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Show INTEREST IN JEFFRIES Sportsmen Are Anxl:::s to See Him Me-ca Sharkey or Miinrc:. . A. x The news that Jim Jeffries 1 likely to hook up with the winner of the Tom Sharkey-Jack Munroe bout, is causing Western sportdom to feel an Interest In the six-round bout scheduled for February Feb-ruary 27tb In Philadelphia, says "W. W. Naughton, the famous sporting expert. There are still a number of skeptics so far a Sharkey Is concerned. The persons per-sons referred to taxed tha sailor with Insincerity when he first barred San Francisco from bidding for the Shar-key-Munroe bout, and it was prophesied prophe-sied at the time that Sharkey and Munroe would never engage In anything any-thing very serious In the milling line. Even now, when the prospects are good for a clash between tha sailor and the miner In Philadelphia, the pessimists pessi-mists are saying- that there Is nothing but a fizzle In store. They base their arguments on the disappointing exhibition exhi-bition furnished by Sharkey and Peter Maher in the city named fifteen months ago. At that time the big fighters were forbidden to exchange awats with any force in them, and a wretched fiasco was the result. Irrespective of what happen at Philadelphia Phil-adelphia next Saturday night,' It is felt here that the Sharkey-Munro incident will not close without furnishing an opponent op-ponent for Jeffries. While very few capable pugUlstls of the pale-faced variety are being developed devel-oped nowadays, attention Is being frequently fre-quently drawn to the ring ' work of dark-skinned novices. Here- In Ban Francisco we have a couple of colored crackajacks, both in the middle-weight class. One fights under the name of "The Dixie Kid," and the other is known as Billy Woods. The latter, by the way, is Just back, from the pest-house, pest-house, where he was treated for smallpox, small-pox, so that the chance are he will have more than the color bar to contend con-tend with If he tries for a match with any one not of his race. The Col ma club Is talking1 of matching match-ing Woods and Larry Temple, and ho doubt they would furnish a gooc) attraction at-traction for the arena out in the meadows. mead-ows. If a good Eastern man cannot be secured for Woods it is probable that he will be signed with "Dixie Kid." although al-though the latter is, in reality, more of a welter than a middle-weight. |