The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-23
GOSSIP OF THE PRIZE RING
THE FAIxIRS DOWN THE
LINE
CoRBETT's DARLING" AGAIN
Challenges Fired at Fitz Now Sug-
! Rest the Avalanche That Fol-
lowed the CardiR-Sul-
IiVan Fight.

CHICAGO, Sept. 22-( Special )-Scandai
begets scandal and when it strikes the
pueilistic game it Just runs riot The
man who handles Jack Moffat is back to
Chicago. and the story he tells is one re-
plete with jobs counter-iobs and more
jobs. Ife accuses Tommy Ryan and a
NeilI OF all manner OF dup'icity ana
double dealing. ana quite uneonsciously,
conNicts himself of a bit of lcguery quite
as dishonest as anything charged up
against Ryan and Neil. He admits that
he had agreed to keep Moffat off ami
away from decisive work for ton rounds
IN his battle against the substituted
Nein When that shoulder wrcnching
5 came along in the third round. Neill he
states. tried a double cross" viciously
essaying a Knockout This in the face
of an agreement that neither man was to
attempt ANYTHING of the sort until afte"
ten rounds had been fought This is out
of the mouth of man who comes back
from the coast black in the face from
bowling ,FaKe!'' IS refreshing. The man
ager of Moffat, in, probably with The
pool boxes which have contributed in,-
messwabIy TO the decadence Of the fghs-
the coast public, is caught al it. and then
comes back, like the thief who seeks to
avert detection and pursuit by his cries
of Stop thief"
1t is too bad that as clean and clever 4
boxer as Moffat should be un3er such
control. The Chicago middleweight Will
have TO change his booking agency or
suffer for want of bookings. The same
man makes the contention that Tommy
Ryan and Jack Moffat were TO have
fought for $1,000 purse and that this
purse was to be divided on the basis of
65 per cent to the winner and 35 per cent
to the loser. 1 know this to be false.
know that Ryan and Moffat had the
pair come together. would have fought
for a purse of $4,000 and that this mon
ey was to be divided equally between the
pair. The manager of Moffat knew this,
: and yet he would lead the public to be
leve that the men were billed to go for
a long winners end. This was as dis
E honest as his agreement with Neil to
: abstain from Knockout within a stip-
ulated round limit The country has had
enough and to spare of the fakirs 1t is
about time that the clubs take some ac-
ttuu Ill the IudlIef. 4uSy are primarily
responsible to the public, and it is to the
clubs the public look for protection
against jobbing fighters and 3obbing fight
managers. If the word was to go out that
such sehemers as the gentleman referred
: to could make no entries in the pro-
grammes of the reputable clubs, the er-
feet would be quite as salutaIy as the
Z barring off the turf of dishonest own
5 ers
8 The Domestic difficulties Of Tim Corbett
should perhaps not form subject of pub
lie talk. Yet it does, and no doubt FOR
the reason that the Jim family desire It
to do so'i This letter, however, is devot-
ed to the doings of pugilists. and the
skip OF Jim COrbett certainly offers some
thing of a subject for discussion. OF
course, the public are not bit surpris-
ed at the idea of Pompadour Jim run
ming away, for it is not the first time