Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-23
The round ended with at his man.


 Round 2-Corbett with the left lightly landed. Then there was an exchange with lefts and rights on the head, in which Sharkey showed to advantage.
 Round Corbett led with his right for the body, landing. Sharkey re. sponded in kind. Jim reached the body several times, but Tom canae right back with lefts for the head. A right on the body staggered Jim. 1 Round 1.-The sailor was right after his man and essayed rights and lefts for the head, landing every time. Corbett ellnched and acted entirely on the defensive.
 1 Round 5-Corbett started right off with left jab on the face and was | apparently attempting tofool with his man. Sharkey, however. was not in a playful mood and brought his right hand over with force enough to make Jim vince.
 | Round 6-Cobett led for the head with his left, landing but Sharkey was right after him like whirlwind. | Tom started in to mix 1t up and whipped in somecorkers on the body. Cofbett retaliated with like light Iabs on the face and fairly iorceful blows on the body. Midway though 1 the round there was a rattling mix up, both exchanging lefts and rights on the head and body with the sail or having shade the better of it. There were cries of Foul, foul" when Corhett hit his man on break away, which the referee had not called. The men were clinehed at the bell, after participating in a very fast mix-up.
 Round 7-Sharkey ran across the ring and planted left and right on the head. Corhett clinching. Round was thick and fast with many clinehes. Jim hooked his right hand on Tom's jaw, half dazing him, but the sailor quickly recuperated.
 Round 9-COrbett landed his left . Tom went right back ut the same moment. Clinehes were frequent and the men refused to break togetn- CT. COrbett struck Tom rather low on the body and the sailor appealed l to the referee, Gorhett showed Tom l from him and said: "Oh, you go away" The men were in the center of the ring mixing 1t up in the liveli- est manner. O'Rourke calling to l ting. Just at this moment, for some unaccountable reason, cVey, one of Gorbett's seconds, jumped through l the ropes protesting that Sharkey had done something wrong to Cor bett. The moment MeVcy climbed I through tho ropes Police Inspector l Mclaughlin grabbed kold of him, while the crowd trantieally yelled, | Foul, foul, Corbett loses. Look at his second in the ring"
 Referee Kelly seemed to pay no at tention to the matter, but kept looking at the fighters, who contin- ued their aggressive work. McVey tried to pull away from the inspec- 1 tor while the spectators kept yelling at the referee, who finally separated the fighters and ordered them to 1 their corners. Corbett seemed not to understand why the referee should linteriere and protested, but Kelley was obdurate and stopped the bout. Meanwhile the spectators stood up and yelled that bets should be de clared off as they believed McVey commisted the breach of ring rules premeditatedlv. It looked for a while as If riot would ensue, but ] as soon as the refereeEdeclared Shar- key the winner on the technicality 1 he announced all bets were off, as MeVey's action was undoubtedly prearranged. As soon as this an nouncement was made the specta- tors resumed their seats and await ed the departure of the men from the ! ring.