The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26

the men met tney would nave Jollied
the public and got the money. This
bit of insincerity was not enough to
completely sour me, however. l said
| to myself: perhaps | am mistaken
| There may be some good in these two
men, after all. I'll reserve judgment. y
And then came the Sullivan fight
and the latter's defeat. Now, said,
| Corbett will have chance to show
himself. If there is good in him i,
will come out. If there is fake, he
will show it.
Hardly had he won the fight than he
! began to throw his friends. Mike Don.
ovan. who provided nearly $1,000 of the
. S1o,o0n stake money, was the first
| Donovan had been his friend and ad
wiser for years What did Corbett care
for this friendship? What was friend
ship to him? A mere name.
| Next he threw Charlie Stencil, of
Frisco, man who loved him rs q
brother.
| During the past month Corbett has had
the floor in this international Fake
/ Match" He has talked and written
letters, and when voice and pen gave
out the game was taken up at the place
it was left off by Billy Brady. Brady,
carrying out the hippodromic idea, camo
here and called congress of newspa-
per men together. Ee and Dick New
ton talked always with the newspa per
men within hearing and called again,
without accomplishing anything. 1t
was the continuation of the old fake
the fake that started in the World Of
fee when the ten thousand dollars a
side was put up and when Mitchell and
Brady talked and talked and talked,
always with the idea that the news
paper men would print what they said.
Coming down to the recent meeting
in the Coleman house, little good can
be found in the talk.
Even the Colum bian A. C. was affect
ed by the atmosphere of bluff that sur
rounded the negotiations and emitted
a little wind on its own account. Di-
rector General O'Malley came to the
front and magnanimously proclaimed
that the c. l. A. &. were welcome to
the Corbett- Mitchell match if they
would bid S45, geo and obtain Mitchell's
signature. Moreover. the Chicago peo-
pie would generously sell tickets to
help Coney Island along and charge no
commission. I'VE would do this in
the interest Of sport purely" says
O'Malley. In the next breath the
same gentleman stated that he already
had Mitchell's signature and Corbett's
also. the latter being conditional on
the procuring of the Englishman S
name. Was it jolly, or what? There
must have been considerable element
of bluff in OMalley's remarks, for the
day after he said he had Mitchells
signature that remarl1a BILE person
stated for publication that he would
sign nothing until he reached America.
Corbett complains he was roasted by
ers throughout the country. If he was
on the level would he receive this
basting? Here is a part of what Eu-
gene Field, the Chicago poet, says
about him:
Mr.. Corbett belongs to limited-a
fortunately limited-class of people
who are too mean to get drunk. This,
however. is not the limit to his mean
ness. Elsewhere he is as low and as
brutal as the veriest thumper that
loafs about the street corners and the
dramshops. His instincts are just as
brutal and his practices are even
more despicable, for it is not
with liquor in his veins. but in
cold blood. that he goes his Infamous
way There is nothing IN this man to
admire. His career from the first has
been vicious. He presents no aspect
that is not to be dcspised, and more
odious than all his other vicious as
poets is that mean, low, cowardly by
pocrisy of his under which he is con-
tinuaIly seeking TO hide his moral rot
tenness."
Field is not sporting writer, bat a
keen observer What he saws is the
impressions of an intelligent. thinking
man.
These are few of the things which
lead me to believe that the Mitchell
Corbett fight is a colossal fake, and
that if they ever do come together the
money will be divided and the sporting
public viii De tluped. Read the writing
on the wall. To offer $4,000 purse Tor
these two f2lkirs is absurd.
ARTHUR I. LUMLyY.