The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-23

In those days-~decided to "sic" him
onto few dead ones for the sake OF
his record. Five fights to date, three
knockouts and two draws, did not con-
stitute much in the line of q war his
tory, 90 they proceeded to fatten Jim
on soft food.
TIL eflrst man to be led TO the slaugh-
ter for the good OF Jim's record was
poor old Joe Goddard, the Barrier
champion. Now back in the paleozoic
age, ole Goddard was somebody. He
was nobody when JEFF got him and Jim
made him still less than that in four
rounds by the watch. 1t was a very
poor fight. but II was the best Jeffries
fight Los Angeles ever drew, and aaz-
ards pavilion was damned to the roof
TO see the affair. In less than a month
San Francisco had another ripe alli-
gator pear for Jeems This time IL was
nobody In the world but Peter Jackson.
What? ole Peter2 Precisely. Ole
Peter. The same fellow. Every sport
Ing editor in the world has had to
settle this question a thousand times
over.
Peter had come back from England
and was on his way 70 Australia, and
he was sick man at the time. The
disease which finally carried him of
had already made him but shadow
Of the dashing black man who gave
Corbett the toughest fight OF his life
seven years before. But jackson need
ed the money, and jackson was game,
and Jeffries needed "P. Jackson.
Knockout on hts record; so the match
was hurried through. Peter opened
with his old-time speed, but that was
all he had left. His blows would not
have hurt a boy. Jim finished him as
mercifully as possible, and the referee
interviewed in the third round. Still
another fine large man for Jeffries--
this time that celebrated man with
yellow paint In his veins, Mexican Pete
Everett.
Jeff fought three fights inside two
months Mexican Pete was the third
man. He was big, and he had bold
look. but when 1t. came to real fight.
Mexican Pete quit like sheep in the
snow and JEFF was very much Disguised
with him, Three rounds the fiasco
lasted and then the wise promoters
picked a real live one for Jeff--the man
who gave him the hardest fights of
his life and but for the great difference
in the weight and size. might have
shuffied the tank-builder to the bottom
Of the deck-Thomas Sharkey. Tom
was no novice. He had been fightin
for six years, and he had a formidable
record. He had whipped men like
Australian Billy Smith Joe Ccoynski.
in eight rounds; fought draw with
Corbett; stayed eight rounds with Fitz-
simmons to win on a foul. a la carp;
and whaled all sorts of lesser lights in
the navy, where he was surely, as
they say in Wyoming, "a curly wolf
with long claws
oh. by the way, he has one worlds
record--a string of fourteen knockouts
all secured in Honolulu. Must have
trimmed the entire white population.
This was the demon who was plucked
for the coming champion, and one of
the two men Sharkey had far the better
record. He was also being roomed for
the championship, The men fought in
May, 1898, and a rough slugging fight
1T was. Sharkey rushed and pegged
away with roundhouse right swins for
the head, and Jeffries walked into him
and met him with rib-roasters to the
body Sharkey did not seem to be able