Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-08
FINAL TOUCHES ON FIGHTERS
Both Fitzsimmons and JeTries Take
only Light Exercise and Are
in Perfect Condition,

NEW YORK, June with the contest
for the heavyweight championship only
fortyetght hours off, both Fftzsimmons
and Jeffries did some light work today, but
both have practically stopped training,
their respective managers being satisfied
with the mems conditions.
At the Bath Beach quarters Fitzsimmons
tenting himself with light practice, throw
ing the medicine ball and short session
Win ob he PpnMfhng M bag IN the wsr
hardt and Hickey The glove work was
NOR more playful than earnlst and 1t It was Just
in thorough suppleness.
During the afternoon George Siler of Chi
Gpon no snd Martn m Julian TSe
three talked over the Interpretation of the
rules and Fitzsmmons assured Stler that
he was quite satisfied with the manner in
which the conditions were set forth in the
articles of agreement and that he would
by any rqng the efe1ss knp o
clean breakaway, Fitzsmmons said that
in his opinion, both contestants should step
order them to break" The interview was
evidently satisfactory to both and 1t was
evident that Referee siler would pay a
ters tomorrow.
At Jeffries' training quarters at Asbury
llaborious work. He rose early and took a
long walk along the sandy bach accompa-
MED by r,,T,9l Tommy Ryan the Syracuse
Jeffries training. arrived shortly ,b:fore
noon from New, York, where he had spent
their tramp just as Delaney reached the
cottage. There was quite large gathering
Of sporting men there at that time and all
appearance of the Californian. After a
good rub Own Jeffres enjoyed his usual
work with the training squad, which is
made mad! up of Delaney, Tommy Ryan Jim
IN mo- ipin hall 1E n
and turned the garden hose on each other.
JJeffries gave an exhibition of rope skipping,
a wndup to the afternoons work the party
went Wen to the e., beach where they deported
the water for fully half an hour and the
big aspirant for championship honors was
the liv5liest one of the party.
only very light exercise will be indulged
in tomorrow and on Friday morning Jeff
Eies with ydt all his training attendants will
until s the time arrives for the big event to
simmons-Jeffries fight is shown by the
sale sale ct % oaes Bss every box recent Was ausSn sda
bringing s2l 900. one box was sold after
ward ward by sPecuiI5atoor i5Eo to party Of Wall
met and added th!rty-fye new boxes;
ssr o of ronnd Wn su have he So sess
been literally purchased, whiie hardly any
of the SO seats ats are , left at least six rows %
sharkey or Mccoy -sharkey fig:ht.
has EoEd sGd Worth the Of f0nsy Tha
prices Of admission to see the fight and
tthte the seating capacity Of the Coney Island
are s., $40, SIS, $40 and $25 The following
are the number of seats: Five thousand
So 6 s5s SessrveG at T sl5 ressF7ea sss so 90
| mezaanine seats at $40, $4,000; 1875 box seats
at S2S $lSl$S; s4s 80 total number STA; total
William A.: Brady, when seen last night
G%oncerntng s, the statement issued by Chief
with the police on Friday night.
s,si sThe e,, contest will surely take place"
S2ad Snr Mn the Brady will be
be violated. Chief Devery attended the
sRaTkey Contest and dD'oSf others of of Similar Similar
CHARACTER that have been held in New
| York during the last year
! The Coney Island club has not proposed
to give prize,fght, but a contest, similar
to the ones | have mentioned, and we do
the, police If we. keep within the, limit
which applied to the former contests, and
| that is what we expect to do"
club building had already been made and
1T had had 9Sen gSg Pr9nounced STsGn all right s
coming championship fight between Fitz-
| simmons and Jeffrles is attracting much
attention in this city. In the pool rooms
Jeffries has many hackers and there is also
plenty of Fuzsimmons money in sight.
| Men who are willing to back their judg-
| ment look for sharp and decisive fight.
The mutual boards in the different pool
rooms indicate that few expect the fight
will go the limit. Jeffres is picked to win
In from seven to ten rounds Ftzsimmons
| Is expected by his admirers to wind up the
fight somewhere near the fifth round mark.
Altogether a contest of not more than six
teen rounds is looked for
In the betting there are plenty who are
willing to back Jeffries at 6ls to 10 and a
good many who accept to 10. There Is a
manifest intention, however, to hold off un-
I'll the day of the fight. 1t is expected that
big money Will be placed Friday and Fri
day evening before the fight.
The odds on Jeffies to win are better
here for the reason that he is Califor-
nan.
TfFFlN, o., June John L. Sullivan,
the, eX-champ!on. was interviewed here to-
night on the E'itZsimmons- -Jeffries fight.
He stated the fight would be good one and
would not end in a few rounds. He said
Jeffries would win because he had the ad-
vantage Of youth and had conquered many
great fighters. The champion would not
give opinion to the number of roundx