Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-04
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS.
Fifth of the Articles Between
 Sharkey and Munroe.

Match will Probably Take Place at
 Butte-Kid Mccoy and Jack Root
 Will Face Each iOther-Jack O'Brien
 After Fitzsimmons Jim Corbett
 Signed Articles Yesterday.
 New York, Feb Alt was settled yesterday at meeting at downtown office that Tom Sharlzey is to be JACK Munroe,s next opponent i'll the prlze ring. Sharkey met Munroe and the latter,s manager, Clark Ball, and with ont the usual fistic pyrotechnics match was ratified. The contest IS to be decided either next June or July, before the club offering the best incen- tive. From present indications Butte. Mon, where Munroe spent the better part of his career, Will pc tne scene of the conflict. Immediately after the Anaconda miners essay With Tim Jeffries, which brought him prom inently before the public, q club III Butte offered a purse of $20,000 for the scrap in the event of Sharkey agreeing to fight. The club at the time wanted to hold the contest on July 4, which in all probability will be the date finally chosen.
 The articles of agreement, which have been signed, stipulated that the mill is to be for twenty rounds at catchweights. for the best purse pro- curabIe. March is the date agreed upon to consider bids, and all clubs de sirous of holding the mill must have their proposals in by that time. Shar- dfNE fnsA A week ago, when he formally issued challenge to the miner, and Munroe E S2. 800 was placed in the hands ofNthe temporary stakeholder before the lnk on the articles was scarcely dry. The conditions are straight Marquis or Queensberry rules the purse to be dl- vided on a basis of 75 and 25 per cent. the victor naturally to secure the big gest slice of the purse money.
 Munroe says that he prefers to meet Sharlxey at Butte rather than any where else. He said: sThe scrap can be held on June IA, the miners holiday, or on July A." Sharkey says that anywhere will suit him as long as there will be no Interference and he gets the best inducement Sharkey is fast rounding into fighting form.
 When Sharkey heard that Corbett had signed. to meet Jim. Jeffries he de clared: sssIf Jeffrfes fails to go against Corbett will fight Pompadour Jim either after or before my fight with Munroe."
 A referee for Sharkey's encounter with Munroe is to be chosen a month before the fight comes off.
 Jack Herman, matchmaker of the In ternational A. O, of Fort Erie, yester day, in addition to trying to bring about fight between Jim Jeffries and Jim Corbett, ratified a scrap between Jack Root and Kid Mccoy. Articles of agreement were signed by Mccoy to fight Root before the club for a purse Of $5,000 on March Is. Root subscribed his name some time ago and the delay in bringing the pair together was owing to the selection of 3 date. They are to box twenty rounds at catchweights. Each man has posted $1 ,000 as forfeit After making the match Herman looked up George Gardner of Lowell and secured his au- tograph to an agreement to meet Mo Coy four weeks later before the same club. Gardner defeated Root last yummer at Salt Lake City.
 Jack O'Brien of Philadelphia is wrought up over the proposal of Fitz- simmons to stop him in four rounds O'Brien has posted forfeit with Al Smith to meet the Cornishman O'Brien, however, wants the mill to be limited to twenty or twenty five rounds, and suggests taht the weight be at the middleweight limit, 15S