Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-09-17
Corhett,s

Champion james J. Corbett first snw
the light ON September l, 1866, and was
therefore just 70 years and 8 DAYS old when
he met John l. Sullivan for the champion
ship of tho world. Ia his youth he was
always noted as n frank, brave, quick fell
low. AT school he used TO whip boys sew
eral years older than himself, and being
tall and large wss always looked upon as
older than no really was. He joined the
Olympic club at an early age, and became
prom nent as an amateur base ball player.
Corbett was n terrific batter and few bet
ter telders were ever seen in the amateur
ranks than he.
For several years he was employed in
the Nevada bank and was attentive TO
business and well liked by the
officials of that rich institution.
Corbett stands & feet ~ inches in his
stockings. His first fight of any conse.
quence was with David Eisemann, now n
we'll known pool seller. Corbett was then
IS years OF age Two rounds suficed to
settle Mr. Eisemann. James Daley was
his next opponent, and he got enough in
four rounds. Martin Buffalo" Costello.
who was considered n wonderful fighter
at the time, got the worst of a limited
round conte {, rs did Duncan Mcdonald,
we'll known in But e, Denver and Salt
Lake. Corbett was then engaged TO teach
boxing in the Olympic club. Jack Burke,
the Irish lad" a man who had
successfully stood against Sui
livan, Slavin. Mitchell md
Dempsey. was Corbett's next opponent.
1t was nm cight-round affair aud n draw,
but Corbett, had he not been SO careful,
could have whipped Burke Frank Smith
succumbed 10 Corbett in three rounds, aud
then came Mike Brennan. the Port Costa
Giant This man gave Joe McAuliffe an
awful fight of forty rounds, yet was bested
by Corbet in four rounds
jim got decidedly the best of il with
Professor William Miller In a thrce-round
contest, and then came his fight with Joe
Choynski for n big side bet Officers
reached the scene at the fifth round:
and the battle was postponed
until a more "auspicious" day.
Within one week the men met
on n barge in the middle of the Sacra-
mento river
Choynski wore gloves that were heavily
ribbed and that would cut a man iflanded
fairly and squarely. Coz belts gloves
were an ordinary pair Of driving gloves
minus the ribs. 1t was a bloody battle of
twenty-seven rounds. Choynski, although
fighting game V. was outclassed. Corbett
broke one of his hands early in the fight
and hurt the other one also Choynski's
appearance was changed nightly by this
battle while Corbett, barring the injury to
his hands, came out without q scratch.
hlNSI tpe 1nOynsht HRnt IOrDett re-
sumed his work as teacher of boxing in
the Olympic club. A few months after
this Corbett went to New Orleans to meet
jake kilrain In o six round ''go" for
points. The young Pacific coaster had
never been as far east before, and his rep
utation ms o fighter was purely local The
finish Of six rounds found Mr.. Kilrain
with bellows to mend, n bleeding and
bruised nose aud both eyes all but closed
Corbett came out of the contest without n
mark.
Jim next went on a sparring
tou-, and while in New York
bested Domnick McCaffrey easily.
Returning to San Francisco Corbett made
n match with Peter Jackson, champion of
Australia, for a purse of $40, 600.
The betting was largely in Jackson's
favor The result is well known. The
battle was stopped at the end of the sixty
first round by the California club officials
at a time when Jackson was n very tired
man and could not have stood up many
rounds longer.
Corbett's tour of the country and feat of
knocking out two men and besting the
third in one night is fresh in the memo.
rics of all readers of sporting news. Since
his battle with Peter Jackson. Corbett
has knocked out no less than twenty-five
men, some Of them outweighing him forty
pounds.