Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-07
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS.
Ryan Talks Uppereuts and Jolts That are Coming to Jeffries.

He Says the Big Fellow Owes Him Money and That,H (Ryan) Will Not
 Be the One to Run Away When
 They Meet-Jeffries and Roeber Are
 to Wrestle-Joe Bernstein Advertis-
 ing in Yiddish-Miss Dorothy Drew
 Will Sue Jeffries For Breach of Promise.
 It is indeed a saddening spectacle to hear the Damon and Pythias of the squared circle clouting each other with seSquipedalian verbal uppercuts Champion Jeffries and Thomas Ryan were once inSeparable, now the widest streets are too narrow to permit them passing each ether. What started the cruel war seems to be a deep mystery. Jeffries intimated that Ryan's displeas- ure is due to polite note of dismissal received by the middleWeight cham piou from the heavyweight champion.
 Ryan insists that failure on the part of Jeffries to properly remunerate him for services melted the riot.
 In any event. they are at it hammer and tongs. and Jeffries has hinted he
  trainer if they meet by chance.
 Ryan, in response to the big fellow threat. has made this reply:
 II have been noting with some ln- tereSt the number of falls James J. Jeffries has been taking out of me re- cen1ly He calls ne an ungrateful fel- low among other things. and advises me to take to the far siue of the road Ii We ever meet. Good. Now. l am not going to run away from Mir Je1- fries if We ever happen to meet. h. stead, l shall walk up to that gentle man. and. for purely commercial req sons. ask him to give me the SoOo he still owes me for preparing and sec ondng him for the fight with CorDett. 1 said of AIr JeffrieS that he was all out. that he was oil the verge Of phNSl- cal collapse. and that the first good man who meets him will llnocl. his Blcck off l said that FitzSimmons can whip him. l repeat that FitzSim- mons. properly conditioned ana coached. can and will win over .!etfries if they eyer meet. Mr Jeffries said he would like to see me handle FitZSim- mons if he tJetfrieS) and EitZ ever came together. 1 may do that much, even. and if 1 do I shall have q bit of money on FitZ. The truth of the mat ter is that l don't believe you could coaX Jeffries to meet Corbett again. let alone F'itz. Corbett. for the twenty three rounds the battle lasted. made Siman of JeffrieS.and ii hr had eNdded that right to the jaw in the twenty third round COrbttt must have won the fight. as he had a long, sale leiu up so that one punch.
 "Jngrateful. indeed. 1 worked and watched over Jeffries for months. per fecting him for his three most impor- tant battles and to-day he owes me $500. which I will sell for that many cents if some one will take the claim off my hands And. further. watch me closely when Jeff and l meet. if thera is to be any running away it Will not be on the part of your truly.
 WATERBURY'S NEXT CONTEST.
 The Union Athletic club, under whose mana cement the patrons of box ing in this vicinity have witnessed all ready two of the very best contests ever given in this city the Jack Daily Kid Mcfarland two-round mill anu the Johnny Reagan-George Munroe twenty-rounu contest. have again de ci,lpd to arrange a hDXing exhibition on Thursday cNCi''' '"cPnhef -oth' Tommy EeltZ. '"' httie 'ef- man fighter. 'F oi i'ahhH Dougherty to he pant H. weight chaIi. tAe Worlu. k to he Ditted :: pluczy and aggressive bu LEWIS. he fight is Sched,. twenty rodhuS. Feltz put '.kid'' l-! Inan to sleep in less than three rounds at Hartford Thanksgiving day. FeltZ has been after Dougherty fer some un.e, put the latter continues 10 avoid him.
 l.. NSL,,n l.y tsTI D of a gift from Terry McGcYern. when inc latter became too heavy to com pete for the title within the bantam weight limit. Tie Union Athletic club has held off forz some time in making the announcement of this bout with a hone 10 secure some of the local as nirants for fame in the rOped arena. but there are no boxers in the city that actually want to fight when an oDpof- tunity offers. so the nianagement nave found themselves compelled to LOOK elsewhere. Ali Lew and Billy Ryan are to clash for tell rounds al IL. hounds. Levy has been fighting stal boutS at the Greenwood. Pehcans ana National Athletic clubs. New lGfs city. while Ryan has fought George AIunroe two, draws. The second pre- .liminary will Iin between two clever
  Hopkins. Lester has fought at least ten times at thf Broadway Athletic club. Jack Hopkins is the amateur champion Iightweight of the world. He made his first professional fight at the Broadway Athletic club last August defeating Cain in one round. and has been coming on ever since in cham pionship form.
 IEFFRIES AND ROEBER.
 William \. Brady. manager of lame: T. Jefries, agreed yesterday to allow the heavyweight champion to mee Ernest Roeber. the worlds champion wrestler in atch-as-catch-can bou at the benefit to be held for the family of Hugh s. Hart in the Grand Centra Palace on December IS. Roeber alsC is willing to meet the big Californian on the mat and the encounter is eX
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