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HAPPY SPORTS ♦ .Think Cincinnati Fight Goes Sure.Pictures Will Be Taken—Preparations for the Go Now Fleischmann Has Issued PermitThe sports at Cincinnati were well i pleased yestcrdnj over the announcement j that Mayor Fleischmann of CInc!nnatl I had granted the Saenccrfcat club n per-| mil to hold file Joffrfcs-Huhllu rontest on / February 15th- They are of the opinion , that the battle 5? now almost a certainty. Despite the opposition which may yet * -arise prom'nent sport* are offering to wager any pnrt of Jfi.OOO at liberal odds that the combat will come off.Although t lie mill I* still twenty day a away pi epn rations are already being made to visit the scene of the tight. Ticket? ] will be placed bn sale In Cincinnati dur* Ins the coming week. MJim” Wnkely, 4'AV Smith, Warren Lewi*, ♦Tom” O'Rotirfcc, ••Sam” Fitzpatrick. Mliton ] Rohlec. Martin Cowan. Joe” Vendfc am! i Billy” Gray are nrrankdng parties to I witness tho ga Billy Brady wtW much elated when he received word that tho Mayor had eranted the license. Brady ’ will b»nve for ^InHmmtl on February tit is.He pays: Both JeTrfn* and Rtihlln lime 1 , been training vigorously. Jeffries Is l» . j far better condition than he has hern nt any lime since he won the championship • from 'Bob* Fitzsimmons. According to I . present Indications n great crowd will be i at the ringside. The bunding where the i contest will he held will be safe In every !! parti ml nr. Every patron will have his ., regular sunt and there will be no *crnnv bilng for rijrJco location*. I have untch-* cd Frank Child* and “Denver Ed” Martin, the colored heavy weights, to meet In ther preliminary bouts of ten rounds. Although . pictures of the ficht will be token there . is no truth In the report that the mill , will be held In the dny t*me. Wo have ‘ arranged for the proper lights and the picture* will be taken nt night,M Ro*« O’Neil, who Accompanied Jeffries i to Europe, has received a letter from Billy” Delaney, the champion's trainer, i In .which ho says: Jeffrie* Is a lowly,* but surely, rounding Into form. We are* located nt Price’s hill. Just outride of CIn-* : clnnntl. Jeffries Is doing a lot of road i -, work and la training like a beaver. I■ have no fear of the result. I think It I** all over, but tlio explanations. But mind* you, we are not holding Ruhlln too chcnp-? ly. Jeffries likes handball. We have* built a court and \JcfT devotes two or three hours each day to the port. Thobouts between 'Jim”- and 'Bob* Armstrong are spirited. They go at each otk- 1 er for all they are worth.”*
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Syracuse Sunday Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Sun, Jan 27, 1901
Page 22
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