The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-12
JEiFFRIES An ACTOR
THE NEW CHAMPION TO INVADE
THE STAGE-TAKEs VIC
TORY EASY
BLOW THAT WON THE FIGHT

JeHries Says Tommy Ryan Con-
cetved livery Few Sports Favor
Sharkey to Defeat the California
BOilermaker Bill Brady and
Tom O'ROurke, the Rival Mana
gers, Holly Discuss a Match.
NEW YORK, June lit feels bully to
be champion, Tommy"
Then the brand-new champion slusaer
OF the entire world, James J. JeI-ies.
raised up in bed yesterday afternoon and
looked at his hands. They were puffed
and swollen. There was a nasty-lookine
cut over the right eye, which had been
carefully courtplastered It was I:3j en1
the champion was hungry. He rose and
dressed himself in the blue serge suit and
rel sweater which he wore at tie ring
vide.
Down stairs great crowd was waiting
In the barroom of the Vanderbilt hotel
ana another crowd was out on the street.
ready to howl. Billy Delaney was al
ready at the breakfast table.
'Jefr is big KID he said: there ia no
indication Of the swelled head about him.
he Is not drinking man and will be
champion for long time to come
Just then Jeffries and Ryan entered the
barroom There was a sensation,
Hooray," shieked the fat sports.
wow, you bet he's daisy" howled the
lean. The small boys whooped and a
crowd of girls peered through the door
way with ave-
JEFFRIBs CRACKS A JOKE.
The champion smiled a swollen smile as
though his jaw was sore. He rolled I'D
to the bar in an eiephantine way and or
oered a Tommy Ryan punch" The bar
keeper looked puzzled and so did Ryan.
why" said the champion, It's the
punch l settled Fitzsimmons with. RYAN
invented It,"
Jeffrtes ate everything he could lay his
fingers on.
How do I feel?" he said. st feel as
though I could do 1t all over again right
now
or course everybody laughed, because
IL is the proper caper to laugh when q
great pugil1stic champion says ANYTHING
Meantime the crowd was rapidly increas-
Ing. Everybody wanted to see Jeffries
the new champion, the man who SETTLED
the fate of Fitz and who wants to 90
right on fighting for the mere love of #
JeHries finished what was probably the
most gigantic, breakfast ever tackled by
a pug1llst, thereby indicating sound
solar piexus and an unconquerable stom-
ach. Men drifted in by twos and threes
to shake the big mans hand and offer
him libations of wine and pugilistic
frankincense. He has not the gruffness
OF the mighty John L. He felt too good
to be gruff. When he was not shaking
hands with others he would pause In his
breakfast to shake hands with himself.
After the meal had been concluded
Matt Give, the hotel proprietor, having
an eye for business, brought the cham
pion into the barroom. Then there was a
football rush that swamped the bartend
ers Glasses clinked, threats gurgled and
loud were the congratulations that
sounded about the champion
In all that crowd a Fitzsimmons man
could not be found. Three Carriages
drove to the door and the pugilistic party.
amid much Misunderstanding and felicitation.
ratified away to the Pennsylvania station.
They took the early train for Philadel-
phfa, where the champion appeared last
night
SHARKEY'S CHANCE HELD SLIM.
1t is notable fact that a week before
the hattie Jeffries was billed as champion
of the world in seven different cities.
where he will appear.
1t was the general opinion among those
who saw the fight that 1t was the great
est heavyweight battle that ever took
place. 1t was a revelation of the most
modern tricks in the science of pugilism
Jeffries had been trained against Fits
right hand. He had been taught to
crouch under to avoid it. BY this
method he won the battle.
Those who had bet on Jeffries were
overjoyed. In all the haunts of sporting
men nothing else was talked of. Wake
ly's saloon, at Forty-seventh street and
Sixth avenue, was crowded from morning
until night with men who held repeated
post-mortems on the fight. At Corbett's
place there was another Jam.
There were but few men who seemed to
think that SharSey would have any
chance whatever with the new champion.
Many persons seemed to think better of
claimed that he would have less trouble
than Sharkey in getting to Jeffries on
account of his longer reach.
Wall street sports were rather hard hit
Most of them were FitZ men, and they
had not hesitated to back their opinions
with cash. Many Of the Tammany men
who sat around the ringside were also
heavy losers. The bookmakers, general
ly speaking, fought shy of bets on ac-
count of the attitude taken by Chief Dew
cry. Honest John" Kelly was a heavy