The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-02


-COrbett to Meet JefTries-
Ernie and Lavigne Do n Draw.
Boxing was given two black eyes last
week-one by James J. Corbett and
kid" Mccoy and the other by kid"
Lavigne and Frank Erne. Corbett and
Mccoy met in the Gilsey house and,
after exchanging compliments a la
! Whitechapel, got together" in q real
| fight, in which Corbett was Worsted by
a kick below the belt that sent him
| to bed and neceSSitated the calling Of
a physician. The affair was evidently
not prearfangeds Cor the results were
| too serious. The encounter will add to
the unpopularftyS Of -5oxinx in New
! York, and make Il next to impossible
! for the men to meet in that state That
was the third barroom brawl in when
| Corbett appeared as a principal and
| in each he came out the loser in pup
| lie opinion. The f1nst was with Charley
Mitchell, in a Bowery saloon, whers
! the Englishman made it SO warm for
Corbett that he was glad to make his
escape from the place at the loss ON
considerable dignity and prestige. His
next appearance ina barroom enc0un-
ter was in Greenfs hoeel, Philadelphia,
with Bob FftxslntTp e2s-s as a foil. He
tweaked the nose OF the Australian,
but the fact that Corbett's friends as
sisted in the work robbed him of all
glory that might have attached to the
feat.
TIGHT PRACTICALLY OFF.
There is now little likelihood that
Corbett and Mccoy VIII meet in the
ring. Corbett says he VIII not fight be-
! fore the Hawthorne Athletic club, and
the management of that organization
assert that he will keep his engage
ment with Mccoy or forfeit the money
he put up as an evidence Of good faith
Corbett announces that he will give
Mccoy two days in which to agree To
meet him somewhere but before the
Hawthorne people, and says that I'M
less the HoOsier comes to terms he
will declare the match off and take
on Sharkey or Jeffries. In fact 1t Is
announced that Jeffries and Corhett
are as good as matched to meet in San
| Francisco in November 1t is added
| by George Considine that that engage
| ment need not interfere with the Nc
! Coy affair. but the probability is that
| it will. 1t is a safe conjecture that
| Corbett and Mccoy VIII not meet.
LAVIGNE AND ERNIE.
While in st. Paul last week, Sam
Thall, former director general for VIII
liam A. Brady in his pugilistic ventures,
remarked to the writer that he had re-
| tired from that line Of business be-
cause the pugilists had fallen into the
| habit of making draws Of their con-
! tests, thereby robbirg them of all IN
! terest. That statement is significant
| in connection with the Lavigne-Erne
! contest in New York, which was de-
cided a draw, though it was admitted
! that Erne had all the best of it, and
was entitled to the decision. The re-
| suit will probably be a return match
I between the men-and more money Tor
| each. There is no salvation for the
| ring save in the return to the old style
fighting, where the principals put up
| the money for which they commended.
! Then there was no taking, for the SIM
pie reason that there was nothing In
! it save for the winner If the athletic
clubs would make a new rule that the
entire purse should go to the winner
there might be a revival Of interest III
boxing Without something Of that
sort being done, however, boxing will
soon become a memory.
AL SPINK'S SCHEME.
AL Sphinx is one Of the best known
sporting authorities in the Western
country AL is also author of The
Derby Winner" a race track drama
that was on the road so long as Al
had the cash to pay the factors" in
the company presenting it. AL was a
bit short Of funds in st. Louis, his
home, once upon time, and he con-
ceived a scheme for raising the wind,
as the Missouri sports designate the
coin of the realm. that the rencontre
between Corbett and Mccoy brings to
mind. Al learned that there were in
| st. Louis two famous wrestlers who,
like himself were in need of a few
pesetas Al conceived the idea Of
matching the men, and, in order to
draw a crowd, he had them meet, ''ac-
| cidentally" in Tony FauSt's, at lun-
cheon. When the wrestlers espied each
other they opened up TRADE of abuse
that was highly exciting and enter
tanning to the young bloods assembled
| in Faust's for their VeSperian repaSt.
WRESTLERS MATCHED.
| About the time the wrestlers were
! trying to get together in a rough and
i tumble Al put in an appearance and
! c0unseied EeaaICe- He urged them to re-
member that they We're in q public
| place and-well, a match for blood"
was made on the spot. and the men
| agreed to meet the following evening
| in the Masonic Temple to ''have it out"
! They met, and the house was crowded
to the doors. The match was one Of
| the tamest ever witnessed. The crowd
| went to the hall, at 81 a head to see
| the wrestlers tear each other to pieces.
! They failed to tear. The meeting in
| Faust's had been prearranged for that
very purpose. Can it be that Corbett
| and Mccoy have heard of the success
! Of Al Spink's scheme for raising the
wind?'
| MITCHELL AND SHARKEY.
Charley Mitchell has apparently fully
! recovered from the awful lambasting
he received at the hands Of James j.
! COrbett at Jacksonville. Charley has
been very quiet ever since that mem
orabIe occurrence, when he was at a
prize fight, but not in it at any stage,
! for he is out with an offer to meet
| Tom Sharkey, the sailor man. Sharkey
| should eat up the Britisher in few
| rounds. He is so big and strong that
| Mitchell would scarcely have a chance
| to last half a dozen rounds.
CORBETT AND JEFFRIES.
The action Of James J. Corbett in
dropping kid" Mccoy and taking on
Jim Jeffres is in keeping with the rec
ord Of Corbett. He lodged Peter Jack
son to meet Charley Mitchell, and he
kept away from Peter Maher after he
saw the Irish champion best his former
sparring partner, Steve O'Donnell. Now
he proposes to meet man he has often
I referred to as worse than a second
rater-Jim Jeffries. And Corbett knows
Just what Jeffries can do, for the bic
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