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Show wm WILL IT FIGHT FOR COFFROTH Champion, Never Eager to Fight, Declines Go With . Labor Day Winner. CinCAGO, Sept. 20. Jess Willard may battle again, but it won't be Tor Jim Coffroth of the Pacific coast. (Joffroth made an offer while here recently. He said he would like to put on a championship battle at the Tiajuana race track. He would like to secure the services of Jess Willard, matching him with the winner of the Labor Day battle between Carl Morris and Fred Fulton. The Pacific coast man said he would turn the match, if he got it, over to Gregory Mitchell, who would promote it. He made no direct bid, but said he would after he saw how impressively impressive-ly the winner at Canton, Ohio, came through. Desiring a direct answer, we wired Willard on the proposition, stating the facts as they were. Tho champion answered: an-swered: "I boxed for Coffroth once and got a most unsatisfactory deal. Would hardly consider another one.7' Now that he is controlling manager of a race track, Jimmy Coilroth, once known as the most daring of light promoters, has switched allegiance Altogether. Al-together. While still taking a deep interest in the fight game and insisting that he may still be a bidder some day for some of the big plums that mav be lying around, Jim is all horse these days. "Not sorry then, Jim, that they pif the squelcher on you on the const V he-was answered just before he left fcr Saratoga to drum up a Hock of entries for Tia.iuana stakes. "Well, yes and no," he answered doubtfully. "You know, when a man's once a fight promoter he's al-wars al-wars scheming what he might do, even though he is out of the game. Occasionally, Occa-sionally, even in the midst of all the turmoil and troubles incident to handling han-dling of a big race track proposition, I indulge myself with a. little dream about what 1 might do with a Will.-ird-Morris fight or a Leonard-White battle or something of the sort. "On the whole, though, tho life of a fight promoter is not a happy one. Take my last few years in Sau Francisco Fran-cisco as an example. While 1 was the only one there that actually handled the real big lights, I always had a bidder against nie that forced me lo pay top prices for every lighter that came along. A lot of ihis was spite work, but I had to see the raises just the same. "One of the last big ones I handled before the old law was knocked out was the battle between Willie i.'itchic and Tommy Murphy in l!)ll. T hail no end of trouble in swinging this battle to a successful conchibion. After we had counted up J discovered I was ex-aetlv ex-aetlv ft 1 J 00 to the good. "Fair enough, you may sny. but I li'Jrt t think so. I worked on' tins for four months, H ii 1 1 that i s ii t im u'' 1 1 I ro fi t' j for four months' work. Miinl you, Unit doesn't take into accont Mm 'mnnev 1 spent :i round town during (lit: jour months. ' ' CofYroth donMs if n b2 b.-iltlc could he made a pnyintf proposition in southern south-ern (. a Worn in under the present unsettled un-settled condition). |