The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-16

to any attempts ~ acting. taking or
masquerading in anything but my true
guise. What | really mean is that
have real business matters 10 lock after.
the same as any broker in Wall or Broad
street. or any merchant ID the dry goods
district. I'll let ether champions at
tend 70 acting" such as Gentleman
Jack" and the like.
will stay in England until Septern-
Der and do little il any work there. Is
believe too much work makes mag
stiff and stale. win be back in Amcr
lea the frs, week in September ard
train three months aSsiiuously near the
club house where the contest will oc-
cur will get into the finest possible
shape 10 battle and VIII have no excuses
TO offer should the tide so against me.
All I ask for is a fair field and no favor
end that the better man win | sincere
" trust that my prospective adversary
feels the same way. II ha does the
American public will. / confidently pre-
diet, be treated 10 battle which viii
satisfy them from every standpoint
Now word as 10 that battle. Il
viii not be the easy, one-sided affair
that the partisans of each side look for.
On the contrary, il viii be hard, de-
terIniued struggle. and scientific
throughout Ccrbett has the aavan-
tage OF mo in heigh. aud reach in
other points I think we are about
equal, although so eminent an author-
ity as John T.. Sullivan, who has
fought us both, says that I am tho
harder hitter Other things being
equal skill. speed and stiffness, hard
hitting sometimes offsets superior
height and reach
Much has been said about Corbett's
wonderful left hand Like that OF
Peter JaclSson's. many regard II as i'm
penetrable. and think that an advcr-
sary viii run up against stone wall
should he try 10 get past 1t This is the
veriest of nonsense. No man. No mat
ter how clever he NAV be, has All I'M
penetrahle left. Tom Sayers was only
five feet eight and half inches.
yet ne could get by tho great
left hands of Bill Perry, and Upton
Slasher, and John c. ueenan, the Amer
lean champion Both were about sig
feet two inches III height Snyers
whipped Perry and fought . draw with
Heenan. He got under their lcfts and
punished them terribly about their
bodies. Jem Mace did the same 60 Tom
King, who lowered six inches above
him, and whipped him handily at their
first meeting. Mace was whipped by -
HuSe by the big fellow az their second
meeting when he had his r1an all but
out. Even your humble servant has
bested men who were as tall and as
strong rs Corbctt although Twill admit
they were not by any means IA clever.
IL tall men could by merely throwing
ont their left hands stop their ncivcr-
saries and keep them at dista nee and
out of harms way Themselves, you
would never See any matches between
six footers and champions of ordinary
height. Nature, however. 80 ordained
1t that the smaller men. who are gener-
ally thicker In build and stronger in
proportion 20 their size. ara better i'm
fighters and more capable Of execution
about the body. This in a measure or
sets the punishment the smaller chap
must necessarily receive about tho read
and face. But am going on At too
great length Some day in next De
cember will determine whether my
theory is right or wrong.