The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-03

chance of beating Sullivan and the
latter's friends knew it. Once Sulli-
van issued a challenge in which he
said that he would fight white men
for a fixed price of $1,000 a side, and
added the proviso: 'Colored men
Jeffries' precedent is q rather weak
one, as Sullivan himself, generally re-
garded as the worlds only cham
pion," made an offer to box colored
men, but at double price"
In a recent talk Billy Delaney long
with Jeffries and other champions as
chief advisor, had a few thoughts to
PROFOUND regarding the champion
and the possibility of a meeting at an
early date with Johnson as well as a
few thoughts regarding Marvin Hart
as a candidate with Jeffries for the
championship. That Hart is taken
rather seriously by Delaney and the
by the talk of the veteran trainer
Asked about Hart, Delaney said:
"You must know that Hart is Tar
from being a bad one. True, he has
met defeat, but his record is a nice
one, and he is young and coming right
along, so one cannot say much against
him. From what I can learn he now
weighs 220 pounds. If I am informed
enough to meet Jeff, for any man
weighing that much is big enough to
fight any two men,
"Of course I can't jump at con-
promise of match. He is now in
California. Let him meet the best
big men in the country, and then, II
he wins, why, we will be ready to talk
jeff is? He is ever ready to meet
any man that has the slightest claim
on his attention. He is a great cham
pion, and never tries to sidestep any
one. No one has ever heard him tell
a man to go get a reputation. That's
why he has SO endeared himself in
the hearts of the American people.
''The only man that Jeffries has
ever turned down is Jack Johnson,
and I want to tell you right here that
it's as much my fault as Jen's. OF
course, there is no one who for a mo-
ment believes Jeff fears the negro,
we have talked over which, suffice to
say, have convinced US that it's bad
form for a white champion to meet a
colored champion. Let the whites
ored fellows between themselves and
then there will be no friction.
"Of course, it's unfortunate for the
colored fellows to be barred through
no fault of their own, but necessity is
one of the unWritten laws, and we
must adapt ourselves to circum-
stances and conditions, no matter who
suffers therefrom.
while Jeffries would rather fight
than act, yet we have no complaint to
make. We are always ready to fight
and the public knows it. The great
hit that Jeffries has made in his play
of 'Davy Crockett however, has
opened UP new channels of useful
ness and anyone who has seen him
act this week will bear me out in the
statement that the champion is the
ing will bear comparison with any
one who has ever essayed the difficult
role of that sterling and lesson-teach-
ing drama of frontier life"
n a
Cormick, the big wrestler-trainer of
Hart, with the statement that he has
received an offer from Jack Roots
manager to take the Bohemian out
McCormick's simple statement tells
the feeling Of the Louisville camp now
San Francisco. 1t is:
II don't believe it. II is too good
to be true"
al Herford, a rather unsavory chap
from Baltimore, who is known far
and wide as the manager of Joe Cans,
has broken into print again, this time
with an offer of a purse of $4,000 as
an inducement to bring together
Jimmy Britt of San Francisco and
Joe Cans, his Baltimore negro. It is
said Herford and his colored fighter
are to take a trip out to San Fran
cisco during the coming week for the
purpose of inducing Britt to accept
the offer.
Herford has a club in Baltimore.
contest there. As an added induce
ment he will offer the Britt party a
side bet of $4,000 on the general re-
suit
Just what chance there is of a re-
turn match between the men is hard
to see. Britt secured a virtual vic
tory over Cans on the coast a short
time ago in q fight that was decided
for the negro on a foul after he had
been all but knocked out and this did
not increase public confidence in the
pair. Therefore Herford's offer at this
time will not be taken any too Sc
riously- His statement that Britt can
not escape him for a match either in
Baltimore or San Francisco can not
mean much. There is little doubt
that Britt wants to escape Cans after
what happened on the coast
There were two jokes during the
week just passed in the boxing line.
One was the statement of the board
of directors of the West End club of
st. Louis blacklisting several fighters
and their managers, and another was
Tommy Ryan's victory over Billy
Stiff at Benton Harbor. Neither need
be taken seriously. In the West End
mixup Charley Haughton. who is the
only person connected with the West
End club, evidently has been i'll adj
vised- There is every evidence to
show that Monte Attell and Johnny
Reagan boxed fairly enough in both
contests in st. Louis, although some
smart money might have been bet
the proper way, but that is about all
there is to it.
VIII Send Pitchers South.
Cleveland Tan 3-Oo tho advice of