The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-31
SOMETHING II WRONG
BIG PRIZE FIGHT SAVORS OF THE
BRADYESQUE TO A DISAGREE
ABLE DEGREE
JEFFRIES IS IN BAD SHAPE

So Says Telegram From Jimmy
WakeIey, SuIIivan's Old Backer,
to Dick Moore, of ST. PauI-Was
Jeffries-FitzsimmO Fight on the
Level: Is Being Asked-McCoy Is
No Match for Fitz, Say Experts.
There seems to be an ebony-hued GIN
tleman in the pile of wood that the prize
fight promoters of Coney Island have
been saving. The big fight begins to
SAVIOR entirely too much of the Brady
esque to inspire confidence of it's being
on the dead level. All the talk Of JEFF
fries bad arm, and the postponement of
the fight with the consent of Sharkey,
when the sailor could just as we'll have
claimed that $3.50 forfeit, may have had
method for a foundation. AT the least,
suspicion is aroused. And now comes
telegram to Dick Moore, of St Paul, which
can be read between the lines by the
initiated. 1t is from Jimmy -Wakeley,
erstwhile hacker of the only John L.
Sullivan, and it reads as follows:
New York. Oct 30-Dick Moore, st.
Paul, Mimi: Jeffries is wrong. He is not
well. James Wakeley.
FITZ-JEFFRIES FIGHT.
There is dispatch from New York
which questions the sincerity of Fitz-
simmons in his fight with Jeffries 1t
says:
The ease with which Bob Fitzsimmons
knocked out Thorne at Tattersaus on
Saturday night and the severity of the
blow which finished the English pugilist
have revived the reports that the fight
between Fitzsimmons and Jeffries was
not ''on the square" There have been
many persons well Informed in pugilistic
matters, and some of them living in
Chicago, who have never believed F'itz-
simmons extended himself fully in his
contest with Jeffries. If quiet inquiries
should be made at the Chicago Athletic
club 1t would be found the opinion IS,
from the boxing instructor down, that
Fitzsimmons was in a most accommodate
ing mood when he met Jeffries. Some of
the reasons for this are the following:
First-FitzsimmOns had a sure thing as
far as the purse and receipts We're con-
cerned. He was guaranteed not merely
losers end, but 60 per cent of the re-
CeiptS. win or lose.
SeCOnd-HiS career as an actor or dime
museum freak was at an end.
Third-An offer OF considerable sum
to permit Jeffries to win, with the added
advantage of a sure thing in the betting
ring, would have been an inducement
that some of the FitZsimmons hackers
would not have found it easy to resist.
Fourth - Fitzsimmons has been unusu-
ally flush of money since his fight with
Jeffries. He travels like d prince; he
does not spend money on drinks, but he
has stocks and bonds and real estate.
When h went to Chicago he had two
adjoining rooms on the limited train and
nothing was too rich for his blood Only
dukes, railroad presidents and defeated
pugilists can afford to travel in the style
Fitzsimmons adopts. In connection with
this belief, which is firmly established at
the Chicago Athletic club, 1t is interest
ing to notice the discussion of the same
subject by a writer in the Pittsburg
Press Speaking of the Fitzsimmons-
Jeffries fight he says:
Whether Fitzsimmons fought his best
Is a question. He certainly made some
funny breaks that night. During the
bout he missed at least eight swings for
the jaw. For a fighter of Fitzsimmons'