The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02
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Tommy Ryan thinks that Jim JEFF
| fries is the best that ever happened in
| the heavyweight pugilistic world The
big fellow made great fight against
| F1tz, says the Syracuse crack boxer.
Il gained his confidence in training
quarters, and he took my advice in
everything. ! kept telling him between
rounds to fight safe and never take a
chance, and he never forgot his instruc-
tons He kept his head remarkably
well for youngster. l knew it was a
cinch he could beat Fitz if he only kept
cool He's a lead-pipe certainty-a bot
tled-up sure thing-against Mr.. Sailor
Sharkey. III help to train him for that
fight, too, and I'm going to England
with him next August. | may fight
over there. although | don't know who
they've got for me to meet, unless it's
the Coffee Cooler, and 1 don't think
he'll take me on
Ryan is particularly anxious for an
other meeting with Kid Mccoy. but
he says the Hoosier lad won't talk 70
him. Ryan says he will likely leave
tonight or tomorrow for the East. al
though he may change his mind and
remain over for the Jeffries exhibition
at Tattersalls next Monday night.
Writing from Philadelphia to Pres
Geht W. &. Mastefson OF the Denver
Olympic Athletic Club Manager Jack
togdrty of the Ariel Athletic Club of
Athens Pa, once the most dangerous
rival of famous Jack Dempsey, gives
some pugilistic points of interest The
letter reads as follows:
Your DiXon-White fight for July II
ought to he a great drawing card for
YOU l saw the DIXON bernstein light.
ana / was one or the fastest / ever
looked at DIXON is not the back num-
Der tnat some people imagine, and he
ana White ought to put up "a hot go.
thlnk II is the best match made in
the west 1or many moons, and hope
you VIII 90 wen with 1t. 1t strikes me
that you ought TO make success of a
boxing club in Denver, and any time
you want anybody from this section
or the country | VIII try and help you
out.
Inc Jeffries fight was
great one, and you would have made
some money had you been here. On
form 1t looked to me like a cinch for
tttzsimmons, and | bet a few dollars
that way. But about four hours before
the gates opened l was put next to the
Information that all the wise fellows
we're tdklhs me snort END, although
they We're talking Fitz. 1t came so
straight that I should have carried off
lot of money, but | weakened. 1t
saved me from getting in any heavier
on tItz, though, so | consider myself
a winner
The minute they shaped up I saw
the finish. Jetfries had developed, not
INTO a marvel but certainly a great
fellow. He strips like an OK and is as
agile as cat, AS Tommy Ryan told
me, He'll fool all of them Now that
1t is all over | cannot see where Fitz
ever was a two-to-one shot, for at his
best Jeff could have licked him that
night. Fftz surprised us all by his
gameness, He might have stayed the
limit if he had only fought Jeffries as
he did Corbett, and just for the reason
that he kept running into Jeffries
punches, coupled with the tip | got.
was going to be licked and thought the
sooner the better.
Brady has had Jeffries on the move
since the fight umpiring baseball games
and boxing at every place a dollar
could be picked up, but the big fellow
has not developed into the popular fav-
orite that was expected. He met with
a frost in Philadelphia, less than 300
going to see him. In Wilmington, Del.
Jettries got 800 for four rounds with
Jim DAILY and the house people lost
5000 on the attraction 90.
"Jeffries and Sharkey are matched
for October %. 1t ought to be a great
fight and many think that Tom will
win, or ought to, but Sharkey needs to
Improve before he can do it. Tom
ORourke must think we'll of him, and
O'Rourke is a pretty good picker,
According to advices here the Me
y-Choynski match at Denver is off
for good. The Colorado Athletic Club
Is trying to get Fitzsimmons and Me
Coy together for a purse of $50 600
Homer Selby, the Kids brother, Is