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Pugilistic Punchings.
The following letter of pugilisti
events is from Henry McEuery and APP
peared in the New Orleans Picayune o
last Sunday:
| Poor old John Sullivan! He says ht
is in earnest in his efforts to get on {
match with Champion FitZsimmOns
but he isn't. Why, to look at him
climbing through the ropes of the ring
at Carson City to make speech anC
challenge the winner one would mag
inc he was the circus fat man, let out
for an airing, andnot the great wonder
of twelve years life in the ring. The
former champion looks like he had toe
much to eat, and to think of him 60
ing into the ring again, and with such
au out-aud-outer as the present cham
pion of the world is, makes one laugh.
When Sullivan told me he was out
to challenge the winner at Carson l
wondered if he would make good his
word, ard like the Sullivan of old, he
did. 81 think there is one fight in
me" said the renowned BOstonian, and
almost simultaneously 100 men said to
themselves, Il think there amt. "
But John L. Sullivan was always a
self-opinionated somebody, even when
out of his cups, and if he is so still, he'll
pay great price for being so when he
enters the ring with 'Bob'' Fitzsim-
mons, who can whip him with one arm
tied behind him.
The challenge from Choynski to
Fitzimmon5 must not be completely
ignored, for the very simple reason
that the California fighter has already
encountered the champion of the world,
and in all seriousness, had him on the
md nr1 of 2 ho hot Ia h
one punch. So it must be admitted
that the brave Jew is in line for the
championship. But Choyoski is not
proceeding in the right way with his
def to EitzsimmonS. Joe should post
his forfeit money, and then allow the
champion three months 10 which to
cover the deposit and right here it is
proper TO say that ChOynski has already
the disadvantage of encOuntering the
Corbett deposit, which was put up for
a second fight with FitzsimmOns
While Choynski was fooling around.
of tightisg with the champion,
Jim Corbett, with his quick sense and
of the adage, Coming
events cast their shadows BEFORE"
jumped in ahead of his brother Cali
fornian, and put up his money for
fresh engagement with the cOnque- o.
of Carson. Amt Jim slick? Corbett
hDc" well UudU uSAI lldu d
TO fight for the championship, and
fearing that the Hebrew fighter would
get the first call from the Australian
lighter, he put up money quick, and
now COrbett must and shall have the
first opportunity to try for the worlds
championship again.
In Justice to Fitzsimmons it must be
said toat Jim CoIville, the time keeper
for Cor bett, has denied that he said
ons was down more than ten
seconds at Car-on City in the sixth
round. l mention this fact this week,
because 1 gave publicity to the state
ment that COlvllle was Of the opinion
that FitzsimmOns lost the fight in the
sixth round. Now if the story of the
allie ged foul in the fourteenth is as
unauthentic as the COlville statement
has been shown to be, it will be bad
for the Corbett people, and the Amer
lean will not increase his standing in
the eyes of the people of his country,
for fairness must. mark all engage
ments, whether of a ring character or
not. OF course, the pictures will show
Corbett was fouled or not. but
f he wasn't there'll be something in
his letter that will displease many
Corbett people, for though it sickens
ne to have to acknowledge the Aus
,ralian fighter, I'll nail all lies told
about him in reference to the Carson
City fight. l was sent there as a re-
of a great paper to the
Carson fight, and | was sent there to
give q true version of all [ saw. l did
%, and though my patriotic ardor was
lampened before | came home, my
ability to tell the truth and do justice
had not been disturbed. Bob" Fitz-
simmons, as far as l could see, won the
Ii ampionship of the world in manly
and he should and will be Civ
IN credit for his performance and fair
lighting, and unless the picture of
jhe fourteenth round shows a foul
blow, he'll get a great deal
more favOra BILE comment than he has
yet met with, for he will then be de-
tended against the outrageous and UNI
lair attacks of the Corbett people who
cannot tell the truth. The American
party went to Carson to win a fight, |
md it came back defeated according to
the rules of the ring, and that lets the
whole business out, so far as the past
light is concerned. It's comforting to
know, however, that Corbett himself
has never said word about the alleged
fouls.
Poor Howard Hacket has gone to his
long home. Genial and fraternal in
life, known as the smartest of the
younger newspaper men, full of amb:-
ton and promise for the future. 1t
seems but yesterday that he and L
clasped hands crossing the American
and tonight he has crossed |
the great divide, verifying the fearful
adage, I'VE are here today and there
tomorrow" He was man, take him
all in all. Peace be to his ashes.