Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-12-08 | Page 3 | Jefferies Comes next Week

OTEFFBTES COMES NEXT WEEK Champions Boxing Exhibition Is Scheduled for December 16th James Jeffries Is scheduled to arrive here next week and will box at the Suit Lake Athletic club on Monday the 16th with his brother Jack Jeffries The champion In company with his trainer Billy Delaney Is on his way to New York Jeffries has announced that he is willing to meet again all the men he has already defeated and thus erase any doubts as to his title as champion Fitzsimmons is confident that ho can lick the champion In avery a-very few lounds Corbett thinks It l he could only get al him once more ho would show the public what he could do and Sharkoy Is sure that Jeffries is a clnih and would like one more chance to prove his opinion > Jim Barrett will be here from Logan Jn a day or two and will meet Phil Green In the ring Barrett has ac cfptfcd Greens challenge to box any man in the State at 126 pounds give or lake four pounds He weighs 125 pounds and is not quite so tall as Green h 4 Jim Burns has commenced his trainIng train-Ing and says that inside of a month he will be In tiptop shape Burns would like to meet Jack Jeffries the champions brother In a twentyround contest and If Jack came here the last of the month Instead of next Saturday Sat-urday Burns would try to make the match He Ic i now training with Jack Christy at the club A < Thompsons boxing exhibition at the MoOre gymnasium was postponed from last Friday until the first of the year