The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-15

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Ay4Eroft7taking. is not confined to the,b.llls
and bears on the floor of the exchanges
The big xhoxerss realize that anot ttler. WiE-
ter is coming and are preparing to take
in1aS much of etlFe- needful as possible be-
fore the snow fa1ls.. On Sept. l the IIer-
ton boxing law will become a dead letter
on the statute baoks-scf New YoEh5 state.
After that date the boxers will be forced
to seek other sta tes in which torssettle
their arguments, with: the probability that
the harvest wild snot tabe so generous as it
has been III the Empire state during re-
cent years. Beginning next month there
Willahe fEequept. meetings, in the squared
circle between the most famous of the
heavy W eight. box with now and then
the lesser lights 7raking off d few hundred
dollars as their share of the gleanings.
Jeffries, Fitzsimmens, Sharkey, Mccoy,
Rubin, Dunkhorst, Corbett and a few
others are among the; men WHO are dated
for battles. The trouble will commence
in April in August, ard at
the close of it all it is likely that there
will be every bit as much doubt as st
present which is the real premier of the
big ones
San, eJEFFRIES AND. .MCOY.
The latest surprise in the ring line Is.
the making of a match between Jim JEFF
fries and Kid McKoy. The men met last
week and agreed to box twenty-five
rounds before the club offering the. most
money for the event The match will
likely depend upon the results of the
previous battles in which the principals
have agreed to- engage Should either of,
the men be defeated prior to July 30, It
Is not probable that they will carry out
the arrangement made for that date.
Jeffries is to meet Corbctt, ana MCCOY
is toe@faeRs Saaarlzey ln thezring prior tee
the date fixed for the Jeffries-McCoy
match sfidnfd either lose, then some of
the other big ones Will naturally have the
call Therefore, a return meeting pe-
tween SharkeYz and Ieltries, or between
Jeffries and some other celebrity, IS not
an inlprpayability. CorbettrAas forlorn
hope He may manage to outgeneral
Jeffries III ffseir battle. NoHone is suffiT
GENTLY. preiudiezds ar dopeY to imagine
that Corljett VIII stop the big boilers
makensszFSsltS4 decision sis the thinss
and Corbett has a sel1ance for the de-
cision fi1ef4ztller rsss every hkeilhooe
that Sharl1ey Mill repeat MS deleat OI
MCCOY etlfssx should spuesthe Kid out
of theyeusts Fitzsfrnmons is the next
factor III the seriess-ofi matches IN New
york; has erlEage mentssWith Gus
Rubin and EdaDuHK horst He Is rateG
as the faverftesiII Ipth. Siae1tleeyhe wiz
over the two men named he will certain
y have Something DOS ssfto estaaes then
leaders in the game. <
WHAT MAY HAPPEN.
There Is a chance that Just what the
followers of the ring would Ike to see
may be brought to- pass. JeIrles ana
IsI F,itzsimh1ons are theLbest~ drawing cards
of the ring today. Should each win in
his matches. then the two may get to@
eetber to settle the disputed question as
To the result of their previous meeting,
in which Fitzsimmons was worsted ThaE
would be the battle of the bunch. There
are many students of the ring who ares
far from satisfied that Jeftrles IS Flt1 5. 5
master at the game of lead, land and get-
away. There is no question about the de-
cisiyeness of Jeffries' vic orye in the for
mers meetings Fitzsimmpns was clearly
bested He was knocked out, and fair
ly. But there is q possibility that Fitzs