The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-05
Jeffries VIII Rest From Fights
For Eight Months.
Big Battle is Not in Sight For
This Year.
ON STAGE s MONTHS.
Manager Brady Gives Som
ShreWd Reasons
why His Protege Cam Best Al
ford to Face Time.

New York. Sept. 5.-Followers OF pug
s,fs,a will not see a championship con-
test decided-one in which Jim Jenries
win dgure-for eight months, or perhaps
q wear. There are several reasons Ao1
this. The passing away of the horton
law in New York removes the most re-
munerative field OF muscular effort Aor
the "pugs." and it is doubtful whether
satisfactory purse could at present pc
commanded elsewhere. But there are
other reasons as well. Billy BIauy, 80
fries manager, is one of those VINO a &
rhrevd enough to see that the fgntlng
game has been overdone, that ali the tAlt 4
of possible and actual fakes mas souISo
the public, and he boldly asserts IN Ina -, 9
rest of a year or TWO Is ueeueo AoA ~-
Accordingly, Brady has billed the
champion to appear in play cAil51
ssrrhe Man from the West Tor elgnL
.,5o1+1,s ana Jeffries will thus put in his
time performing all sorts OF heroic actS
before his admirers This LATEST mai
festo that Jeffries is willing TO ngnt N
four weeks to show F1tz VINO Is the
;rhaYnuion reads like s'bunko" to ma
fority. for Fitz has stated that II ne olo
not secure a battle before the repeat Oh
the Horton law he would retire, ana Aor
the present at least the lanky one ap-
pears sincere in his determination.
JEFFRIES CAN WAIT BEST
Brady, whom no one has ever accused
of a lack Of shrewdness, knows, too, tnae
Ieffries is a young man and he can bet
ter wait than any of the other heavy
weights now before the public F1tz IS
80 years old, Corbett is a. Sharkey Is -,
Kid Mccoy, who as now out OF the
championship possibilities is ~, ana
Rubin is %. JeffrfeS, on the other hanos
is but 20 years old, and has hardly yet
reached the limit of his physical powers
While all the present possible candidates
are growing older. and Fitz, the most
likely, is getting to a point where ne
must sometime bow to age, the young
champion is all the time getting stronger
and better. Jenr1eS can well anord 10
This same shrewd Brady also has an
other plan, never before thought OF, for
raising money, provided 1t is found nee
essary to hold the fight somewhere in
the west. To a few friends in New York
Brady impaired the information that he
would hold the fight off in some remote
place, where the telegraph companies
must nav and paw well for. the privilege
of stringing wires to transmit reports of
the battle He asserted that at the time
Of the match with Corbett at Carson
City one of the leading companies offer
ed to put wires clear across the Rocky
mountains to a point which 1t recon-
mended, and was willing to pay Tor the
privilege, too. He counts on the two RI
val companies bidding against each 9TH
FTTz RANKS NEXT TO CHAMPION.
Now that the Horton law has passed
from the statute book and all Of the big
lighters except JefIrleS mas inquired IN
sort of temporary farewell engagement,
a classification according to merit Of
fers an interesting discussion Jedries,
as champion must be accorded the first
place and is entitled to it. Although the
wonderful showing of Fitz had made
him many new friends, the best critics
in the east do not think he can defeat
Jeffries. This is calm, unbiased judg
ment, for the ''old man of the ring" Is
more poular personally now than when
ne was champion.
Granting Jeffries the first place, Fitz-
simmons surely is entitled to the second
ranking. His decisive victories over
Rubin and Sharkey and the opinion
that he would easily defeat Corbett
makes his position secure. Yet Corbett
with his cleveTness, probably would stay
longer against Jeffries than could Fitz.
Perhaps many wonder why critics think
ferries would so surely defeat Fitz af-
ter the latter outslugged such men as
Rubin and Sharkey, strong and rugged
fighters. Neither of those two is clever;
they went to Fitz, and with a clever
ness which is not revealed to its full
power because of his seeming ungainli-
ness Fitz outgeneraled and outslugged
them. Jeffries is a different proposition.
He is cold and would wait to counter on
the freckled one. He never becomes ex-
cited and he knows far more about the
game than either of the two mentioned.
THIRD PLACE Is DOUBTFUL.
If Fitz is given second place, then.
1Og1cal1y CONSIDERED, phlfd place among
the heavy weights is a difficult selection.
Corbett, in view of the great showing
against Jeffries and his quick defeat of
Mccoy, would at first glance seem the
natural selection. But he was bested by
Sharkey, and it is quite likely that
either Sharkey or Rubin would defeat
him We're they to meet in long fight
Corbett is a great boxer until he is hit
then the tide of battle turns quickly
Against the lighter Mccoy he let out
speed and sacrificed caution to force. but
against Sharkey or Rubin his chances
would be materially lessened and it
would not be surprising to see them
wear him down. Sharkeyss recent de-
feats put him down low on the scale
and Rubin has only his victory over
SharlKey to entitle him to consideration,
while it Is unlikely Mccoy, in his pres
ent form, could defeat any of the heavy
weights named Their place thus would
appear to be pretty open between Cor
betts Rubin and Sharkey.