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

to Bed by Mccoy With Vicious
Kick-Big Fight Probably OF
-COrbett to Meet JeRries-
Erne and Lavigne Do "A 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 a 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 prearranged, for the results were
too serious. The encounter will add TO
the unpopularity of boxing in New
York, and make 1t 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 pub
lie opinion. The first was with Charley
Mitchell, in a Bowery( saloon, wrers
the Englishman made it SO warm for
Corbett that he. was glad to make hts
escape from the place at the loss ON
considerable dignity and prestige. His
next appearance IN barroOm encoun-
ter was in Green's ho,eI, Philadelphia,
with Bob FitZsimmonS as a foil. He
tweaked the nose of the Australian,
but the fact that CorbettS friends as
sisted in the work robbed him Of all
glory that might have attached to the
feat.
FIGHT PRACTICALLY OFF.
There is now little likelihood that
Corbett and Mccoy Will meet in the
ring. Corbett says he will 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 u.
meet him somewhere but before the
Hawthorne people, and says that un-
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. It is added
| by George Considine that that engage
ment need not interfere with the Nc
| Coy affair, but the probability is tina:
| it will. It is a safe conjecture that
Corbett and Mccoy viii not meet.
LAvIGNE AND ERNE.
While in st. Paul last week, Sam
THAI, 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 robbing 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 1t was admitted
that Erne had all the best Of it, and
was entitled to the decision. The re-
| suit will probably be q return match
| between the men-and more money for
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
Pile reason that there was nothing In
! it. save for the winner. If the athletic
clubs would make 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
bit short of funds in ST. Louis, his
home, once upon a 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 few
pesetas. Al conceived the idea of
matching the men. and, in order to
| draw a crowd, he had them meet. tac-
cidentaliy," in Tony Fausts, at lun-
cheon. When the wrestlers espied each
other they opened up a 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 We're
! trying to get together In a rough and
tumble Al put in an appearance and
counseled peace. He urged them to re-
member that they were in public
| place, and-well, 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 So 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 ].
| Corbett at Jacksonville. Charley has
! been very quiet ever since that mem
orable occurrence, when he was at
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 Britsher in a few
| rounds. He is so big and strong that
Mitchell would scarcely have a chance
| to last half dozen rounds
CORBETT AND JEFFRIES.
The action of James J. Corbett in
dropping kid" Mccoy and taking on
Jim Jeffries 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 a man he has often
referred to as worse than a second
rater-Jim Jeffries And Corbett knows
| inst what ,Jeffries can do for the hao