Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-29
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
Echoes From The Corners Of
 The Boxers.

4u0 DOA0TSs
 Tommy Ryan and Bob Fitzsimmons
 May Come Together-Is Kid Parker
 Talking Through His Hat Joe
 Choynski and Kid Mccoy to Face
 Each Other Again-Jimmy Barry,
 Former Bantam Champion, Is a
 Wreck.
 San Francisco, Jan 2o-Is Kid Par ker, the Denver pugilist, who is matched to fight Jimmy Britt, de ranged? The question is being an swered in the affirmative. Shortly after he appeared in this city he said:
 five come up here to make a match with Jimmy Britt. I don't want any second or third raters in mine. I'm after the championship and am nego tiating for battles with Britt and Cans. don't care great deal which I take on first but if fgnI Cans and beat him then will let Britt wait for match"
 sHow much do you weighg' was asked.
 q now scale 15G pounds in my clothes. A short time ago. was up to 176. Then I commenced to train and am now down twenty pounds. l can get down to 122. That was the weight I went into tha ri1l~ a+ wFsn,s strong. I have a friend in Denver who went a third of last year i'll ab- stinence. He lasted all the way from two to twenty-five days.
 tsThe peculiar thing about his ex- perience is that he lost no weight During the twenty-five days he ab- stained from food he dropped away just two pounds. Any man loses that amount during a single night I am living on his system and do my train- ing on one spare meal a day. exist by eating concentrated foods. At 3 o'clock I swallow few pellets like marbles, and they do me for twenty four hours. You have no idea of the strength they contain.
 Tn the morning get up and run eighteen to twenty miles on the road and come back without sperspiring. I've got myself down to such perfection that can now outwork all pugilists and not feel the exercise take in the least.'
 Twenty fast and furious rounds was the result of the meeting between Al Neill, the San Francisco welterweight and Billy Woods, the Los Angeles ne gro. Billy Madden was the referee, and his decision of draw was gener ally approved.
 Soldier" Tom Wilson, who assisted in training Bob Fitzsimmons for his battle with Jim Jeffries, has been mus tered out of the army and returned to San Francisco in search of pugilistic engagements. He will take on any man, but prefers a bout with Jack MGnroe.
 For the purpose of creating more in- terest in the battle between Harry Forbes and Andy Tokell, the skillful Brfton, for the bantamweight cham pionship of the world, the management of the West End A. C. of St Louis has engaged Charley White to referee the twenty round bout on February 26.
 One of the toughest fights in west ern prize ring annals took place in Jackson, Mich, on Tuesday night be tween Tommy Mowatt of Chicago and Kid Hermann of Rochester 1t was billed for twenty rounds, but in the tenth Hermann said he was kneed in the stomach and was unable to con- tinue. The referee called the bout off and reserved his decision.
 On the strength of his record inst pnfnys MnH 41o o@J1 .l,4 in Philadelphia, Joe Choynski has re eeived number of tempting offers, all of which except one he has cast aside. He has contracted to meet Kid Mccoy again in a six round bout in Philadelphia on February Is, the men to receive SO per cent of the gross re ceipts. Choynski is confident 1hat he can reverse fhA result of their pre- vious bout 1T have been fighting nineteen years,' said the Californian to a. number of friends the other day "and in all that tfme I never have been sick. I consider that due to the fact that never drank a drop of lia. uor in my life, never chewed or smoked and always kept good hours I think can fight for many more years
 To those people who know Jimmy Barry, the former bantamweight cham pion of America, the following article that has been travelling the rounds will appear extremely humorous @Since 1899 Barry has been making his home in San Francisco and is training there in anticipation of $ match with some first class bantam. weight. He now weighs 122 pounds and he expects to have no trouble il getting down to 115 pounds with a few weeks hard work The fact is, thC little fellow is physical wreck. H, is now stopping at Blanken's roat house in the suburbs of San Francisco and weighs 100 pounds or less.
 A twenty round bout between Bol Fitzsimmons and Tommy Ryan f quite probable. Ryan, a few day ago. issued a challenge to meet Fitz simmons and now the ex-champioI has announced his intention of accept ing. Fitz, who is in Topeka, said yes terday that he was ready to box Ryal for a purse and side bet of $10,OO0 a any time within six months Tn re ply to this Ryan authorized his back CT to post forfeit for the bout Tn, money will probably be deposited to dar will fo1,f fo1. No,,v1 1.oo