The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-23
FIGHT WILL BE LATE.
v,t,-Jenries Bout viii Begin at
,iduiGht savannah Time.

Midnight savannah Time.
,,-,i,e the interest IN the JeTries-
,,..zsinomons fight is strong. Savan-
snorts are not keyed up in their
..i,ament to the pitch that they have
he'd on former occasions, when
considered more evenly matched
80 been about to meet in the ring.
-, there has been even money Of
e..e5 each mans chances have been
sought equal, and the interest. there
t,rs has been greater. Fitzsimmons,
.,oneb has strong odds offered
ooainst him, and the popular belief
: that Jefferies has rather an easy
hing in store for him.
The fight will begin, or is supposed
., begin. at o'clock, San Francisco
time. which is midnight by Savannah
lime AS a matter of fact, it will
probably begin later, so that no bulle-
I'm service can be given by the Morn
ing News, which has always en-
daavored to accommodate the sport
,oving public with advance reports of
tbe great fistic contests. When they
have been pulled off east of the Rock
los arrangements have been made Cor
q stereopticon display or megaphone
announcements, and there have al
WAYS been large crowds to gather to
follow the progress of the fights The
telephones, too, have been kept busy,
and many inquiries of the Office have
been made. On Friday night, however,
savannah will be abed before the
Frisco fight starts.
What would F'itzsimmons do with
the championship if he won it? He
is too old to defend it for very long,
and would probably not care to de-
fend it. He could not hang on with
out making a defense. The only man
who could take it up would be Jeff
res.
A close follower of fighters express
ed himself as follows the other
day: 'Fitz' is in this fight for the
advertisement he can get out of it.
He is running a physical culture
school, and it does not hurt him to
keep his name before the public He
realizes that if defeated he will be
no worse off than he is at the present
time; that a draw with Jeffries would
place him on equal footing with the
champion and that victory would
mean a fortune, aside from what he
would win in the fight. On such a
basis he has nothing to lose"
There seems to be some sense in
the statement. 1t gives Fitzsimmons
all the more reason for making the
fight of his life, and insures that
the contest which is soon to take place
will be for not only what it brings
for the present, but what it carries
for the future.
With the fight so near at hand it
may be worth while to repeat some
of the articles of agreement. The
main items are as follows:
That the purse shall be divided, go
per cent to the winner and 40 per cent.
to the loser.
That the contest shall be of twenty
rounds duration.
That the contestants shall be per-
mitted the use of soft surgical band
ages. subject to the inspection of the
referee.
That each contestant shall furnish
his own gloves, subject to the inspec-
ton of the referee.
That the moving picture privilege
shall become the entire and absolute
property of the winner of the contest.
The provision regarding the furnsh7
ing Of gloves was inserted by F'itz-
simmons, who can do his best with
certain glove to fit hand which
has a peculiar formation about the
knuckles AS to the moving pictures
"Fitz' has baked on having them
taken and there will probably be no
Photographic record of the fight.