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Show c30D ICSES': ITiSIGHIFORHOT - ( FOLLOWERS; TOP-NOTCHERS TRAINING Fitzsimnlo3s'Ilc-Entra:cc i - Scared Off ;Evcryt:3y in "Middle Class Except Ex-cept Jack O'Brien. t- "Not In' a long, Iqng time hare there been 'so many good fights In, prospect .as at present. Champion Jeffries Is billed to : fight .Corbett again. Fltzsim-.rhona Fltzsim-.rhona will , take on "Philadelphia, Jack O'Brien In an effort to squelch the lat- very near being cha"m9lon. didn't IT Anyway, 'Corbett' will not get over the beating I gave him very soon. I won that fight all the way. and I'll bet that when Tuthill and 'Corbett see you they Will tell you the same thing. 'Corbett' said himself that he was pretty lucky. I bad him going a dozen times. The gong caved him for sure In the eighteenth eight-eenth round. I hit him a right-hand punch In the stomach and he fell on his face. Everybody thought it was all over, and started t leave the building. He just 'got on his feet as the bell rang. "When I went back to my corner I told my seconds that I felt as strong as a bull and that I thought I would go In and finish 'Corbett in the next round. They advised me otherwise, saying that I had the light won all the way, and there was no use tn my taking tak-ing any chances. Everybody around the ring told me to hold back, too, as I had won easily. When the referee called the bout a draw the crowd tried hard to get at him. The beat of all was that in the sixteenth round one of my seconds said to the referee: It couldn't bei a better fight,' and the referee said There was nothing to it but Eddie.' "The reason 'Corbett' was not given the worst of it was because he Is matched to meet McGovern.. The club wanted me to fight McGovern, but I will take a rest first." . ifcrs claim to the middle-weight chatn-pionship, chatn-pionship, and Terry McGovern and "Young: Corbett" win face each other galn in San Francisco If present plana do not fall. It would be. difficult to frame up three better matches. Undoubtedly the greatest interest -.-centers in the match between Fltzsim- tnoivs and O'Brien, for the reason that Fltif lahmons Is coming back to the midtVe-welght limit. 168 pounds, a .di- . vlsldJn that he left a dozen years ago. The 1 great, majority of sport followers weraV surrlsed . when Fits announced ht' wiilingnees to taakle- any of the rhiddle-weight division. Reports have . gone out that the "old man" has grown hefty of late years,, and that it will take a miracle. In the way of training to get him down to weight. Tet Fits says he can do 158 pounds and never lurn a hair in the process. ' O'Brien Has, His Nerve. - 5 .There were several claimants to the middle-weight honor, but it seems that the-claims of all of them were based on the theory that Fits bad Quit this , division for good. When Fits said that he would defend hie-title, for he won It In the fight with Jack Dempsey and never really -relinquished it. Tommy Hyah got told feet right', away, and McCoy decided that he was not ready to fight Fits Just now. O'Brien la the - only one who had the nerve to etay his . ground. The Phlladelphlan Is not believed be-lieved to be as good a man as McCoy. . and only here and there can be found . one who believes that he has a ghost of a show against the Americanized Cor- nishman. If reports from Portland, Or., are true," Jimmy Brltt. the clever California Califor-nia light-weight, got a mighty raw deal, In his go with Jack O'Keefe of Chicago. Referee Grant gave the decision to O'Keefe,- when- nearly every spectator thought that Brltt had all the best of the boot. The betting'war In accord with the theory of. fake, as $15,000 of O'Keefe money was dumped Into the ring late in the day of the fight, after edds of 2 to-1 on Brltt bad gone begging beg-ging all day. - Hanlon'a Version. Eddie Hanlon, the Calif ornian, Vho fpid j- Young Corbett" off for twenty nJartlU in San Francisco, and who. If repoHs be true, had the better of the frrarement, wrote to a friend aa follows fol-lows about the fight: -I would have written you sooner, only' that 1 was busy getting ready for my bout with 'Young Corbett I came : |