The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-04
SHARKEY SEEKS BATTLE
HE Is AIDED AND ABETTED BY
TOM O'ROURKE

Surface Some Scandals of the
RinG-COrbett and Mccoy Match.
Tom Sharkey, the sailorman, who
was beaten to a standstill by Bob
fltzsimmons, in San Francisco, but
Who' by the grace of Wyatt carp, got
the decision and the purse of $4,000
Oh that lnauspicious occasion, is appar-
ehlly anxious to again risk himself in
ring or the tWenty-four-foot square
ulilehslons with the terror from Tim
aiu. Sharkey is being ably aided and
apetted by Carpenter" O'Rourke. who
seems TO nave permanently robbed the
classic city Of Boston of his citizenship,
ana TO have taken UP his abode in the
wicked city Of New York. O'Rourke
Is doing the talking. He is equal to
the task. There are none better than
he at that part of the game But. with
al, O'Rourke is injudicious. He is tell
ing the world some secrets of the ring
that do not look we'll in cold type. For
ms lance, O'Rourke now admits that he
said that the Corbett-F'itzsimmor
nght at Carson City was a fake"
ORourke denied responsibility for that
aiiegatlon when the writer first accus-
ed MIN OF being the author Of it, Now
ne ADMITS. Better never than late.
PURSE OFFERED.
Fifteen thousand dollars IS quite
bunch Of money-even in war times
and that is the amount that has been
o1tered for battle under the director
snip or ORourke. Sir Robert bluntly
remarks that he would likely get the
worst Of it. There may be method in
his argument, but there is a remedy.
EltZSlmTnnnS
TO prevent O'ROurke from giving him
what is known in the vernacular of the
sporting element as the hinky-dink."
A lair, and at the same time Compel
ent referee, would remove all danger of
unfa1rEess toward the Kangaroo boxer
Ihere are several men in this country
VINO 90 not care a rap for O'Rourke or
any other man, when it comes to pass
ing upon battle of the importance
that meeting between Sharkey and
Fltzsimmons would develope Let Fitz-
summons insist that such a man Off
cate. lie will then have nothing TO
fear, save SEarkey.
PRINCIPALS COMPARED
1t must be admitted that Sharkev Is
tough proposition in the boxing line.
yet he Is not the equal of Fitzsim-
mons as he has been in al his nre-
is just the sort Of fighter that Fltz-
simmons should defeat. He will not
De denied. And, while he Is forcing
matters, he will be in constant danger
OF Knockout, for no man in the bus
mess knows better how to administer
the soporifc touch to an opponent
tnan does Robert F'ltzsimmOns, the
n freak. hghter. On the other hand,
fltzslmmons is himself quite rough
er. That was demonstrated at Car
son city, where he triumphed over
James J.Corbett, largely because he was
the stronger and the rougher boxer of
the two. From a scientific standpoint.
Sharkey would not be in 1t with the
Ant1podean. FitZsimmOns is the Sail
orman's superior far and away in the
art of "feint, land and get away." He
Is a past master, while Sharkey is but
a freshman. After haVing seen both
men in action. one cannot see how
Sharkey could hope for a victory over
Fltz:-nmons, save in event Of an acct
dental Knockout blow reaching the
proper spot.
OPINIONS DIFFER.
And yet opinions differ as to the
relative merits of the gladiators named
as the probable principals in this sug-
gested match. Tom O'Rourke Is not
fowl incubated at that season of the
year when young mems fancies drift
toward thoughts of love, and he prob
ably knows what he is doing while
taking the Sharkey end Of the argu-
ment. 1t was O'Rourke who discovered
the greatest fighter in his class the
world ever saw-George Dixon, and
who developed the Barbados Ter
ror,' Joe WalcOtt. It was the Boston
carpenter who made matches for the
men named that netted them repeated
victories, and it was O'Rourke who did
not lose a cent when Walcott was de-
feated by Kid Lavigne, out on the
coast. Bob Fitzsimmons is wiser than
he is credited with being, and he NAV
know more than he has seen fit to
make public as to why he is apparently
lodging a match with Sharkey. II he
is wise, however, he will not let any
little delicacy of feeling that he NAV
have for O'Rourke stand between
those facts and public knowledge of
them.
FITZSTMMONS TO O'ROURKE.
The Timoru blacksmith is out in a
card addressed to Tom O'Rourke in
which he throws a few thirteen-inch
adjectives into the O'Rourke camp bv
proffering to tell the sporting world
some things that would look queer in
print. He says that O'Rourke Is q