Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-30
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS.
Report of Fake Fight Came from
 an Amateur Fortune Teller.

 A Woman Told Jeffries and News
 paper Writer He, Would Win in the
 Eighth-This Was the Source of
 Information That the Fight Was
 Fixed Mayor of San Francisco
 Drops the Investigation-Y Young
 Corbett Searching for Quarters.
 San Francisco, July 30.--It seems that fortune telling by cards IS the real source of the charge of fake maue against F'itz in the recent fight Wlth Jeffries. A woman living in fashlon- able hotel was the cause of it all. She was a guest of Harbin Springs for h few days while Jeffries was tralnlnS there. One evening after the champlen had concluded his daily exercise ana was waiting for bedtime, this woman proposed that she tell his fortune Dy cards The big fighter shuffied the pack, then cut them into three plles with his left hand. The woman LOOK the cards and laid them out on the table in mysterious order. She told lllDu uG WOulu SGL HIS WISH NY WAhAah7 the fight. Then the card came that, according to the fortune-telling s.Astem, portended luck, and immediately after it came an eight spot. You will win in the eight round,' the amateur for tune teller declared After that the cards were put away and it became the popular belief about the training camp that the champion would win ill the eighth round. A few days before the fight this woman met the Examiner reporter, whom she had met in the east and knew well, and told him she had been at Harbin Springs and that while there she had learned Jeffries was to win in the eighth round. She told him plainly the source of her in information, so the story that this re- port came from any compact between the fighters was pure invention. Mayor Schmitz last night refused to hold all investigation of Nthe charges made against Fitzsimmons. The general re- port is that the Examiner could not bolster up it's charge by legal proof and the mayor decided to help the paper by calling off the inquiry.
 Young Corbett spent good part of the day yesterday in looking for a site 
 choice farms in Windsor, East Hart. ford and West Hartford but did not come to any decision. It is possible that he will return to his former quar- ters in Anderson's gymnasium. Cor bett is in much better shape than when he started to train for his first cham pionship battle and he will not have any severe work to do. The champion called upon q number of his acquaint- ances yesterday and to all he said he was glad to return to Hartford. He said he liked it here very much and 1t reminded him more of Denver than any city he had ever been in. The cham pi0n paid his respects to Chief Ryan at the police station and has long con versation with him. From an account sent out from Bridgeport it would seem that Terry McGovern and his | manager are at their wits ends to keep the former champion before the public It was said that John T.. Sullivan visit ! ed the McGovern camp at Stratford at an early hour and kicked over a box containing a wildcat. The wildcat at l tackled John L., and the big fellow was getting cut up when McGovern rescued him. This is little worse than the story of McGovern's automobile acci- dent in this city last fall McGovern wanted to start the bicycle races in l Bridgeport Sunday for S75. He could | have had the job for $5 but the track managers smiled when the prohibitive 1 figure was mentioned.
 l Buffalo, N. Y. July 30.-Manager l Hermann of the International Athletic l club of Fort Erie, last night received a telegram from Tommy Ryan of Kansas City, accepting terms for q 20 round bout on September 15 with Kid Garter of Brooklyn.
 On last Saturday, the day before he met Jimmy Handler, Kid Carter boxed 21 hard rounds with Kid Me- Partland, the former lightweight, at his training quarters at Fort Erie. Neither man, it is said, showed the ef- fleets of the hard work done.
 Joe Cans has left San Francisco for Baltimore. Al Herford, his manager, however, will stay on the coast with 1 Young Peter Jackson, whom he wants to match against California's cham Ipion lightweight, Jimmy Britt.
 Negotiations are in progress for a match between Joe Cans, the light weight champion pugilist, and Gus Gardner of Philadelphia. Cans back CTS say that the prize money must be divided as follows: Seventy-five per cent to the winner and 20 per cent to the loser.
 Young Erne outclassed Kid Sullivan in a six round bout at the National A. O., Philadelphia, on Monday night. Un. fortunately no decisions are allowed in the Quaker City.
 Instead of battling at a regularly organized club, Jack Hamilton of Troy , and s.Whitey' Lester of Philadelphia will box 20 rounds at 133 pounds on August in private.