The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-02

vance safes ROOT Up ABOUT pau
OOO-Betting Is Picking Up, With
Jeffries FavOrite - SharI1ey Liked
by Wise Experts.
NEW YORK, Nov. There will be no
interference from the authorities at the
Jeffries-Sharkey heavyweight champion
ship battle, to take place at Coney
Island, on Friday night. Chief of Police
Devery Is authority for this statement
A feature at the club house on Friday
night viii be the lighting apparatus OPP
Grating the moving picture machine.
There will be 400 incandescent lights
shedding brilliancy on the ring. 1t was
found in experimenting with the lights
last night that they greatly enhanced the
view of the men IN the arena.
Present indica lions are that the gate re-
ceipts will be larger by many thousands
OF dollars-by tens of thousands of dol
lars-than the gate receipts of any sport
ing or dramatic event, or any other event
to which an admission fee is charged
Irving and Patti. in rival houses or in
the same house. could not draw so much
money in two weeks, playing every night
in the week. The receipts of no turf or
trotting event, football or baseball match
would approach 1t, and at the Brooklyn
handicap of 1895 the gate receipts were
upward of $40, 600. If the entire house for
this fight should be sold out it Will mean
gate of $4,000. The total sale up to
last night was in the neighborhood of
100000, with the prospect that this sum
will be increased to $4,000 before the
doors are thrown open on Friday night.
Every box seat has been sold, which in
Itself represents about SIS, 900.
t- The host of New York sporting men is
to be supplemented by sporting men from
numerous United States cities. as well as
from many Canadian points. Already
they are beginning to arrive.
IS JEFFRIES RIGHT?
Some doubts have been expressed as
10 the condition, of Jeffries, as he has
only done seven weeks work In preparing
Tor the fight, but his manager, w. A.
Brady, Tommy Ryan and his trainer,
Billy Delaney, unite in saying he is in
first-class shape. They claim he is in bet
ter shape than when he met Bob FitZ-
simmons in the same arena and defeated
him. On the other hand there is no doubt
as 10 the condition of Sharkey. He began
work while in California last summer.
and he has been pegging away at 1t ever
since. He is ambitious to be champion
pugilist Of the world IN his class, and
does not want the matter of condition to
stand In his way. His trainers. Tim Nc
Grath and Bob Armstrong. and his man
ager. Tom O'Rourke, have had to watch
him to guard against Overwork AS 1t is,
he Is in nearly perfect form.
Jeffries may spend the night before the
fight in New York. He IS very anxious to
see VIII Curiey, the English bantam. In
his fight with George Dixon, at the
Broadway Athletic club tomorrow night,
and unless serious objection is made by
those who have him in hand he will come
up from Asbury Park, where he has
trained. tomorrow night. He has been
warned that there is danger of exposing
himself to the night air, and If he does
not change his plan it will be Friday noon
before he leaves for the scene of battle
His plan now Is to reach Coney Island
late Friday afternoon, and take dinner at
one of the hotels there.
Sharkey will not leave Newdorp until
Friday afternoon. He may spend part of
the afternoon in Martins hotel in this
city. but 1t IS more probable he will go
directly 10 Corey Island.
BOTH MEN CONFIDENT.
The evening of the contest will see both
of the men sUpremeIy confident Both are
calm, and Will go to the fray as veterans
Into action. Thousands OF dollars have
been wagered on the outcome Of the fight