| Show V r SAYS I W t Declares That a Match latchi for Him Cannot be lie round in the World DOWNFALL OF FITZSIMMONS Looks Loo s Ulc Lile lII C Champion Had al Thrown the thc theOld Old Olti Man Ian Over for Jim Will Travel Together To A dispatch from Chicago aSs saya Jim Corbett Cor belt arrived here today from tram tho thu west weal ent with his hl lie He looked exceptionally welt well and stepped around the lobby BH as If It he hind had never been Leen a n amile amile mile of at Jeffries punches only eight el ht tin ako lie He bore Lore no 10 marks Regard RegardIng Ing lag his for tor the time future he Raid said I 1 urn tim going to cn my mm II wife wit to New Nell York from here anti and I go to St Louis Loul From there after atler I finish up my engagement I 1 go to New York I shall be lie here un until until til UI Wednesday It la is sure I guess that hat Jeff Jert and I will travel together I should not nut wonder It If we wc had hind a play written for lor forus lorus forUs us lie He will come comae east In September I 1 believe Corbett will 1111 enter the tho ring again If It tin timi proper opportunity shall offer after Feel of or those bleep muscles muscle said paid he anti ana then thell tell me If It It would could not be u a shame to permit myself to retrograde become comparatively on the theory theor that will never take lake on an nn another another other match Whatever I do I whether I ever eler again tee see the Inside of ot a n ed cd circle or not I Intend to keep my amy myself self by b ample and dally daily exercise In III the condition I have han reached by L so much of ot hardest work I wits a n better betterman betterman betterman man than ever when hen I fought Jeffries the last time lime but he too was tas better by b tar far than when I first met him I doubt If It there therl ever can con be found while Is la In his present grand physical condition a boxer who can do tin him The more I think about him and hut his hi style l and I had abundance of at time on the train to do that pondering the themore more I 1 admire him He lie Is n a great light fight fighter er Ir and worthy of at every praise for tor skill and strength hut but he lie was too for tor forme torme forme me In spite of ot my m own training to meet that vety vel ei condition It was as that awful punch In the time second round that did me inc I knew then I J was woe done for tor but the thought rushed through my lilY mind that I 1 must do my III best that my In friends es especially especially peel nil those tell few fe that thought I hail had hada haila a chance chanco to win must not think I J Ia was wasn n a quitter Unit that I 1 must put up UI III the gum pirn est cst light fight of ot which I was as capable and a fight figh t to 10 the second of ot endurance After Arter the battle bottle was as over oer my m greatest Is that my m friends still are arem my m friends mind that critics agree I did my lily best Next to 10 that kindly display of ot feeling the greatest pleasure I have Is In III the knowledge that I 1 have ha 0 recovered ered ore my health That wan worth the time anti trouble of ot training On the same Mme train during all nil the four tour fouras days as trip from San Francl I Francisco co come Robert Hobert Fitzsimmons Who helped train Jeffries Jerie but there thero was no sociability on the tho way say wa between Jim anti Bob They do not speak penk as aM they the meet met and they carefully avoided availed each other oilier on the train exchanging not 1101 one word A year par ngo nAO Fita was Ins the time Idol 1111 of ot the coast const When ho lie entered the ring to 10 engage Jeffries In battle he was y re received with more enthusiasm than wag lila his opponent After ter the tight fight when he lie throw threw his gloves to the crowd ahil sold he had fought his last battle ho he wall ns cheered so long anti loud that ho he was wall then Ihn greater In III defeat than Ihan was Jeffries In victory not only In Son hut lint throughout the th States Nn he hns ha lot lost lo t his popularity On the night of at tho the big fight hI crawled through h the ropes m n mi one ono of ot Jeffries seconds without receiving n a han He lie hoped to be Ut Introduced anti be risked to tomake tomake tomake make n a few tell remarks but hp h was wa not so en honored In III the corner he lie acted the therole therol role rol of or a common towel lowel Instead of ot ns oi expected nut limit the most humiliating part hart he hr hm wn subjected f to towns vraM when Jeff anti ere om each Inh other In th renter of or the th ring after niter the fight Fit Fitz stood aloof for tor a II fw t en moment then with n a contemptuous grin grill on hl his freckled frice fn he lie walked ov over Opt r to 10 Jeff and sill Come Cemeon on This who win was wa standing by and turning to 10 Fits 1 be lie raid aid You ou shut un no and and step beck back HK not your butt hUlt In Hob Itoh mastic mads no ito reply hut but crawled out of or the ring u he lie hail had crawled Into It II unnoticed anti and for or Now Nol ow hr he h h has hila s l been en drop 11 for tor exhibition partner In favor of ot bet belt I |
