Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-22
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS.
The Referee of The Big Fight
 Explaining The Rules.

Men in Great Form for a Battle
 Tim Hurst Will Referee the McGov-
 ern and Corbett Bout.
 San Francisco, July 21.-The most talked of matter here in connection with the heavyweight championship battle between James J. Jeffries and Robert Fitzsimmons next Friday is the visit of Referee Graney to the training quarters of the Australian at Skaggs Springs. The result of the conference between officials and prin- cipaI seems conclusive to old ring goers that the coming battle will be squarely fought and that the best man will win.
 Nearly all patrons of prize fighting will agree that Fitzsimmons is prob ably the brainiest man who ever ap- peared within the ropes. He knows the Marquis of Queensbury rules thor oughly, and in his many battles in this country never was known to take an undue advantage of an opponent. Therefore, when Fitz says that Gra ney's ideas coincide with his own it means that great load has been lift ed from the Cornishman's mind, for he has a dread of Jeffries weight and hugging tactics.
 The gist of Graney's decision in re- gard to the fight is this: The men must live up to the rules under pain of disqualification. He will stand away from the men and will not rush in to part them, as is usually the case. When clinch occurs, if either man has his arms free, he is entitled to fight away, no matter how much the other fellow may be hugging. It is not right to hold with one hand and strike with the other, and it is not right to cling together for fifteen and twenty seconds. Directly clinch oc- CUTS and fighting stops, the order will be given to break. If either one is inclined to prolong a clinch the ref cree will follow him to his corner and give him fair warning. If he persists in ignoring instructions he will be dis qualified.
 Fitz began the wind-up of his train ing at the Olympic A. 0. yesterday af- ternoon. He has not gotten over the reception of Sunday, after his arrival from Skaggs Springs. It was not a brass band or a four horse barouche that touched him, but it was the mag nificent welcome of admirers in a city where he thought he had no support. He says he is as confident of beating Jeffries as he is. of living. When asked whether he is not surprised at the odds which are being offered, he replied:
 Not much. I thought Jeffries would be favorite, but that does not disturb me a bit. I guess he should be favorite, he has beaten me once, but I think they are making mistake in offering such odds. Betting cuts no figure. See. what the odds were when Corbett beat Sullivan, when lief fries beat me and when Young Corbett beat McGoyern. They were all 3 to 1 shots or worse, and yet they won Now keep your eye on my case, aanSl. see if another to 1 shot does not cop the long end of the purse"
 Jeffries' work yesterday was done in the gymnasium. After a long ex- ercise with the weights he had eight rounds of hard boxing with Jack lief fries and Joe Kennedy. To friend who was present he said:
 s'I'm fit to fight tomorrow or any time. I'm as strong, as fast and as active as I ever will be-
 Something new in regard to the. champions diet was brought out yes terday in q talk with Billy Delaney, Jeff's manager and trainer. This is. what the latter said:
 T have my own system of diet. Jeff never works on an empty stomach. For his breakfast he has tea and chops. He is very fond of coffee, but liquor does not agree with him when he is training, so he cuts it out. It makes him 1ogy' and units him for morning work, of which he does a great deal At luncheon he has a hearty meal, roast or the like and vegetables in plenty-peas, tomatoes, or whatever is in season. He washes his luncheon down with good sherry wine, of which he is very fond
 "For dinner he has good thick steak with onions, and, when he feels like it, a quart of wine. He winds up with pastry or ice cream, and this sort of diet is permissible until within twen- ty-four hours of the fight.'''
 There were many rumors around town yesterday that Mayor Schmitz would stop the big fight This report was largely due to the fact that the mayor has not yet signed the ordin- ance granting the San Francisco Ath- letic club permission to build a pavil- ion for the fight, and it will not be considered until Thursday night, which is only twenty-four hours before the fight. Even should he veto it the su- pervisors would pass the ordinance over his head. Mayor Schmitz when seen yesterday said he had no inten- tion of antagonizing the fight, but he proposed to be present. and if he dis covered anything showing a scheme to swindle the public with fake or hip podrome then he would interfere and prevent the fight. As everyone knows this is fight for blood, it may be safe ly said that the mayor will not inter fere. He is an athlete himself and has often attended fights and has no sentimental prejudice against square fight.
 New London, July 22.-Terry sMc- Govern and his retinue of trainers did not take up their quarters at the Mon tauk hotel as expected, when they ar rived here from New York at 6 o'clock,