The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-03-16
CONFIDENT OF WINNING
Preparations For the Approaching International Yacht Race-The Jeffries-Ruh1en Mill-Interesting Gossip Concerning the Noted Plugs of the Country.

III all Pl lODaolllty JShilCS dllu NuIiIlll will fight the championship battle in San Francisco-that is, if it is pull ed off at all. Of course, if the fighters sn elect they can meet in Ne5"da Ut the financial features of he 'nlll will preclude its taking place lere. ! he railroad facilities are poor nd all Of the audience would have 70 oe ! light across the continent, for the popula, ton of Nevada, as every me ktCWs, is so small that it only costs abCdt SIC, coo to put in legislature to llme any particular candidate fo i the United States senate.
 San Francisco has seen several large fights, and the attendance of Calfor- nans at all of them was all that could be expected. At the present time the bubonic plague scare has quarantincd the whole state, and it will be a long while before this precautionary measure will be lifted. On this account it will be several months before the Jeffries- Ruhlin mill can take place, as far as San Francisco is concerned. In th' meantime both of the principals arc with their theatrical companies starring the country.
 Charley Mitchell has come over from England and is after Corbett' ; scalp When interviewed in New York recently he sad
 ''I came here on a pleasure trip" he said No, have made no definite ar engagements, but will probably remain ill the country three months. 1 know only this: l shall remain in New York a few weeks, and shall go to Calfor- na, where l have relatives
 Do you intend to enter the Amerl- can ring?"
 No" he answered, smiling, "at least l have no such intentions at the pres ent time, but l am not averse to a scrap'-and here he smiled more broadly "I might possibly be induced to take on a fight if the offer was made I should not object to fighting Corbett In fact, 1 should dearly love to have a fight with Corbett l might take on others if satisfactory arrange ments were made"
 Preparations on mammoth scale are making to turn out a defender 10 meet Shamrock II. in the international yacht race, to occur this fall. The New York syndicate which built the Colrm bia has engaged the Hereshoffs , build defender, and it is expected l.u the result will be the crowning achieve ment of the blind wizard of Bristol. who is in many respects the greatest ot yacht designers Boston, which pro duced Burgess, designer of the Puritan, Mayhower and Volunteer, has eau gut the fever, formed a syndicate, and B B. Crowninshield, a very clever 'l. promising designer has already mod e out, which experts pronounce ind. cative of fast craft. Since the Van kees departed from the centerboaI idea, which was wholly American, the international races have lost much of their dstinctiveness. It is now a clear proposition of spending money and de veloping racing machines.
 Terry McGovern announces that he will abandon the stage and stick to fighting after April 6.
 Buzz Auber of Wheeling and Pert Jackson of Sistersville, w. Va, fought To rounds to draw at Sistersville re gently.
 John L. Scholes, the amateur ieath- erweight boxing champion of Canada, England and United States, has retired from the game.
 Tom Sharkey has accepted the ch;.l- lenge issued by Joe Choynski The contest took place at the Louisville Athletic Club on March 9.
 There is some chance of a Io-round contest between Eddie Santry of Chi cago and Young Corbett of Denver 0 take place in the Colorado city