Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-22
FULDA To THE FRONT,
he Explains Few Interesting Mat
tiers About the Late COrbett
and Jackson Affair.
THEY WERESCHEMING FOR A DRAW
Royalty and Other Great PersonageS Have
Been Refused Admission to
the Athletic Club.
MISUNDERSTANDING FOR A DRAW
TO-DAY'S LOCAL BASEBALL CONTEST
Pittsburr Swimmers Arranging for Some Races
General Sporting News Of the Day.
yEsTERpAY's ASSOCIATION GAMES


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcu.l
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2l.-L. r. Fulda, Pres
ident of the California Athletic Club, has
made publicly a long explanation and de
Tense of the action of directors and referee
in the Corbett-Jackson affair. In the begin.
ming of his defense Mr.. Fulda makes this un,
consciously amusing statement:
1--WE number in our membership scions OF
the nobility of Europe, properly and regu.
larly proposed and elected. Many attempts
have been made from time to time to elect
under fictitious names influential members
of the royal families but such attempts
have seldom succeeded We recognize no
other standing than that of known re.
spectability."
It would be interesting to know what
clergymen and members of royal families
have been blackballed by the club because
they didn't come up to standard respecta-
bility Coming down to the question ut
issue. Mr.. Fulda deals first with the state
ment that the directors had money on Jack
son. THE directors, as a rule he says, ire
frain from betting, but few have done so
from time to time. In my mind it should be
utterly prohibited. On the occasion of the
late Jackson-Corbett match but 3 OF the IL
directors had any wagerS"
After declaring that the club has been out
raCeously imposed upon a times, Mr.. Fulda
saws: THAT either Corbett or jackson was
improperly treated win always remain an
open question in the minds of the unattend-
ant public, but not in our minds or of tho
majority of the membership of the club. The
gentlemen themselves are the only ones who
knew the inner workings of their own
minds, but are too astute to give them utter
Rnce, except as they reflect to their exonera-
tion, preferring, very wisely, to leave their
case in the hands of their prejudiced and
partisan following. As a general thing, a
thoroughly defeated man Will explain how
the other man was no good and only defeated
him by his own failures. Suffice it to say,
for our own part, that we only knew at the
time, from their own utteHnces and our
own observation, their true condition, and
judged them accordingly"
There may be more in that paragraph than
appears on the surface. Upon the authority
of some members, it is whispered about that
the real reason for declaring the affair mo
overheard talking while in the ring and
agreeing to make the match draw. Presi-
dent Fulda, however does directly and
plainly charge that Corbett deliberately
Violated the rules rom the very beginning
of the contest by clinching jackson in every
round and paying no attention to the
referees order to brc * away.
Mr. Fulda's statement of the circumstances
leading up to the decision of mo contest" is
as follows: Finally, when it became appa-
rent to the referee that there was no pros
pect of a termination, he called me up and
said that he did not propose to allow the
to be imposed upon; that the match was for
the championship and that the principals
should either fight or be ordered out Of the
ring"