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Show lias More Money Than He Can Spend During Life Time. LIKES TO FISH AND HUNT: IS FOND OF GAMBLING Never Did Like lo Fight and Oared Less for Popularity. Pop-ularity. Tribune Special Sporting Service. SAN FRANCISCO. March 30. According Accord-ing to Eddie Graney. Jim Jeffries will never fight again, and Graney offers to bet $1000 on tho proposition. Graney recently re-cently spent a whole week with Jeffries. Me says: "Why should JefT light again? He has all the money he will ever need. These days lighters light for money and not for glory. As he has plenty of the mazunia why should ho go back Into the ring? Why, I was told that his mother alone is worth a quarter of a million. Years ago sho bought some real cstato lu the city limits, and this Is worth ten times what sho paid for it. Jeff's mother moth-er docs not want him to light, nor docs his wife, and lie Is very fond of both of them. Jeff can have anything his mother lias got. but he Is quite independent indepen-dent of her. That alfalfa ranch which he bought has trebled in value, but he Is not living on it. He moved Into Los Angeles, where he has a nice home. Just now ho Is not doing anything, though I think ho will go Into business. Jeff is looking line. Ho could fit himself for a fight without much effort." "Then you talked with him about his future?" "Yes, wo had quite a chat," retorted Eddie. "Jim Is not a fellow who wlil talk to Tom. Dick and Harry, but he loosened up to me. In so many words ho said he was through. He mentioned that Billy Dclancy wanted him to light Squires, and while he wns very fond of his old trainer, ami would do most anything any-thing for him, Jeff said ho couldn't sco his way clear- to go back Into tho ring. Great a fighter as Jeff was, ho was never stuck on the sport. There was something aboui it be didn't care for. Perhaps it was tho limelight. Publicity was distasteful 10 him. Ho Is never happier than when he is oft in the country with a few friends hunting, fishing or ranching. Outdoor Out-door life Is to his liking. Fighters like Jim Corbett nnd Kid McCoy love excitement ex-citement and adoration. Tho cheers of the crowd are music to their ears. Corbett Cor-bett Is right at homo on Broadway ox-tending ox-tending tho glad hand to this one and that one. The gay life of a big city appeals ap-peals to liliru Jeffries is a different sort.' ' Jeff look Eddie out to tho races. The ex-champlon has a fondness for gambling, gam-bling, especially at cards. On this day he parleyed $S Into $000 and went home happy as a child with a new toy. |