The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-09


whom l am afraid A man must be
confident if he wants to win.
AS to Mftchelps talk about meeting
me think that 1t is all bosh. He is too
old man and wouldn't stand any
show a all. But If he desires match
| will accommodate him. / will refuse
no one, not even Kid Mccoy, if he can
put up the money"
Billy Delaney. who is managing the
champions business affairs, said: II
want to see a match between JeffrieS
and Sharkey, not because / think 1t
would be such a good fight, but because
the American public is DESTROYS of see
ing Sharkey whipped and whipped
hard. That is Just what the champion
would do to him. There is but one
chance in million. however. that Shar-
key will consent to go on with Jeffries
The big man is fighter and he intends
to stay in that business. He will meet
anybody, big or little, white or black, or
a Chinaman for that matter. providing
the money is up. It's all foolishness to
say that a man is too big or too small
for the champion. If man Is willing
and ready to fight it is Jeffries' business
to give him an opportunity. The story
has been going the rounds that Jeffries
said he wouldn't fight Mccoy and Nc
Coy Is reported to have said he would
like to throw back into the teeth of the
champion the taunt that he was too
light man for Jeffries to meet, but
notice that Kid Mccoy has been called
into the mountains very suddenly and
isn't here to-day"
Tom O'Rourke has been unsuccess-
full in his attempt to bring about a
meeting between Bob Fitzsimmons and
Tom Sharkey. On behalf of the Lenox
Athletic club O'Rourke offered Fitz-
ci p,r 10 ", ey
between him and Sharkey, but the
Australian refused and said finally he
would never fight Tom. He has never
forgiven Sharkey. for the bout in which
the latter gained a decision over him
on foul, and he will not under any
circumstances, he says, fight before the
Lenox Athletic club. Martin Julian,
manager for Fitzsimmons, says that
Fitzsimmons was willing to take on
Kid Mccoy. A boxing club of Denver
has offered purse of $4,000 for this
match.
Ex- Champion Jim Corbett announces
for business reasons that he will re-
enter the ring next fall and box the
winner of the Jeffries-Sharkey match.
Jim, so the story goes, is taking life
easy, and hopes to get back some of
his old-time FORM Corbett had one
unsatisfactory run-in with the husky
ex-marine. and mightnt relish an
other defeat from Tommy. AS for JEFF
fries, he would certainly stand an ex-
tremely poor show of outpointing the
herculean boilermaker in even a short
limit bout.
Harry Peppers, the puglist whose re-
cent battle with Dutch" Neal resulted
in the death of the latter last week,
was discharged by Justice Martin at
the Harrison street police court, before
whom he appeared. When the magis-
trate was informed that the coroners
jury which investigated the death of
the prizefighter had exonerated Pep
pers he at once dismissed the case.
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Billy Brady has sailed for England
in search of plays for his theater and,
incidentally. to arrange for Jim JEFF
fries boxing tour. Brady thinks that
there is some money and fistic reputa-
ton to be obtained by tour in Great
Britain Perhaps there Is. John l..
Sullivan accumulated neither wealth
nor fame by his European tour, and
the money that Jim Corbett brought
back with him from England had to
be cabled to him. A bout with Char
ley Mitchell may induce Johnny Bull
to give UP his pounds shillings and
pence literally. More important than
the English tour is the fact that JEFF
fries and Sharkey are matched to box
In the early fall before the club giving
the biggest purse. The proviso that
the winner take all the purse should
have been omitted from the articles of
agreement. 1t deceives no one, and
1t VIII not draw an additional dollar
to the house. Neither Billy Brady nor
Tom O'Rourke is in the pugilistic bust
ness for the love of sport or for his
health. They are both business men,
with double accent on the biz" syl-
liable, and neither is fool enough to
stand by any such arrangement. Be-
sides, the public doesn't care a rap
how the purse is divided If the men
only fight fairly and squarely and the
best one wins. Sharkey Is still on the
Pacific coast, and he is likely to stay
there for while, as there Is no need
for his presence East for months, while
there he is reputed to be delightfully."-
engaged in laying siege to the heart
of one of Californin's fair daughters.
Spike Sullivan says he will be ready
to meet Kid Mcfarland again in an
other month.
Oscar Gardeners hands are still in bal
shape, and it is doubtful whether he will
be able to box for several months to
come.
Bob Fitzsimmons is troubled with a
slight attack of rheumatism in his right
shoulder, but does not think it will in
terfere with his boxing.
Pedlar Palmer the British bantam
weight champion, has not yet accepted
the offer of the Westminster Athletic
club of Westchester, N. Y, for a fight
with Terry McGovern. Palmer prefers
to do his fighting at home
John l.. Sullivan advises Jeffries to
do all his fighting within the next two
years otherwise. says the Boston
oracle, "the California boy will get too
heavy and some young fellow may
come along and finish him."
Billy Lavigne says that big Joe Ken
nedy, the new California heavyweight,
is good enough to hold his own with
any of the top-notchers. not excluding
Jim Jeffries. Kennedy was matched to
fight Jeffries in San Francisco at the
time the latter came East to meet Fitz-
simmons.
Billy Delaney, who trained Jim Corbett
and Jim Jeffries, says that the big Cali
Joe Kennedy, who recently de-
feated Gus Rubin, is a veritable won
der and the equal of any man now in