The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-17

IN him-who have also received the same
treatment. Every one who has ever be-
friended him. and whom he thoughtof 40
further use 10 him, has been thrown,
some harder than others. COrbett has
left behind. him a wake Of neglected
friendship and the bones Of those who
stood by him in adversely are, now that
ne Is on easy street, scattered from
Maine to California. Can such a man be
sincere, guess not.
These things are only mentioned. to
show that Corbett is the very incarnation
OF inslncerity. never gave Mitchell any
credit for being sincere, and doubt
whether he would be flattered If, l did.
His methods have always been, faky. l
was present as John L. Sullivan's repre-
sentative in the Herald office when it was
proposed TO match Sullivan and Slavin.
Slavln and Mitchell were present Mitch
ell and Slavin were broke and refused
to talk business with them. I have
doubted Mitchell's sincerity ever since.
At this meeting Mitchell made a remark
In referring to me which will bear repeat
ing. 1t wass
It's not wot he sails. but the nawsty
whey he sails hit, and carried out the idea
of the English song.
During the past month Corbett has had
the floor in this international Fake
tiers, and when voice and pen gave out
the game was, taken up at the place it
was left off by Billy Brady. Brady car
rylng out the ppodrOmicidea, came here
and called a congress of newspaper men
together. He and Dick Newton talked
always with the newspaper men within
hearing and called again, without accom-
plishing anything. 1t was the continual
ton of the old fake-the fake that started
in n ArvslA Aeafn 81
side was put up and when Mitchell and
Brady talked and talked and talked, al
ways 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. G. was affected
by the atmosphere sof bluff that sur
rounded the negotiations and emitted
little wind on its own account Director
General O'Malley came to the front and
magnanimously proclaimed that the G. l.
A. Z. were welcome to the Corbett-
Mitchell match if they would bid S45, 900
and obtain Mitchelps signature. More
over, the Chicago people 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
had Mitchells signature and Corbett's
also, the latter being conditional on the
procuring Of the Englishman's name. Was
1t jolly, or what2 There must have
been considerable element of bluff in
O'Malley's remarks, for the day after he
said he had Mitchell's signature that re-
markable person stated for publication
that he would sign nothing until he
reached America.
COrbett complains he was roasted by
the different sporting newspaper writ
ers throughout the country. If he was
on the level would he receive this bast-
ingl Here is a part of what Eugene
Field, the Chicago poet, said about him:
Mr.. COrbett belongs to a limited-a
fortunately limiJed-class of people who
are too mean to get drunk. THIS, how
ever, is not the limit of his meanness.
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, thai 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 hypocrisy of his
under which he is continually seeking to
hide his moral rQtten9ess.
Field is not sporting writer, but a
keen observer. What he says is the i'm
preston of an intelligent, thinking man.
These are a 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
will be duped. Read the writing on the
wall. To offer S45, 600 purse for these
two fakirs is absurd
ARTHUR T. LUMLEY.