| Show CLAIMS THAT clack BALL DID SOME UNDERHAND WORK he says that munroe can get 1000 if the latter Stand sin front of him or jeffries Jef frics four rounds robert jim Jel Tries and their arrived in ogden tins noon altz i cry over the published leports ot the junioe event nt butte and abw oer alie that are being told by dark bull ex representative As as munroe so id fitzsimmons Fitza immons we him 1000 if he vill artand before either jeffries ea or myself for four rounds some of the papers seeni to infer that the affair at butte wa prearranged and that we had it up so that munroe would get a reputation and then we would add him to our company that ii not BO we do not want munroe and he cannot join OUT company all we want from him is that he accept our offer As to dark ball I 1 am done with him for good he i not ny managed mana gei and never vas aie warf more in the nature of a valet to me he did bom dirty work in bulte and I 1 found it out him he biad made himself solid with alic newspapermen of that city atour pre tended eliat the courtesies we extended i the were by him and of course when the trouble came they took his side of the stories and exaggerated even alie facts of the matter arc that he neglected our business shamefully at itutti and vent on alie quiet and secretly made an agreement with munroe to act as the manager we thought he was arranging with munroe to go on four round with jeffries Jef frics again but instead he was persuading munroe against it then he got intoxicated and while in that condition sanuk a friend of mine an old man CO years of age he afterward canie to the hotel where we were slopping and used and language until the hotel clerk threatened to have him arrested ditc itc continued bin abuse until I 1 saw that alic only way to quiet liim would be ta knock him down and ho I 1 hit him a little jolt the stories lie ha nince told arc all balne and despicable especially ithe one in which he states I 1 struck mv little girl with a razor strop the truth of that is that I 1 was playing with alie little girl and struck in fun over her head with the strop one end of the strop struck alie wall and bouncing back touched her face making a small mark it wa purely an accident and no one could have felt worse over the matter than I 1 dad A large audience had gathered to hear the big pugilist tell his story and they enjoyed it greatly especially libik av ot ilist rating the short arm jolt ri ii it T i ophalio in branding all the sensational I reports from butto as falacy |
