| Show AND JEWRIES they will meet in the ring within the next two months it has been well known for some time trtat the yosemite Yose mito athletic club bag great efforts to induce the lanky cornishman to meet jaffries in ban francisco according to a well informed sporting man these efforts have been crowned with success the yosemite club il is said has made rit the most tempting offer the story goes that the landlord ot bath has been guaranteed besides his training and traveling expenses to dearies before alio club with he privilege of taking 35 cent of the entire gross rec cipta of the fight in case alio cornishman lobes it ho should win ca per cent will be hh bhare of the gros receipts geould tha fight draw a house which it surely would fitzsimmons share in case lie proved the winner would be about the losing end of the net him something like in relation to a fight between tho two great sluggers otto hoto makes tho following comment in the denver IW it bigini to look as if after a few more days 0 f wrangling Jel Trea and fatz wn ae matched tha contention of the australian that he ia entitled to half alia gate receipt a or rather half of tle share that will be allotted to the rather apking a great deal from tho champion it will bo remembered that when the first match was made between jeffries and fitz the latler insisted on 65 per cent of the lighters share win or lose jeffries in order to get the chance to win tho championship agreed to these unheard of now it ought to be jeirles who should say to altz lets haye the samo terms we had the last time aply I 1 will taip aha yon received in the coming match weal know that jeff and fit will draw ono of the largest gathering ever assembled to witness js fight wo also know that I 1 without fitz on one end of the bout jeff could not draw the money therefore some of the frienda of the red topped fighter will arguo that as it two to make a match fitz a entitled to all he asks for this is very true and were I 1 in a position to dictate to Jell ries would advise his ac the fitzsimmons proposition but delaney and others in the wake of the champion are not prepared to stand silently by and allow fitz to dictate terms in every contest he enters they call the lanky australian a pinhead and other pet names but it begins to appear that in so far aa looking after the money interest in a match he is fully able to look after himself nothing like experience after all it wises up a sucker fast ten yearn ago when tha writer had the management of fitzsimmons poor old bob did not know enough to come in out of the wet in fact he would have met any man in the country in a four round bout for that is the eum ho was receiving per week in those days and meeting all comers every night what a look of would come over hla face if any one offered him that amount today fitz however ia not a had fellows and is entitled to all he can get ono thing is quite certain that he will draw with for every 1 that sharkey would lna drawn and therefore is entitled to a little better percentage than tho sailor its a cinch however the positions of jeffries Jef frics and fitz were ire versed the latter would never in a thousand years agree to the money of ano decision fitz ha got an outside chance to win and if he ha any gambling blood in hia veina at all ho ought to take that chance and allow the money go 03 per cent to the winner and 35 per cent to the loser a pretty far prop oai tion rather than jose the match however jeff will undoubtedly agree to cut the money figuring that a halt a copat at all the match if arranged will take place in sn francisco as manager kennedy ja i now in new york arranging the details of tho bame |
