The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-09-15

things to 20 on. When the five.ounce
gloves We're distributed sullivan had trouble
in getting his hands into his. Corbett was
ready in an instant. Then the fun began.
From the star; Sullivan got the worst of it,
% Goi"re. if"u Sls3 sw33 rssft IN me nth round
lie did nearly all the hitting throughout
and all the running. Sullivan could ncith-
~ 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 Corbctt gave'Sullivan the knockout
blow the Californian retired 10 his corner
ON the order Of the referee, while the man
who mas 50 long been known rs the cham
pion Of champions was counted out and
carried to his chair When the ten seconds
were at last at an end Prot Mike Donovan,
IF the New York Athletic club and W. A.
Brady, Corbctt 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
$4,000 in stake and purse, AS well as aIcp-
utation that will turn perhaps 10 times that
amount into his cNchcquer,
Corbctt returned the cordial salutation
with hearty embrace, while the tears
,wcllcd into his eyes. Others Jumped up TO
the C,evcr Californian and huggcd him.
While this hugging was gong on sullivan $
handlers were pouring water over him ana
placing ammonia to his nose, and with much
trouble brought him around. When he did
come to he looked NJ at Jack McAulitle. who
was tanning him with the towel and, after
Opcning his eyes half way, or as far as he
could, said in his more than ordinary boot
leg voice:
Psay, am licked Did that young fellow
90 IT,"
McAulifc sorrowlully admitted that that
was the case, John did not say any more
until Corbett anne over and shook hands
with him, John got up, took Corbctts hand
! and then spoke To the crowd,
| Gentlemen said the cN.Champion, 81
am only glad that the championship has
| been won by an American
| This speech brought down the house as IL
! had not been affected during ali the week
| There was a 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 dcmonst alton that he gang made
| when John J.. sad those manly words.
When sullivan reached his room he wept
! like a child over his defeat and ruin lie is
! thoroughly heartbroken, and his friends
| lear llldl lt VIII lhht tue uldllcT StIlOuslS,
| He refused To drink, and whenever he saw
| whisky about he denounced il as the cause
! of all his woes On catching sight of Nc
| AuiiiIe, who was taking drink from a
| bottle, he exclaimed: That's what did it.
| Booze knocked me ont. II | had let it alone
| would have done better but it knocked
| me out. Was pettiUg too Old, anyhow.
ought to have left the ring years ago.
stayed y too long, ana now am gone-com-
| pletely done for,
| 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 clerk in an insurance office
and aftcrwari in the Nevada Bank, when
he was indu ted into the mysteries of the
manly art of self-deiencc by Danny Dillon,
] VITO was N his corner last night as one OF