Show JEFF WILL NOT OT MEET JOE GRIM GRIMi i champion Does Not Care to Kill KIJI the Italian ItalianI I I WOULD DISGRACE PUGILISM t SO II SAYS i J OF 01 0 TB ATT ALL 4 New York Nov 4 King 11 Jeffries I la Is hedging round his hla bl profession with a dig die dignity heretofore unknown It la is and aDd tied with pale Palo pink ribbons and embossed em with barbed wire He H is 18 as careful of Its Ita good name Dl e as a Is la Isa IIa laa a boy with his ha first pair of ot boots boot No mug mu from the boxer on foot may be bespatter spatter this royal pug on 00 his hIgh horse hone No rude buffets from the herd berd of six alx re may iy affront his august person on I Hes Mes as exclusive aa as a man m In Jail i After A positively declining to entertain anything from his hia brothers brothen of ot color he now to meet Joe loe Grim Gript because such aach a meeting would In tn the kings opinion 0 n ion lon lower ower the standard of boxing bo Here fl re Is la the tbt th royal edict There is no use of the matchmakers of ofu clubs u in Philadelphia making a me offers to fight Grim G as I would u not think h hI of do doing lag ing I so In declining to t box Grim I dont want the public to te think for a moment 1 I am afraid of him I am not What would be the use of ot my fight fightIng lag Ing 1 Grim In the first tint place T I might give Grim a beating that would injure eye aim Int for tor life Ule Then n again eln if It I punished him so 0 badly that the contest conte t would de do develop into a brutal affair the taw ministers would fOuleS have a chance to preach from their pulpits about the brutality of pugilism lam ism and as u a result the good sport port would In all 11 probability be stopped forever In that city I am m sure aure If I ever ev r did meet Grim that I would stop s him I would not Joke with him like e es mn t did I would sail n right in at the sound Of f the bell to put him hh out onto s nd I am confident be h would go 10 out before the contest C had gone goe far tar farI tarI I will not fight him however and the matchmakers might just as well Weh give up all thoughts thou of ever Inducing me to tob tor agree r to such inch b a match as u befits a king kinga a one How Ho It will Interest Jack lck Robinson the heavyweight ht of San Sao Francisco o who hap hp happens happens pens pen to be black blaek and who by bt his h signal 1 beating of Sam Main McVey is a the only man manIn manIn manin In line for a real argument with the cham champion champlon lIon pion And how it must make the royal Jef Jeffries Jeffries fries shudder a d la in his ermine ln iO to find S Jt his courtiers of the ring lending themselves to the Ute base uses of a patent medicine ad Even James Jamee ames J 1 Corbett the kings king late has hall given yen his hla testimony mony to the remarkable properties of wood Jim has hall had pains in his bbl plexus and nd a swelling of the side Ide where his Inside Ide pocket Is is located He has ha been NeD filled with lassitude and has e had hd head headaches headaches aches aeh His Hili appetite was waa u unequal to any anything anything thing more substantial a than titan lobster lober salad dad and Ice tee cream in conjunction But after taking a few yards of the tile weed eed he feels fee as u light and airy a a atoy atoy toy to balloon And Tom Sharkey found hta his chest cheat shrinking He took on the proportions ot nt ota nta ota a man nan looking In one of ot those convex mirrors But a plaster of oC the weed drew his hie front out oat again pIn so that he be had mad to build an extension on 00 his h modest waistcoats Peter Maher Kaher forgot for be he was waa ever knocked out after fter an ap application of this Wonderful weed |