Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-10
THE PUGILIsTs.
Clubs Offering Big Purses for
 Gardner and Fftzsimmons

Clubs Offering Big Purses for
 Gardner and Fftzsimmons
 It Will Be One of the Greatest Battles
 in History-Root Dissatisfied and
 Says He Was Fouled Repeatedly
 Dave Sullivan After Corbett.
 Chicago, July 1O.-George Gardner is to take Bob Fitzsimmons as his model in the ring He is to follow in the footsteps of the lanky Australian, seeking in time tthe-heayyweight cham piDnship as well as the title he now holds.
 'I challenge the winner of the Jef- fries- Corbett fight df by that time find gDy weight increasing enough to warrant it. I whipped Hart, real heavyweight, and think can score on Jeffrfes with just a little more avoirdupois to my credit"
 Did George Gardner repeatedly foul Jack Root in dheir great fight in Buff falo?
 Root has set up the claim that Gard her did-that he repeatedly struck in the clinches and this may have had some bearing on the final result Gardner denies the charge Both fighters will attend the first exhibition of the moving pictures of the fight Fri day night. They will occupy seats side by side and as the pictures are thrown on the canvas will decide whether or not thera was fouling done
 The two big fellows decided on this unique way of settling their difference of opinion.
 You accused me. I see, said Gard ner to Root, ''of fighting in the clinch- es ''>
 ''Yes," retorted Root, ssand the pie turesSwill prove this to be a fact. You landed repeatedly after we were locked.'i
 Well, Jack" said Gardner. sswe,ll go and see the pictures together and if they show me foaIing I'll give YOU my Share of the gate receipts
 The exhibition will be given in a downtown theater and waIl be private only the members of the press and a few friends of the fighters being ad- mitted
 San Francisco, July 10--James J CorDett and Billy Delaney. the latter actlng for Jefries, have agreed upon EdWard Graney as the referee for the heavyweight championship fight. to take place here August IA.
 John T.. Sullivan is hoping to open his Bowery saloon some time during the month. Meantime he appears nervous at the delay of carpenters and fixtures men. He drifted in yesterday at the Hotel Bartholdi. where he met few friends and spent an hour or so drinking lemonade and chewing the end of an immense Havana cigar. sTo- day.. he said, lis the fifteenth annfver- sary of my fight at Richburg, Miss, with Jake Kilrain. Gee, but it was hotter than blazes, the sun shining more fercely than it is now" and he glanced at the sidewalk and looked at men passing with coats and hats off. Then I was yours truly Now I'm about a nickels worth of lard. But I am far from being 'all in I've got friends. I've got health I've got a bed under which I can throw my shoes, and I've got prospective business that may help some. While I was eating fried chicken this morning I thought of an eating contest had down at Purvis. Miss, with Colonel J. J. Shan non. then postmaster at. Meridian. That happened while my trial was going on. The little ! hotel afforded nothing but chicken and coffee for breakfast: coffee and chicken for din her and chicken and coffee for supper Shannon had come down for no other F4{ IT ', longest. .tallest, thinnest man ever saw. His feet were like the shafts of buggy and his stomach capacity had no limit. We sat at the same table three times a day chawing away on chicken. .'One day Jim Neville the prosecuting attorney. saw the two of us at the chicken table and he made 3 book that could out-eat the Meridian postmaster. He was willing, and the following day. at supper. we com l menced. By 9 o'clock I had showed l fifteen of the fowl down my throat, l while Shannon baked at the eighth. | Then he was counted out. You say Jim Neville is judge down in that l district?r he asked of Tim Dealy, who before him if I had done anything \ dRdIuSL# LuO ldWS Ol t1AC SLlAtCs AAS' l socked it to me good and plenty. But at that my bar is open to him if he comes to New York"
 The attendance at the contest be- l tween Jack Root and George Gardner at Fort Erie last Saturday afternoon was large and the receipts amounted to over S12OOO. it is said.
 The light between Kid Garter and Young Peter Jackson. which was to have been held at Butte next week, has been called off. The two men could not come to a definite arrange ment as to the division of the purse. l Kid Lav1gne is at present in Paris. | The former lightweight champion, who speaks and understands French thoroughly. is running boxing school there. The Kid writes that he is getting along nicely and making plenty of money.