El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-23
AWARDED TO SHARKEY
And There Was So Much
Talk Of Jobbery That All
Bets Were Declared
To Be Off.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-The Shar-
sy-Corbett fight at the Lenox Athle-
tic club last night was Witnessed by
thousands of representative sporting
men.
At the end of the ninth round the
contest was awarded to Sharkey by
"Honest John" Kelley and all bets
we're declared of.
The excuse for this action was the
unwarranted, and by many believed to
be premeditated, act of Connie Mcvey,
one of Corbetts' seconds, who jumped
into the ring in direct violation Of the
rules and appealed to the referee at .
moment when 1t was apparent to the
audience that Corbett was on his last
legs and could not win.
AS result Of this unwarranted VIOLA
tion of the rules by McVey, Corbett
himself, rs we'll rs the sports, were
furious. The referee believed Nc
vey's action to have been premeditst-
ed and without hesitation declared all
bets of and awarded the contest to
Sharkey. The first portion of this de-
cision was hailed with shouts of oppo-
sition by the Sharkeyites but in spite
of their protests all money was ordered
refunded.
The two men had carefully trained
for weeks and both were In the pink of
condition when they entered the ring
last night and q most entertaining con-
test between the swo pugilists was an
ticipated.
From the beginning of the fight, 1t
Was apparent to the spectators that the
chances of winning favored Sharkey.
He was confident of success and his
quickness and aggression were aston
ishing. He kept Jim on the jump try
ing to get out of reach until the fight
ended so unexpectedly.
Corbett demonstrated that he was
not the Corbett of old and at no time
did he appear to be getting the best OF
it.
After the nrst round betting was one
to two on Shsrkey and those who had
their money on the sailor were highly
slated.
Moneys interruption was entirely
unexpected and when he first got into
the ring Honest John Kelly appeared
not to see him.
A policeman grabbed at McVey to
pull him out and, half the people in
the house shouted to Kelly to disqusli-
fy Corbett. Excitement WAS at the
moment intense and John |
could not longer keep his eyes In an
other direction from McVey and he
was forced to disqualify Corbett on &C.
count OF the action of his second.
When Corbett realized what had ac-
tually occurred he wac beside himself |
with rage and exhibited almost the
same degree OF unreason able fury that |
he showed after receiving his knock
out blow from Fitzsimmons.
It took half dozen policemen to
prevent him from annihilating Nc
vey.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-George Siler,
the noted referee, questions Referee
Kelly's right to call off all the bets on
last nights fight.
"I cannot think of any similar deci-
sion in the history of the ring" the
veteran says; "I would look at it from
the common sense point OF view.
is given the decision
and from that is justly entitled
TO first money. Therefore II he is en-
titled to first money he should be
entitled to all that goes with it which
would include all the bets he and his
friends might have made. If there
was a job, that part of it does not enter
into the argument. The fact remains
that Sasrkey got the decision on q
oul sI presume he will get first money.
Why should he not get bets?' O
DETROIT, Nov. 23.-"Corbett's lob
ster and is more of has been than 1
ever will be-" says John L. Sullivan.
II felt it in my bones that Sharkey
would win. Corbett can't whip nobody.
He's coward, so is Fitzsimmons.