The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-03-02
POINTS ON PUGILISM
Scientific Tactics Employed by Cor
bett and FitzsimmOns.
IT'S A GUESS TILL MARCH II
Rumors In the East as to the Con-
ditlon of the Gladiators-Stock
Goes Up and Then Down
Other Ring Artists.
IT'S A GUESS TILL MARCH II


far as can he seen at the present. the
clash OF arms for finish between Fitz-
simmons and Corbett promises TO he
the fight OF the century. Undoubtedly
they stand alone at the pinnacle OF
the worlds glovedom. one famed as
much for his snapshot knockouts as
the other for his perfect science and
! finished detail.
From reading not a few opinions OF
those stepped pretty well in prize-ring
wisdom II seems, ! believe, that the
more one knows Of the thing generally
the less he acknowledges to knowing
about what is to happen on March II.
William Muldoon, the old-time Graeco-
Roman wrestler, handler OF sullivan.
kilrain, Ed Smith and others, COM
pressed the highest grade OF general
opinion into a kernel when he said:
The men are so evenly matched that
the winner is very liable to be returned
on some small error of Judgment
So far as an individual opinion goes,
l can put it down here that II Jim
Corbett were known To be as lightning
a workman as he was when he met
and played with sullivan or when he
struggled against the at one-time great
Peter Jackson. the longest-reaching.
straightest- hitting animated automat-
ON the arena ever knew, l should be-
lieve that Fitzsimmons was up against
It, But this is not expressing the opin-
ion exactly that Corbett should whip
Fitz when they meet In Carson, for he
may have become iiabby In fiber during
the many long months he has traversed
the country I'm stuffy rooms permeated
with grease paint and other foreign
things TO fighter; he may have lost
just a trifie Of that indescribable some
thing which, before man such as
FitZ. who flashes in everything he car
ries every time he hits, might mean
quick disaster.
Of Corbett's condition a host OF stor-
les have been told since and some time
before his signing articles for the
championship encounter. Prize-ring
plungers have investigated and reinves-
tigated. actuated by the keen desire to
win a small fortune in the forthcoming
fight. Only the other day Fitzsimmons
stock showed q jump IN the East and
immediately came -tefpgrapnfr tfdings
of covert knowledge professed TO he
known by favored few that Corbett
could not get into the ring as sound as
other hand, a published statement from
a physician who examined Corbett in
San Francisco recently puts IL that the
pompadourean could not be sounder, to
which can be added that when Corbett
was in Chicago recently he had every
outward appearance of being as good
as he ever was.
With each in his prime, capable Of
putting to the fore the best in him. II
Is a personal opinion of mine that the
Corbett style of tactics would wear
down and eventually tie up the Fitz-
simmons mode. Whoever has seen
Fitzsimmons at earnest battle has OBJ
served the Kangaroo to want to do 1t
all to the opposite man with one rap,
or at most. with one-two, In rapid sue
cession. His maneuvers before deliv-
cry are all toward opening a runway
for knockout drive: finished. vigorous
feinting at long distance till the oppon-
ent is mixed. then quick step In and
smash. IL he misses he brings up
against his adversary. but not for in
fighting. Fitz is desirous OF getting out
peaceably again at long distance. for
no man that hurls such fierce ones can
carry intelligent equilibrium; his bolt
shot he is spent till he can reload. AS
utSl SultlDE iistapihss Nv 70 i''h-
ing for his own interest decidedly when
he says he does not want his opponent
TO hit himself loose from him or TO
strike when he is getting away from
clinch.
In general, this Is Fitzsimmons' style
when he can have his own way. There
have been. however exceptions, partic-
ularly in his last encounter with Peter
Maher in which the Irlshman was done
in one minute and 30 seconds. hut that
was an awkward, scrambling fight, and
most Of those who saw il agree that Il
was any mans victory till the knock
out shot. Fitz. according to himself.
took a couple of raspers from Maher
before he was able To enter his winning
blow. Following his special style Of
break up feinting and bounding back
end forth. and the Kangaroo should be
able any time to put Peter Maher out
in from to 10 rounds, without getting
a scratch.
Now. my opinion is, II Jim is as fast
on his feet as | have seen him at his
best, Fitz nor any man can set him 10
nuttering from. feints and work him up
for the reception Of a one-punch open
ing. Aided by lightning footwork Cor
belts idea when an opponent fcints
hard at him IL Ia break up the opposite
mans programme in a hurry. this by
getting is close quarters before his
feint is well finished or gliding 50 far
away that the feinter is discunccrted.
In ease then. Jim proves fast enough
10 clip the elongated ones darling
feints the latter. II he wants as, ! he
lieye he claims. to make pushing bat
tie of It. must rush in for tangle fight
ing. in which case he must go against
weight odds and the swiftest QUICKER