Show i I AMONG THE FIGHTERS Latest Gossip in Local l What the Big Guns Are Doing Nothing stirring string has ha happened in local pugilistic circles the past pst week e a e ept the contest at Eureka Eurek last lt Monday even eve evening Sing ing ng between J 1 Ryan of Butte Bute and Young I of Mammoth The latter proved an easy winner in this contest and as a It Is his h fourth successive victory victor he h is looked upon as a a comer corner by his hs 0 r f i The Te match between McCarthy and and Christie came CaIne near ear n being called caled off oft yes yesterday ye Y so the story tOr goes ge McCarthy it itis ItIs itis is did not like the outlook for forthe forthe forthe the contest claiming that it would prove a failure as a drawing card and asket ask that the t e bout be called cUed off aD However the local athletic club cub which it is un understood te is i hard harj h r up for matches matche in induced induced induced Jerry j m to hold off a day or ors so in hopes interest in the contest might be started Unless this thi is done it I te is I claimed Jerry Jerr wilt will wI pull pul up stakes stake and an re return reI turn tur to Butte l ute 0 I Tommy Jacobs who recently announced annonce his intention of going to Los Ls Angel Angelas Angele has bs evidently changed cange his mind and is in i now nw once again attached to the local loal colony agh of pugs pUS 0 I Ever sin aIne e Jim Jeffries Jefre left let Chicago some of the sporting writers of the te teI I Windy VIndy City Oito have been circulating tle Ies IesI I I about abut the champions debauches while there there same stories were circulated er I about Jeffries while he was wa in Ia Salt SaU Lake for no other ther purpose than tp injure the champion In the eyes of the public It appears appers th tt the Chicago stories storIe were I set afloat without wi hout an Iota of truth in inexactly InI I exactly the mme manner they the were in inthis inthis inI se I I this city c y Lois LU Houseman who Is 18 reg regI I as one X f the squarest squaret sporting writers in ChIago ago go has the t c following to t say sayan on the matter mater Malicious exaggeration marks mark the sto stories so sores ries being sent scab set broadcast over the land landas lan as a res to the condition and the life lt of ot Cham Chase Champion Champion pion Jim Jeffries Jefe What Wat the purpose pur of these fabrications Is It i Is hard to divine Perhaps the t e sordid s public takes to them te Jeffries today ts is the most perfect model moel of ot a perfect man He drinks true a but his hs drinking d consists of oC a sip of te wine and ad it is a question If I during his wine entire four days stay sty here the th chase cham champion ehm entre pion consumed consumed over a quart of chase cham champagne c I wa in his company almost constantly pae ang anil an I know whereof I write Jeffries i lic leading le Ing a correct life and all al alof of the stories stores printed to the contrary are ae malignantly aid d maliciously false raise |