Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-28
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS.
It Looks Now Like a Big Crowd
 at the Coming Bouts.

dl luC OO4A1AAS 0OAtSs
 New Years Afternoon Will See Some
 Corking Good Battles-An the Con-
 testants in Shape for Good Battles
 Bob Fitzsimmons May Enter the
 Ring Again-Jeffries May Force Him
 to Meet Him.
 On the afternoon of New Years day at the Jacques Auditorium, before the National Athletic club. Young Peter Jackson of Baltimore and Jimmy Handler of Newark will meet ill 2O round contest at catch weights. Sport ing men hereabouts are exhibiting re markable interest in the bout. Past meetings between the pair have been replete with sensational incident and those who look for q lively argument will find one at this contest. The last time the men met at Trenton, the pat tie was so swift that the police had to stop the mill. Both are in fine condi- tiOn for a distance encounter. Char lie White. the noted referee, will ollie fate as judge, and Joe Humphreys will be the announcer. Sporting men will be present from all parts of the east. Two preliminaries, both of better quail ity than the usual offering, are on the card. Frank Hallett of New Haven will meet Young Heywood, the Brass City Kid. in 10 round event at 133 pounds. and Kid Westman of Bridge port and Kid Lee of Waterbury will furnish diversion in a 10.round contest at 1O5 pounds. First bout at 3 D. m. sharp. Tickets are now on sale at Harrington's cigar store.
 VIEWS OF ENGLISH CHAMPION.
 Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, who still holds the title of heavyweight cham pion of England, writes very inter- esting letter to a friend in this coun- try. Among other things he says: ''Kid Mccoy is the chief light among us, and Benton, who is his press agent, is making him (AIcCoy) very conspicu- Ous with all sorts of challenges to the English heavyweights. and particularly to myself. I accepted and have back ing to the extent of G500. but Mccoy failed to talk weight. so it's all off as far as I am concerned. I agreed to make it 15S ringside. He wants it catchweights, and as am not making any foolish matches 1t ended there. Yank Kenny has taken very we'll here by his physique. Kenny is weighing 225 pounds in condition, but he is un- able to use it as Jeffries. I am weigh ing about 157 pounds. Tommy West is here and had challenged all Eng land, without reply. He and 1 may meet before he returns, if he will take me on at 160; but I'm afraid he cannot do the weight l have plucked all the middle and heayyweights. and after I have gone through Kenny and Mckee yer will sail for the land of the Stars and Stripes, and hope to appear in Frisco on my return. Kid Broad was brought here by Mccoy and Benton. He was immediately matched with Jack Roberts, the featherweight cham pion, but a few days ago he skipped off to America, saying that he would only go one way, and that was the right one, so it seems the combination asked him to do otherwise. There are many other lesser lights here from America, and all seem to get a fairly good living The pusses are not extra large, but they come every few weeks, and any abstainer can keep going
 FITZSIAIAIoNS MAY FIGHT.
 tsRobert Bitzsimmens will fight againr' This was the statement made yesterday by person who stands very close to the Cornishman. When Cham pion James J. Jeffries arrives in town and hurls a challenge at Fitzsfmmons the lanky pugilist is expected to come out of his retirement and make match. FftZsimmons has been train- ing quietly for several weeks, and has made the remark more than once that he is the only man i'll the world who has chance to whip the big boiler maker A representative of one of tine boxing clubs in California has been talking with Fitz for some time past with the idea of inducing him to fight, and last night it was common talk among a select coterie of sporting men that Jeffries's challenge would be ac- cepted. The argument set forth in favor of a fight between Jeffries and F1tzsimmons is the big gate that it would undoubtedly draw. Fitz can insist on an even division of the purse or the gross receipts and make q pot of money, win or lose. He will also have an excellent opportunity of prov
 
 not in proper shape and was, perhaps; ''dopeds' as he insists. when the pres ent champion knocked him out at Coney Island more than two years ago. FitzsTmmons to-day believes that he can defeat Jeffries in signal fashion. It was only q year ago last summer that the Cornishman trained himself into superb condition and knocked out both Ruhlin and Sharkey inside of two weeks. Then he went after a match with Jeffries. whose manager had been talking fight. Jeffries, when it came right down to cases, would not sign articles Fitz proposed to knock him out inside of six rounds and said he would bet $10,OO0 on the side. But again the champion refused to make such a match on the ground that he did not have sufficient time to get himself fit Then Fitz announced his final re tirement from the ring.
 WILL FIGHT IN DENVER.
 Denver, Col, Dec 2S.-James J. lief fries will meet the winner of the Shar- key-Maher bout at Coliseum hall in either March 0r r,1.iI TVhau Iaffrfac