The herald., 1895-07-21
FITZSIMMONS
AND CORBETT
A Local Opinion as to
Which Will Win the
Big Fight
NOT OVER TWENTY ROUNDS
Ia His Fight With Sullivan Corbett Had
Il All His Own Way, but Not
Likely to Jab Fitz
as Easily
NOT OVER TWENTY ROUNDS
By Fred Began, I24-Pound Champion Of
Pacific Coast

Since the articles nave peen slgneu anu
the date set for the Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons fight, a great many people have
asked my opinion of the outcome. By
way of introduction l will say this: |
am personally acquainted with both of
the men and have boxed number of times
with each, not for points, but just for ex-
ercise. saw Corbett fight Joe Choynski
box Dave Campbell ten-round draw in
Portland, Ore, fight Peter Jackson 81
round draw in the California Athltic club
In San Francisco and beat the mighty
John L. Sullivan. 1 trained at Barney
Fa1ey's on the Mission road in San Fran
cisco With Fitzsimmons when be made
his first fight with Billy Mccarthy in the
California Athletic club, when he beat HIM
easily in nine rounds. I saw him box Joe
Ubonyski four rounds at Barney Farley's
and he had all the best of it. | was be-
hind Pete Maher in New Orleans when
Fitzsimmons beat him in ten rounds, and
/ saw him defeat Jim Hall for the largest
purse ever fought for, and will be in Dali
as, Texas when the fight comes off be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons if l am
alive and if 1 have to walk there.
Now my opinion of the greatest fight
that the country will ever hear of is this,
Corbett is by far the Cleverest of the two
from boxing standpoint. but there is
great difference between boxing limited
number of rounds and fighting to a fin
ish. When a man enters the ring in good
condition and knows he has only got
certain mum DER of rounds to box and he
knows that he is ceverer than the other
fellow, he will go right at his man until
the contest is over. providing he is not
what you call capped" and, ii be hap
pened to get "capped" hard punch on
the jaw he will fight shy for awhile until
he fully RECEIVERS and tnen he will go at
his man again only more cautiously and at
the end of the contest he will be declared
q winnei.
But the contest between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons is to finish and each man
when he enters the ring knows tnat he
is tn ere to win and that he has fortune
at stake on the outcome. By losing
Fltzsimmons loses nothing only the
purse, whereas Corbett has everything to
lose and nothing 70 gain only the purse
and side money which of course he puts
up himself. amounting to SOL, 00U, SAL, 900
purse and $40, 900 a side.
In my OPINION it will be fight from the
very start and that the contest won't last
over twenty rounds at the very most and
that Fitzsimmons will be declared the
winner. They say Corbett is too clever
by a man who will try and fight him
clever and stand off. There are not half
dozen men in the world who can stand
off and hit Corbett. In his fight with
Jackson he would wait till Jackson LED
then he would cross counter him and
out of every ten attem pts he would land
about eight times on Jackson.
/: Now in his fight with Choyinski Jack
Dempsey kept Choynski away from Cor
bett, and of course Corbett Just iabbed
HIM out, whereas if Choynski fou ht his
own fight and went at Corbett as ne
does at every other fighter, his chances
were ten times the better of winning. In
his fight with John L. Sullivan of course
he had every thing his own way; he hii
Sullivan whenever he wanted to, but in
the last round. the twenty-hrst. he hit
Sullivan at least fifteen times on the jaw
with right hand swings and then did not
knock him out. Sullivan dropped on the
floor exhausted and winded and could
not rise. One cannot go whole lou on his
fight with Mitchell. He has never
whipped anybody and is no more than
a middle weight. In his six round 90
with Jake Kilrain he was young and in
condition; whereas Kilrain went into
six rounds and Corbett had the best of
it, but not two to one. Kilrain was there
at the finish and was good and strong
and offered to make a match for finish.
Then take Fitzsimmons not saying
what he has done IN Australia. He
came to this coun .ry broke and got a
match with Billy Mccarthy for $500
purse. which he won easily, and then
Jimmie Carroll took him in hand. He
went to New Orleans and fought Arthur
Upham and beat him in five rounds for a
$500 purse. He then beat Jack Dempsey
easily in thirteen rounds for $l2, 900. He
beat Peter Maher in ten rounds, and who
is the hardest puncher in the world, for
a.$l0 900 purse. He had all the best of
Joe ChoynskI in six rounds for gate re-
ceipts. He beat Jim Hall, the next
cleverest man in the world to CoIbett, in
four rounds for purse of $4,000. He
beat Dan Creedon, the best NJ iddle weight
in the world, in two rounds for purse
OF $4,000; and besides this he has beat a