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Show Q'BRIEN !S READY TO MEET 'EM ALL. Man From tho City of Brotherly Lovo Anxious to Accommodate All Comers. Jack O'Brien is as busy theso days aa a bird shot In tho tail fealhcrs. He is going to fight Kid McCoy: he's going go-ing to ilcht Bob Fltzslmmons; he's going to light Tommy Ryan again: ho has promised prom-ised Mattle Matthews a heat and, incidentally;, inciden-tally;, he will take any one on who haa a following of sufficient slzo to help tho "Kate." Jack was ever a thrifty soul, and ho never lots his haymaker et cobwebs on it. Prior to his llttlo affair with Ryan, Jack had been picking em easy Just getting get-ting them to work for him at so much a round and It was good business. England furnished a fruitful field for his endeavor, and he waded through an assortment of dahiaged and shop-worn "pugH'' just as he pleased, and oven won a pair of titles thcrebi'. That he and Ryan will come together again Is pretty certain. The only thing that will stop them is tho death of either. Meanwhile, it won't hurt his exchequer to show with u few others. But he certainly Is not picking aoft ones when be chooses Fits ana McCoy. FltzsimmonB can whip him. McCoy, in shape, can do it. too. But thon there's tho question of weight, and it is here that Jack shows that bu3l- ncss sen30 that has always distinguished him Ho Insists that ho Is a mlddle-wcluht, and thoso who ll;ht him must fight at the mlddle-weluht limit 158 pounds Hero thero cun bo no quarrel with his argument. Fltz declares, and with truth, that ho Is still tho middle-weight champion, cham-pion, and he Is willing to defond the tillo against all candidates for It |