Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-17
THE FITz.CORBETT ROW.
Much Comment on the Affair in the
Easteru Papers.
fIIzSlSMoNS GIVES HIS VERSION.


Philadelphia. August li.--(speoiai TO the
Washington Post went TO
New York. corbett TO Scranton. Alter
their meeting the two bruiscrs did not see
each other, Now that the affair Ii over
general talk eommends fitzslmtnona Tor
his coolncss ia keeping out OF generai
mlx-up with corhctt and HIS gang OF un-
der-thugs and thumpers which he seemed
careful TO have along.
Many here declare that the AFFAIR was
put-up Job by the Corbeu gang TO pull
on trouble with titzslmmons and cripple
or lnJure him In advance OF tho Texas
meeting In October
The majority OF sports here do not give
Corbott credit for courage. They regard
him as atreaked with cur, They believe
that he's afraid OF FitEsimmons ana
alarmed at the prospects before him. To
lose the fight would be 10 lose much moro
than the purse OF C0rbett Il would retire
him forever from his position as q money
making pugiust MI there In TO Corhett
10 the championship. a dirty reputation.
aud divorce suit Should he lose the
first the two others would hardly sup
port him, Therefore the wise men OF tho
ring ray that the prospects OF IA go with
Fit2slmmous ana the widc-open chance
Corbcu runs OF being suuftcd out rattles
the Pompadour.
LOOKED LIKE A PLOT.
III this racket last night" said welt
known New York sport, looks like any
thing. It's a plot put up by Corhctt anu
his gang to do Fltzrimmons, corhctt was
the nrgrcssOr. started the row and trvn
stood back like a coward and never did a
thing. lie had his gang with him while
Fitsslmmons was comparatively alone
After Corbett had started the muss he
stood back and set the crowd onto FitE-
simmons, II It wasn't dcadinll what
WAS IT,
'Corhctt IN "a cur when YOU bore into
lim. He's q humhug. aud always was
, His record amounts to nothing as "a Tight
ur Ito has whipped one Eood man. that
was charley Mitchell ana Corhott took
care to weigh about thirty poundp moro
than Mitchell when he did Il, Whom Cor
hctt met sullivan John l.. wNsirt In H.
and hadn't been for two ycnrs. tf he'd
struck Sullivan In the Madison square
day when he met wilson Grconhnld,
Mitchell Elliot and the rest. Corbctt
wouldn't have lasted ~ long M n feather
In furnace, The only other notable
thing that Corbctt ever did was 10 make
n stnudon with Jackson, when the
black mans lex was crippled and he
couldn't follow Corhett. The latter ala
nothing but RIM from Jackson all through
| the night He was afraid OF Jackson M
OF death itself. and never dared 10 near
him from tho first u he'd half fought
with Jackson tho dnrkoy would have
| beaten him
"This coming night with ltsslmmons
ia soaring Corbett to death. IT'S the hard
eat game he's gou" against and " no
could back out or run away he would.
II FitzslmmonH could have been trolllcd
into row last might with the band OF
touEhs and criminals Corhett had with
/ him II was the undoubtod purpose OF
| CorboitR mob to Tx him 10 that ho'd
| not be- able TO nght IN Texas In October.
Corbctt would have hcon the happicnt
man In America " tie row had gone
| that way,
'rho general feeling " entirely with
| Fitzsimmous. and particularly since last
| might There Isn't man who doean't
| now want Eitzsmmona to win. The more
! no that the general estimate Of Corhcit
is that he's "A coward without henrt and
afraid to fairly meet the Australian