The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-18
QUERIES FOR SILER
)RBETT ADDRESSES A SERIES OF
, QUESTIONS TO THE CARSON
REFEREE.
ALLEGES FAvoRITISM.
XPECTS THE ANSWERS TO BRING
OUT THE FACTS IN THE
CONTROVERSY.
TAKES THE MATTER UP
Cuustic Statement Issued in Reply
to the GrumbIing off the De-
tented Champion.

81 CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-Corbett, who IS
aaPlaying in Chicago this week, is keep
ping up his attack on George Siler, who
tlTas the referee at Carson City. In eff
inject Corbett charges Siler with favor
ing Fitzsimmons, and to sabstantiate
sklis claim he has a series of questions
it which he desires to have the referee
Traa3nswer. The questions which Corbett
pays he would like to have Referee
WSiler answer are:
Sh l. Before going to the fight were you
Il|orDett or Fitzsimmons man?
VI 4 Did l object to you as a referee be-
more the fight at Hot Springs and when Fitz-
caummons would not fight there, did L not ac-
lneept you?
IL 3. What object did you have in coming to
Y@y training quarters nearly every day at
SCarson City and telling me how Fitzsimmons
thwould fight me?
4. Did you not room every night with L.
M. Houseman, Fitzsimmons' official tlmekeep-
Ter. at Carson City?
d S. Did not accuse you and Houseman Of
pending kilograms to Nat Goodwin, telling
lhim to bet FitZsmmons?
Il 6. Were you not closeted with Goodwin in
I4hls dressingroom in Chicago before the fight2
sI z. Did not Julian Ftzsimmons give you
rRf5O0 when leaving Carson City and tell you
ri you were the best referee in the world?'
ft 8. Did not in the sixth round tell you
ITO count faster when Fitzsmmons down?
Plight? - ''N'''-e VI ---' 'e-O'' LILO
of 10. Did not call you aside at Carson City
81 pnd tell you that my friends and seconds OBJ
Jected to your refereeing?
IT. IL. Were not you and Houseman interested
min the veriscope pictures, and how did you
csrome to get interested in them?
ne. u. Were you not of the committee
(which went to the depot to meet Fitzsimmons
81 when he came to Chicago?
H. IL. Did not you and Houseman get band
VI 10 receive him that occasion?
|o1 Il. Did you not get a profit from that shown
81 POUND when told you to count faster in
q plead of answering me; and did that not
mean loss of two seconds to me?
HoUSEMAN REPLIES.
L. M Houseman has given out the follow
ing statement in answer to Corbett:
Nothing more asinine than Corbett's in
II lerrogations ever escaped the lips of a man.
|. BY these questions he seeks to besmirch the
II character and reputation of man who today
II ranks higher in the esteem Of sport-lovinS
II americans than he does. He seeks to lash
4 Sller over my shoulders, and incidentally to
y get a lot Of free advertising.
II His first question might be answered either
Il way, without leaving a suspicion of faint
y IN Siler.
4 In his second he lies if he says he did not
II object to Siler as referee of the fight that
II failed at Hot Springs On the night Of Oct.
e. In the dining room of the Arlington ho-
h tel with the late Howard B. Hackett, of the
New York World Harry Weldon, of the Gin
L Cinnat Enquirer; w. w. Naughton, of the
San Francisco Examiner; William A. Brady
Corbett himself and the writer seated about
4 the board the question of referee came up.
Il He had already objected to Siler before this.
/ about the table will remember, Corbett asked
| Brady this question: when Dan Stuart sent
that statement out from Dallas in which he
said that if Fitz and did not soon agree on
N referee he would name Lou Houseman,
b -lvyhat did l wire you from Pittsburg? You
L telegraphed three Words: 'Houseman suits
II me-. The writer asked Corbett what OBJ
Il lection he had to Siler, and Corbett answered:
'NcRe, except that L will take no chances
wig man do not know to be my friend.
If Their. is to be shade. 1 want it." If Cor
bett denies this, he lies.
AS to his third question, What object did
you Lave in coming to my training quarters?"
etc, Corbett knows, as does everybody else,
that Siler was acting as correspondent for a
syndicate of newspapers. and that he visited
Shaw Springs, where Corbett was in train
Ing, in quest of news.
The fourth question: as to Sler rooming
with at Carson, is another cowardly and
dastardly assault on the referee. He did room
with me. but only Corbett could refer to 1t at
this late date. He knew it at Carson, yet he
never whimpered after his first protest. Siler
had nothing to conceal, and when the defeated
man asked him how it was that we llv-
ing together, Siler promptly told Jim that
We would continue to room together, adding
that we were jointly engaged in writing a
history of the battle, and that for convenience
we had hired apartments together at the
Sweeney homestead. Siler went further and
told him that, other considerations aside, we
were engaged in business together and were
friends.
GOODWIN TELEGRAMS.
About those kilograms to Nat Goodwin.
sent them, and sent them as strong as
could. In effect l wired Goodwin Almost
money to bet on our man." That was the
term used to indicate FitzSimmons. l felt
certain that no such excuse for a fighter as
Corbett could win from a like Ftzsim-
mons. No one knew Corbett more intimately
than l. No one despised him more than l.
Goodwin knew this. He knew of my likes
I and dislikes, and he asked to make due
allowance for this in my information from
Carson. On the morning of the fight Nat
playing in Pittsburg, and the telegram
sent him there read as follows: BET all the
money you can beg, borrow, steal on our
man Just before noon, half hour before
the men got into the ring. I wired Goodwin
ut is 100 to Go here now Corbett. Looks
like the toss-up of a coin" Where a gam
bling proposition comes up the toss-up of
con and it is 100 to Go on heads as against
tails. the Spectator will unload heavily on
the short end, and nothing stronger than
this last wire to Goodwin could have been
sent out Corbett lies when he says that
Siler's name appeared in these dispatches.
Yes, Julian gave Siler $500. He gave it to
him on the train between Carson City and
Reno. and did 1t publicly, getting up on the
seat and making a speech in which he
thanked Siler for the fair and impartial man
ner in which he had discharged his duties.
Ed Cooke. Corbett's confidential man, heard
the speech and saw Julian take $500 bill out
of his pocket and give it to him.
Yes yes, you said a., to siler, Count faster,
whipped and you wanted Siler to count cut q
man who as strong a lion, who you
knew had enough steam left to whip d5zen
like you.
Siler was in Goodwin's dressng-room with
me a week before started for Carson.
Fred Stanley was Of the party, and there
was no closeting about it. Goodwin told me
that he was going to bet lot of money on
FitZsimmons, and would like to look over the