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Show GANS, NOW CWiPION, HHS EARNED A FORTUNE NEW YO&X. Jan. Si. Omi days arc ahead for tha lighting same Fits trnmons ia matched with Tommy Burns Dana with Jimmy Britt Murphy with Herman or Corbett and poaribly SqnirM with O 'Brian and Mallody with the next beat of the welter-weights. Fighting ia more popular today, ia spite of restrictions in many States, than it has ever been before. Purses are bigger. Except in the heaTy-weight dirtsion new championship aspirants are appearing erery week. "Ill settle all questions between Britt and myself bv beatine him next time we meet," Raid Joe Oans last night. "I'll go out to Nevada by March 1, which my contract demands, and do my regular training there. "My other fight with Britt was a fake. " It was even rehearsed beforehand before-hand to make sure it would go off all right. Thev sav Patti nor Irving, nor none of them actors, ever had-anything on Britt and me the way we did it. "That was when I was "'jfrHer- ford, before I made up my mind to fight for myseli, and fight on the level, and try to get right with the people. Herford Fixed It. "At first the plan waa for Britt to win. Herford fixed it up that way. I waa to get 67 14 per cent of the puree for losing. Bnt I wouldn't stand for that. I told Herford that I'd go ont and win any way. 80 he had to change it, and fix it for me to win from Britt on a foul. Britt got the 6"Vi per cent then for losing. He was to make a f' ;reat fight for five rounds and then oie his head and foul me. Graney was to give the decision. It all went off the way we rehearaed it. Wo got 32 '-a per cent for our end, and we made something some-thing on the betting. It was not very much about S5000. "I didn't get anything 'worth mentioning men-tioning out of my fake fights. It was just like there was four or five sieves above me, and all the money had to be poured down through them. Each sieve held some of it, and the dump at the bottom that I got was mighty small. Decided to Be Honest. "When I got free from Herford I made up my mind to be straight the way I wanted to be and cut loose from everything crooked. It feels mighty good to hear people all over the country talk to me like they have confidence in me. Jt makes a big difference. And it pavs to be straight, too. In the last rear I have fought for purses aggregating aggregat-ing $72.XrO, and my share has been enough to make me independent. " Britt T Well. 1 don't fig"', much on his heating me. .1 tried to force htm to fiebt me in Frisco after I left Her ford, and he wouldn't do it. T toll everybody about the fake, and he nn!y denied it first, and then roasted mv as a ' self confessed faker.' "I expect to beat P-ritt, all rihr. He's a more clever boxer than Hermau or Nelson, hut he isn't aggressive or dangerous enough to make me worry. After that I'll fight the rest of 'the light weights. Gardner and Harry Lewis are in line. Willing to Fight. "As tor Nelson. I '111 willing to fight him any time, and he knows it. lie took 7o per cent of the purse wh'-n 1 beat him at (.ioldfield. I'll do be;tt-r bv him. I'll take ln.QOO of the M.i"iu purse offered at Tonopah and lit the other 30.mo g1 to the winner. Or. I '11 take t')5 per cent and l t him have ."5 per cent straight. "If Nelson refuses both of these offers he wtil prove that he doesn't I want to tight me. He can take ..iiyi0 and the light weight championship if ne beats rr.e. That 's good enough. I should think, if he really thinks he Ins .1 chance and isn't afraid to try." BOWLING DON'TS. Here are a few bowling doni's lon't lof; tne ball. lon't miss the head pin Ion't use too heavy a ha',' ' lon't lift the hall too hlen 0,0 kwar.l. I'on't be overanxious, lake vour time. I )tn' t us" too much speed, be urate IVn't deliver the ball with u shori-ann twlng Pon't take too lor.g a run: It may unbalance un-balance you. ton't get the m.lex finger too close to the second finger 1 Don't pay any attention to r: e leers or I cheers of lookers-on. hut ke.-p ..-.ir I nerves concentrated steadily on t fe ga::.". J especially your own Rain |