Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-22
PUNCHES.

Chicago Journal: Alas poor Corbett, we
knew him well.
Chicago Record: Corbett's superiority in
the use of the typewriter does not seem to
have done him the slightest good.
st. Louis Republic: If Mrs. Fitzsimmons
had been allowed to reach Corbett just after
the ~latter's post-knockout attack upon her
husband, that pugilist's claim to the title
of Pompadour Jim would likely have van
ished into very thin hair.
Chicago News: John l.. Sullivan has ex-
planned the whole affair. He says the reason
Corbett met defeat was that he went into
the ring once too often. The startling flood
of light this throws on the vexed question
| will prove an immense relief to the country
at large.
Chicago Times-Herald: Just as soon as
| Mr.. Corbett announced that he had "discov-
cred a new knockout blow" a week ago,
we warned him that he would better hire
| an express company to deliver 1t. In the
| excitement Mr.. Corbett's new blow, 1t ap-
| pears. was delivered to the wrong man, after
all.
Philadelphia Record: The excitement on the
| streets of the Quaker City wednesday AFTER
noon was 80 great as to block travel on the
public thoroughfareS in the neighborhood or
| telegraphic bulletin boards. We are farther
| off from the millennium that the friends OF
| international arbitration are willing to ad-
nit.
New York Sun: As Corbett retreats into OBJ
security FitZsimmons remains alone for us to
wonder at. Truly he is a most remarkable
person. He has strength in no degree IN
| dicated by his muscles, a tigers spirit, ana
the nest extraordinary professional pro
| fciency. Contrary to the usual way of the
ring. his right hand is like his left, and
! each is terrible. Probably in him we actually
have the enigmatical affair with which his
| British forerunner, John Milton, when he
| let his imagination run upon the theme OF
Lycidas bewildered the critics for all time to
! come between his and ours. Fitzsimmons
must have been foreseen in these lines:
THAT two-handed engine at the door,
Stands ready to smite once and smite no
more
The mystery is solved. Robert Fitzsim-
mons. the Australian blacksmith, is the
knocker-out here depicted. Today he stands
In high relief, not only as the final material
ization Of Milton's fancy, but as the only
man of his class in sight.
Philadelphia Ledger: On the face of the
returns it locks as though strength and en-
durance had triumphed over skill and
alertness, associated with comparatively
speaking deficient stamina. To the
majority probably who are keenly
Interested in these matters the tri-
umph of Fitzsimmons will give satisfaction.
It is a change, and the tickle populace pre-
fers a rotation in hcnors Of all sorts Cor
bett, too, though respected for his prowess
and successes, did not, like sullivan, enjoy
a high degree Of personal popularity. lie
now will be an ex-champion, a dethroned
king. and the interest which for several
years has conferred in him will be transferred
to his adversary. His fate has been pictured
and described by that all-around reporter Of
humanity, Mr.. Shakespeare, who has this to
say of Mr.. Corbett and other ex-champions:
"The painful warrior, famoused for fight
After a thousand Victories. once folled,
Is from the Book of Honor RACED quito,
And all the rest forgot for which he