The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-20
HOW jim DID JOHN L.
TIE CHAMPION TELLS how HI
DEFEATED SULLIVAN.


he Spared With Sullivan in Frisco
and Learned His Weak Points-Sulli-
vans Wild Look Never Frightened
Corbett in the Least.
From the st. Louis Republic.
MILWAUKEE. Wis, Feb. 1l.-While at
the Press Club James J. Corbets, the cham
pion pugilist of the world, was requested to
tell his experience with John L. Sullivan.
After repeated urging the young champion
: consented. He told his story in a natural
way. using good language. As he went on
be unbosomed himself and his hearers lis
tened to an intensely interesting narrative.
! His talked showed that he had correctly
"sized uD" Sullivan as a man who won his
| fights Oy soaring his opponents. Gentle
man Jack ;" as he is known on the stage, de-
termined not to be frightened by the big
! slugger from Boston, and that is the secret of
his success in the ring at New Orleans.
| Corbett's story in his own words is as fol-
| lows:
| The first time saw Sullivan was when
/ he came to Frisco on his first tour of the
/ country. A Around match with Ryan was
| arranged. 1t was all fixed to stop the fight
after the second round, as Ryan would not
| 90 into it unless Sullivan promised that be
would not knock him out. At least they
made Ryan believe that this was the case
| The night of the fight big crowd was pres
| emit. As soon as they got into the ring Ryan
| went at him with both hands He had the
best of Sullivan, in my opinion, for the first
| two rounds. After the second round Sulli~
van waded into him, and then Ryan began
| to think that they Intended to do MIN. He
| changed his style OF fighting altOgeths Or, and
seemed afraid of Sullivan. sullivan then
| went at him and knocked him out. After my
! fight with jackson l said TO myself, aud |
| always had 1t in my head, that could whip
| Sullivan. 1t seemed to me that every man
VINO went up before Sullivan was whipped
| before Sullivan went at him. Sullivan
scared them as soou as he got in the ring by
looking as though he would eat them up,
and when they got ready to fight they were
! afraid of him, and Sullivan would wade In
aud do them up.
"As Sullivan was playing In San Fran
cisco, l thought would ask him to box me
| four friendly rounds and we would divide
the receipts. l went to see Sullivan myself.
l told him was going to have benefit,
and as be was going to be there week
would like to have him spar with me.
| l said to him: i will give you half of the
gate receipts il you will spar with me-
He said: 4 cannot give you my answer
now, but will let you know about it
FINDS OUT HIS WEAK POINTS.
II said to myself: II he boxes with me
will find out all about him. Barnett ar
ranged the details, and as Sullivan insisted
| on boxing in dress suits, we went on the
! stage in that style. We had big house.
l said to Sullivan: You sat the pace and
will follow you; l said to myself: ANY
way you go will co. We went on the
stage. He made one OF his big bluffs at me
| "a big feint-aud | Tented back at him.
He kept feintiDR at me, wanting me to jump
back and look scared, but kept feinting at
him just as he did at me; when
l got close to him he would drop
both Of bis hands wanting the
people to thi that he was letting me hit
him and the people would laugh. He
would make two sneshes at me aud would
then duck. / let him duck on purpose, as
wanted to appear friendly TO him. Moran
and Barnett we're back of the scenes and
heard Moran say: why, look; Sullivan
is playing with him." The next round
went up to him and instead of feintinR
would hit him aud jump back out OF his
way, and then it was that l made up my
mind that l could lick him. l will tell you
why. When l hit him he ducked off to one
side. found that he was slow in getting
out of the way and that l could hit him any
time l wanted to.
at was very bad set-to, the worst !
ever saw. In the next round as soon as ]
hit him, he dropped his hands and held bis
face up to mine. When he dropped his
hands dropped mine and held my face up
to his Sullivan did this to make the REQ.
pie believe that he was letting me hit him
BELIEVED HE COULD WHIP HIM.
"After the set-to was Of the opinion ]
could whip Sullivan. l told Delaney So
and he said he had known that for two
years. made contract With Brady, and
told him did not want TO fight anybody
until met Sullivan. But how was going
to get this fight with himl Now, If / gol
out on the stage and announced that 1 was
going to fight Sullivan they would hiss roe
Off and think was crazy.
The next day Sullivan was to sail for
Australia. Before he sailed | thought
would send him nice box of cigars with
my compliments. l sent the cigars to him
OH board the boat. He looked at them and
threw them overheard and said that l was
a chump and was no good. When l heard
that it put more confidence in me. for it an.
peared to me that l must have been on his
mind, aud that he must have thought OF
me. did not know how to get around tC
make fight with Sullivan. | wanted the
people to ask me to fight Sullivan. When !
told them | wanted to fight Sullivan they
would say: Why don't you fight Mitchell
or SlavinF | tried to get Mitchell to box a.
the Madison Square Garden in New York
but he refused. AS the garden was ca
gagged, / went on and knocked out Ton
Sp1llings, Bill CofRey and Joe Lannon.
WHEN THE MATCH WAS MADE.
"Tbe match with Sullivan was made
when was in Philadelphia, and / started
TO train. They all told me that was work
ing too hard and avdised me to take day
off; on July l thought would take it easy
| went to the races and had a good time
and the papers said l was not traininR-l
was scared 60 death. One OF my hackers
read it, the man who put up 81 800. He
drew hls money out and said be would moi
take chances. Dryer said he would fix IL
all right. Ore day he came TO me aud said
How much do you weighg knew that
did not weigh over IT'S pounds, but / was
afraid to tell him that, 90 said 60 him: 90
I weigh about 1913 pounds He said, That's
good; that's fine Dryer said
MEDICAL.
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