The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-31
REMARKS BY Mr.. CORBETT
Will Give Fitz a Few Thousand
to Enter the Ring Again.
RECALLS A FEW THINGS
Fitz Wants Corbett to Meet Maher, and
Mccoy to Meet Choynski-Jim Tries
Hard to Be Ironical-Stuart Is
Trying to Make Fight.

Cnclnant Ohio. Dec. S0.-James J.
Corbett to-day gave out the following:
Robert Fitzsimmons, Champion of the
World:
Your published declaration, Mr..
Fitzsimmons, that you intend meeting
me in the ring, pleases me more than
that | can at present express to you. for
/ know that the public esteems me to be
the only candidate for the honors you
has to offer. | am sorry. however, to
note that in wording this declaration,
you give me the impression that since
we last met you have become unwisely
forgcttul; for instance, you say that be-
fore ! can claim a return match with
You | must prove myself TO be worthy
of it, You certainly intended this as
joke, for no one in the world knows my
ability better than yourself. You can
not 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 /. the
loser, with neither brutse nor scratch,
could not contradict you. Is this con-
sistent with your now requesting me TO
go and prove myself worthy? You Will
rot end the confidence of the public in
my ability to entertain you still. You
will find that the public will insist upon
your recognizing my claim that you
must meet me again.
But surely you have been misrepre-
sented. | refuse TO credit you with the
lame memory, the broken Judgment, the
poor taste and entire untruthfulness
which the printed remarks, alleged to
have been made by you, would imply.
| prefer to think that those who entered
the ring with me were men, brave and
incapable of the vulgar, lying and cow
ardly language in which the newspaper
version Of your remarks was couched.
However well | know that the great
journals try to be, and usually are. cor
rect to the letter, in the utterances by
prominent men upon important subjects,
| prefer to believe that in this case
grave error has been made somehow.
somewhere, and for a purpose not
worthy Of one who wishes to be consid-
cred above contempt.
What the public expects from me is
| to maintain the manly dignity of the
| ring and not be a 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 ] propose to do. The day
we sign articles | will give you $1,000
| in recognition of your courtesy. The
| IitbliituI YOU enter the ItfS. ICduy 10 Ol-
fer me battle. l will give you second
| $1,000 in token OF my pleasure Upon
| the completion of the 10th round. If you
are stll undefeated. | Will give you a
| third 81, 900 as a souvenir Of my surprise
Upon defeating YOU no matter If YOU
reject it. | Will give you $1,000, On the
| other hand. should you defeat me.
| promise, If still able to move, to place
! my hat upon my head and then. re-
moving II in your honor. to proclaim
! you in frank and unmistakable terms.
| my superior and state that | then and
| there quit forever all claims upon the
! championship of the world. Let fur
! ther remarks on this subject be made
! by $1,000 clean. honest American money.
given me by the public that put their
| confidence in me. | mean every word
| have herein spoken. tSigned,
JAMES j. CORBETT.
Champion of the World"
| Cincinnati, Ohio. Dec. 30. 1897.
| Chicago. Dec 3o-'We shall pay no
| attention To it," said Martin Julian to-
/ day when asked what he and Fftzsim-
mons would do In regard to Corbett's
| formal challenge Of the champion.
Fitzsimmons. himself. refused to dis
! cuss the subject in accordance with the
plan of operation. which is TO let Julian
| do all the talking
we have told Corbett what he can
want to re-enter the ring at all. but at
| last ! persuaded him to promise to fight
again on certain conditions. These
were as | explicitly stated that he
would consider fighting only two men
| Curbett and McCoy-and that he should
| fight them only after Corbett had de-
feated Maher and after Mccoy had de-
feated a man named by me. | have
named Choynski for Mccoy TO fight
Now, Corbett may wear himself out
talking about betting $4,000 that he can
whip Fitzsimmons'
Concerning Mccoy and Choynski. Ju-
Ian 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 Chaynski
must come down To i5S pounds, for he
knows Joe cannot do that"
Julian admitted that if Mccoy In
sisted. he wanted 10 fight no man out
side Of the middleWeight limit. he (Ju-
liam might consent to name middle
weight. But" he said. Ill will not be
| Walcott nor viii it be Tracey"
New York. Dec 30.-Tom O'Rourke
has wired the associated press from Fort
| Wayne. Ind. as follows: julien and
| FitZsimmu have named Joe Walcott
at the middleweiCht limit r. meet Nc
Coy and Peter Ainher to meet Crrbett
II Mccoy and Carhatt win from WqIc0tt
and Maher Fi,Zsimmons VIII meet both
of them afterwards. These are tn aniv
conditions Fifzsia mons will make with
Mccoy and Curb@tt."
NOT The OCEAN WAVE.