The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-21

Special Correspondence OF The Sunday Republic.
New York. April l9.-There was nothing
doing of a decisive character last week IL
the proposed championship match between
big jim Jeffries and Gus Rubin. There Is
only one place at present where such &
contest can be pulled off. and that is Sal
Francisco. and as the supposed rival {?
boxing clubs there. the National and TIT
Twentieth Century, as / have already init
mated. are practically under one manage
/anent. there Will be no bidding for it Until
: the men and their managers modify their
I. exalted ideas of the monetary worth oil
: such a contest. If it is brought about at al
the men will probably scrap for an equal
division Of the gate receipts.
1 hear that those in authority, in The
management of the clubs. are of the opin-
ion that the men should accept as their
share of the gate half of the net receipts
of the house. To put it plainly. the ex-
penses of getting up the show to be de-
Quoted from the gross receipts and the re-
mainder to be divided half to the club and
half to the fighters. they to subdivide their
share between them as they agree.
These terms are not very attractive to
the fighters. but they must either accept
them. or. in the parlance of the stage. re-
main lat liberty" all summer. Mean
while expenses run on.
Kid Mccoy has. figuratively speaking.
been daring any of the big fellows to tread
on the tail of his coat, but none of them
appear ANXIOUS to soil his garment with
their shoe dust. and 1t may be that he may
have TO cross the herring pond and tackle
George ChriSp, the new English heavy
weight champion. who has already received
q challenge from George Gardner. There
might be some glory to be gained in such
a contest. but there certainly wouldn't be
much money for the National Sporting
(~1,,h u,o,,l5 l,ordlx- nFfor rnnra than f501 for
such a contest. Even If the arrangement
was winner take all. and Mccoy was to be
the victor. there wouldn't be much money
for him after training expenses had been
deducted and Tom O'Rourke's share had
been taken out.
AFrom hints 1 have heard l am under the
Impression tina Mccoy is not overly pleased
with the failure OF his manage to obtain
q match for him. He is certainly a hard
man to manage. 1 feel sure that O'Rourke
has done everything In his power to pit
him against a good man. A few weeks will
tell some tales l think.
1t looks as though the go between Tom
Sharkey and big Fred Russell, which is to
come off shortly in Denver, will be q red
hot affair. II Russell doesn't prove to be
a big, strong, powerful novice. with little
skill to back him, he ought to give Sharkey
q fight that he won't forget for a month Of
Sundays.
II Russell is only a big novice the Sailor
should go through him like the ten COM
maldments through a Sunday school. There
is still talk of Sharkey being pitted against
Paddy Slavin. in. far-off Alaska. on. the
Fourth OF July.
Such a match ought to be a big thing
from a monetary point of view for the
promoters of the affair. but unless Slavin
has found in the frigid North something
OF the regeneration that Ponce de Leon
sought In vain. Sharkey ought to defeat
him jiS time.
Ten years ago Slavin was one of the
most husky men the ring ever produced,
but his fight with Peter Jackson In Lon
don took a great deal of steam out Of him.
Then in training here for a bout with
ligaments of his back and 1 doubt IL he
is now within 80 per cent of being the man
he was when he fought Jem Smith.
When Jackson went to London he was
made much Of not only. by the swells OF the
world. but also by the white sirens
OF the English demi-monde. He went the
pace" in the British metropolis. and soon
fell into bad habits.
4When I was managing Wilson Barrett,
The famous English actor. his treasurer was
great adrnirer Of jackson. While they were
In ST. Louis he and jackson knocked around
together a good deal. One day he told me
he had kept tab on Jackson's rotations dur
ing the previous night. He told me G, the
vast quantities of champagne. mixed with
brandy. that Peter had imbibed and how he
had topped OF, shortly before retiring. by
drinking half a dozen bottles Of Bass's ale.
No mans stomach could stand this long |
unless 1t was cOpper-lined. jackson had q |