The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-17
Winner viii Get Stuart's SIS,
600 and a $4,000 Stake.
LOSER NOT TO RECEIVE A CENT
The Expenditures In Training Were
Heavy-The Greatest Money Will
BE Made From Exhibitions in Cit
les After the Contest-Brady Talks
OF the Financial Part.

] make out OF the fight, William A. Brady,
| partner and manager of Champion James
| ]. Corbett has made careful estimate OF
the amountof money spent Jinarrangingthe in
present battle for the championship of the
world, and the profits TO be made from il.
Nothing could be more startling than
the contrast made between the small gains
made by any old-time champion and the
immense sums that flow into the treas
ury of his modern successor.
The fight said MT. brady, besides
being for the championship OF the world,
| is for a purse OF Sic, 900 given by Dan
| Stuart and stake of $4,000, half of the
stake being put up by the hackers OF the
| pugilists. All of the S25, 900 goes into the
ha nds Of the winner directly after the
| fight The loser will not receive one cent
of purse OF stake
bow about the electric pictures?" he
was asked.
II understand" replied Mr.. Brady, that
an arrangement has been made by Mr..
Stuart whereby each fighter receives an
equal amount of cash for his interest
in the pictures. What that sum is prefer
not to say"
II believe Mr.. Corbett has already re-
ceived about $4,000 for writing about the
fight As has been said, he has bet this
money on himself against So, 500 put up
by followers of Fitzsimmons: SO, assuming
that Corbett wins the fight. he will re-
ceive:
Purse :. .. =. =. =. =. =. ..S15,000
stake. lO,O00
Newspaper money and bet..... $500
This does not include the money for the
pictures. OF course, the $4,000 stake
belongs to his hackers, Messrs. Warren
Lewis and Jack Mcdonald, of New York,
and George Considine, of Detroit.
The expenditures in training for a
battle of this sort are heavy. Board at
Shaw's, Hot Springs, for the Corbett
party viii cost 5000; building the handball
court cost $3.50 more Transportation
from New York and back again is s 900
more: incidentals. etc, add $500 TO the sum.
"Then there are eight men on Mr.. Cor
belts staff-MlIy Delaney and Charley
White, who are training him. and Bob
Jefrries, Conny McVey, Billy Woods, Joe
Corbett, Kid Egan, and Mr. Hampton, the
handban expert. L don't know what they
will receive from the champion, but I
know that he will give each one a hand
some present.
These fixed receipts and expenditures,
however, are a very small part of the
money involved in a championship battle.
The greatest item of all is the money
to he made by exlibitionsi in bigcities and On
the road.
ION the way to Carson City we played
once at Salt Lake City and twice in San
Francisco, clearing about 81 400. That is
credited TO the training account and de-
posted in the bank"
Training acoount?''
"oh, yes, we keep a regular training
account from the moment match is
made, and all the receipts and expen'li
lures are regularly credited and charged.
I'm training for the fight with Mitchell
we spent in the neighborhood Of 1000. all
Of which we cleared by giving exhibi-
tions on the way to Jacksonville.
1t cost us 81 5,0UO to train for the late
fizzle with Fitzsimnons, counting our tx
penses at Asbury Park, Dallas and Hot
Springs We made So, 900 clear knocking
around the country on our way to Jllnse
places. but we are still $4,000 behind
AS to what FitzsiInmons will make
out Of this match l cannot give you any
official estimate, but / can make close
guess The mere fact that Fitzsnim 1ns
is mentioned as likely TO fight CnTb+tt |
is worth money to him. From the re |
mcnt his challenge was accepted he vas |
sure of a good living. For the last year |
he could easily have made from $500 to |
81 900 a week, merely because he was |
matched against Corbett.
'sOf course he will lose all that when |
Corbett beats him; but remember that in |
the meantime he has made at least $50, 900 |
out Of Corl,etts name. BY the way, Mr.. |
Fitzsimnlons is easily making ms training |
expenses by charging 81 admission fee to
see him at work training He has only |
three men on his staff.
Suppose Corbett should be so unfortunate |
as to lose this fight, which l think is
unless an earthquake over
whelms us But suppose he should lose.
Then Fftz could travel around the country |
exhibiting himself in boxing show and in
vaudeville houses. He would have to as
sociate himself with that sort Of enter
tainment because he can do nothing as an
actor Mr. Julian tried him once in the
South in a little play called The Black
smiths Vow, and it soon met with a
disastrous end.
enable FitZ to win, he could exhibit him
self around the country and make per
haps $50, 900. Meantime the American
spirit would assert itself and dozen
ambitious fellows would challenge Fitz
He would either have to defend his title
against every one of them or he would
lose his drawing power at once.
with Corbett the case is different
In the ten days Immediately following
the John L. Sullivan fight Corbett
cleared S23, 600. In Madison Square Gar
den he received Sc, 500 net for one nights
perforlnanee. In the year Corbett made
from all sources between $50, 900 and
$500 900.
"Curbett is singulariy fortunate in
being able to play in the finest theaters
in America; theaters in which such stars
as Joe jefferson and Nat Goodwin play.
One OF the biggest and best theaters in
New York is holding its dates for Cor
belts company for the rest OF this season,
in anticipation OF Corbett's victory.