Show SAM SAYS OKLAHOMA 4 OffER OF LOOKS YET BY ED W SMITH Chicago Aug If the Miller brothers of Oklahoma are sincere and from what I can learn of them I should judge they are they have a 8 fine tine chance of ot getting the big battle I know of ot no place right now not even California where vo wo could do better than a purse of This is the tenor of a letter received this morning from Sam Berger manager and agent for Jim Jeffries who is now out on the coast looking over the situa situation sItuation situation tion The letter came in response to a telegram from Harlan E Babcock of ot Kalamazoo Mich a representative of the Oklahoma ranchers in which Babcock notified Berger officially of the offer He requested an answer at once This offer certainly Is attractive the themore themore themore more so because of the condition named by which the fighters are to receive the purse if the battle is not decided through any an of the promoters or interference ence enos of ot the authorities Bergor Berger writes There Is ie a ring of sincerity about that that catches my eye at once I have not consulted with Mr Little Johnsons rep representative re about the matter because they have been so ao busy in other directions directions directions but will do so at any early hour hourI I am sure he tie would feel that we cannot do any better anywhere on the globe than this as far as flat purses are con concerned concerned corned Canadas bid of ot for the big bat battle battie tie lIe is not taken seriously by anybody In Inthis Inthis inthis this section of the country The fact that Elk City whence came the tho offer is isa Isa Isa a mining camp with few facilities for handling a crowd of or strangers stran ers and is 19 too far out of the way for strangers to reach rather puts the kibosh on Jack and royal sounding bid Jack has been a great In the past and can hardly be betaken betaken betaken taken seriously at this time even though he has a lot of ot money and begs for a chance to post it to show his sincerity There are not going to be so many bids of a straight and sane nature as one might suppose California seems to have hav havethe havethe the best chance of getting the battle for the reason that the contest would be tolerated there by the authorities and the certain patronage it would receive should induce the promoters to offer the most flattering terms for the engagement Nevada is another state that might be considered to have haye a chance for the af at affair affair fair By the payment of a state license of ot 1000 a finish contest con teat of any number of ot rounds may be held there th re But no noman noman noman man or mining camp has stepped forward yet and perhaps none will Nevada Is prosperous right now and so much mining stock to throw upon the market Hence the chance for advertising out of ot the battle may be allowed to pass New York saw its first important heavy heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight weight fight in years when Joe Jeannetto Jeannette and Sandy Ferguson clashed at the Fair Fairmont mont moat club Friday night It see much at that for Jeannette made Sandy forget everything before the battle batlle had been in progress very long Sandys ochre streak was prominent In the third round and thereafter In that period of ot the contest he be received a ripping smash In the ribs and the only thing that interested Sandy after that was the best and most mOISt graceful way to get out of that enclosure without actually being knocked out of ot it Ferguson Feruson never had much to recommend recommend recommend mend him but his size and conceit He had plenty of both when he was parading paradIng ing lag around this section of ot the country several years ago He needed what Is known as Dutch courage coura e when he was here and few fighters with those tricks ever get pet over them Sandy reminds one of ot the story that thatis is told on Eddie Foy whose good old mother after seeing his comedy stunts for the first time advised ed Eddie that if he got go money for doing that It would be bea bea bea a good idea to fool them as long as he could Sandy fooled tooled em for a long time Into thinking that he had the makings of a champion In his big carcass MacLean the bicycle rider thought he could make something out of the Bos Bostonian Bostonian tonian but it simply was not in him |