Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-02-28 | Page 6 | Frankie Niel is Grouchy

FRANKIE NIEL IS GROUCHY. The contest between promoters for the Young Corbctt-Jimmy Britt match and tho trouble between Corbett and Britt because tho first-named fighter Insisted onitl4c,!!r on Dave Sullivan bofore ho settled his pugilistic differences with tho Calltornian. had hardly been smoothed over when reports came that Jim Noll. i10!1-! x- lh0 hantani-wclght champion Franklo Jefi. threatened to stop fighting in 'Frisco. Is oil secured the Corbett-Brltt match for the Colma club, which Jlmiuy ator repudiated. This caused Noll. Sr. to bedaub himself with war paint to an extent noticeable to himself only, ns ho engaged in no battle. His failure to .secure .se-cure tho March permit reused his lro again, and his war cry now is: "Thero will be np more fights in Son Francisco ou mark my word. There will bo no ,"Ct ru clt , 1,0 Sulllvan-Corbctt fight, I havo been dono for tho last time and within a week I will enter suit, and If my point carries it will end tho flchtincr game in this town." b b .J'1?'3 P1"1 is this: Ho expected tho March ponn t and is promised tho April permit, which, ho nays is no (food, becauso tho dato for the Corbett-Britt light has boon set for tho last day in March He claims Corbett haa had matters too 'much his own way. becauso he has been given n.ls 1P, December. February and March whllo his eon Frankic has been sidetracked. side-tracked. "I have lived hero all my life says Piither Nell, "and I don't get a look-in; look-in; but I'll fix them." And tho fato of nuglllsm. according to Nell. la sealed In .Frisco. .