ATHLETICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 147, 22 June 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

ATHLETICS.

The challenge issued to Irvine Sayles by McLachlan has not been accepted, and what promised to be a good "go" is therefore "off." I understand that an injury to one of Sayles* legs is the cause of his not accepting the challenge.

Jim Jeffries has left New York foi? San Francisco, says a 'Frisco paper. He has come to the Coast to think over and decide upon a $20,000 offer of Ed. Homan and Alec Greggains to fight Gus Ruhlin there in July, Homan, who is in New York, made the proposition to Jeffries and his manager, but the boilermaker refused to commit himself, and, while he said he believed he would accept the offer, also stated that he would reserve his decision xintil he reached this Coast. It is whispere don the iu(Side that JefEijies wil Aaccept the otfor, and that the big fight w ill I>o pulled off under the auspices of the San Francisco Athletic Club.

Bob J'itzsimmons has left the stage and fitted up a "gym" again at Eensonhurst, where he has gone into training, says the same paper. He intimates that he might meet Jeffries here this summer. Fitz' was out in <*audy interviews last week, in which he heralded his final and absolute withdrawal from the ring. The war horse,, however, ?s pawing the dirt once more.