The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02
GOSSIP OF THE PRIZE R|NG'
SENSATIONAL INCIDENT OF THE
FIGHT BETWEEN CORBET'T
AND MCCOY
GAME CLOSED IN NEW YORK
L. Nj. HOuseman Tells of Recent
Happenings In the ROped Arena
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1-(Speclal.) ALL
New York is startled up over a verbal
clash which nearly eliminated in some
thing more savage the other night at
Madison Square garden, in which Senator
Dry Dollar Sullivan figured as one of
the bellgerents and a fat, "pudgy-faced
man from somewhere in the West, as his
vis-a-vis According to the stories print
ed in the newspapers, the "pudgy-faced"
one, who sat in a box Immediately on the
left of the senator, made some assaults
on the honesty of the fight between Cor
bett and Mccoy while it was in prog
ress. 1t appears that the stranger had
bet rather heavily on Mccoy After the
third round a colloquy something after
this fashion is reported to have taken
place:
''Pudgy- Faced" One-Say, this is the
rawest thing ever got in my life.
Senator Sullivan-What do you mean?
''Pudgy-Faced" One-Tm being robbed.
That fellow Mccoy amt trying lick,
and they're winding up the game here
with one of the most bare-faced steals
ever attempted in America.
Senatro Sullivan-You're a - -
liar, and you have got no right to talk
that way.
"Pudgy-Faced" Ome-You're another,
and bit worse. What right have you
got to tell me that 1 must not express
my opinion on lot of thieves who are
robbing me? said it's the worst fake I
ever saw.
Senator SullivaR-You shut up that
mouth of yours, and do 1t quick, or I'll
have you thrown out of the place on your
head.
'Pudgy- Faced'-Not me YOU won't.
paid $S5 for this seat and nearly $1,000
as the price of being damn ass, but 1
shall always reserve myself the right of
stamping this as the drtiest piece of
horse stealing I ever saw.
At this juncture both men had risen to
their feet, and it looked as though there
was a rocky road ahead for the garruIous
stranger Violent hands were laid upon
his shoulders and he was hustled off into
another box with the admonftion Kissed
into his ears by a couple of Devery's
bluecoats to hush his CAB. 9TH be -
if I do" retorted the stranger, and at
each lead, counter and move, the "pudgy-
faced one, at the top of his voice, took
up the cry of Fake, fake"
Sports are marveling at the identity of
the stranger who evinced enough temer-
ity to express his opinion in such sharp,
terse terms to Senator Sullivan. How he
ever got away without having his face
pushed no one can understand. 1t devel-
oped that the incautious "pudgy-facad"
man was none other than Bill Bradburn,
of Chicago. Bradburn didn't know Sulli-
van and Sullivan had never met Brad
burn.
The fighting game under the protection
of the Horton law died at midnight Fri
day. Outside of the club managers and
tie fighters, there were few mourners at
the death. For nearly three years. New
York has been given over to legalize box
ing contests. The game here, honestly
administered, was profitable enough, but
like the criminal at heart the men en-
trusted figured that dollar stolen had a
greater purchasing value than dollar
honestly earned With the number of
crooked fights that have been pulled of
here New Workers had reached that
stated stage where the advent of the
probiting Lewis bill was welcomed rather
than repulsed A fitting finish was given
to the game here last Monday night when
Walcott laid down to Tommy West. 1t
was the most barefaced piratical job ever
foisted on the fight fancying public. Wal
colt at no stage of the eleven rounds
could pull strong enough to lose the fight
and the wrench arm episode suggested
itself as being the most eXpedient at hand
.Walcott went into the ring with the
avowed purpose of losing the fight. He
did. Bunglingly, of course, yet it brought
home the money. The fight-Wise public
did not understand the prevailing odds of
four to three on West and did not figure
that there was a colored man in tie
woodpile somewhere. From the first to
the eleventh round, the Barbados black
tried every way on earth to fowl out of