The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-19
SPORTING TALK OF INTEREST.
JEFFRTES NOW SAID TO BE WILL
ING TO FIGHT JOHNSON.
Tex Richard Oners sSO. 900 for suth q MilI;
Also $40. 600 for Britt and Young
COrbett Tn Detroit Club Refuses
Mig Money for OutneIder Mcintyre.

NIk NtOncy IOr uutUvIMcE NhchtttIUs
II all the fights planned to be held in Nevada
mining towns take place ring followers Will
have more to talk about during the next three
or four months than for several years past.
Tex Richard. the NAN who pulled on the Cans
Nelson nghV at Goldfeld. stirred up by the
attempts of promoters at Tonopah, Rhyollte
and Reno to secure big attractions In the
pugilistic line. jumped into the limelight
Yesterday with an alleged Oner OF a s5O,OoO
purse for a hght between James j. Jehries'
the retired heavyweight champion. and JACK
johnson. the negro pugilist who mas Ueen
trying for several weekst to make matches with
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns.
Richard declared without reserve that he
had received assurances from Jenries that he
would sign articles for such "A mill, II only to
disprove the statement said to have been
made by johnson that the latter had sue
cecded In driving the big bollermaker out
Of the prize ring. Richard expressed the belief
that a Jenrles-Johnson fight at Goldheld
would draw a sufficiently large gate to make
up the amount Of this enormous purse. bI
among local sporting men this opinion was
not generally prevalent. Richard hunted up
Sam Fitzpatrick, who until q week ago pc
lieved that he was Johnson's manager. and
Fit zpatrick proceeded to get busy win the
wires between New York and Los Angeles
with the idea of clinching the match with
IeII AtF. bNN u tANNA ~
wing of another manager named Mclean, 10
somewhere on the road between Chicago and
California, with O'Brien or Burns his pros
pective opponent. As Jolnson stands prac-
ticaily no chance TO get either OF these men
into the ring with him. he may be induced 10
tackle Jeffries. providing Of course that the
big uuilnrmaker has really consented 10
reenter The ring.
Richard has also offered to hang up a 1000
purse for a finish fight between James Britt.
CALIFORNIA; native son. " and Dung Corbett.
two former rivals who have gone back greatly
in the estimation of fight fans. Meanwhile
Riley. a promoter OF 1onopah. rs still trying
TO get up a carnival at which burns and
O'Brien. Attell and Jem BOwker, Nelson
and the winner of the h mill
will meet in the same ring on March II. Pro-
moter skinner of Rhyolite, too. is hot on
che trail of O'BTien and Burns for a finish
battle on or before April 1. At this rate
Honey Melody and Hugo Kelly, the new
claimants for the weller and middle weight
championships, will soon receive chances
to meet somebody or other for gold nuggets
in the fight crazy mining camps
Joe Cans sent a telegram 60 a friend in
Chicago yesterday to the effect that Jefries
had been selected to referee the fight with
Herman at Tonopah on New Years Day.
Cans. for some reason, objected TO George
kiler OF Chicago, altnOugn sporting men
were inclined TO believe that Sier. because
OF che fair deal he accorded to Cans in the
mill with Nelson. would receive the pref
erence over Jefries. While there has been
little betting on the battle.
the former is in high favor and will probably
enter the ring carrying the support OF smart
bettors all over the country. In spite OF
the report that Cans may not do his level
best, ring followers here do not think that
A. 49, N ID, 80 aHnrd ~ faEn fnrfhar
chances with his reputation. Herman is a
tough customer, but he Is not considered
IN the same class with Nelson. in which case
he should be comparatively easy for the
phenomenal Cans.
II Matty Mcintyre. the c-lck outielde r
Of the Detroit Americans. is allowed to go to
another club. IL will not be before a fancy
price has been paid for his release. AZ the
recent American League meeting at Chicago
a certain club owner, said to be Taylor OF
Boston, offered $500 In cash for Mcintyre,
which Navin Of Detroit promptly refused,
Mcintyre is believed to be one Of the coming
players Of this country. especially as a bats
man. and the Detroit club. anxious to make
a deal for him which will benefit the team
under Hugh Jennings, lie somewhat averse
TO selling him outright. But unless present
signs 20 for nothing Mcintyre will be a mem
Der of one of the big teams In the East, the
owner OF which stands ready TO pay over
$40, 900 cash or will trade several excellent
players for the young Staten Islander. The
New York American League club also has a
line out for Mcintyre and stands a good
chance of securing him. as few clubs can
outbid Farrell and Griffith when they decide
TO land a player they need.
From Chicag go comes the annual yarn that
Ban Johnson will transfer the headquarters
Of the American League to this city. IL u
said that johnson has been contemplating
such a move for some time past. but that IL
was not until last week. after he had patched
up his differences with Charley Coniskey
that he reached a definite decision in the
matter. There was a time when the establish
ment of the American Leagues headduaTteri
IN New York would have been Of materia
benefit TO the local club. but just now thu
club, after a winning fight for metropolitan
patronage, is able to stand on its own bottom
" the football rule makers who were
here on Saturday are wise they will max
no changes except a frightening OF tn
halves TO IS minutes. Conservative judges
who watched the big games this year wer'
convinced that the game as played under
the new rules could not be improved upon
The fact that the leading elevens had no
enough time to perfect the general style Of
inlay which came to hand with such brilllan
results in the Nale-Harvard and West Point
Annapolis games. further. convinced thes'
s,udents of football that well enough shoul'
be let alone, at least for another year. Val
has already gone on record a. being Statistic
with the present code. The Yale clever
incidentally did more TO illustrate the pos
abilities of the new game than any Of tbs
other big teams. and IN 80 doing set an ex
ample which will probably he UNIVERSAL,
followed in 1917. BY making the playini
time Longer the rules committee will meet
n general demand. but any other radical
changes seem to he out of order.
Harvard has always shown a marked pref
srpnce for corpulel, football players Tn
Crimson eleven in recent years has boaste'
of mt least one or two fat men. This pole
has been apparently sustained in the re-
ported election OF Centre Rush Parker IA
the captaincy OF the Harvard eleven for
next year. Parker Is n heavyweight in all
that the word implies. In the Yale game
he was compelled to retire from sheer eX-
haustion after putting up a plucsy aght.
Racetrack men have just scored a notabl
victory at Los Angeles, When Ascot Par
opened last month the prospect Of a con
tinusnce OF the sport there was not par