The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17
Big BUTTE MINER
NOW IN LIMEL|CHT
Neary and the Milwaukee Scan.
dal Young Corbett Still
After Jimmy Britt.

Jack Munroe, the big Butte miner, who
is matched to fight Jim Jeffries for the
heavyweight championship of the world at
San Francisco on June 1, left an impress
sion in st. Paul that he is little more
than a dub in the prize fighting game.
The big miner spent a couple Of days In
the Twin Cities and he was at all times
ready to talk Of his coming match with
the champion.
OF course, the people here did not have
an opportunity to see the big fellow in
action, aside from what he did in his
wrestling exhibition Thursday night, but
there are great many followers of the
fight game who will be hard to convince
that Munroe stands any chance in the
Frisco match. And why should he? Mum
roe has never done anything that would
indicate he is in the same class with
Jeffries. He bested Tom Sharkey, but
other people have done the same thing
and were still unable to stand up be-
fore Jeffries.
About the best that can be said Of the
Munroe-J effrieS match is that JeffFieS
needs the money and Munroe is willing
to take a long chance. Munroe says he
thinks he will win, but all fighters say
the same thing before a fight. He doesn't
give any reasons why he should be able
to win. He isn't as heavy as Jeff, and
is a much slower man in every way. He
cannot hit as hard, and even if he could,
there is a question whether or not he
would get a chance to land on the cham
pion. Munroe is awkward on his feet, and
he lacks ring experience. He might be
all right in his class, but he is going out
Of his class when he steps into the
squared circle with Jeffries the first of
June.
But for the chance blow which won
him temporary fame when he knocked JEFF
fries down out in Butte, the big miner
would doubles still be out in the Mon
tana town. His ring experience before
that amounted to minor bouts, and he
hasn't had much of a chance to improve
since them. But he is matched against
the champion, and this gives him the fight
er's license to talk, predict his own vic
tory and get his picture IN the paper and
then, after it is all over, explain how it
happened.
So far as is known the Jeffries Munroe
fight will be refereed by Graney, the
same man who Officiated at the mill in
which Jimmy Britt was awarded the de-
cision over Young Corbett, following
which Harry Pollok, Young Corbetts
manager charged Graney with every
thing imaginable, and declared he would
never permit another of his lighters TO step
into a ring where the California man was
acting as referee. Yet in spite of all this
talk Munroe is one Of Pollok's string, and
it is very likely that Graney will be &C
copied as the ring official.
AS a matter of fact, 1t won't make much
difference to MunrOe who referees the
match. About the best that the Butte
man can hope for Is the short end of the
should be able to do the work. 1t can
not be charged against Jeffries that he
has refused to defend his title, but at
the same time it makes the followers OF
the game smile when they stop to think
how quickly Jeff took on the miner 1t
looks as thought 1t were a case of JEFF
fries looking for piece of easy money,
and unless all signs fail he has 1t. Mum