The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-28
Sports ~pasfin)es

kind A meeting VIII be held today. al
which the fighters ard their hackers are
expected 10 Ie present
At present the situation liz az follows;
That there WIS a ggindle the sporting pub
BIC firmly believes. bst opinions differ as To
how u Affects the principals standing Per
haps II would be better 10 say how II ought
70 AFFECT their standing. because, no mat
ter what develops. the character OF b0tn IS
smirched- Absolute proof OF crookedness
has net been brought 10 light. although the
action of Ncvsy In jumping into me ring
10 enough 20 convince any reasonable per-
sof. that something vas wrong.
The Examiner says that before the lght
took place Harry Beecher. sporting editor
Of ;hs Afternoon edition OK the Ne~ York
Journal stated that &c believed the fight
MAS fixed for SsaTkey 20 win on foul IN
The ninth rcund. He said that he got this
cpsnscn from his Investigation. One cannot
bat 6onp. the reliability Of such state
nsenf az much as the genulneness OF the
/. fgat
rte day after tine fight statement was
sent cut from New York about three tele-'
afternoon Of ths day Of the fight. stating
tlAzt arr aEl&enents mad been changed. and
TO hedge % sharksy- One telegram was
supposed 10 come 10 Seattle. one 10 Port
! land and the third TO San Francisco. /
have been unable 70 get trace Of any such
telegram. II IL strange that The city was
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second round. Odds ranged from 10 10 s
and - on carbett tn ti1iz city. while in
! New York they were 10 to D. On The morn
ing o. the fight Seattle bookmakers COM
IssIned that the betting was ali on one
side, namely Corbett's. / have learned
from men who watched what was going on
at tf,. pool rooms that at no time was
there q move TO back Sharkey heavily. IT
Is doubtful II 81 go was bet on the fight
This Is explained by the fact that Seattle
ties favored corbett. and the saarkey men
were so few and had so little money that
they made no showing.
IL II common sense 10 presume That
someone in this city received tip to hedge
on shsrkey? II he did. why didn't he place
his money? There was opportunity. Sport
ing men are rot In the habit OF losing a
chance TO beat the bookmakers.
George r. Considine. Corbes.'s hacker,
has made the following statement:
II know absolutely nothing about any
deal by which Corbets was to lose. II There
was any such scheme, l hope the guilty
parties win be brought 70 justice. mink
Corbeft was getting better all the time.
and tina. he would have won had the fight
continued two or three rounds longer
Bob FItzs'mmons. after saying that the
II am the only honest fighter. There Is
only one honest fighter IN the world, and
that IL me. II ! do say It myself am
kind OF work goes on shall probably re-
main so"
Fiiz ignored the well substantated story
that he laid down" to Jim Hall in Aus
tralia for SIS.
1.-THE following is from a leste: written
IN New York by Dali Hawkins, form
eriy boxing instructor Of The Seattle Ath-
in one OF the greatest fights of recent
years. IL contains the first account given
by Hawkins himself:
but he has a slo.00o offer 10 tight me again.
They offered 10 guarantee him 5000
purse and l had a man who would bet
, $500. ] just tossed that fight away fol-
lowing poor advice from my corner. /
could have won In ten rounds If / had
fought my OWN way. But instead OF that
! made a waiting fight and in the six
teenth round this fellow made a run at
me and swung left hand punch and
nailed him around the neck. In doing so
| brought his head IN to my eye and cut
IL open. i had six stitches put In after the
fight. After that round could hardly see
What makes me so sore IL that 1 had
him out three times and wouldn't finish
] him. Why, In the twentieth round he
1 knocked me down for seven seconds: / got
up and went TO my corner. In the next
round 1 had him licked When he knock
ed me out II was just case OF who got
| there first. 1 could hardly see and was
trying 10 beat him TO "a punch.
II was 10 fight Jack Downey last Monday
night The club offered Si.Do but when
the time came for the fight there was only
$1.00 in sight. Downey wouldn't fight un-
| less the purse was split so l declared u
| on The game here Is not as good as in
San fTantssce. FRANK Earne WIN get here
! him 10 sign to meet ME. He Is we'll
| thought OF here after Ms showing with
| Lavigne."
! II il not prohable that Hawkins will
| meet Earne az he has got q match with
| McPhariand for next month. As soon as
! this Is over. IN wiz come 10 the coast.
| stopping in Seattle on his way 10 Gan
| Francisco. His ambition is 20 fight KID
| Iavigne.
| T asst Friday morning special dispatch
! II announced that the Whatcom High
/ School football team defeated the Un.ver-
| sity OF Washington by Il score OF 10 To &.
| The University Of Washington has M
| team this year consequently n wHs inn
| possible for Whatcom to do what me dis
/ patch said was done. The team that play
| al Nhstcom WAS made up of Whatcurl
| boys who attend the University OF Wash
| ington ana IN no sense can he considered
| as representing the state university
| ii. {. Coifman, of the University o,
| Washington. says; 1t was In faet barely
| ii game As the teams manager had II.
| his POSSESSION letter from Mr. W!llett
| president of the T. y. ~. ~ the Effect
| that they would erdanger their amateur
| standing II game were played with a
Whatcum would not play without Bur-
! rows an agreement was signed 20 the
| effect thai the game was simply for prac-
| tice.'
| THE Seattle Bowling Clubs alleys. own
l. 81 by \. II. Harrison, have been Sole
20 private rINh. w1tca VIII retain The sagus
| name. The alleys have been closed fer IN.
/ past two or three days, bur viii open this
| morning f0r cluts members only Carmen
. tiers and painters aave doue much ID
! change she appearance of things in "a,
| r0oDas and GIVE them mere or prtvats
| club appearance. The alleys are among tn.
| best on the Coast. aui are considered very
| fast.
Practice wtu commence this week for ~,
| coming match with the Seattle Athlete
| Club team. M d2te has bern decided ON
! Officers az TIE rew club are A follows
| President. n II. Su,aliry: vice president
/ 4. II. ilarrissns secretary. K. : Clark