The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-28
COFFROTH BELIEVES
MUNROE HAS CHANCE
Frisco Man VIII Match Miner
With Jeffries If Sharkey
Is Stopped.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Jan. 27.-Jim-
my Coffroth, matchmaker of the Yosemite
club, has a grand idea for the coming
year on fights. He intended starting the
pail rolling by putting on Britt and Cor
bett but was outgeneraled by the other
club people and is now hunting the fields
in search of new talent. Coffroth should
have handled that Britt go by rights. He
started over year ago to get those two
boys together and has never stopped since
He put the idea in Britt's head and made
Corbett think he could beat James. After
the Hanlon fight they went right at it
and got down to business Coffroth ar
ranged all the dates. helped them fix the
weight question. and then lost out
He has other good matches in sight,
however, tS am and will start right out after
star card should the miner win from
Sharkey in any kind of style
lne people want to see champions
said Cohroth, ''and it doesn't matter who
they are as long as there is title at
stake. L see there is a great deal of talk
about Rubin, Hart, SharlIey and Munroe
ngntlng It ont out and the winner meeting
Jeff. Well. I'll spoil that right now. This
city is without doubt the big town to
hold fights in and we give the money.
That combination won't work and here Is
the reason why. Sharkey won't fight here
and should he win the four-Cornered go
he would have no place to fight. jeff
would not think of fighting away from
here. He couldn't get the money and
he isn't going to train six weeks just for
ghost of a show. We gave him one
chance with Jeffries here and he won't
get another. The people here wouldn't
stand for it. Why, it was an awful fight
with JEFF that he put up. A great many
say he hasn't the heart. Well. 1 don't
know about that; all l know is it was a
very poor fight and awfully one-sided.
With Sharkey and Rubin out of it we
can see no one but Munroe with a look in.
You can't call Hart a challenger. George
Gardner beat him and then drew with
jeff?
'sMunroe is the man. and if he wins
from Sharkey in quick time and acts like
a conner; I'll do my best to get him to
a chance, but they said that Of Jeff when
he fought FitZ the first time and beat
him. They thought it was shame; so
did Fitz. That's the way things go. Cor
bett was to 1 on the short end against
Sullivan yet he won out. Munroe may
be the same short end. jeff can't be
champion forever. Someone must beat
him Champions never last for all time.
Il have another match in sight after
this go, and that is Corbett and Fitz-
simmons. I'll get them by the end Of
this year, sure. That would be the card
of the year without doubt"
How about Britt and Corbett; do you
intend matching the winner of that?''- was
asked.
yes. am almost certain that can
get Joe Cans to meet the winner Joe
wired me the other day that he'd fight
Britt at 134, ringside. Now that's a good
sign. He'll make 1873 surely for the win
ner of this and it will be rather hard for
Britt or Corbett to do much better They
will be forced to meet him. and another
of my goes will come through.
LAS to Hanlon and McGovern, I'll let
them rest week or two and then go
after them. In my opinion that would be
a swell card and strong enough to fill any
hall 1t would be a kind of consolation
match. Both lost to COrbett, but are
still high-class boxers"