The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-26
JEFFRIES WAS
ONLY POOLING
let Monroe Stay Four Rounds to
Prolong the Fighting.
MAN WENT DOWN IL TIMES
Monroe Failed to Show Up in Helena
and Win the $1,000 Offered Him
for Another Trial.

Helena, Dec 23.-James j. Jeffriesl
made the following statement here
tonight relative to his celebrated
four round bout with Jack Monroe,
at Butte, Saturday:
In the first place, / want to say
that the Associated Press report sent
out from Butte that Monroe had me
going and that was down on one
knee is absolutely false. The situa-
tion was just this:
The first preliminary had lasted
less than two rounds. In the second
preliminary Fitzsimmons landed his
man in the first round. The final
bout between Fitzsimmons and my
self consumes about five minutes.
tering the ring for the contest with
Monroe to spread it out a little and
give the people their moneys worth.
"This was against Fitsimmons'
and my managers advice, but | did
not want to let the people go with
less than ten minutes actual fighting
for the whole evening, as many OF
them--had paid as much as SIS for a
seat.
"All I can say for Monroe is that
he displayed good genefalship in 60
ing down for the count at least IL
times during the four rounds. That
was all that saved him. I would have
Put him to sleep in the next round as
sure as | stand here. That Monroe
realizes this as well as / do is only
too plainly evidenced by the fact that
he failed to show up here tonight,
| where an offer of $1,000 awaited him
! to go four rounds with me and be on
his feet at the end of that time.
Fitzsimmons corroborated Jeffries'
statement in every particular: Il
| told Jeffries that it would do his rep
utation no good to let the man stay
| four rounds" said Fitzsimmons, and
| / told him that it would please the
crowd just as well to see Monroe
knocked out in apple-pie order as to
let him stay"
Asked if he intended to meet JEFF
fries in battle for the champions
ship, Fitzsimmons said:
II cannot state positively, but it is
not at all improbable. l am feeling
| splendidly, and the notion is apt to
strike me at any time to go out for
the honor. think I have better
| chance than any one else
| Fitzsimmons said that he would
bet $1,000 that either him or Jeffries
could put out Monroe in two rounds,
and he appeared particularly dis
pleased at Monroe's silence, especial
ly after such fiattering offers had
been made
"Why, if he thought he had a
chance against either of US said
the Cornishman, ''he would go after
| that 1000 like drowning man after
a straw. That's as much as he would
make in a mine in year. He knows
when he is we'll off and is going to
let it go at that
Butte, Dec. 23-Jack Monroe stated
tonight that he would not meet JEFF
fries:
my condition is wholly unfit al
the present time to fight successfully
any one, let alone Jeffries or Fitz
simmons" he said. II propose to de
vote myself diligently to training ant
in short while any one who wants
can challenge me-"
\ Jeffries and his manager are ap
parently determined to secure an
other go with the miner before the!
leave Montana, and it is said the for
felt will be increased to $4,000 if nee
essary.
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