The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-07
THE RING
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bob Fitzsimmons has begun training
in earnest for his battle with Jim JEFF
fries. which is to be decided, according
to recent dispatches, at Denver upon
a date not yet fixed. The
champion concluded his theatrical
engagements in Jersey City. Jeffries
has already had one week the better on
Ianky Bob SO far as training is con-
cerned, but the Australian does not fear
any such little handicap as this He be-
lieves four weeks is ample time to, put
him in physical condition to defeat any
man in the world.
While FitZ has been working the
money end on the road as long as time
would permit. he has not neglected to
make good use of his spare moments.
There are many persons who think the
champion is taking things too easy for
his coming mill, but Fitzsimmons says
he is in better shape to-day than for
some time past, and that he is not
fighting in any stri<lge country where
it is necessary to become acclimated.
The facts are that ever since Fitzsim-
mons signed to fight the Californian he
has been actually engaged on the road
in some athletic exercise or other. He
has completed his preparatory work. and
as the champion leads quiet. domestic
life, he is prepared to go through a Sc
we're course of training.
If anybody wishes to get line on
Fitz's form or his hitting powers there
is no other individual who can throw
more light on this subject than "1ank'
Kenny, his sparring partner. Kenny,
who has been with Lanky Bob for some
time knows the champion thoroughly
but not quite well enough to save him
self from the humiliation of a knock
out. In q recent contest at gymnasium
the big fellow was neatly put to sleep
by Fits famous right, and as a re-
suit of the set-to Kenny carries a
souvenir in the form of swollen optic.
There has been much secrecy main
tanned in regard to the location of Fitz-
simmons tanning quarters, but it can
be definitely stated that he will train
at Bath Beach. Quarters have been
fitted UP for the party cottage has
been secured by Julian and gymna-
sum will be fitted up for indoor work.
.'Yank' Kenny and Dan Hickey, who
trained Fitz for his fight with Corbett,
will assist the champion in his prepara-
ton
Interest in the coming fight between
Jim Jpffries, the big bOilermaker OF
California, and Bob FitZsimmons, the
recognized champion of the world. says
the Philadelphia Times. has taken a
boom, and the preliminary training OF
the big fellows is watched with thdt
keenness SO characteristic of the sport
ing fraternity in affairs with so much
import attaching. so that the least hap
pening in the training camps of either
is taken as an omen of good or evil AZ
the case may be. Such a trifle may oc-
cur as to influence the tide of popular
feeling in the direction of either, fol
one man is bound to be the faVorite in
the coming fight. because so much IS
known o: ones ability and so little OF
the other.
Jeffries in this case is the unknown
quantity. His record only goes back as
| far as 1897 with but few fights in that
year. Last year he had a victory over
| Thomas Sharkey, a little affair IF y
rounds. in which he applied the referee
| eye and got the decision. Apropos OF
| this. il is claimed, and with due author
| ity, too, that any man who can stay II