Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-18
ANSWERS ACCUSATIONS MADE BY
GEORGE sILER.
SUBMITS LIST OF QUESTIONS.
REMARKABLE RECEPTION GIVEN
EXCAVATION IN CHICAGO.
Contrast Between the frost" Cham
pion FitzsimmOns Received Two
Weeks P~reVious-Siler Will
Make Answer Later in
the Week.


the world. was forced two weeks ago,
through poor business. to leave Chicago
with his theatrical troupe and go on a one
night-stand tour through Wisconsin ana
Minnesota. Ex-Champion James j. Corhett
began a weeks engagement in chicago
Sunday and his houses in the afternoon
and evening were packed 10 overfiowlng.
There were no curtain calls Tor fltzsih-
mons during his engagement, no curious
mob haunting the stage door. When Cor
bett made his appearance the audience
Sunday afternoon arose and cheered him to
the echo. After the show thousands gath
cred In the street and a Gordon of police
had TO clear the way for him to reach his
carriage.
These circumstances are given, more as
an evidence of the fact that the American
public seemingly has a higher regard Tor
Corbett since his defeat than II did Ehiie
he was posing as the champion and dodg-
ing a meeting with The
Chicago Chronicle says OF the reception
given Corbett: Throughout The Naval
Cadet the play in which the actor-lghter
stars. he was cheered increasingly. The
ovation rendered Corbett after both the af-
teraoon and evening performances eclipsed
any similar demonstration for a ring hero
that ever took place in Chicago.
Expected TO BE Kissed.
Corbett had expected to be Kissed off
the stage. While he was in ST. Louis last
week he made charges seriously rejecting
upon the integrity of George Siler, the
well known Chicago referee, and as Siler Is
a close friend of Lou Houseman. sporting
editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean. as well
as of the rest of the Lakeside city sporting
writers. he believed the newspaper men
would work up a feeling against him that
would be given expression in Kisses when
he made his appearance before the foot
lights. SIler replied to CorbettS charges
and made counter charges against him.
Corbett called the Chicago sporting writ
ers into his dressing room during the matt
nee and made a statement concerning his
controversy with Siler.
Il shall not charge Siler with being I'M
fair" said Corbett, but there are ZONE
certainly was prejudiced against fne, and
wherever there was a chance l seemed %
get the worst of IT. j have no hard feeling
Tor Siler, but / am sincerely anxious to get
On another go with Fitzsimmons, and /
want the public to know my side of the
story and judge whether or not l am en-
titled to another and fairer chance"
What Corbett Asks sfIer.
which Corbett will fire at Siler if the two
are brought face to face:
l. Were you a Fitzsimmons or a Corbett
man before the fight?
2. Did l not object TO you as referee at
Hot Springs and afterward consent to your
agree to fight unless l did?
3. Were we on speaking terms at the
time?
1. What was your object at Carson in
coming TO my quarters and telling me how
FtzSimmons was going to fight me?
5. Were you rooming with Lou" House
man. Fitzsimmons' timer. at Carson?
6. Did 1 not call you aside at Carson and
tell you my friends and seconds objected
TO you acting as referees?
Z. Did not accuse you and Houseman Of
sending kilograms to Nat Goodwin. adj
vising him TO bet on Fitzsimmons?
s. Did you not get $500 from Julian after
the light, and did he not then tell you he
thought you were the best referee in the
8. Are not you and Houseman interested
In the veriscope pictures, and how did you
10. Did not you and Houseman engage the
band that met Fitzsimmons at the depot in
Chicago after the fight?
show?
u. (a) In the sixth round at Carson did
i not call to you to count faster? Obi Did
you not push me back instead of replying?
tO Did not that mean a loss of at least
two seconds? tdl Had ] had two seconds
more when / was knocked down in the
fourteenth round would not that have
meant a good deal TO me?
The other matters l shall ask him about
j shall not put him onto now. If he gives
me a chance I'll spring them on him. and
they'll astonish him and the public. too. II
he'll submit to this questioning. I'm Will
ing to give him a chance to ask me all the
questions he can think of. What I want is
to get him face to face with me. Let him
tooh Nv IA Alit y anu utHN lUdI Il udk or
two after the fight he got $500 right from
Fftz and Julian. Let him explain. too. some
other actions at the time of the fight. His
connection with the veriscope pictures.
too. needs some explaining"
HOuseman Is Very Angry.
Lou Houseman. in a signed article in the
Inter Ocean, admits that Siler is Interested
In the .veriscope. venture. but explains it
by saying that he (Houseman) and Siler
bought a joint interest in il. Houseman also
says that Julian gave Siler $500 on the train
that took the pugilistic crowd from Car
son City.
Houseman calls Corbett a liar in big.
bold. black type, and winds up his state
ment as follows:
not got a leg TO stand on. If Siler ever
meets you in any sort of discussion he will
make you out a liar and an imbecile. Your
cheap assault on the grandest man who
ever sat in judgment on a fight is villain
Gus. You were beaten at Carson City by a
man thirty pounds lighter than yourself.
and you lie when you state that Your CON,
queror weighed $50 pounds. The champion
to-day, overcoat and all, does not scale
your ignorance on the weight subject Is not
feigned. / will close by telling you that
YOU lost the heavyweight championship of
the world 10 a man who weighed two
pounds inside the middleweight limit-l56
pounds
'.It's q Nasty Mess" Says siIer.
Siler was in Chicago when Corbett gave
out his list OF questions. but he did not
nave Tune 10 stop ana answer tnefn. as ne
left later in the evening for Cleveland.
where he was to referee the Garrard-Gans
fight scheduled for last night. A reporter
for the Times-Herald showed the list OF
questions to Siler, who, after reading them
carefully. said:
II will let il go until l return from Cleve-
land. / will he back to the city about
Wednesday. In the meantime ! will think
the matter over carefully and decide what
will do. AT this time / care 10 say moth
ing at all In reply TO the questions. II
would not be right, anyway. for Corbett
has said he wanted TO ask them personally.
There is little doubt j will give him the
opportunity. corhett need not be afraid
there will be anything but a sociable gath