The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-01
WITH Thu FIGHTERS
CONFIDENCE IN O'ROURKE'S ABII-
ITY TO BRING OFF THE
BIG FIGHT
SHARKEYS lNVlNCIBLE JAW

Considered Next to Impossible to
Jar Him Into UncOnsciOusness by
Blow in That Vicinity-Mil1e
COnIey Discusses COrbett, Shar-
key, FitzsimmOns and Dempsey
-Gardner FavOrite over Dixon.
Time and time again the opinion has
been aired in public print that a
heavyweight championship fight could
not be pulled off in New York city.
The coming contest between James J.
Ccrbett and Tom Sharkey is not
championship fight, but it is the next
thing to it. There is reason to believe
that the man who wins it will be
matched to fight the champion. 1t is
by far the most important fiStiC Strug-
gle ever booked for a New York ath-
letic club. A year ago the wiseacres
would have told you that it was i'm
possible to bring off a battle between
two fighters of such prominence as
CCrbett and Sharkey. No fear is now
troubling the promoters of the present
mill. Tom O'Rourke, the manager of
the Lenox Athletic club, in the arena
of which the Corbett-Sharkey fight will
occur, in letter states that the Cor
bett-Sharkey contest will certainly
Nov. p.
Il think Corbett will get the decision
over Sharkey, but 1 hardly think he
will knock him out or stop him." said
Mike Conley, the Ithaca giant, the
other evening. "Sharkey, in my esti-
nation, is invulnerabIe as far as the
jaw blow is concerned. 1 get it from
the best authority that you can't hurt
him by hitting him on the Jaw"
who is you authority?"
mo less a person than Fitzsimmons
himself" said Conley. "Fitz told me
something when I was travelling with
him that makes me think that it is
useless to try to stop Sharkey with a
punch on the jaw"
What did he tell you?" I asked.
zone night we fell to talking about
Sharkey," said Mike "Fitz told me
that the day before his contest with
the sailor one of his best friends in
San Francisco called him to one side
and advised him not to waste his
strength hitting Sharkey on the jaw.
It's no use hitting this guy anywhere
except in the wind said this friend to
Fitz. OF course Fitz only laughed
at him. He thought it was one of
those likely stories that you hear about
a fighter every once in a while. L
knew my friend meant right by me-
said F1tz to me, but | thought he was
overenthusiastic. After we had been
In the ring four or five rounds came
to the conclusion that my friend was
right. l hit Sharkey on the jaw five
or six times and 1 never shook him.
Two or three times 1 got it on the
proper spot, and put it in with all my
force. 1t didn't stagger him. Then
knew l might just as we'll hit the side
of house as hit him on the head.
Then it was that 1 started to fight for
his wind, and in the eighth round 1
finished him , -
You hear very little of Kid Mccoy
out this way nowadays. The Corbett-
Sharkey fight has absorbed all the
pugilistic interest. This is but natural.
The affair between thu ex- oh ampion AMI
the sailor is scheduled to come off
nearly three weeks before the bout be-
tween the Hoosier pugilist and the
Irish champion. When the Corbett-
Sharkey fight is off the boards the Kid
and Peter Will come in for their inn
ings. The fisyic public will take more
Interest in these two fights than any
events that have occurred since the
Carson City affair.
A representative of a Louisville ath-
letic club called on Dan Creedon in
Brooklyn the other day and wanted
him to affiX his signature to articles
of agreement calling for a fight with
Tom Lansing in three weeks time.
Creedon was compelled to refuse be-
cause of his ankle, and asked earnest