jeffrfes to be beaten by Mitchell, he
will likely return to America hide-wnoie
Then he Is to meet Sharkey, the sailor
man. He should beat the sailor-at least
that is the way the astute Brady figures
It, and then-yes, Corbett is to have the
call. That will be insult to the fol-
lowers of boxing who nave not forgot
ten the COrbett-Sharkey f1asco-but the,
will have to stand for it if Brady saws
so-and Brady will likely say So There
will be some more green" for the win
ner, and for Brady. There is one chance
of another upset Of the circus conb;na-
ton headed by Brady. and tia is de-
feat Of Jeffries by Sharkey. And that is
not mpossible-perhaps not improbable.
Jeffries is acting queerly for 81 great
fighter. He doesn't seem to be pining
for fght-on the contrary, ha Is being
accused Of getting as far away from fight
as 1t is possible for real champion to
get. Already is heard expressed hone
that the new prize ring combination Of
long green" seekers, headed by Brady.
be burst wide open by the defeat Of JEFF
fries by Sharkey, as it was by the de-
feat Of Corbett by Fitzsimmons
REAFING THE: HARVEST
RUf RradV will o4o1 a.