The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-16

Tor England. am completely overrun
with business matters which have
here In America to attend to. When I
speak of business affairs do not refer
to any attempts ut acting, taking or
masquerading in, anything but my true
guise. WhatI really mean is that
have real businessmatterst to look after,
the sumo as any broker in Wall or Broad
street, or any merchant in the dry goods
district. I'll let other champions at.
tend to acting" such as "Gentleman
jack" and tie like.
will stay in England until Septem-
Der and do little if any work there, as
believe too much work makes q man
stiff and stale. will be back in Amer
lea the first week in September and
train three months assiduously near the
club house where the contest will oc
eur. | will get into the finest possible
shape to battle and will have no excuses
to offer should the tide go against me.
All ask for is Il fair field and no favor
and that the better man win sincere
~ trust that my prospective adversary
feels the same way. If he docs the
American public will, confidently pre-
diet, be treated to Il battle which will
satisfy them from every standpoint.
Now word as to that battle. 1t
will not be the easy, one-sidcd affair
that the partis;lns of each side look for
On the contrary, it will be hard, de-
terInined struggle, and scientific
throughout. Corbctt has the advan-
taGe of me in height and reach. In
other points l think we are about
equal, although SO eminent an author
ity as John l.. Sullivan, who has
fought us both, says that am the
harder hitter. Other things being
equal, skill, speed and stiffness, hard
hitting sometimes Offsets superior
height and reach
Much has been said about Corbctt's
wonderful left hand. Like that of
Peter Jackson's, many regard it rs i'm
pcnctrable, and think that an adycr-
sary will run UP against stone wall
should he try to get past it, This is the
vcricst of nonsense. No man, no mat
ter how clever he may DC, has an i'm
pcnctrablc left. Tom Savers was only
five feet eight and half inches,
yet he could get by the great
left hands of Bill Perry, and Upton
Slasher, and John c. Hcenan, the Amer
lean champion. Both were about six
feet two inches in height. Savers
whipped Perry and fought q draw with
Heenan. He got under their let's and
punished them terribly about their
bodies. Jem Mace did The same to Tom
King, who lowered six inches above
him, and whipped him handily Mt their
first meeting. Mace was whipped by
nul1c by the big fellow ut their SECOND
meeting when he had his man all but
out. Even your humble servant has
bcsted men who were as tall and as
strong as Corbett, although will admit
they were not 10y any means as clever.
IT tall men could by merely throwing
out their left hands stop their advcr-
sarics and keep them at n distance and
out of harms way themselves, YOU
would never see any matches between
six footers and champions of ordinary
height. Nature, however, so ordained
1T that the smaller men, who are gcner-
ally thicker in build and stronger in
proportion to their size, are better in
lighters and more capable of execution
about the body. This in Il measure off
sets the punishment the smaller chan
must necessarily receive about the head
and face. Bat am going on at too
great length. Some day in next De
ccmbcr will determine whether nv
theory is right or wrong.
IN 1< r.