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Show Ml SPITE IN THE FIGHT CAMP Chicago. May 2. What Is tho battle bat-tle going to turn out a contest and display of sour grapes or a real fight for the world's title? For plain and fancy backbiting, and knocking, and hammering, and recriminating, recrim-inating, recommend us to a lot of disgruntled fight managers and trainers. train-ers. Here are the latest bits of news: Billy Delaney. ex manager and handler hand-ler of J. J. Jeffries, Is going to help train Jack Johnson. Sam Fiupatrlck. late manager and handler of Johnson, Is heart and soul with Jeffries. , Several others are taking sides for no better or moro sufficient reasons. It looks llko sour grapes all around. Naturally the fighters are not going go-ing to suffer In the least. Each Is going to hear all of the 11 tie faults and little bits of scandal about the other, and the gossip of the camps of other days will be retailed and peddled ped-dled about the camps of the present. Saye Jeff Is Afraid. Take Delaney for Instance Ho ha? time and again been quoted as saying say-ing that Jeffries never could bo hammered ham-mered back Into fighting shape again and that he always was afraid of Johnson, this fear dating back to the night he saw the big black champion hammer Jack Jeffries Into helplessness. helpless-ness. Since tho week after Johnson whipped whip-ped Tommy Burns and tho clamor arose for Jeffries to return. Delaney has been discounting Jeffries' past, present and fu ure, and more than once stated he did not thick the Los Angeles man was the gamest thing that walked. Sam Fitzipatrlck has been on the same lay. Ever since the day that Jack Johnson John-son alleges that he discovered Sam's complicity and resented it by shaking him, which was soon after the fight with Burns In Australia, Sam has been swinging the sledge In tireless fashion. fash-ion. He has told the world that Johnson John-son does not belong and never will, that he Isn't game, can't fight and for months feared hinting at a match with Jeffries because he was afraid Johnson John-son would think ho was kidding him. Drop the Knocking. Fits is now matchmaker of a San Francisco club and on of Jeffries' Ftaunchest supporters for the coast. I Both Delaney nnd Fltz drop the sour I grape talk. They say they are sln-I sln-I cere. i What then ahout the remarks of the I past Wasn't Delaney one of Jeffries strongest boosters at one time, and didn't Fltz announce to all tho world that Johnson was the greatest ever? Of course, but that was In the past and those things are supposed to have bon forgotten. Delaney, who Is one of the cleanest men in the business and a man through and through for all that, has been trying to push Al Kaufman, the big Pacific const heavyweight, to he front for several years. Whether ho ever tried to effect a reconciliation with Jeffries 0r not Is not definitely known. Me probably did not for he Is not the sort of a man to mince matters. mat-ters. He is a good conditioner of men and excellent adviser and compaulon-nble compaulon-nble sort of a fellow. eH probably will be a uReful man to Johnson If Jack will listen to him. |