Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21
IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS
Comment About the Latest Phase Of the
Pit7-Jefries Fight,
HOW THE coNEY ISLAND CLUB GOT IT
other Gossip About the Men who Elm
and Hang Each other
Around the Squared
Circle.

The stock phrase that the shell-worker
springs upon the unsophisticated Inhabitants
Of the rural districts, Now you see 1t and
now you don't" is very applicable to the ne
gotiatons that have been carried on in con-
nectiun with the JeifriCs- -Fitzsmmons scrap.
Two weeks ago the Coney Island Athletic
club had the hight, one week ago the Den
yer sports were booked for 1t and now once
more the Coney Island sands are selected as
the scene of the fray. This last turn of the
shells, however as manipulated by the police
commissioners of Gotham, seems to be the
final OF the game and shows up the Denver
ties as having played the part Of the vic
timized agriculturists. 1t looks very much
as IL the westerners have been used as
monkeys to pull the chestnuts out of the
fire. The move on the part of the police
commissioners in refusing a license to the
Coney Island club for the fight was simply
scheme to force Fitz to consent to battle
in the arena of Tom O'Rourke's club which
he previously refused to do absolutely. But
Billy Brady and Martin Julian who form
as smooth pair as any royal flush that can
be turned in the puglistic deck sprung
trick that was worth two of that They
snapped up the offer of the Denver club and
thus gave the impression to the New York
tlS lNdI uulGSS ii llGbHSb was lOILuCb4lluS
they would lose what is likely to be the big
gest battle of the year. The scheme worked.
That seems to be the way that the critics
have sized up the situation.
The fight will, of course, be pulled off
later than May 20, and June seems to be
the most likely date That is not far dis
tant and the fight chronclers who have
been doing but half stretch of work on the
fight while the negotiations were pending,
have once more started on full time. Among
the many reasons why Jeffries should not be
able to get the decision, as advanced by
these pugilstic writers, is the apparently
poor showing that the big boiler maker
made against Corbett. Regarding this Billy
Delaney, who was in a position to know
writes as follows: 1--WE cannot lose unless
Jeff falls dead in the ring, and I'll gamble
that he will never take a final earthly chill
as result of punch from the freckled
unitt of Dingo Bob. When Corbett was box
ing with jeff at Carson City two years ago
there was not stage in their boxing bouts
when Jeff was not master of Corbett. You
know Jim is of peculiar disposition. He is
rather tickle, sensitive as a woman, and
tipped Jeff not to rough it with Corbett, but
TO make it look as If Corbett the cook,
the captain bold and the daddy of the whole
bett thinks to this day that Jeff was doing
the best he could, letting himself out to the
final link in those whirls at Carson. Jeff
could have worn out Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons in the same ring. have told this to
my friends and they accuse me Of de-
molishing Ii Hung Chang tobacco"
few days ago another pugilistically in
Ulined son of Erin, Mike Morrsey, the
claimant of the championship of the United
Kingdom set foot upon the shores of the
land of the brave and the home of the free,
but heavyweight circles do not appear to be
much perturbed thereat. Morrisey is here
looking for match and does not care much
who he takes on. 1t is said that there is
$4,000 of Dublin money that will be put on
the newcomer even if FitZsimmons is the
man he is put against. There is some talk
of matching him with Rubin or some other
good trial horse, and If he shows ability in
his first fight he may be matched with
'Sharkey, providing that the jack tar Is Will
ing to take a chance with a big, strong fell
low for the Irishman stands a trife over six
feet in height in his sockless feet and weighs
100 in fighting trim. He Is said to resemble
Maher slightly but is a much stronger man
has remarkable reach and Is game to the
core. Still, actions speak louder than words
and this is especially of the glove men
Yank Kenney was the finest specimen of ar
athlete that could be found and was touteG
far and wide, yet when he came to tht
scratch he was the rankest quarter horse
that ever trod the arena.
Perhaps the most formidable aspirant fol
honors in the middleweight class is a 1853
FOUNDER from Boston, George Byers. This
the newest aspirant after championship hon
ors is protege of George Dixon and ha
the backing of Tom O'Rourke. He has made
repeated efforts to get on with Tommy Ryan
but Tom has refused to meet the dark
skinned Bostonian. Byers recently defeated
Billy Madden's youngster Charley Goff
Though Goff had Byers beaten in height an,
reach he failed to puncture the frame Of tn
colored boy, who, with a bookload of do
and donts edited by George Dixon, charged
on Goff and won by confining himself to tn
latter's rangy body. Billy Pierce of Bos
ton, one of the most conservative of pugil
istic writer's regards Byers as the foremos
of the middleweights and has a forfeit o
$500 for match with Ryan, though Tcmm
is said to have refused repeatedly to cove
the money. Feelers have also been sent on
in the direction of Kid Mccoy, but the XII
is known to draw the color line and ther
is not much chance that a match can b
made with him.
BY the way, Mccoy has joined the colon
of shorthaired sports who have nocked [
Denver since the Cannon prize fight bi
was passed by the Colorado Legislature