Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-27
THE RING

People will talk. You can't stop them.
Recognizing this fact and because, prob
ably. much of the public ak about him
for the last two months has been the re-
verse of complimentary Jim Corbett de-
trrn.ined to change it's angle as it
were, SO in the middle of last week he
came out in a challenge to Jim Jeffries
for the championship and posted 81. 500
AS a forfeit to prove that he meant bust
ness.
To further prove his sincerity he de-
clared he was willing to give Jeffries any
reasonable time he might desire in which
to have the fight pulled off, and in fact,
to let the champion name his own terms,
provided he would give him a meeting.
In explanation of his reason for ask-
ing for this meeting, Corbett declares
that he nver felt better than he does at
the present time and that the good
showing he made with Jeffries when they
fought before, at Coney Island, makes
him 1.-THE most legitimate CO candidate
for the honor Of being Jeffries' next
antagonist.
When Jim returned from his last visit
to England he declared hi he didn't
know whether he would ever fight again
or would not. He didn't have too,' he
explained, and said that "he had enough
money to live on all the lays of his life"
but he has changed his mind and he is
anxious once again to figure within a
24-foot ring in order to regain, if he
can, his lost popularity, and, failing
that, to obliterate as far as possible, the
memory of his go with Kid Mccoy
In one respect, at least, this challenge
is unique. 1t is the most remarkable
one ever issued by a fighter. Corbett
proposed either to fight to a finish, be-
fore the club offering the largest induce
ments, or a six-round sparring contest
to take place in Chicago.
II Jefries would fight to a finish Cor
bett offered to guarantee him SIS, 900 in
case he (Corbett) defeated him, but if
the six-round bout was more to his mind
he (Corbett) offered to give up the en-
tire gate receipts if Jeffries hit him once
during the contest.
This offer shows more plainly than
mere words can tell how desperate the
ex-pompadour's present situation is and
how wildly anxious he is to change it.
Jeffries' answer to Corbett's challenge
was prompt, e~vasive, sarcastic and in
sulting. Reading it l detected the fine
Italian hand of Manager William
Brady, Esquire, in it's every line.
jeff said that while nothing would
give him greater pleasure than to fight
Corbett again he would not permit the
former champion to make use of him as
a means to bolster up his (Corbett's)
ruined reputation. He then insultingly
suggested that if Corbett was SO an
xious for a fight that he meet Mccoy
again, this time ION the level" and that
the receipts of the fight be donated to
the Galveston sufferers.
If this proposition is accepted he
promised to fight the winner of the con-
test provided that Honest John L,
Sullivan would declare that the con-
test had not been a fake.
He affirmed that he hoped that Bob
Fitzsimmons would reconsider his DE-
termination not to fight again and give
him another battle, but if Fitz would
not do his he would meet Gus Rubin.
whom he believes, lis entitled to the
second chance"
This response of Jeffries' was a bitter
dose for Corbett to swallow, and all the
bitterer because it was virtually Offering
to him the choice he had commended to
Fitzimmons when the later was trying
to get a match with Corbett. He then
old Fitz to fight Steve O'Donnell, and
that If he whipped him he (Corbett)
would consider his pretensions to a
match.
I reprobated this proposition then as
PARKER'0
HAIR 6AISAM
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