Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-29

I. God Jim, don't quit now; see. vou'ye got him all but finished. A few more punches will do the trick IL xas true "Game Joe" was nearly gone and Cor 6ett saw it. Corbett stayed and Choynski was knocked out in six rounds more. But for Billy Delaney he would not have won that battle and would never have subsequently, had the chance to meet two old physical wrecks like Sullivan and Mitchell and become champion of the world. Arthur T. Lumley, editor of the Illustrated News. who IS in close touch with the princi. pals of the affair, could, if he would. l tell of some spicy incidents of the affair.
 One thing Lumley does tell which he saw with his own eyes. When Peter Maher, the Irish champion, whipped Jim Daley, Corbett's sparring partner, at Philadelphia few years ago, the twain had some hot words. Friends l separated them and efforts to make a match followed. Corbett, however, wanted no part of the Irishman. He was too young and strong for the man who favors old men. Corbett, how ever, spoke bitterly and disparagingly of Maher behind his back The Irishman threatened to whip him on sight One day while Corbett and Lumley were chatting in the latter's office they espied Peter Maher and his manager Billy. Madden across the street and making for Lumley's office. Immediately a 1 cold sweat broke out over Corbett. and. despite Lumley's efforts to restrain him, he rushed precipitately down to- ward the back entrance of the sanctum so as to avoid meeting Maher coming up the front steps.
 Pretty nearly every sportsman will recall the last incident l will relate, the meeting between Charley Mitchell and Corbett at Miners theater, on the Bowery, few weeks prior to his battle with Sullivan. Corbett had, as Mitchell thought, "beat" Paddy Slavin and him. self out of a weeks engagement at that l theater by clever" management. Mitchell dropped in at the theater one night accompanied by Slavin, and meeting Corbett in the barroom promptly called him down for his ''un- gentlemanly" conduct. Mitchell and Slavin were alone, while Corbett had an army of adherents. Mitchell used language towards Corbett which even cripple would resent, but Corbett, pale with fright and trembling in every limb, had not the manhood to fell the Englishman then and there. He had every encouragement, too, for he was in the house of his friends, and Big Florrie. Sullivan, the ward de- 1 tective, cousin of> Senator Timothy Dry Dollar Sullivan, urged the Cali fornian to go at the Briton and that he would look after Slavin. I'm an off, cer, :" said Florrie, aand if the police pop in I'll arrest Mitchell for disturb ing the public peace and you won't be botheredn
 It was all in vain, however. Corbett had not courage enough left to whip sick woman. He beat an ignominious retreat. He was a gentleman" " and would not fight. A month later, how ever, he forgot his gentility so far as to threaten to punch Dominiclz McCaffery, a sickly, broken-down pugilist, in Mad ison Square garden. He had 'cinch' on poor McGaffrey. and was afflicted with no nervousness on that occasion.
 His recent attack on Fitzsimmons isl in keeping with his other actions. Of course, he had a dozen men with him else he would never have dared to run foul of Fitzsimmons The nerve the Australian displayed on that occasion, although he was practically alone,. quite awed Corbett, and he asked, sus- piciously: Are you trying to cop a sneak on me?"
 Fitzsimmons is the direct antithesis of Corbett. He has highly nervous or ganization, to besure, yet in action and just before action he is as cool as a cu- cumber. This is the result of natural born confidence in his own powers. He was the same when he met the Maori and Starlight" in Australia, and Dempsey, Upham, Mccarthy, Hall, Creedon, Choynsl1i and Peter Maher in America, cool and confident, and he whipped all his men. Young, strong, healthy men, too, and not broken down wrecks. He defeated his men in less than half the time Corbett did his His expressed willingness to go against 1 Slavin. Goddard and Maher at the new 1 Orleans carnival, big, husky fellows whom Corbett always avoided, is proof of his courage. If further proof were needed it is furnished in the daring, yes, foolhardy feat he performed re- gently in going into den of lions at Coney Island and coming out unscathed. Had he shown trace of fear he would have been torn limb from limb. Not considering the physical qualities of the men at all, but gauging them by the att tribute of courage alone 1 confidently predict that Fitzsimmons will prove an easy winner of the great battle for the sixty-one thousand dollars and the worlds championship at Dallas on De- tober 31 next
 JOHN WILSON GIBBS, NJ. D. An Italian Thief's shrewdness.