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Show THIS IS IT k f Sailor Tom Sharkeya Units khi 1 Man Who Gave Jeff Hisl Hardest Battle Retires MP From Roped Arena, ffll Typhoid Fever Lands the KnMfif Blow That Champion Jeffrie. Sj Failed to Score. 9L NEW YORK. Nov. 12.-Tom Sharker Hi the fighting 1 marine, who has nertrW! quailed beforo the best fighters of uJB& day, who has met them all, and the oriy'lffli'' man who over stood Jeffrlea off f0r'H twenty-five rounds, gave him the touA-HL est fight of his life, and came out -rKkflH his senses about him, has retired from'B"-the from'B"-the ring. JBV The fighting marine has Just ttor orcd from an attack of typhoid fev,r HO Ho said last night: mer-f. "I know that my best dayo are cm Hit and although I feel good and It (Zlil as though 1 could fight aa good as ewT"! I know that I'm not there. After n 'Hi fight with Munroe I knew (hat I h7$ 3M gone back. You know a man haj M illy day, and If he doeon't get right to u4lL' top then there Is no use keeping atltMS until you are old enough to play .antiillll Claus. jlf "I'm satisfied with my record. NoneMil of these fellows ever gave Jeff the nghtsfli I gave him. They may all be great men Mil but I have yet to see the man who hulflp gone ihe limit with him and haveaclosewi decision given. Tve lost fights, too, ya'IKT but I have no kick coming. 'SF 'They never give a new-comer credil'ntf for his fighting. I had to go with Jettfflf twenty-five rounds before they wouM'Ifc believe I could fight. It's the same vlthiltt Brltt. On the level, they can't btUevtlll that he licked Oanw. You see. they gKjWi the Idea in their heads that the chut-lt plon of a class must be good fortvetvK? and no matter what sort of "a flght"rjR beats him, the sports think It must WlK a fluke or something on that order. Hf "I have a kid brother here now vfcogK will surprise some pf them soon.' con-IE tlnued Tom, looking around. "I on'tfK3 let him go In any of these Blx-rouciJE bouts, though. No, he muet fight flfueulK or twenty-round fights. I don't bQerW-In bQerW-In the short bouts. A man cannot EttJKi going In that time. I hope the gactjE starts up here In New Yprk soon, arjjE then I'll get that kid going. Do I thlskK there's a chance of Jeff ever losing kltjE title? No, sir, not yet; not a chance l&K the world. B! "The only one they have In view norjRJ is Johnson, and he has no more "ctE,Hr boxing Jeffries than one of ray bartea3-K: ers has. I used to spar with that fcUowJf out in Denver years ago, and he dona'tlt like the game. Every time I hit him InK the ribs he yelped. That sort of a rcanKJ I can't beat the big fellow. It looks toctiE as though Jeff will carry the title to UuK grave. He's too good a man for the M-?jK lows nowadays, and there's none com-jK lng, either. You know the game 1K quiet now, and when they have boxinfdK eo limited there's no chance for younJHC fellows coming up. They don't get titjflf chance, don't you sec? lUi "Well, I'll never bother him for uK other go. This slokness put me out c!H the going. I weighed 20C before I taken sick, and when I got up oot c'JK bed a week or so ago I tipped the beimjfc at 164 pounds. That's lighter than IwufflB In my first fight years ago. "In the future I'll Just read abou these coming champions. My days ir -Wj over, and this goes. There's no Pltr farewell in this." sH Titus in tho Auto Game. IK Fred J. Titus, the husband of Edc'IBI May, the actress, who has been """HMP ed with the Pope-Toledo Autornobll factory In Toledo, is gdttlng naif ttj enter the racing game. Titus ntercjj; the factory as an apprentice and dm hard work and careful study during past nix months has gained a fair Mnp of automobile construction, which, c9m;B blned with hl9 unquestioned nerve, ujjb, proved by his record-breaking worlcU the bicycle racing game, should fit for tho position of pilot on a fast car. |