Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-13
BOXERS GOSSIP.
MACON MCCORMICK DISCUSSES PLEASANTLY
ON FISHO AFFAIRS.
ChOynski Checks "Nsgro Domination" Also
Hurts the Cause of Higher Education.
Rivalry Among the Athletic Clubs.
Gossip Of the Stars.

/ NC WOuluu SldQu Oh HIS lccG.
was again served, but the old boy made
game fight, and though beaten, he
was by no means disgraced. From All
ethical point of view, Choynski's victory
is to be deplored Godfrey said, some
time before the contest, that II he won
he intended applying the pecunlary
fruits Of his victory to the education OF
/ his children, while Josephus said II he
was defeated he would abandon the ring
and go to work at some useful occupa-
tiOn. The course Of higher education
has received severe blow, and Old
| Chocolates children will now have to
struggle through life with only the
knowledge they can pick up in the pub
| lie schools Of Chelsea and the ranks OF
labor are short recruit whose Drawn
is Of first-class quality.
Though ChOyinski was victorious, his
defeat OF Godfrey does not, in my mind,
establish the fact that he is the best
second-rater in the ring to-day by any
means. When he boxed Jim Hall In
Niblo's Garden, the clever Australian
had all the best OF the bout, and l have
! no doubt at all that If they met in a
ring that, despite the disparity in their
weight, Hall would win. think he is
too shifty on his feet for the Californ-
ian. believe that Bob FitzSimmons Is
his fstic master, and that he will dem
onStrate the fact if they ever engage in
tiStic combat. Both Fits and Hall are
taller and longer in the reach than
ChoyinSki. Both are more skIllful
boxers, and both are his superlors in big
work. Joe is harder hitter than either
Bob or Jim, but don't think he would
be any more successful in landing his
right on either than Sullivan was on
Corbett. Like all Jew fighters Choyn-
ski is as game as debble, and his cour-
age is likely in the future to get him
into trouble, as it has in the past. 1t
earned him three defeats by Jim Cor
bett and two by Joe Goddard. Not long
since he said TO me in the Coleman
House, "You'll see me champion yet"
I wish Joe the best Of luck, for ne is
manly, decent fellow, but if l am as
sured that l will not have pain nor an
ache until he wears the champion belt
of America l will be happier man than
ever was Paddy Murphy in the play. II
Joe Goddard wins with Peter Maher l
should not be surprised II Cho7DsN
would try him a third time, while the
Irish champion is his legitimate meat
should he defeat the tough nut OF the
Antipodes. He and Peter ought to
make a good battle.
If Charley Mitchell really means to
fight jim C.fbett, he must be in des-
perate mood, indeed. His hands must
have improved wonderfully in condition
for. over five years ago, ne declared that
they were so badly slowed up that he
could never use them in finish fight
He did try them, despite this assertion,
in finish fight with Sullivan, and the
result proved the truth OF his state
ment. His work in that battle certain
ly did not improve them any. If Char
lev thinks that he will have an easier
lob With Corbett than he had with Sui
Ivan he is certainly the subject OF
strange delusion. Jim is his superior in
youth, strength, height, reach, speed
and skill, and fully his equal in
weight. How Charley expects to Offset
these advantages l can't see. He Is a
very strange man, and be may face Cor
bett; but IL he does | think he is in for
such hiding as he never received be-
fore i'm all his life. Still he may be dcs
perate, and being so take desperate
chance. He has ruined himself in Eng
land and he is the best hated man, II |
NAV use such term, of any known TO
the United States. II Corbett was to
whip him he would be more popular
than John L. Sullivan ever was, and
that IS a bold assertion. From q bust
ness point of view a victory over
Mitchell means not only wealth galore
10 Pompadour jim, but the affection OF
ninety-fve out Of every hundred men 10
this country. II Jim whips Mitchell he
need never fight again. His fame will
be complete and his future will be made.
He is doing pretty well as it is, for, de-
sDite the challenges of Joe Goddard aud
the desire OF Peter Jackson for another
match with him, he is the undou6ted
champion Of America, and he is making
slatherS OF money through his play-act-
ing. This is his grass drying season,
and he is making hay while the rays OF
the sun o. prosperity are beamiDg. de
is sailing away too, and il he doesn't
sink il in foolish Investments he will
have a tidy bank account when the June
birds sing again.
I saw Peter Jackson spar big Jim Nc
View at tho Academy of Music in Phila-
delphia the other night, and one thing
Is certain, and that is that he has lost
good deal of bis old-time speed. Of
course, McVey, who was as fat as por-
pois, was but a punching bag In MS
hands, but, nevertheless, there was
lack of springinesS In Peters move
ments that leads me to think that there
was q good deal OF vitality taken out OF
him in his last fight. Though Jackson
defeated Slavin, the battle was not
NEARLY so one-sided as the cable reports
Of il would infer Men who saw the
fight tell me that 1t was Jackson's
length of reach as much as anything
else which gained him the day, or
rather the night, for it was pitch dark
when they fought through well along
toward the small hours of the morn
ing. There Is big putt on the back OF
Peters right hand, which shows how
severely he injured it on Slavin's hard
head. The big black declares that he
is anxious TO swipe out the sigma that
attaches TO his fStic 'scutcheon on ac-
count of his only hing able 10 make a
draw with Jim C0roett. 1t is rather
odd that this ruld bother him so
much, seeing that there is another blot
OF a similar character on this draw
with Joe Goddard. The Australian &C
copnts of that battle show that Peter
was only saved from defeat by the par
tial decision of Professor William NIL
Ter, the well-known wrestler. His
friends in this country sought to excuse
the poor showing be made with God