The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-02

the fight. When, by reason of Vests
evasiveness, Walcott and his friends
grew chary of his chances to lose. some
body in Walcott's corner suggested that
1t had badly WIenched wrist. Walcott
saw in q moment and though as ply seal
ly sound as when he entered the ring.
Walcott refused to go on. The job was
patent and apparent to all. Referee
Charlie White examined the arm and told
Walcott that he was shamming. He
argued with the giant killer at great
length, but Joe had been given his lines
to speak and stuck to them sedulously.
The amazing part of it all is that White,
after convincing himself that Walcott's
purposes were dishonest and making the
announcement publicly, did not declare
bets off. With Walcott standing erect
in his corner, White mechanically
counted off the seconds and de-
clared West the winner White
could not have been in with the job else
it would have been an easy enough mat
ter for the referee to pass the matter
over lightly enough and not deneunce 1t
as a steal Instead, as already stated, he
awarded the decision to West-clearly
enough entitled to it-and allowed the
sucker public, which had backed Walcott
to pay off to the cheaters who had back
ed West. Whites course was an open
one. He should have called the fight mo
contest" declared ell bets off, paid West
the winning end of the purse and ended
at that
The odium for the job clings about the
curly grey head of Tom O'Rourke. His
avowal that he was no party to the job
is given little credence in any quarter,
and 1t is d fitting elimination to the
internecine wrangle which has obtained
here among the club members. When
Kennedy and Pat Powers started the
Nxrro,, al,
Madison Square Garden they declared
O'Rourke out of it. With its central To-
cation and accessibility, Madison Square
Garden BODIED no good to O'Rourke's
distant and isolated club on Coney Is
land. Accordingly, O'Rourke started out,
bent on killing game which he could
not wholly control The board of police
commissioners was the first body
reached" 1t required the Intervention
of powerful political backing to con-
vince the board of police commissioners
that The Twentieth Century club could
live and operate and have its protecto-
rate under the Horton law, as well as
the Coney Island club This Intervention
cost Kennedy and his confreres of the
Twentieth Century club 40 per cent of the
earning capacity of their institution
O'Rourl1e got no part of this. O'Rourke
failed also to secure the COrbett-McCoy
Walcott. During the estrangement be-
tween Walcott and his manager, the for
mer signed TO fight West before the
Twentieth Century club. A reconciliation
between the fighter and manager was
affected four days before the job of last
Monday night O'Rourke figured that a
blatent, palpable fake would initiate
against the drawing powers of the Cor
bett- Mccoy fight, and it did. 1t is esti-
mated that the affair of last Monday
night hurt the McCoy-Corbett engage
ment to the tune of anywhere from $25,-
600 to $40, 000
/ drove from the Imperial hotel last
Wednesday to Madison Square Garden
with little Tod Sloan; the dapper cham
pion of the pigskin had ordered box
seating six for the McCoy-Corbett fight.
The box had been laid aside for him, and
as the envelope containing the six tick
cts was handed out, Tod rendered in
payment q check for 500, drawn on the
Garfield National bank.
81 can't take that check. Mr.. Sloan,
said the man on the far side of the Gagged
enclosure.
why not?' Indignantly queried Sloan
Orders, Mr.. Sloan, orders" retorted
the man on the inside.
Orders be blauked' fumed the little
Jockey. DO you mean to question the
signature at the bottom of that check?''
Not at all. But this you may make
your mind up to- and all the arguing that
you may make to the contrary won't
move me. There is just one captain 70
this ship and his orders must be lived uD
to- One of these is to- accept no checks
The little jockey was clearly perturbed
He had on deposit at the bank on which
the check was drawn a matter of some
$40, 900 and that the integrity of his pa
per for a paltry 500 should be called into
question was more than he could stand
He ran about like a mad man for awhile.
but finally sent TO the bank for the
money, qgot his box and LEFT in high dun
geon.
Explaining the matter later on the
man at the box office tod the story as
follows: you see that telephone there?
Well, on the night before Fitzsimmons
and Rubin fought I was called TO the
instrument and this is about the line OF
which ensued:
1.-The voice at the other end-'This is
Mr. Oliver P. Belmont
"Mysef-'Yes, Mr.. Belmont, what can
do for YOU?
Voice at the other end-Have you got
'Myself-'Yes SIR
aside four of them for me ana 1 will send
my man around tomorrow with a cheek
By the way, what's the prices?
"Myself-'s15O box.