The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21
BIG FIGHT ASSURED
FITZSIMMONS AND JEFFRIEs WILL,
BATTLE FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
AT CONEY ISLAND
DATE CHANGED TO JUNE Q
Tammany Called Down by the Big
Boss of BrOOkIyn-N0 Fight nt
COney, None Hereafter In Greater
New York, Was tho UItimatum-
Brady and Julian Out of the Club


Boss Mclaughlin, of Brooklyn, ran
down to Greater New York and read the
riot act to the Tammany sachems who had
said that there should be no prize fight
at Coney Island between Bob Fitzsim-
mons and Jim Jeffries. He wanted to
know 'since when Tammany was dicta-
ting to the Brooklynites'' and notified the
sachen1s that If there was no fight at
Coney there would be no more battles in
New York proper. That settled 1t, and
DRY Dollar" Sullivan's men in the Tam
many wigwam ''relented." AS a result
of the pow-wow F'itz and Jeffries will
meet in the Coney Island club house
arena on the afternoon of June to bat
tie for the worlds heavyweight cham
pionship, a purse of plethoric proper
tions and a share of the returns from the
pictures" that will be taken during the
progress of the contest. The fight is
scheduled for twenty-five rounds and will
likely go at least fifteen in order that
there be a sufficient number of pictures
to make the showing of them profitable.
r. JULIAN AND BRADY OUT.
1t is understood that Martin Julian and
Billy Brady will have nothing to do with
the, management of the club They will
look after their respective gladiators, and
Boss Mclaughlin and his henchnien
will be in on the receipts at the gate.
The date was changed in order to give
the management time in which to work
up a crowd. There has been less in
terest taken in the big battle than in any
similar event that has been announced in
recent years. That was due, perhaps,
to the uncertainty of the men being per-
mitted to meet in New York state. Now
that 1t is a certainty that the battle will
occur there may a change In public feel
ing and the probability Is that the faith
full will rally and chip their contribu
lions into the ticket box.
MEN IN GOOD SHAPE
From all accounts both gladiators are
in fine shape. Fitzsimmons is always in
shape. He Is man who takes good
care of himself physically, and all he
requires Is a little work on the bellows"
to jump into the ring in fit shape to fight
for a kingdom. Jeffries has lost no OPP
portunity to better his condition. He
has put in many day at road work and
he has had the valuable aid of clever
ing. From now on until the day fixed
for the battle there will be surfeit of
stories about the work of the principals.
They will ;tii>c IN tile morning and take
spin somewhere. Then return to
headquarters for rundown, tiicn a nap
lad MEDIUM, ad nauseam.
WHY FITZ IS BEST.
There should be but one result to the
big fight-victory for the Cornishman.
While Jeffries is a giant in stature, so
was Goliath. Giants are as vulnerable
as ordinary men. Jeffries is practically
a novice, while Fitzsimmons is as clever
a ring general as lives. Could Jeffries
lay hold of Fitzsimmons and keep him
in "chancery'' he might win, but when
he has to first locate and then capture
the willy blacksmith there is little chance
for him to win the battle. He Is too
slow-knows too little of the real science
of boXing-has had too little experience.
Fitzsimmons should keep the big boiler
maker guessing until he is in Queer
street." and then step in and end the
contest. The result may be different
Accidents happen. No man starts on a
railorad journey expecting to be thrown
down an embankment. But that is the
sort of an accident that must happen for
Jeffries to defeat Fitzsimmons in a ring
contest under Queensberry rules.
PICTURES CUT A FIGURE.
The taking of pictures of the fight cuts
an important figure in the contest. There
must be pictures or there will be no profit
for the fighters outside of the purse.
That would never do. So 1t is unlikely
that Fitzsimmons will do as he did when
he met Peter Maher at New Orleans. On
that occasion the blacksmith started right
after his man, and there was a collision
in the center of the ring that came near
settling the contest in a round Maher
accidentally landed at :he same time
Fits big fist connected with his face,
and the fight was thus prolonged Cor
twelve rounds. But for the pictures I
would say that Fitz would go right after
Jeffries and terminate the contest quick
ly. But it will likely be different There
will be a few rounds of "sparring" before
the earnest work begins In either event
Fitz should be declared the winner. JEFF
fries has but one chance to win-an acci-
dent
RYAN AND SMITH.
There will be another ring contest on
June 8 that will attract almost as much
attention as will the go between Fitz-
simmons and Jeffries. Tommy Ryan, the
Syracuse star, and his old-time foe, "Mys-
terious' Billy Smith, are to meet for
twenty-round battle for the welterweight
championship and a good-sized purse.
The fight should be of the warm order.
The men have met on previous occasions,
and. though Ryan has q bit the better of
1t on the record, Smith made the Syracuse
boxer hustle, and will likely do so again.
Just how the managers of the Fitzsln-
inconsistencies affair overlooked the fact
that the Ryan-Smith fight was scheduled
for June is a mystery. That was q bit
Of bad Judgment, for the welters win GER