The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-11
Will Meet at Mechanics Pa.
viliOn, Frisco, Aug. IL.
NUMBER OF ROUNDS, 20
Fighters Share of Purse 20 Per
Cent of Gross Receipts.
Marquis of Queensberry Rules,
Twenty-four Foot Ring.
Time of Entering Ring 9:15
Coast Time, ii O'clock Here.

San Francisco, Aug. 11.-Jeffries and
Corbett will meet at Mechanics pavil-
ion, San Francisco, Friday night, Au-
gust IA. to battle for the title of heavy
weight champion of the world. Already
both men are in perfect condition, and
could step into the ring at days
notice were it required of them. JEFF
fries will leave Hardin Springs within
a few days and take up his quarters in
Oakland, where he will finish his train
ing. Corbett is tapering off in his work
at Rolls Garden, in Alameda, and is do
ing just enough to keep himself in
fighting trim. Having developed his
muscle and greater punching ability
with gym apparatus, he is now sparring
occasionally with Tommy Ryan toregain
what speed he has lost in the process
1t is now considered more than likely
that Ryan will be Corbett's chief second
at the fight, though nothing definite
has yet been arranged. In addition he
will probably have in his corner Yank
Kenney, Sam Berger and Prof. Dare.
Jeffries has not expressed his desires
in the matter as yet. but will probably
be assisted by Fitzsimmons and Billy
Delaney as chief advisors, with his
brother Jack and Joe Kennedy as handy
men.
Eddie Graney will render the decision
at the end of the bout, and George
Harding will act as official timekeeper
for the club.
The expression is ofttimes heard,
Who did Jim Corbett ever beat be-
sides poor, old John L. Sullivan" There
are so many persons who think that
Corbett is not capable of landing a
knockout punch on a good man that
thew will ha rdlW hPlipNo that in his rao
ord he has only one less victory of the
knockout variety than Champion Jim
Jeffries. Jeff has won eight fights on
clean-cut knockouts, while the ring rec
ords show that CoEbett has earned
seven. Jeff overshadows Corbett in the
kind of material he has been up against.
Still, the undisputed evidence is there
that Corbett was not far behind Jeff
in delivering the sleep-producing punch.
Where Corbett has the bunch on Jeff
is in the number of years he has been
in the ring. Corbett started out to earn
fame in the eighties, and it was not
until he had been fighting ten years
that Jeffries blOssomed forth as a likely
candidate for the champion honors.
COrbett really started in as fighter
in 1884, but gave up his intention of be-
coming a professional when he took the
position of instructor of boxing in the
Olympic club of San Francisco. In 1884
he made his first public appearance
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two rounds. That was an amateur
bout It is in the nature of a coinci-
dence that one of the first men Cor
bett fought was Duncan Mcdonald, the
man who refereed the bout between Jim
Jeffries and Jack Munroe at Butte City,
Montana, last December. when Munroe
was given the first and only decision
ever recorded against the present cham
pion. He won over Mcdonald in four
rounds. The fight took place at Salt
Lake City, Utah.
To get back to the knockout question
the victory of Corbett over John l..
Sullivan is not recorded as a knockout
on Corbett's record. although it should
be, as throwing up the sponge is equiv
alent to a knockout. Nor did Jim JEFF
fries win over Gus Rubin go down as
/ a knockout. Billy Madden threw up
the sponge, and those who bet on a
knockout won, but on Jeff's record it is
not down as a knockout.
| Jeffries fought Tom Sharxey twice,
but never scored knockout over the
sailor Tom was on his pins at the
finish in both contests, the first in San
Francisco, going 20 rounds. and the
second at Coney Island, lasting p
rounds.
Jeffries has appeared in various parts