Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-17
THE PUGlLlSTS.
Young Corbett and Ben Jordan
 Are Matched.

uhey Will Meet in San Francisco in December-John L, Lauds Jim Jeff fries-F -Fftzsimmons Off For the Coast to Get Ready for Gardner-Hmmy Britt and Martin Cavole.
 At lest the. much Tafksd of battle between Young Corbett champion |featherweight of the world and Ben Jordan the English boxer has been ar |ranged. The fight is to take place be- |fore the Hayes Valley Athletic club |of San Francisco during the month Eof December. probably week before |Christmas. The conditions of the match call for the men to weigh not
 more than 126 pounds at o'clock in tie afternoon of the date set for the battle. The bout is scheduled for twenty rounds, straight Marquis of Qileensbufy rules, with fve-ounce gloves. 1t was the weight question that kept the rival fighters apart so
 long. Jordan wanted to make the lmatch at 124 pounds, while Corbett in sisted upon 12S. After considerable hacking and filling it was finally de- |cided to compromise by making tho |weight 126. Corbett vii at once Estart to train for the battle Corbett has three fights on before he tackles Jordan. He first will meet Tim Cal Ilahan and Hughey Murphy, and his third battle will be with Tommy Sul- llivan. The latter match will take Iplace at Kansas City, and from that Icity Corbett will go direct to San Fran disco. Although the question of a |referee will be left open until Jordans arrival, it is very probable that Eddie Graney will be selected to judge the contest Charles Horan who is look ling after the interests of the English man, has instructed him to sail for New York on next Wednesdays boat. He will stop over couple of weeks in ithe east and will then go to San Francisco to train.
 Philadelphia. Oct 17.-Willie Fitz- |gerald of Brooklyn and Joe Tipman of Baltimore went six rounds before the |State Athletic association at catch weights last night. The Brooklyn boy failed to put his. man out, and the gen. |eral opinion of the house was that. |could decision have been given, the |Nest coming to Fitz was draw.
 Los Angeles, Cal, Oct 17-Frankie
 Neil of California the bantamweight champion of the world, and Johnny
 Reagan of South Brooklyn went twenty fast rounds to a draw here last night before the Century A. G. Both boys were in the pink of condi- tion and each took great amount of
 punishment.
 Milwaukee is in the field to secure the fight between Eddie Connolly, the
 welterweight from St John, IN. B., and Hugo Kelly, the Chicago fighter. if the same can be arranged The Mill
 wankee Athletic club is out with a bid of 80 per cent of the gross receipts to bring the men together, and they |are now holding the offer under ad- visement.
 Now that FitZsimmons is safely matched with Gardner and has started for the battle grounds to get in shape, Tommy Ryan is after match with the freckled fighter. He stipulates 15S pounds as the weight, but no one will give him credit for meaning what he says. He had his opportunity to meet
 Fitz when the latter was willing to post $5,000 to make the middleweight limit. Ryan sidestepped then, and
 may do so again.
 Although Jimmy Britt has his match
 with Charley Seiger declared off, he has taken on Martin Canole. 4 west ern comment on this was somewhat after the following fashion: Gamble
 is practically unknown, and there is a
 tendency in some quarters to accuse Britt of slipping out of his fight with
 Seiger to take on an easy victim. The
 bout is to be fought before the Colona club, just outside of San Francisco, and the agreement calls for 133 pounds
 at o'clock. The fighters will receive
 60 per cent of the gate, and of this the
 winner will take 75 per cent and the loser the remainer. It looks like easy
 money for Britt if the fight draws
 enough to meet more than the ex- penses. Yes? Take a tip from the
 east. Britt will find the Fall RirerIad
 the strongest kind of an easy victim he
 ever bumped into Canole is not un- known. There is plenty of eastern
 opinion that he can trim all the light
 weights now on the market with the
 exception of the champion, Joe Cans. And none of them has any business
 with the Baltimore "dinge.~
 John L. Sullivan sat before a bottle
 of lithia water. '.No more pugilism for
 me- he said. i've had my share, and
 when I was defeated I knew when I had enough. didn't do the baby act
 and try for another fight, like the
 bruisers now do. I am content to do
 my little turn on the stage, and, be-
 sides, am thinking seriously of enter
 ing politics. Certainly I think I am
 as good a politician as Bill Devery.
 What is my opinion of Jeffries? I
 think he is the greatest fighter alive.
 all in a class by himself, and good to
 hold fhn cha m nj o11 iT1s fa,. IaY1o time