The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-14

.hings to go on. When the five.ounce
gloves were distributed Sullivan had trouble
in getting his hands into his. Corbett was
ready in an instant, Then the fun began.
From the start Sullivan got the worst of it.
Corbett drew first blood in the fifth round
He did nearly all the hitting throughout.
and all the running. Sullivan could neith-
er get at him or keep away from him.
Finally, in the DIST round, Corbett smashed
John l.. in the jaw and laid him out.
After Corbett gave Sullivan the Knockout
blow the Californian retired to his corner,
ON the order of the referee, while the man
who has so long been known as the cham
pion of champions was counted out and
,arried to his chair. When the ten seconds
we're at last at an end Prof. Mike Donovan,
If the New York Athletic Club and W. A.
Brady, Corbett's manager, sprung to the
stage and flung their arms around the
young man, who was now the champion
pugilist of the world and the winner of
t35, 900 in stake and purse, as well as a rep
utation that will turn perhaps 10 times that
amount into his exchequer.
sULLIvAN's LITTLE SPEECH.
Corbett returned the cordial salutation
with q hearty embrace, while the tears
swelled into his eyes. Others jumped up to
the cever Californian and hugged him.
While this hugging was going on sullivan ;
handlers were pouring water over him and
placing ammonia to his nose, and with much
trouble brought him around. When he did
come to he looked up at Jack McAuliffe, who
was tanning him with the towel, and, after
opening his eyes half way, or as far as he
could, said in his more than ordinary boot
leg voice:
Say, am licked? Did that young fellow
do it,"
McAuliffe sorrowiully admitted that that
was the case. John did not say any more
until Corbett ,ame over and shook hands
with him, John got up, took Corbett's hand
and then spoke To the crowd
Gentlemen" said the ex champion, ~
am only glad that the championship has
been won by an American"
This speech brought down the house as it
had not been affected during all the week.
There was great, wild and woody West,
hot Southern, mad enthusiastic yell when
Corbett knocked John l.. Sullivan out, but
that noise was not a marker to the wild, mad
house demonstt alton that the gang made
when John l.. said those manly words.
When Sullivan reached his room he wept
like child over his defeat and ruin. He is
thoroughly heartbroken, and his friends
fear that he will take the matter seriously.
He refused to drink and whenever he saw
whisky about he denounced it as the cause
of all his woes. On catching sight of Nc
Aulitfe, who was taking drink from a
bottle he exclaimed: That's what did it.
Booze knocked me out. Ii had let it alone
| would have done better, but 1t knocked
me out. l.was gettiug too old, anyhow.
ought to have left the ring years ago.
stayed u too Tonga now am gone-com-
pletely done for.
JAMES J.'coRBETT's CAREER IS THE RING.
James j. Corbett, the heavy. weight
champion of the world, was born in San
Francisco September /, 1866. He received
a good education in the schools of that
city, and was a clerk in an insurance office
and afterwari in the Nevada bank, wnen
he was indu ted into the mysteries of the
manly art of self-detence by Danny Dillon,
who was n his corner lasr night as one of