Show C SHABEEY BACKS OUT Refused to Sign Articles For a Fight With TeSeries San Francisco Dec 4Thomas J I Sharkey who calls himself the champion I cham-pion heavyweight pugilist of the world this afternoon refused to sign articles for a fight with Joe Jefferies Articles of agreement to govern the proposed match had been drawn up and Billy Delaney had affixed his signature sig-nature thereto for Jefferies The night before Sharkey had promised Managers I Man-agers Gibbs and Groom of the National Na-tional Athletic club that he would do likewise but at the last moment the sailor changed his mind and stubbornly stub-bornly refused to be changed from his purpose Fifteen thousand dollars or I dont step into the ring said Sharkey and that goes After considerable argument Tom became more liberal and offered to lop off 1000 but the club managers still considered the terms prohibitive and I I thus the matter stands |