The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-05

Chicago, Aug. 4-Louis Houseman
writes to the Inter Ocean: A study of
Tom Sharkey, the marine who but for
police Intervention, would surely have
June, reveals one very marked and pro-
nounced acteristic-sincerity. 1
had a long talk with the broad-should-
cred one the other day, and believe that
he is confident of his ability TO stop
Corbett as the latter was in the Sulli-
van enga cement am loath to believe
that man of Sharkey's range can whip
Corbett-Corbett being Corbett, OF
course. 1 cannot figure how good lit
tie man can whip a good big man, yet
there are angles" as the choleric Bru-
nell would put it, to this match that the
public Is only causua1ly acquainted
with. -Four years ago, in battle with
Corbett, Sharkey would have been on
the write your own ticket" side of the
betting proposition. Five months hence,
If the men ever meet, the odds will not
be SO long.
The life that Corbett has been lead
ing must have left its imprint upon the
champions constitution. Corbett has
been going the Sullivan route without
the Sullivan capacity for endurance
He has been indulging the Sullivan
orgies and excuses on a Corbett ply
sique, and the result is already appar-
ent
Sharkey does not think that Corbett
has got enough vitality left to win
from him in a month. He figures that he
can take all that Corbett has got, ex-
hausting Corbett in the delivery Of his
goods, and then go in and wear the Cali
fornian down. Sharkey has never been
whipped. His battles, true, have been
Of the off-the-reei order, and bar the
last five-Billy Smith, Alec Greggains.
Jim Williams, Joe Choynski and Jim
Corbett-have afforded little on which
to build a line as to form.
From his own story prejudiced, per-
haps, Of the Choynski fight. it appears
that it was not so much a foul blow as
a broken rib which caused twenty-six
minutes delay in the first round Shar-
key ayers that he broke one Of the low
er ribs on the right side of Choynski's |
stomach with a left-hand swing in the |
first round, and that this is what the |
report of foul blow was built upon which |
was telegraphed in the press accounts |
Of the mill
d. j. Lynch, the hacker Of Sharkey, |
TOO If you will, corrobor-
ates this, and, better, by the positive |
assertion that Choynski, two weeks ef- |
ter the battle, admitted that it was a |
broken rib and not foully lodged blow
that disabled him.
Sharkey hopes to defeat Corbett by
body Furnishing. He does not think that
the wasted and worSted stomach OF
Corbett can withstand him at this point.
He knows that in the roughing paths
OF battle with Corbett a temperate
life and correct habits will avail some,
and intends TO be heedful of these.
"All L want is a fair referee" says
Shs rkey
To my mind, it is doubtful If he will
get one. Corbett has no use for fair
-eferees. He wants them of the "Hon-
,st' John Kelly sort. The referee to
Corbett'S liking is the Corbett func-
ionary. He will try to bullyrag Shar-
Key into accepting an official of Brady's
choosing. He will haggle and wrangle,
'ume and fuss. bulldoze and intimidate,
n the hope OF ultimately forcing Shar-
Sey 10 accept anybody named
III Sharkey permits this, the fight Is
III over with. He will have no more
ihow against Corbett than poor, delud-
ID Charley Mitchell had.
What Sharkey wants Is a man like
Teorge Siler to sit in judgment over
he battle. Siler is as imperyious to
he Establishment of Corbett gold as
Ie fs proof against the Corbett buster.
here would be but one chance for Cor
ett to win from Sharkey in a fight :
With Siler as referee-Corbett would
ave to win, and in winning would have !
o toe the Queensberry mark religious
y. Siler will not tolerate the tactics Z
Thich obtained in that malodorous I
jacksonville fight two years ago, and, .
'ossibly, this accounts for Corbett's 6
version 10 Silver