Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-01-26

i silly ones he laid down for C0rbett ana
Mccoy. Corbett is to blame for starting
such q ridiculous gone, but two wrongs
| don't make q right Besides, Fitzsim-
mons out Herods Herod. He goes further
/ than Corbett ever did. The latter is an
/ American, yet the public was getting very
weary of his antics. and its loudly express
ed opinion finally forced him 81 fight
| The public will stand still less from a
| foreigner. A word TO the wise Is sufficient
A champion must fight when fairly
called upon by one in his class without
any ''ifs" or lands" or apron strings. just
imagine John Morrissey telling John c.
Ueenau when the latter challenged him
| TO first go and whip Yankee Sullivan and
Tom Hyer, and lie would then battle him
for the championship, or suppose the Eng
| lishman, Jem Mace, insisted upon his
American rival, Joe Coburn, whipping
Tom Sayers, Nat Langham and Tom Al
len before he would deign TO meet him for
the championship, and you will have some
idea how Fitzsimmons is now acting and
as Corbett did in the past.
To get down to our own day, I may
with pardonable pride point to the fact
that l never lodged any challenges When
others challenged me, did not tell them
to go and first tackle lot of other men.
met them. Neither did ever have any
apron strings wound about me. Ineyer
heard either that Morrissey, Hyer, Yankee
Sullivan, Crib. Sayers, Mace. Cobnrn or
any of the old time champions had any
article of female apparel tackled ON TO
them. Only modern champion, and a
foreigner at that can indulge in such
vagaries. sincerely trust that the press
and public will put an end to such nom
sense. They can do it and in the way l
have outlined above.
Now, who is my future American cham
piony will frankly tell you. 1t is Nor
man Selby, or ,as he is better known, kid"
Mccoy. Do / think he will whip Fitz
right away and thus practically win the
middleweight and heavyweight champion
ships of the worldg No, not just now.
Fitz won't take on the boy at middle
weight Corbett is easier at heavyweight.
Fitz is satisfied in his own mind that he
can whip Corbett again, only that he will
have to stand u lot of singing, tantalizing
punishment as no did before. That be
don't like. of course, and would not in
vito, if he did not, rs is generally suppos-
ed, stand in need of ready money. 80 1
believe that no will meet Corbett some
time next summer and stop all such drivel-
ing talk about the Californian meeting
Peter Maher or Sharkey or anybody else
first AS have already stated, believe
he will win as before. Corbett, on the
other hand, really believes that he will re-,
verse the verdict given ut Carson City and
get OH the top of the pugilistic wave and
win barrel of money. Despite general
belief to the contrary, he really wants to
fight and is not talking for mere advertis-
ing purposes, for he has everything to gain
and, at the worst, very little to lose.
When, as seems likely to my way or
thinking, FitZ wins again from Corbett,
he will speedily announce another retire
ment' and another apron string arrange
ment That will hold good for another
year at least, by which time 1t is likely
the Fitzsimmons' Golfers will need refill
ing and Robert forced by necessity, as
we'll as public opinion, to fight again, for
by that time "Kid" Mccoy, now but "a
years Of age and not yet fully developed,
will be big strapping fellow, fully round
ed out, stripping at $50 pounds or there
about and possessed of magnificent
strength BY that time he will have moved
down all the heavyweights and will be
clamoring for a battle for the worlds
championship with Mr.. Fitzsimmons.
They will come together and tho Austria
liam meet his Waterloo.
A brief analysis Of the two men and
their methods will tell you why / come to
this conclusion. When the boxers meet ut
the timc have guessed at Mccoy will
1. ~ q ynttfh Mt
ten years He will be more clever than
tho Australian, have slight advantage In
reach and think, too, in quickness. Nc
Coy will bc every whit as strong as fitz
by this time very likely as hard a hitter,
for the young man will go forward and
the elder man backward, and have few
pounds the advantage in weight. There
won't be n trick in the game Mccoy won't
know, and Fits clever and successful
feints, which deceived and brought down
Hall, Mahcr and Corbctt, will bc lost on
Mccoy.
Nowas TO the mental make up OF the
two men. Mccoy is tho ideal fighter In
this scientific age. He Is a perfect iceberg
in the ring cool, alert, wary, always keep
ing out of the way of danger and never
failing to score q point on an adversary
when be loses his head or makes slip OF
any kind. He will be even better in
year and half or thereabout than he Is
now.
Fitz. on the other hand, while tricky,
cunning and resourceful, frequently loses
his head, and two or three times In bis
career came near losing battles upon
which he had banked bis future. Twice
he came within an ace Of losing with Pc
ter Maher on account Of this fault and
once with Joe ChOyDski. They say also
he had close call with Jim Hall. He
won out however and Is entitled to every
credit. If he ever loses his head with
"Kid" Mccoy, he is done for the moment
he does.
Just stick pin in the predictions have
made herein and see whether or not pos
sess any merit as prophet
JOHN L. SULLIVAN.