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=JEFF AND FITZHERE LAST NIGHT(Continued from Page Ore.)giants capable, but the affair w/s interesting enough to please the eLOwd. Jn the last round Fitzsimmons wan floored, but there was no attempt made to conceal the fact that this wy* nerely a pantomime.Fighters Interviewed.Both of the men were interviewed in their tooihb at the Terre Hau‘ house by a reporter of The Tribune, end talked of their plans, telliner also something of themselves. Fitzsimmons, in response to the knock, yelled, ‘'Come fn,” and when the reporter entered th?: room, immediately commenced to make himself agreeable. He was busy making final preparations to leave for the hall where the exhibition was to take place, but talked as he moved about. The first thing that one noticed on entering the place was a Ringtailed spider monkey. This was tied to the leg of the wash stand in the bath room, and was busy examining the soap, and the first tjues-ion addressed to the champion was: “What are you doing with the monkey?” MI'm taking it home to thr bovs.” It looked like most monkeys do, but it was perfectly clean and when conversation commenced about it Fitzsimmons took it in hfs arms playing with it. letting it hug him. and crawl all over him. Instead of talking of prize fighting Fitzsimmons seemed only interested in the one subject of getting home and the n*xt statement he made in explanation of his taking the monkey home to the boy. was that he would leave for his home in the morning.Big Fellows Separate.Fitzsimmons was asked something about his plans. He said, “Well, tomorrow morning we leave for the Hast. Jeffries will go as far as Columbus, and stop there while I shall go on to New York, and to my home at Bensonhurst on Long Island Sound. I have somebuMness matters to look after, on the trip Ka*t, and there will lc a weeks lay off by both of us. Then we will start on a bam storming trip, such as the one we have just tjhiished. through Pennsylvania.“ Have you auy plans for tilting, in the near future?” Not till alter we ihiUh our tup, llien it any v ne to right I would be willing, it ihe terms could be satisfactorily arranged.” •*Hon about ;he wav the newspaper* ha\e been rubbing it into j you, N*nre \ ou started on th’* trip? What Jo you think ot »t?v “1 think that ihcv have been jmblishing a lot of lie.'* about *the Knouirer thi morn-mg bad a story to the effect that Jeff-vie^ in letting Jack Monroe stay three tound* at Hutte. ta.s all a put up job. and that my break with (lark Hall was a part of the scheme. The scheme, as the paper outliued it, was that we \e»e \w*% advert Uiug Munroe in order to get him started out on a money making expedition, in which we were to getper oen*. ot' the proceed*, and he 40. the obtect ol that lie was to make themsehes good tor having taken up J*ck Munroe. and having boosted him as a great tighter, when a matter of fact. he Unt. JetTvios could have whipped him in one round, but the pre-iimiuane had been so disappointingto the audience, that nisjht at Butte, that the manager of the theater begged \Ieff‘ to Irt the fellow 'day, to plea-« the crowd and Metf' did. Then the referee instead ot merely giving the man the *100, which he was to act if hr staged tour rounds, gave him the decision. It was a clear steal, and he afterwards ^aul that he did not givethfit vlccision.”JetVries at tir-t appeared disinclined to talk to newspaper men; but He after ward* changed his mind and talkedfreeiy ot the various events in thesporting world connected with himself. In regard to Corbett’s recent moves he said: “They are all grandstand plays, and Corbett is trying to get me to advertise him in his theatrical venture; something I shall not do.” “The people will find Corbet* out some day,*’ he added. “He don’t want to fight. If he did, I should make arrangements to meet him. Here is a sample of his work.*’ He took from his pocket a telegram received this morning from the Chicago American, which said: “How about it, can 3-011 and will you, fight, Corbett makes good.” “That is all a put up job on his part, to make me advertise him a little more. The paper says that $25,000 has been put up. but this is the first news I have received of it.“No, my father is not a preacher,” Jeffries said when asked if that was the case, “and he never was, and farther than that, he is not a church member.”Both men are exceedingly bitter at the recent attacks which the press has made on them and tne roasting they got in St. Louis for alleged dissipation particularly galls them. Fitzsimmons said: “I have not drank to amount to anything since I was married nine years ago. and F have never since that time been in a house with a shady reputation. All this stuff is nice literature f.,.r my wife to read about me. Jeffries also asserted that the St. Louis story was a lie.The extensive interview published in the Terre Haute Gazette yesterday afternoon, purporting to have been had with the fighters, leads one to wonder how' an interview in the hotel of the gentlemen could be obtained and printed before the gentlemen actually arrived at that hotel. The Gazette was printed at 4 o’clock and the men did not arrive here till 7, yet their appearance as they entered the lobby was described, or at least an attempted description of it was tried, and the paper even ventured on the fact that the men created 'considerable curiosity. to loungers about the hotel office. This was about on a par with an interview with Bryan, published last week, in the same paper, when no representative from it had seen Bryan at all. or even knew rill after he was gone, or at least a few moments before he left.Fighters Tackle Booze.Jeffries upheld his record as a booze-fighter” by visiting a prominent Wabash avenue saloon almost immediately after the tight. While he drank considerably he did not lose control of himself. He talked freelv with men in the erowd about him, tilling stories oi his many experiences since he came before rhe eye of the public.
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Terre Haute Daily Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sun, Feb 22, 1903
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
John H.
IL, USA 07 Apr 2018
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