The times., 1899-03-12
PUGILIsTIC POINTERS.

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Jack Daily, the popular Wilmington light
weight is no ''knocker" except in the
squared circle, and when he is paid for it.
but he is nevertheless dead sore. When
he read the recent statement that his man
ager, Fitzpatrick, had quit him, he said:
That's not true. / quit Fitzpatrick, and
more than three months ago. | had never
intended to make any public mention of 1t,
but now Fitzpatrick comes out and tries
to make il look as if it was my fault. They
all say he is great manager. Well, maybe
he is-for himself-but he'll not suit me.
He gets left, or says he gets left, in finan-
cial deals too often. | never got all the
money coming to me in any fight while he
was my manager. He would come and
say after a go was over that the club
pleaded poverty and could not make good.
After my Cans fight in November ne said
O'Rourke held out $50 as expenses duo
the Lenox because | was taken sick and
could not fight Curran and then when he
went down in his pocket to settle. he was
still $50 shy and made me stand for it. In
these three months since we quit he has
written to me twice. Once he tried to
match me with Charley Burns, OF Cincn-
natl and the other time advised me as TO
the tactics TO pursue against Eyerhardt,
and said if won he would get me a good
match.
Tom Sharkey. when asked who was his
choice in the coming fight between Jeffries
and Fitzsimmons. sah: Il have fought
both of them and therefore ought TO be a
competent judge. However, | prefer not 10
say word about the fight. Let people
Judge for themselves. It is immaterial to
me whether | fight Jeffres or Fitz. l am
sure | can whip either one of them. /
don't think Fitz is half as clever as Mccoy,
and he is no harder hitter
It is Billy Brady's opinion that Tom
Sharkey is playing game and is actually
afraid to go into a ring with either Fitz
or Jeffries. Brady says he is ready to sign
articles for a fight with Sharkey. 4 sin
cerely hope" says Brady, that nothing
will prevent Fitz from meeting JetfrieS
next June and therefore hope that the in
jury to his arm will not prove serious.
Although we would rather fight the cham
pion than any other man in the world, II
he is unable to go into training at the
proper time we will take on someone else
Sharkey is the next man in line. and we
will meet him under the same conditions
| have signed Jeffres to fight Fitzsimmons
If Sharkey is desirous OF wiping out that
defeat JefIries gave him in Frisco he
should sign articles tomorrow. FItZsm-
mons has gone back, and nobody knows it
better than himself. By picking Jetfries
out Fitzsimmons believed he was taking
on a cnch but that's just where he Will
be fooled. Jeffries fought twenty rounds
with Sharkey and won, which was an
achievement worthy of consideration. Just
because Jeffries did not stop Armstrong in
ten rounds is no reason TO call him an
easy mark
Jack Farrell, of Wilmington. and Eli
wood McCloskey have been matched TO box
six rounds at the Quaker City Athletic
Club in Philadelphia next Saturday. Far
reil got the decision over Jerry Marshall in
twenty rounds at the Spa Athletic Club a
fortnight ago. and the next night fought
McCloskey a ten-round draw at the En-
pire Club, Wilmington.
Unless that wonderful little feather,
George Dixon, does not alter his style of
living il is a sure thing that he will fol-
low in the well-beaten path OF the used
to bes." and that. too, at no remote period.
The colored lad has for some time past,
| so it is said, been going the pace that
! kills" and O'Rourke's efforts to make him
| quit have amounted to naught. Dixon was
to go TO England next summer to meet
| Palmer but if the colored lad does not
quit his present mode of living the match
| Will be declared on.
| There are a few things, says a ring fol-
| lower, which it might be iudicious to bear
| in mind concerning Jeffries. whom Fit2
| affects to hold lightly. He has never
| known defeat. He has whipped Sharkey
in very convincing manner and is deeply
regretful that the sailor shows no inclina
| ton for another contest. He has never
| been hit with the right or knocked down
or faxed in the ring. He is giant in de-
| vclopment who will fight at 223 pounds
| without carrying a spare ounce of flesh
| He stands six feet two and is but twenty
| five years old. FitZsimmons confesses tC
| thirty-seven years and is credited with
| half a dozen more. And he will scarcely
weigh 40 pounds when he goes into thG
| ring against the youngest. healthiest. anC
most physically powerful adversary he has
| ever met.
a dispatch from San Francisco says:
| Referring to n dispatch from Chicago CON
| tanning an interview with Martin Julian
| manager of Bob Fitzsimmons. ]. j. Groom
manager of the National Athletic Club o.
| California. says: Julian neglected 10
state in his denunciation of our club that
we exhausted every remedy to stop the
| He also failed to state what has since
! come to light, that Fitzsimmons himself
robbed the public by allowing Sharkey
| to stay seven rounds and placing a vast
| amount on Sharkey to stay that limit,