Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-12

shape about seven o'clock this morn
ager, Billy Madden, at Bay Ridge.
There he spent the day explaining his
defeat to several admirers who called
Barring slight bruise over the Left
eye Fitzsimmons looked none the
worse. After the battle he went to the
Bartholdi hotel, where he met his
wife. Fitzsimmons arose early to-day
in good spirits and remarked to some
friends that he guessed he had demon
strated that he was long way from
being has BEEN
James j. Jeffries, champion heavy
weight of the world, to-jey issued an
open letter in which he says he is anx-
ious to give Fitzsimmons and Sharkey
each another chance for the champion
snip belt before September /, and
states that he proposes TO do it.
With Rubin, who was the logical
candidate for a championship battle,
out Of tie way, four men are left who
might want a battle with Jeffries-
Fitzsimmoas, Sharkey, Corbett and
Mccoy. ALI of these are matched, their
money is posted, and not one of them
would allow the other to break his an-
gagement and fight the champion,
Jeffries, In his letter, says that when
he fought Fitzsimmons, the latter's
manager forced him to give Fitzsim-
mons 65 per cent of the purse, win or
lose, and in order to obtain the chance
he agreed to this. Since then. he says
he held that he is entitled to similar
division if he agreed to meet him
again.
In his letter, he says:
IF Fitzsimmons will meet me before
September /, will agree that the win
rer take all. or that the purse be d.
vided, rs per cent to the winner and 20
per cent to the loser.
IF he claims that 1t would not be
justice to Sharkey to declare the pre-
sent match off between him and the
sailor, l will then make a somewhat
novel proposition. l will fight both
FitZsimmons and Sharkey before Sep
TENDER /, Fitzsimmons first, on or
about August rs, and Sharkey, August
81. This proposition is made with the
view of giving Fitzsimmons the chance
he claims he wants to reclaim the
championship, and not to do Sharkey
any wrong by shutting him out of his
chance to battle for the title. If by
Tuesday | have received no favorable
answer from Fitzsimmons, l shall stop
training and refuse to meet any one
until on or about June, 1901. If Eitz-
simmons should meet me on August
rs, will waive my match with Sharkey
to him and in this way 1T can be very
pleasantly shown who is the cham
pfon."
NEW YORK, August 11.--When told of
the statement made by Jeffries that ne
would like to arrange fight with Fitz-
simmons and Sharkey, Fitzsimmons said
Tonight:
'Jefries is the one man in the world
would like 70 meet and bea.. / fought
him when ne was but fourth-class man.
Luck was his way at the time and he
whipped me. 1 should like very much to
accommodate Jeffres with fight and
feel confident it would be quite Impossible
to do so before September l. haze post
ed $500 to meet Tom Sharkey, On the
night of August rs. Next Tuesday it ~
be decided before which club we meet /
feel confident of beating Sharkey, and If
come out OF the fight as clean as I did
in my fight with Rubin, shall be pleased
to meet Jeffries before September /, in
this city, allowing him to dictate terms,
he to take So per cent. win or lose if he
Is afraid to meet me on the basis of the
winner to take all. l know l can beat
him. He is good man. but the victory
over me at Coney Island was the result
OF luck. l shall again be champion of the
world"