Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-11-03 | Page 3 | Gans Says He Has Quit the Fight Game

RANS GANS SAYS HE HAS QUIT THE FIGHT GAME los angeles nov 3 A telegram of colv seven words lying upon the ma hovany desk in jim jeffries private office yest yesterday erlay afternoon told a story around which vatch volumes of ring history coula be written the important bit of yellow paper wag ivas dated baltimore it was vas a mes vago from joe gans the former lightweight w igat cham champion plon and was addressed to jeffries the significant Jn information tion conveyed was as follows have quit the game cannot consider proposition less lees than six months ago who would have predicted gans completo complete in so short a time ahat man inan would have been railroaded to tie cae pugilistic foolish yards bards jim barry was hard at work for his coming fight yesterday afternoon at vernon lie he played handball thirty minutes and boxed four rounds with 0 george erge e rge herberts flynn took to the oiled roads on the east side for an eight milo run nud in the afternoon the fighting boxed six rounds with okeefe OKe ete