The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
PRESS AGENTS ARE BUSY
JEFFRIEs SAID TO BE SUFFERING
WITH BLOOD POISONING.
1t IL Hardly Likely, However, that
the Big Fight Will BE Postponed
-Other Fight Gossip.

A pet bears bite on the calf of the leg
and the wound aggravated by Joe Kennedy
kicking II while playing handball is the
cause of much uneasiness to Champion
James Jeffries at present, according to the
latest advices from San Francisco, where
he has been training for his championship
fight with Corbett on Aug. IA. Jeffries has
been ordered to take rest until tomorrow
his physicians fear blood poisoning from
the wound. Jeffries did not want to quit,
but his physicians said If he continued his
training there would be danger of blood
poisoning setting in, which would cause a
postponement of the big fight and the
champion would lose his $500 forfeit.
Jeffries may be slightly injured, but 1t
is 10 to 1 that rine-tenths of it is press
agent talk. He has been reported as half
sick, with a lot Of strained muscles and
other ailments OF his lighting system. JEFF
fries never trained for a fight yet that his
press agents did not tell how his elbow,
or his arm tendons, or knee, had been
bunged up. and how really unfit for bruis-
ing battle JEFF would be. 1t is passing
strange that, II the champion is such a
mark for every floating ill. that he never
hand with the whacks that put away the
other fellow.
Corbetts press agent also reports that
his employer is showing marked nervous
ness and is entertaining. Corbett nervous
II Jim is nervous about anything it is over
a haunting fear that the gate receipts will
not be big enough to make the losers end
worth gathering.
They are setting out to overdo the fighting
game in California. Fierce wars between
the San Francisco clubs, which several
times brought the sport to the brink of ruin.
were ended by the police supervisors, who
divide the fight dates equitably, but with
iron strictness, among the rival promoters.
and so the game in San Francisco might go
on for years in safety Some of those who
can't break in, however, now announce that
across the bay, in San Mateo county, they
will construct a huge arena and will pull
off fights every week after their amphi-
theater is done. The natural finish can be
easily foreseen. 1t behooves everybody to
nurse the game in California now If Fort
Erie should be closed to the pugs. The
Canadian authorities, it Is said; have been
are besieging them with piteous walls and
various excuses are being found to shut
off Jack Herman and his people.
Jack Root continues to take life easy and
to study the pictures that tell the story of
his recent disaster. Root says he feels more
confident every time he sees those pic
lures that he can, and ultimately will, beat
Gardner. The pictures certainly save Jack
from having to make any excuses or apollo
gies to his friends. Those unerring films
show plainly enough to convince the most
doubtful that the man whom Gardner
trimmed was not the Root who slaughtered
Marvin Hart and Kid Carter and George
Gardner.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Robert Fitzsimmons, ex-champion heavy
weight pugilist of the world. and Miss JUL
ian May Clifford, the actress, were united in
marriage in San Francisco yesterday after
noon at the Palace Hotel, Justice of the