The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
FIVE THOUSAND GIFT
-CORBETT PROMISES 1T FOR THE
PRIVILEGE OF AGAIN MEETING
F'ITZSIMMONS.
TERMS OF HIS CHALLENGE.
PRESENT OF A THOUSAND DOL
LARS ON THE DAY ARTICLES
ARE SIGNED.
MORE MONEY ON ENTERING RING.
One Thousand Dollars of the Five
Conditioned on the Champion
Lasting Ten Rounds.

CINCINNATI, o., Dec. 3O-James J.
Corbett today gave to the TimesStar
for publication his challenge to fight
Robert Fitzsimmons, as follows:
Robert J. Fitzsimmons, Champion of the
World: Your published declaration, Mr.. Fitz-
simmons, that you intend re-entering the
ring, pleases me more than can at present
express to you, for [ know that the public
esteems me to be the only candidate for the
honorS you thus place within reach. l am
sorry, however, to note that in wording this
declaration you give me the impression that
since we last met you have become unWisely
forgetful. For instance, you say that be-
fore can claim return match with you,
1 must prove myself to be worthy of it. You
certainly INTENDED that for joke, as no
one in the world knows my ability better
than yourself. You cannot so soon have
forgotten your remark to ME at Carson, just
after the battle. Jim" you said, in your
simple, earnest way, IN never fight again:
You've given me a bloody good licking.
You, the winner, uttered these words, with
face and body so battered as to leave no
doubt OF your sincerity, while l. the loser.
listened with never a bruise or scratch from
head to foot which could contradict you.
Is this consistent with your now request
ing me to go prove myself TO be worthy op-
ponent? You will find the confidence Of the
public in my ability to entertain you still
mistaken. You will find that the public will
insist upon your recognizing my claim that
you must meet me again. But surely you
have been misrepresented. l refuse to credit
you with the lame memory, broken judg
ment, poor taste and entire untruthfulness
which the printed remarks alleged to nave
been made by you would imply l prefer to
think that those who have entered the ring
with me were men. honest, brave and in
capable of the vulgar lying and cOWardly
language in which the newspaper version of
your remarks couched However, know
that the great journals try to be and usual
ly are accurate to the letter In reporting ut
terances made by important men upon I'M
pOrtant subjects. | prefer to believe that
In this case a grave error has been made
somehow, somewhere and for a purpose I'M
worthy of one who wishes TO be considered
above contempt
What the public expects from me is to
maintain the manly dignity OF the ring. and
not be a brawier, shifty evader of the
honest principles which govern honest men
when adjusting their respective merits. This
is all have to say. But this is what l pro-
pose to do:
The day we sign articles, l will give you
a thousand dollars in recognition of your
courtesy. The moment you enter the ring,
ready to offer me battle | viii give you
second thousand dollars in token OF my pleas
ure. Upon the completion of the tenth round.
If you still undefeated l will give you
third thousand dollars as a souvenir OF my
surprise. Upon defeating y OF, no matter in
what round, l will give you two thousand
dollars more as reminder that l am not an
ungenerOuS foe.
On the other hand, should you again de-
feat me- l promise if still able TO move, to
place my hat upon my head, and then, re-
moving it in your honor. to proclaim you in
frank and unmistakable terms to be my Su-
perior and state that / then and there quit
forever all possible claim to the champion
ship of the world.
Let further remarks on this subject be
made by 81 eco Clean honestly earned, Amer
lean dollars. given me by the public that be
lieves in me. L have this day forwarded
these to Will ]. Davis, of Chicago, in testi-
mony that l mean every word have herein
spoken. James j. Corbett
Champion OF America.
Cincinnati, O.. Dec. 80, 1897.
CHICAGO Dec. 30.-tWe shall pay no at
tention to it," said Martin Julian, when
asked what he and Fitzsimmons would do
champion Fitz himself refuses to discuss
the subject, in accordance with his new plan
of operations, which it to let Julian do all
the talking. 1--WE have tod C9Ebett what he
can do" continued Julian. Bob will enter
the ring again certain conditions. These
were as l explicitly stated that he would
consider fighting only two men, Corbett and
Mccoy and that he should fight them only
after Corbett had defeated Maher and after
1 have named ChoynSki for Mccoy to fight.
Now Corbett may wear himself out talking
about betting $4,000 that he can whip Fitz-
simmons"
Concerning Mccoy and Choynski. Julian
said Il am going to hold Mccoy to his
promise that he would give Choynski the
next show at him. He cannot get out Of it
by saying Joe cannot do that"
Julian admitted that if Mccoy insisted he
insisted he wanted to fight no man out
side of the middleweight limit he Uulian)
might consent to name a mddleweight.
But" he said, cit will not be Walcott nor
will it be Tommy White or Tommy Ryan"