Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-23
FIGHTS ..lND FIGHTERS.
The Big Fight More Certain To- Day than at any Other Time.

The Building Is Being Prepared and Everything Will Be in Readiness for
 the Affair-John l.. Sullivan Has a
 Pocket Edition of Himself as a Fighter-Fitzsimmon Theatrical
 Route Takes Him to Carson City
 Mccoy Is Ashore on the Pugilistic
 Reef-McGovern and Dave Sullivan
 to Clash - Sharkey aud Maher
 Matched.
 Cincinnati, O., Jan 23.--Jeffries be- gan tralnlng at the frice hiIi house yesterday Tor his go With kuhun at the Saengerfest hall here on Feuruary l5.
 The Saengerfest board yesterday announced tnat the contracts for re- modelling the hall would be awarded to-day. The box tickets for the con test arrived yesterday and will be put on sale to-day.
 It is said the Reform league and the Ministers alliance will make no appeal to the law against the prize night un.- the arrangements for the affair are all completed, so no surprise can He sprung in defense and no difficulty encountered to prove that prize fight is in all probability contemplated.
 The program includes the arrest of the principals, their packers and connected with the matter. Judge Da- wis. how sitting in the criminal court, will be asked to issue the, warrants.
 This judge has charge of the grand jury, so that any evasion Of the prom ise under bond would readily come to his judicial attention in connection with the grand jury.
 Jefries, who is here to finish his training, said yesterday: T now weigh about 215 pounds and am in condition to enter the ring at this moment. l shall certainly retain the championship of the world when the bout is finished. It will not be prize fight, but a scientific boxing contest l believe the opposition to the fight comes from a misunderstanding of the case and it will be overcome.''
 How long do you expect the contest | to laStT' he was asked.
 That is hard to answer, but dc not believe it will go the limit
 SULLIVAN'S POCKET EDITION Somebody asked John l.. Sullivan re gently what he thought of Terry Me Govern as a pocket edition of him self" The former champion of the world thought a moment and theI said: ''Terry'll do. He goes after his men just as John l.. used to do. Doesn't waste any time fiddling and f"ssine l er1o &a h, I. right in to do em quick That's the ! proper way to fight if you're on the level. Whats the use of trying to be fancy? It is bad business because some time the other fellow is liable tt cop you on the jaw when you're look ing at the crowd and out you go. Ter " likes to fight and he can punch That's what 1 used to do when I was good. He believes the only way tt beat a man is to knock him cold witt crack on the jaw-the only place tt hit a fellow when you want to stoI him. Terry's kid yet, but when ht grows up he'll be great man. Hi' habits are better than mine were, fol he don't hit the old stuff and he save: his coin. That's where he shows he! got sense, for some day when he's olt like me- he'll need the dough-. No body's going to hand it to him then you can bet on that. Of all the fight CTS before the public to-day Terry i the best and squarest. I'm fond of tn boy because he's worked his way iron nothing and hasn't got a swelled head He knows how to behave himself ant you never hear of him in stree brawl. Anybody who ever says tha McGOvern is guilty of faking mus not make the crack in my presence for l won't stand for it. Yes, l shoul' say that Terry is pocket edition o John L., only he's an improvement ol the original. If Sullivan could live hi life over again he'd do what littl Terrys doing now"
 BOB GOING TO CARSON.
 Bob Fitzsimmons, who is the at traction in the Star theater, New York this week, persists that he has abaI doned the ring forever. but accordln to a ro1ta inst laid ont Dy his mana