The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-30
THE RING

The question as to whether or not the
Jeffries- Fitzsimmons fight will take
place at Coney Island Athletic club re-
mains undecided. Brady says il sure
ly will, but Tom O'Rourke saws little
1t is extremely likely that the Brady
Julian federation will have trouble in
making their point and they may ulti-
mately stultfy themselves by giving
in to O'Rourke and his Tammany CO.
horts. If they see fit to assert their in
dependence, however, and transfer the
fight to Denver, whence an offer would
certainly come, they would gain the re-
spect of lovers of the game. The Colo
RADIO law will be effective about July a.
and the championship contest would
draw tremendous crowd at that sea-
son. The transfer of the battle from
New York might teach ORourke that,
though he and his Tammany friends
control the game around the metropo-
lis, the country is rather large after all.
Brady has been willing to have the
match consummated before the Lenox
club. notwithstanding the fact that he
has paid years rental ga. OO0) for the
Coney Island arena. Fitz. it will be
remembered, last winter frequently de-
clared that the Lenox club was
crooked" and that it's contests were
fakes and that he therefore would
never box in its arena because he
would be robbed" if he did so, and so
on and so on. When Martin Julian
publicly stated that Fitz would not box
in the Lenox club arena, he init
mated that if any attempt was made to
prevent FitZ conteSting elsewhere he
would see to it that the fistic game In
Gotham was stopped altogether.
Of all the famous fighting men who
have visited Philadelphia since the days
when the once mighty Sullivan reigned
supreme. says an exchange, probably
none have attracted SO much attention
as Jim Jeffries, who, in year, has de-
veloped into championship possibility
and has led many to believe that he
will defeat the man who conquered the
victor over the supposed invincible Sui
livan. When Jeffries appeared on the
streets he was at once the center of
attraction, and soon a crowd was at his
heels. At one time he was compelled to
seek refuge in coupe while on his
way to the theater 1t was the same
thing after the show. A great crowd
gathered about the playhouse. eager to
get a better look at the young giant.
JeffrieS is very Penteel fellow and re-
fuses to talk about himself or the mer-
its of any of his rivals in the fighting
business. To all questions he has an
evasive answer
Il really don't know MAYBE" It
guess So IN do my best" are his
popular expressions. When asked if
he thought he could win from Fitzsjm-
mons he said: "I'll do my best"
His trainer Delaney, spoke for him
and the veteran gave some very good
reasons why his man should defeat
Fitzsimmons.
Jim was "a years of age on Friday
last" said Delaney, so you see he has
over 10 years the better of age He
stands six feet two inches in his stock
ing feet. and is therefore more than two
inches taller than Fitzsimmons He
will enter the ring in the best condition
that science and training will put him
in, weighing 800 pounds. Fitzsimmons
will hardly weigh over 40 pounds, so
you see there is an advantage in our
favor of 80 pounds. These are advan-
tages that count in a ~ueiistic con-
test, and | can not see where F'itzsim-
mons can afford to give so much and
expect to win. The boy is the best
man 7 ever handled. He is natural
born fighter. can hit as hard as any
man l ever saw in ring and is a glut-
ton for punishment. He has never been
stunned. and it seems impossible to
knock him out"
There was a whole lot in what the
veteran trainer said. Jeffries certainly
has every advantage. Those who wit
messed his bout with Jim DAILY were
fairly astonished at the cleverness of
the giant. He sends his ponderous arms
10 all parts of the body with lightning
like rapidity, and is as light on his feet
| as a dancing master. Corhett in his
palmy days, was not one bit quicker on
his feet than Jeffries. and while he
might have been a bit cleverer as a