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Show Jack Clifford Denounces Bishop 1 Claims Manager Wanted Him to Lose to Jack Cordell Two Weeks Ago. ; MARYSVILLE, Cal.. March 6. Jack Clifford charges that Biddy Bishop, who was his manager, seemed to want him to lose to Jack Cordell. The boxers fought at Marysvllle two weeks ago, the bout going twenty rounds and Cordell getting the decision. Grass Valley backed Clifford to a man. Mark Shaughncssy, who mado the match, was the referee who awarded award-ed the victory to Cordell. The word was passed along the line to those In the know In this city that Cordell couldn't lose. Clifford says: "My ex-manager, Biddy Bishop, led me to believe that Cordell was easy game and that I would have no trouble whatever In putting him out. Stuff of this kind coming from my own manager led me to be careless and indifferent In my training and I neglected many things that I would not havo overlooked over-looked had I been 'put wise' as to the ability of my opponent. I had never seen Cordell before I entered the ring that night, and I told Bishop so. 1 further told him that I was suffering from a cold and that if Cordell was a hard man I wanted a week or ten days moro to get over my Indisposition. Indisposi-tion. He replied by saying that there was nothing to It and that I could lick him easily without training. "No sooner would we come together than Shaughnessy, the referee, would come strutting around and command us to break. Often this would happen before be-fore we had laid hands' on each other, and yet my manager permitted It to go on without a protest, which leads me to think that It was a job concocted for Cordell to win. At this distance It looks to me like a scheme to beat mo and my friends out of the money. "1 will wager anything that I can . defeat Cordell under straight Marquis of Queensberry rules, which provides for hitting in the clinches with ono hand free, and I hope that he will be fair and manly enough to give me a return match, which I think I am entitled en-titled to by all the rules of the game and by all precedents." |