The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-19
CorbetC at the Old Stand.

II STILL another evidence of Nc
! kinley prosperity, the business
Of pugilism Is enjoying a mark
ed boom. AT that great prize-tighting
center, New York city, engagements
have been arranged between Mr.. Kid
Mccoy and Mr.. Peter Maher, Mr..
James Jeffries and Mr.. James j. Cor
bett. The temperance of Mr.. Corbett
in the ring will excite wide land deep
interest. 1t lis more than two years
and half since Mr.. Corbett met gen.
tleman named Fitzsimmons at Carson
City, New. Their acquaintance did not
ripen into mutual esteem and affection.
For long time Mr.. Corbett complained
bitterly of the treatment he received az
the hands of Mr.. Fitzsimmons on that
occasion, and in loud, raucous tone OF
voice he repeatedly expressed desire
again to meet the gentleman for more
thorough and satisfactory adjustment
OF the issues between them. Mr.. Fitz-
simmons declined to entertain Mr.. Cor
belts proposition, and for months the
atmosphere in Mr.. Corbett's vicinity
was SO thick with profanity that you
could cut it with knife.
Failing to secure satisfaction, Mr..
Corbett graduated from pugilism into
saloonism and began to amass more or
less wealth and corpulency. THE jim
Cling of the guinea helps the hurt that
honor feels" and the voice of Mr.. Cor
bett was no longer heard in the land.
But like an old war-horse that shifts the
battle from afar, at every great set-to
Mr.. Corbett manifested an uncontrolla-
BILE passion to challenge the winner.
What was the compromising of cock
tails, even when followed by the merry
click of the cash register, to the fierce
joy of pounding an antagonists ribs
and the wild delight of landing a tre-
mendous uppercut on the point of the
enemy's chin and seeing him topple and
fall like the fall of Babylon or a thou
sand O. brick?
But since his encounter with Mr.. Fitz-
simmons, Mr.. Corbett has been singu-
larry unsuccessful in gratifying his
hearts desire. Some gentlemen say
they have expressed a willingness TO
meet Mr.. Corbett only to meet Mr.. Cor
belts excuses instead of Mr.. Corbett
himself. There was to have been q
meeting between Mr.. Corbett and Mr..
Mccoy at the good city of Buffalo, but
the meeting like the letter, never came.
Each accused the other of Aguinaldoing
out of it, and each expressed the unal-
terable conviction that the other was in
terror of his life. The two did meet ac-
cidentalIy in New York barroom one
day and unchanged epithets and saliva,
and the incident was closed.
The Jeffries-Corbett meeting, if it Gull
inmates in an accomplished fact, is like
ly to be business rather than a pugil-
young, or 80 spry, or so fast" or SO
scientific" as he used to be. He is
stale, hat-but still profitable. Mr.. JET
fries will knock him to within hailing
distance of kingdom come, but Mr.. Cor
bett viii pick himself up and walk off
with $4,000 or 50 as his share of the
gate receipts. and that's worth fighting
for. Although sharley lost the fight to
Jeffries, sharkey still found himself
$1,000 winner. 1t is considerations Of
this kind, rather than any hope or ex-
pectation of regaining his former pres
tige as the champion of champions, that
tempts Corbett to re-enter the arena
against d gladiator like Jeffries.