The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-27
COMMENT ON THE FIGHT.
Description Of the heavyweight Con-
test by Two San Francisco
Papers.
The Writers Dc Not Agree on All
Points In Their Esti-
mates.
{ was . Model Scrap for Several Rounds
Tactics Adopted by Each of
the Mon.

The San Francisco Examiner, the morn
ing after the tight, said; The Corbett'
Jackson fight last night started in to be 9
model contest. The oleverness Of the two
mon was shown from the moment they en-
tered the ring. Corbett showed up bravely
and confidently, and Jackson fought admir-
ably. He was not ~ skillful as his white
adversary, but he weighed fifteen or twenty
pounds more and that with the experience
he has had made things pretty even. There
Wa . good. enthusiastic crowd there, Just
spoush to AL the hall comfortably, and
they came with their interest at the highest
pitch-prepared to be immensely pleased
and enormously entertained. So for twen-
ty.fve rounds the fight was = brilliant sue
cess, Had either of the mon been knocked
out there, the contest would have gone
down to history a. the finest ever fought in
California.
At last they cams-Jackson looking as
black and smooth as An ebony statue, and
Corbett A. fresh and perfect as a Greek god
taking q sun bath. jackson looked much
larger and stronger, and people thought
for . moment that it was only going to be
q few minutes before another scalp would
hang at his belt.
They didn't guess it that time.
Corbett's brilliant boxing showed from
the FIRST round. The two moved about tho
ring lithely az two snakes and as cautiously
as two men fighting for $4,000 in cash and
a fortune beyond would be likely to be.
For q while neither took the offensive.
They simply moved around watching for
an opening and sending a fist into the
opening whenever it presented itself. There
were rot so many of those openings either.
Oorbett managed TO get in the greater
number Of blows and to do the
least work. Jackson's great work in the
nights he had before last night has been a
peculiar jerking his slender waist out of his
aiyersary's reach. He missed tho trick
whom he tried that last night. Corbett's
arms were tGo long and he was too long.
when hs reached for the top of Jack
sonb white tights, he usually touched it,
sbursting paper bag. Long before the re-
SAT- could be foreshadowed it became evil
dent that Jackson was having the first real
f1ght he has had in Ysnkes-land. All of his
tru1ted blows, that have worked such havoc
With other American fighters, seemed to
fail him.. People remembered how he
how. while he lodged tie white mans pom
dereus swings, with the rapidity and regu-
larity Of the governor on a steam
engine plastered blow after blow on
MoAulifs's neck and face. There was
none Of that last night. Jackson tried in
sighting Just once; He had reached for
shoulder. The white man smashed him in
the heretofore believed unreaohable stom-
ach. jackson got q bit mad, avoided the
clinch that Corbett tried after sending his
blow home, and the two black and the two
white arnns whirled like tho spokes of a
driving wheel, but Corbett's lodges we're as
good as those of his adversary n he
got a punch on the mouth for it.
Aftertthat Peter seemed togtake a dislike
to Corbett and he avoided close relations
with him.
Then Jackson started in to do the long
arm business-to reach ever Corbett's guard
reaching right enough, but when his glove
reached the end Of its orbit Corbstt's head
was invariably one side of it, and jackson
was lucky when the white mans FISTS were
not aenting his body at the same time. II
was a beautiful show of what men can dc
in the way of avoiding blows.
other would be a little out in his reckoning
and would meet an ugly smash, but they
we're too big and strong to be much afscteo
by that.
BY the third round Jackson's skin wal
glstening with perspiration. The only diff
ference these rounds seemed to make te
Corbett was to redden his shoulders where
Jaokson's glove usually stopped when il
missed his face.
OF course the Corbett people in the house
had been lust tickled to death when thei.
man showed himself so we'll able to keel
out of the mighty Peters way and Incl
dentally do some punishment on his owl
account, nut after the fight had boen goiaj
On fer an hour they began to look seriou
again.
II waA not that their man seemed to b
weakening, but simply that his blows di
not seem to hurt the negro. Corbett batte
him in the stomach in almost every ROUND
but Jackson came up as regularly as tn
gong sounded, apparently as we'll as evel
He did not get sick, and the blows did no
seem to KNOCK the wind out of him.
But the whole thing looked like Corbett'
fight. He appeared strong, and he got i
two blows to Jackson's one There were fe'
feather blows. Neither man dared try any
thing moro dangerous than a straight leae
and most of the fine work was in dodgin
this.
At the twantieth round Corbett locke
almost q sure winner, but in the early twer
ties Jackson changed this by a couple G
long-arm blows that evened up that spc
of blood. Corbett kept pegging away, how
ever, and even began to use his right agar
Once he got jackson in a corner and for
few seconds it locked as if the end was jul
a-galloping up. But Jackson lodged or
and even managed to get in a few blows o
his own account. This was repeated
round or two later, when Corbett got Jacl
son against a post and smashed him rigt
and left. But there was nothing like
knockout. They we're brave blows, bu
even had they landed squareiy the en-
would hardly have come then.
They were pretty tired then and I'll
fighting got desultory. The rounds gre
tamer and tanner. Occasionally Jackso
would liven up q bit and make a pass. Co
bett would counter harmlessly and then tt
march around the ring would begin agail
1t was pretty sure that Corbett's arm W,
hurt and that jackson was too exhauste
to take advantage of it. Ultimately, aft,
the three-minute walks and one-minu
rests had gone IN for thirty odd roond
the fighters said it was no use, that Meth
had strength enough left to knock the 9th
out. They were told to quit or fight, al
they quit. Corbett's hands were SO bad
smashed that he could not strike, and Jac
sons stomach was 80 sore that he did n
dare go near Corbett any more.
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