The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-09
GOSSIP Of THE PRIZE R|NG
LOU HOUSEMAN DOES RELIEVE
THE CORBETT-M'COY BATTLE
WAS FAXED
NOT AN HONEST MOVE MADE
RypnOtism Applied to Fighters Will
Never Prove n Success in Bat
tIes-Comfng Sport In
Chicago.

"The evil that men do lives after them.
Be both men principals, and the choice
coterie of thieves who were in never 50
careful, the Corbett and Mccoy engage
ment of week ago last Thursday will
always be stamped as the most colossal
steal ever perperrated in the annals Of
the ring. Every move the pair of pol
lshed falzifs have made since the knock
out" has strengthened my original con-
viction that there was not one honest
move in the performance of Mccoy and
Corbett am not at liberty to use the
name of the particular second referred
to but the following statement, signed by
one of the seconds of Mccoy came to an
indianapolis sport last Tuesday, and was
forwarded to me:
New York, Aug Swell, the job is
over, the pugilist, now known as Mccoy,
THE Burglar" did his work-did it we'll.
and got the dough. 1t was pretty piece
of work, and 1 give him all the credit in
the world for the manner in which he
carried home the goods" am only
sore at your humble servant for not fail
ing to it myself. Here l was in his camp
In his confidence and in his corner. and
not a penny to me. 1 might have turned
over a few, but the boss of the camp
never once batted his eye to indicate
which way the cat was to jump when they
got into the ring at Madison Square
Thursday night There was not much
10 the fight 1.-The Burglar" did not put
aa i
then acknowledgement cold. l saw that
he was afraid to let his right go when III
close to Corbett, for fear of knocking Jim
out Then, of course it was TOO rate loi
me to do anything. 1 had couple OF
hundred in my jeans and could nave
made "exes" with this, but could not
leave the ring to place it. But the ria
got all the money-every cent of It. Ihls
much 1 am wise to-Corbett did not re-
ceiye a penny for whipping Mccoy Inc
sixty. per cent of the gross receipts went
to Mccoy and he Is today about S55,oO9
better off than he was before he lost TO
Corbett.'
So guarded were the pair that not over
half a dozen confidants were taken INTO
the secret. Outside of the two principals
hole dozen men at most knew which
''vay the cat was to jump" as the writer
nuts If and this half dozen included Leo
Mayer the bookmaker; Jimmy Wakeley'
AFT one time the hacker of Mccoy; Harry
Corbett the bookmaking San Francisco
brother of Corbett, and three Others one
of them, probably, Jere Mahoney, OF New
York. Of course both the Consldlne
brothers were ION.
A 7 view the battle now, after week
has gone by, I must marvel at the guilt
bility of thousands who left Madison
SQUARE garden confirmed in the belief that
a truly honest battle had been fought.
For my part, while 1 had certain well
founded notions as to what might hap
men. I did not fully awaken to what was
being enacted until the third round had
been boxed. In this I saw Mccoy pull
If ever a boxer did. His leads were III
timed he let go short and opened up av-
enues of attack for Corbett which blind
man could not miss, and backed up into
corners for the Californian for which
there was no possible excuse. And then,
In the fourth round, Mccoy sent couple
of sweeping right and left 'haymakers,"
which missed the pompadoured one in
such wild and clumsy fashion that 1t left
no doubt in my mind that Corbett was to
win His rights, as the correspondent of
the Indianapolis sport says, were sent In
and around when there was no chance OF
doing any damage, and these same rights
were held in tight repeatedly with open
fngs for business invitingly held out.
No one will ever be able to convince
me that the final punch landed by Cor
bet put Mccoy out. True, Mccoy was
there to take every punch Corbett had.
This was part of the play. The kid"
went in to be knocked out. The last
punch, and the one Mccoy was counted
out on, did not go to the solar plexus.
If it landed anywhere, it went in under
the heart or 20 the short ribs. McCoy's
body was bent half over, and Corbett
sent in the right from a position to the
left of Mccoy. In his best day, Corbett
never possessed sufficient strength to
knock man out with a body punch-or
any other sort, for the matter of that
Mccoy has pocketed his lily acquired
gains, the while Corbett is preparing
to foist himself upon the theater-going
public If he is successful in this it
will be because the public wants to be
humbugged, or by reason of the prohibi-
1--WE price OF aged eggs.
The Western boxing season opens at
Tattersalls next Tuesday night with an
intercity boxing tournament, in which
five cracks from Brooklyn are to meet
like number or Chicago glovemen. the
wind-up to be between Billy Stiff and
Barney Connors, the rugged Chicago
middleweights. In view Of the number of
shady fights recently brought off in the
United States the big Chicago club has
hit upon rather vigorous method of
prevention. 1t has been determined that
any boxer who does not exert his utmost
is to be denied even the losers end of
the purse. Of course, this is rather a
fine point That is to say, it is a difficult
matter to determine just how hard a
man is tried. The finished boxer does NOT
go in and slug, nor does he lay himself
open to be slugged. 1t is the intention
Of the Tattersall's club to leave the
whole matter of boxers endeavors r.
its referee. Siler has been instructed &c