The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-26
SPORTING NEWS.
Fitz Can Whip Any One Who
viii Stand Up.
Jef's CrOuching Blocks BOb's
FaE0rite Blow.
BRADY FOOLED ROBERT
COnned the COrnishman Into
His First Defeat.
Hid McCOy Might Have a Chance
With Jeffries.
BRADY FOOLED ROBERT

Cincinnati June 2s--A special dis
patch 10 the Commercial Tribune from
Right Cross says.
Whatever Robert Fitzsimmons may
think ABOUT himself. there are good rea-
sons for doping him as a loser to the
champion, Jim Jeffries, when the Two
meet In the ring.
That they VIII clash is pretty certain,
as they are out for the kopecs and that
is the only way they can gather them
Jeffries told me himself In the dressing
room Of the Grand opera house, when
he was playing The Man From the
West" that H'itz could lick any man IN
the world who would stand up straight
to hiuu
And that is the sole reason that JEFF
fries hangs on to the championship.
Fitz cant reach his middle works. And
unless the freckled proposition from
Bensonhurst can get his shift to that
particular spot, there is seldom anything
doing for him
Billy Brady, the wisest thing that ever
catered to the amusement Of the crowd
framed up the job to take the cham
pi0nship away from Fitzsinmons. he
dug I'D JeffrieS and taught him how to
fight He told him all about the then
champions methods in the ring, meth
DDS with which Brady was thoroughly
familiar. He showed Jeffries how 10
crouch so that his stomach would be
too far away from the swinging rips
home the money. He told him to stick
out his hefty left paw and showed him
how to work continuous jab, knowing
full well that the red-headed one can
not STOP q straight left except with his
ace.
And Brady made a match with Bob
Armstrong the negro. who IS at best
only a third-rater, and coached Jeffries
Just to win, but to make a poor show
ing Brady sent EftzsimmOns q present
of a box at the ringside to witness this
fight. Fftz saw it. and he didn't think
much of Jeffries. A few days after
ward Brady approached F'itz- and asked
him IL he would fight his man Jeffries.
E'itz laughed at him
What for2" asked the champion
w here does he get of? Let him go
and get a reputation"
But" whispered the willy Mr.. Brady,
you're in this business for money. Now.
suppose JEFF is an easy proposition. III
give you 65 per cent Of the net-wins
lose or draw"
And Fitz fell.
The result is pugilistic history. F'itz-
simmons, holding Jeffries cheap, took
little trouble to prepare himself for the
battle, and when the Westerner's heavy
left paw landed on his chops in the
second round there was a transfer of
the championship. True, the fight con-
tinued for more rounds but after F'itz
went down on the end of his spine in
the second he knew no more of how or
why he was fighting
Now, there is a man, and the only
one, for reasons which I will set forth,
who can lick Jeffries- And it may
seem a startling statement when name
the man=Kid Mccoy
That a stripping like Mccoy, who can
not take a punch, would beat Jeffries,
does seem, On its face, an absurd pro
position But
All followers Of things scrapatoriai
viii admit that the two cIeverest men
in the ring are Kid Mccoy and Jim
Corbett. Mccoy is a shade the cleverer
with his hands and Corbett a shade the
cleverer with his feet. Now, Corbett
went twenty-three rounds with Jeffries
at Coney Island. He hit the big grizzly
from the Pacific slope whenever and
wherever he pleased, but he never
budged him. He didn't even muss his