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From The Chicago Daily News - June 1896....Bob Fitzsimons says he's been contacted by the Sanders camp to help train the big South Afrikan for his fight with Jeffries but has not decided one way or the other....Jack Johnson comments in the Chicago press he expects Jim Jeffries to make short work of Corrie Sanders leaving the way open for himself later this year or early next....Mike Schreck is trying to lure Tommy Burns down from Canada to meet him in Chicago if his challenge to Gus Ruhlin is ignored but local boy John Willie wants another crack at the Cincinnati Dutchman....
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"...There were Giants in Those Days.."
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