Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-17

Frisco, a man who loved him as
brother.
During the past month Corbett has
had the floor in this '1nternational
Fake Match" He has talked and writ
ten 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 hippodrome
idea, came here and called congress OF
newspaper men together. He and DICK
Newton talked always with the news
paper men within hearing and called
again, without accomplishing anything.
It was the continuation OF the old fake
the fake that started in the World Of
fee when the ten thousand dollars
side was put uD and when Mitchell and
Brady talked and talked and talked,
always with the idea that the newspaper
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 Columbian A. c. was affect
ed By the atmosphere of bluff that sur
rounded the negotiations and emitted
a little wind on its own account. Dl-
rector General O'Malley came to the
front and magnanimously proclaimed
that the c.. |. A. c. were welcome to
the Corbett- Mitchell match II they
would bid S45, 900 and obtain Mitcheifs
signature. Moreover, the Chicago peo-
ple would generously sell tickets TO
help Coney Island along and charge no
commission. ave would do this In the
interest of sport purely" says U Mailey'
In the next breath the same gentleman
stated that he already had Mitchelis
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 a considerable element
of bluff in O'Malley's remarks, Tor the
day after he said he had Mitchell's sig
nature that remarkable person stated
for publication that ne would sign MOTH
ing until he reached America.
Corbett claims that he was roasted by
the different sporting newspapers writ
err throughout the country. III ne was
on the level would he receive this oast-
ing? Here is a part OF what Eugene
Field, Chicago poet says about him.:
"Mr. Corbett belongs to q limited-a
fortunately llmited-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 verlest thunper that loais
about the street corners and the dram
shops. His instincts are just as brutal
and his practices are even more desplc-
able, 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 despised, and
more odious than all his other vicious
aspects Is that mean, low, cowardly n.y.
pocrisy of his under which he is contin-
tinualiy seeking to hide his moral rot
tenneSs."
Field is not a sporting writer, but
keen observer What he says is the
impression of an intelligent, thinking
man.
These are few OF the things which
lead me TO believe that the Mitchell
Corbett fight is a colloSal fake. aud
that II they ever do come together the
money will be divided and the sporting
public duped. Read the writing on the
wall. To offer S45, 900 purse for these
two fakirS is absurd.
ARTHUR T. LUMLEY.