Show Negro Athlete Popular For the first time In theIr history Harvard men have grown wildly enthusiastic en-thusiastic over j negro It may be they 1 have never had a chance lo worship one before but certain It Is that Matthew tho little negro quarterback and shortstop short-stop from Andover Is today one of the most popular men in the Crimson university uni-versity S V Matthews came lo Harvard with an enviable reputation as a sprinter football foot-ball player and baseball artist behind him Consequently his advent was much talked about but the general V Continued on Paso 1 SPORTSo Continued from Pago 3 opinion seemed to be Hes colored Hell never get along Probably no Incom ng freshman ever aroused so much In leresl as did this kinkyhaired llllle athlete from Andover and when last fall he won his way to the front on the gridiron by sheer grit and brilliancy bril-liancy every Harvard man opened his heart to him His being a negro far from Impeding him helped him along In almost every line Every man knew Matthews for his was the most conspicuous con-spicuous and one of the mosl handsome hand-some forms threading I the dally I gridiron grid-Iron maze on Soldiers Field Today the situation is reversed In baseball Matthews promises to be one of the fastest shortstops Harvard has ever had rind Harvard men are willing to give him the crown of laurel In token of the fact ire Iso natural player brilliant In fielding n hard thrower sure at thc bat and a Hash of greased lightning on the bases With these qualities and a handsome smiling goodnatured face the little negro Ia establishing an unexpected precedent In Crimson the conservative university and aristocratic old FITZS ABJECT BACK DOWN Story of His HotAir Bluff to J J Jeffries I Is questionable If a more palpable case of flunking Is on record in the prize ring than that ot Robert Fllzslm mons in his mutch with James J Jef files for thc championship of the world Ever since his crushing defeat at the hands of the Californian at Coney Island June 9 1S99 Fllzslmmons has constantly boasted of an earnest desire to again meet the bollermarker in a twentyfour foot ring Nettled by I Fltzslmmonss claim of foul play Jeffries issued a definiie challenge chal-lenge lo 1 man he had decisively defeated de-feated In eleven rounds of a onesided con lest In response to the original challenge from the CalifornIan Fllzslmmons repeated re-peated his oft made claim that ho had permanently retired from the ring By degrees he changed his attitude sufficiently suffi-ciently to announce hat KM Jeffries made him an offer that warranted his return to the ring he might do so In response thc champion said the best offer he could make was that of an opportunity for the Cornishman to become fpossessed of the heavyweight tllle and the larger part o the purse provided h < succeeded in getting the decision FItzslmmons made a counter proposal that he receive half of the purse win or lose and after much wrangling Jef fries conceded a division of thc purse on n basis of 60 per cenl lo the winner and 1 per cent to the loser I was accepted by the Bath Beach physical culture expert and April 1st was set for the Opening of bids and selection of a club In which to hold the contest When the bids were opened it was found they were confined exclusively to boxing clubs In San Francisco Later on the Century Athletic club of Los Angeles the home of Jeffries offered a 525000 PUt 1 which Inter on whs Jn cicasod to 30000 This was declined by ntaslniinonson the groundrthat old not t caceito ht the champlon ih his native tdwnl M I I Them Icq I the mythical Charleston Athletic club with offers of fabulous pursas fdrthefight which were greedily greedi-ly I accepted by FItzslmmons Hardly had the Cornishman acquiesced when the Governor of South Carolina announced an-nounced that he would If necessary call out the militia In order to prevent n fight between FItzslmmons and Jeffries This cleared Uie field of all compel lC1 or jLhCiboul I except two clubs In aniJfxanclsco namely the Yosemjlle AlbJnUo ipjuband tho San Francisco Atlilellc club The former hod apermlt to conduct a bout djorngi tho month of April and Ihc latter has secured n license to hold a contest during thc ononth df Mav i I As the men would not be prepared during the present month It became apparent ap-parent that the San Francisco Athletic club was the only organization which could bring off the bout during the period specified In the articles of agreement meat Tho Snn Francisco club originally made an offer of 70 per cent of the gross recelpls to the fighters When the champion saw that the San Francisco club stood alone in ability abil-ity to conduct the hattie without Interference Inter-ference and also to furnish a reasonable reason-able financial relurn to the fighlcrs he announced that he would accept their bidWhen When this was brought to Fllzslm monss attention the Cornishman emphatically em-phatically stated lhat he ould not fight in San Francisco under any con dlllons and that if he could not meet Jeffries In the East he would decline to enter a contest with him In America While declining to meet Ute qhamplon heavy1weight of the world on American Ameri-can soiL FItzslmmons Inllmated that he would not object to n bout with Ihc bollermaker in England durlrtg tho coronation cor-onation oluton The Cornishman made the amazing statement that he would undertake to meet any five men In the world In the National Sperling club London one each night for five nights and then wind up on the sixth night with a battle bat-tle with Jeffries for thi championship lie asserted it did not matter to him If the bouts wero scheduled for two rounds or twenty loiiuds and the challenge chal-lenge wao not confined to English boxers box-ers the only condition being that his opponents must be white men This absurd proposltlr Is I ascribed loa lo-a to cor up hU very undignified retreat from his match with Jetfrles I Is i held that FItzslmmons fully realizes he would have no possible chance In another fight with the champion cham-pion and never had the slightest Intention Inten-tion of entering the ring when he signed the articles oT agreement Pitas Knees Help His Punch Bob Fllzslmmonj was not made knockkneed for nothing says Kid McCoy lie Is the hardest hitter in the world and the reason Is that he stands with knees together Fits pivots from his < knccs in delivering deliv-ering u blow and in Unit manner he can hit four times as hard as I man who pivots from the hips or the waist 1 used to box with FItzslmmons in New Orleans I was only a novice at tho game and 7 watched every move thai he made I sludlcd him for four years and I am willing to say I learned more boxing from FItzslmmons than from all thc other fighters that I ever saw I think that FItzslmmons Is the cleverest fighter In the ring ne jjj f wonder When you think you have all he knows down fine ho comes up with bomethlng new He uses his brains I When I want to send In a knockout I purposely force my knees in the same Baie position that comes natural lo FltzBlm mons Then I swing my whole body from the knee up That Is whercI got the punch that upset Sharkey and with which I recently put out three Englishmen English-men In the same twelvefool ring In ono round Giants Want C rkson A story la I current at Harvard that Manniljei Horace Fogel of the New York famQel Baseball club is I negotiating with Yorl leI Clarkson Harvards crack varsity ty pitcher to Join the forces of ue Giants Clarkson is i a oijother of John Cia rksOJ tho famous pitcher of the NiUionni league and huH played two Year with Harvard T wih ii Additional Sports on Page J31 1 I |