The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-12
SOME "REMINISCENCES.
a Correspondent Tells OF the Ana.
hilton Of the Two EiHhters.

w. w. Naughton In st. Louis Republic.
Eleven years ago Il wss my daily habit
to drop into the old California club. at
No. 2is Grant avenue, San ffNncsco.
wbiia jim Corbctt. the saplns, ami Dick
Matthews were srarring. Once. when Cor
bett ANA myself we're talking OF the pos
s!bilit,es OF the future. he confdei to me
that II WINS his ambition TO be known como
dny as the champion OF tho world. rms
was before the night wtth ChoyhsM TOOK
place. and, consequently. before every
hing than has happened since that MEM
orablc battle, wos even thountw OF. ,soo
| rSncmbcr one other day ~ MAY, 1870
when there arrived from Australia q
ft~ckle-faccd, ean-uhanksd INDIVIDUAL,
with bony hands and alert, hiue eyes a
week or two later wutchul MIN whip bi,i
| McV'a and subsequently. when commit
menting him on his showing, ne re-
| m,rkca - a..
'Nou viii t.ce me taking punch at mo
| big fellows before | am through.
| He was Fitzsimmons
| What have Corbott and tho cornishman
accomplished sncN those tar-oway day /.
| Pomp.ulour Jim has run the yaun'ls. OK
| mon Axe Choynsici. kilruln. Peter Jack
| Aon, John L. SulliNvun and Charley Mitchell,
| 10 my mind his showing with jackson
was HIN star performance. for, with Al
| due allowance for Peters stinenoi ANKLE
| II was a marvellous thiny for company
| 1.-Two amateur 10 hold his own with me
uolorcd wonder from the Antipodes' JIM.
| who had watched Jackson ~ ms nEhts
with Godfrey MoAuiifte and Cardiff. hal
stlhisei the Ausiralipn's most humorous
tactics, such as he had not gauEcd cor,
rrcely he acquainted him1eu win ana
made provisions Nsyainst, while the nSh'
wsts In prosic.-s. AZ 4 vonsat'en'' Nv
az. felt tho force OF one OF Jackson
heaau punches. hut only one. and whei
he walked GU, of yhc r,,nS ina bs s' saree m
Ills subsequent experiences Win SULLIVAN
and Mftcholl were only IN the nsMr q
exercise. ii,s showing with Shmrkey w, WI
he dealt with under separate hoan'hs
| nnd ass I said before, thtt torneVt ~ y
the present timo, on deck TO hisr",e ~, I'm
supremacy of the world OF ns,h y ~" ,n'
! "A saib,lte TO the depth and breadth OF w
t,mo-honored suying: THE anrvN" OF ""
iittsst." a., 49,.
than Corhois. He ms not been p'tte'
ngairst such high ciass men, ou' ne ma !,
engagements, iIe, ms,idle, weirh' contest q,
proved him TO he q wonderful workman
and his later showlngs WIN JIM iini
Mnhcr, Cieeion and Choynski made Foo
his hoasst thnt he would some day YAK
a punch at the big fellown,'
than haas Corhot,, Time and again he "a
been knocked iiszy by the wr'yn, s OF ~
Nsii not acknowledge that he has quail
fb,d for tho champion ciafss' strengthe
thfir arguments by reference 20 the NUN
.
, within an nee OF dcfeat. They conoe,l
that in Mahcr and ChoynaN the tornlFh
, man has becn against the hardest isnhtl
, crs IN the business and they do not W
. stross enough upon the fact thai Will
punched dizzy hv onrh Of this brace {
hcnvy htttcrs Rob Inns escaped being con
pleioly knocked ont,
T, The mort nxcisng races IN tho nnn,l
, Of the turf have been won by what ~
lOnown az stretch horara. md that Fiti
. simmons hrs always rnnnared 20 n@'c
y himself at n cri'ichl time. suggests to n
! that he has, well earned the title OF q
" stretch horse OF puRiism. The hard RI,
!, he lras received AND tho hard nnd q
u ciFivr f,auS he has given IN rsurn NAL
two things rNvsonnhiv palpable One
9 that he RECEIVERS quickly from iarrir
y blew. and the other that no dcrree OF ~
i yinese nffects the force Of his own deli
GRANGE. He Inns emerged from many ,iyl
! pinccS and tho Hcnlps that danrle a. h
g rirdle warrant me IN coniending that h
Y OF the fliics. !"