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Show Jl JEFFRIES UNDER KNIFE Operation Performed on Ailing Knee. Ordered by Surgeons to Remain Re-main in Bed for Six Days. Well-informed Sporting People Be lieve That His Eight With Munroe Will Be Indefinitely Postponed. SAN FRANCISCO June 15.-Advices received tonight from Harbin Springs, where Jim Jeffries Is training, train-ing, announce that an operation was performed this afternoon on the ailing kneo of tho champion. An incision was mado and a quantity of fluid drawn off. Joffrlcs, according to tho surgeon's order, will not bo permitted to leave his bed for six days, and It Is then likely that he wilt change his training quarters to tho Reliance Reli-ance club at Oakland, according to tho wishes of the management of tho Yoscm-lto Yoscm-lto club. Among well-informed Bporting peoplo hero thoro Is a sentiment that tho JeffrieB-Munroo JeffrieB-Munroo contest will bo Indefinitely postponed. post-poned. They point to tho fact that Jeffries Jef-fries has gone back during his porlod of Incapacity and his six clays' further confinement con-finement will bring him to a condition that will require moro than nine days to fit him for a meeting with Munroo on June 30, It Is concedod that Munroo la In splendid splen-did shape, and hns shown great improvement improve-ment and that consequently Jeffries may bo moro Inclined to lose his forfeit than to risk his championship honors |