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Taken from evening edition of The New York World January 27, 1900....The Jim Jeffries - Sam McVea fight at Frisco was stopped in the 11th round due to a cut on McVea's face from an accidental clash of heads in round six....Referee Alex Greggains repeatedly interfered with the action and called the halt with three seconds left in a round McVea was clearly winning....Greggains scored six rounds for Jeffries and four for McVea....American champion Fireman Jim Flynn used his usual bully tactics to wear down Oakland Al Brown despite the admonitions of Referee Harry Stuart....By the eleventh round Brown was fighting strictly to survive to the last bell and probably should have had his corner throw in the towel...Al Kaufman has given out a statement saying that he will fight Canada's Johnny Jackson as soon as his injured arm which at present is in a plaster cast gets better....Kaufman says the injury was caused in his fight last month with Jeffries....At the Pelican Club Joe Willis boxes Gus Ruhlin ten rounds while in the two preliminary bouts Phil Schlossberg meets Dave Sawyer and Jim Savage boxes Jack Rowan....All arrangements have been completed for the world championship battle between title-holder Jack Johnson and British Empire champ Tommy Burns with the match set for one month from now at Hazard's Pavilion in Los Angeles...Both men have been in camp for more than a week and expect to be in top form by the day of the fight....Johnson has been made a prohibitive favourite in Harry Corbett's betting pools....