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Show WON'T FIGHT JIMCORBETT Jeffries Says the Former Champion Is Only Seeking Seek-ing Notoriety. Regarding the telegram from New Tork printed in the morning papers to the effect ef-fect that Jim Corbett had accepted an offer of-fer of the Hayes Valley Athletic club of San Francisco for a S20.000 purse for a fight for the championship of the world between htm and Jeffries, the big champion cham-pion today said "I don't know anything about this club, and besides, that is no money to offer me to fight. This is Just a proposition on the part of Corbett to get a little cheap advertising ad-vertising for hie show. He can accept 2 if he wants to; that won't make any difference dif-ference with ni 1 am making plenty of money now. and I wouldn't quit my tour now to fight Corbett or any one else. "I have whipped all of these fellows, and what I want is for them to bring out some ore I haven't whipped." "Would you nght Corbett again?" was asked. "Yes," Jeffries said, "if the money came right." |