Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-04-15
No Interest In the Details.
JUDGE AND BANK PRESIDENT GOT
FIGHT RETURNS ENTIRELY
BY ACCIDENT.

BY ACCIDENT.
81 am not particularly interested
in that fight" remarked the bank
president, who had dropped in at 9
newspaper office. "Still / have q
little curiosity to know which OF
the two brutes whipped"
1.-The report has just come over
the wire," replied the circuit Judge,
who had happened in few minutes
before him, that Fitz-Fitz-what
is the rest of his name ?"
81 think his name is Fitzsim.
MONS"
cit sounds like it. At any rate,
the dispatch is to the effect that he
has whipped. / don't take much in
terest in this sort of thing, but was
passing the Office and stepped inside
to see what was drawing all this
crowd"
How many-what do you call
them-did they fight?"
81 think they call them rounds.
They fought fourteen"
Rounds, if | remember, is the
word. And Fitzsimmons knocked
the other man out in the fourteenth
round ?n
Yes, the other mans name, they
say, is Corbett."
"Corbett? He's the man who
fought Sullivan some years ago,
| isn't he?
The same man. He would have
won this fight, too, 1 judge from the
bulletins, if he had not been too
confident"
Wasn't he overtrained
" Not bit Of it. He was in the
pink of condition"
" He must have weighed at least
fifteen pounds more than Fitzsim-
MONS"
Yes, but Fitzsimmons' enormous
chest and shoulders offset this differ
ence. He had taken better care of
himself, too"
81 know, but if Corbett had been
the fighter he claimed to be he would
have knocked him out inside of ten
rounds"
"Corbett had him whipped, didn't
he, up to the tenth round ?"
"Not by a houseful. Fitz was
getting stronger all the time.n
1.-The bulletins show that Corbett
landed three times to his once.D
Yes, but his blows lacked steam.
fitz was waiting for a chance to hit
him once, good and hard, and when
the chance did come he was ready.
He never lost his head single time
during the whole fight. He's the
gamest man in the world to-day,
and I'll bet money on itu
Hes game enough, but if ever
the two fight again my money will
be put up on Corbett. He's the
most scieutific boxer and the great.
est pugilistic general that ever step
ped inside prize ring. 1t was a
chance blow that knocked him out :"
mo, it wasn't. He had waited
for that blow. He
Why, look at that sixth round !!
Corbett fought him to his knees,
and"
"He wasn't half as badly done up
as he appeared to be. You can bet
on that. He wanted Corbett to rush
him, and he would have been ready
-
Rot! Anybody that knows a
boxing glove from a baked turkey
knows that"
"A man who couldn't tell the diff
terence between a prize fight and
Quaker meeting has no business to
talk about pugilism !"
The judge recovered himself first
AS l remarked when you came
in," he said, 81 don't take any in.
terest in this sort Of thing. The
whole business is distasteful to me.
l only stepped in here by accident.
Good afternoon."- Chicago Tribune.
HELPLESS AS TO BREAD.-Captain
Bliss was like all seamen, a strict
disciplinarian, and his crew respected
him beyond measure. Not one of
them would have dreamed of inter-
preting command otherwise than
according to the strict letter of the
law. Things must be done shipshape
under his rule.
One day, while the ship was in a
certain port, the captain gave a din.
ner TO some town acquaintance, and
as the resources of the ship was not
great some OF the sailors were de.
puted to wait on the table to re.en.
force the insufficient number. of
stewards.
AS these men were not used to
such work each one was told exactly
what service would fall to his share.
The hour came, and the dinner
went merrily on. Presently, how
ever, one of the ladies wanted a
piece of bread. There was none
very near her, and the finely discip.
lined stewards seemed quite ohlivious
to her need. She turned her headan
spoke very softly to the man at her
elbow.
Bread, please" she said.
He looked regretfully at the bread
and then at her. 1t was evident
that he would fain have helped her
if it had been in his power. He
saluted her in fine naval style.
Can't do 1t, ma'am," said he,
Pm told off for taters."
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