Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-11
WAS 1T A FAKEf

Say About the Recent Fight.
The deserted wives. of Corbett and kid
Mccoy agree in the charge that the recent
| fight between these two men was fake,
and that 1t was prearranged that Mccoy
should suffer defeat kid McCoy's wife,
| in her answer to1his Bil asking for divorce.
said, regarding the arrangement:
Before the said date my husband enter
ed into an agreement with one Eddie
| Burke and one Harry Heinds. the former
weil-known bookmaker and the latter
proprietor of gambling house in the city
of Cheyenne state Of Wyoming. whereby
the said Burke and ,Heinds were to procure
all the money they Gould and throughout
the United States Wherever 1t was possible.
to make bets and wagers to the effect that
the said JamesSd. JCorbett would be the
victor in said pretended contest, the said
Norman Selby, otherwise known as Kid
Mccoy. agreeing, in the parlance of the
prize ring. to lay1dawn.' or, In other words,
to suffer defeat.
THAT, In order to secure themselves
against the dupiicity Of my husband. and
as security that he would fulfill his part of
| the conspiracy, the said Eddie Burke and
| Harry Heinds insisted that my husband
deposit a certain amount Of money with
said Burke and said Norman Selby. other
| wise known as Kid Mccoy. did thereupon
| take from his vault in the New Amsterdam
Bank safety deposit vaults Canadian Pa
| cific railway securities to the amount OF
| $4,000. which the said plaintiff then own
ed. and did deposit the same with the said
| Eddie Burke
An additional part of the said conspiracy
was that the parties got up cipher code
| for telegraphing purposes. and from time
| to time my husband dictated to me fele-
| graph messages. which 1 wrote. and which
| were telegraphed to said Heinds. to which
| Heinds replied. The said kilograms were to
the effect that the said Heinds and his CO.
| conspiratOrs were to bet that Corbett would
| be the. victor In said contest
MY husband accordingly did. on the
night of the Both of August. 1900. lay
and obtained his share of the money re-
| ferred to by me. out of which money the
general public was cheated"
Mrs. Corbett and kid McCoys wife
met yesterday and agreed to make COM
mon cause against the two pugilists. Mrs
| Corbett said to a New York Herald report
| er regarding the charge that the fight was
fake: He firmly believed that he could
| defeat Mccoy, but he refused to fight him
| because If he should be defeated he would
| lose his popularity. He did not consent to
enter the ring until Mccoy had agreed to
| throw the fight
Finally some of the men who raised the
| first 100000 to bet on the fight began to
! fear that Jim would throw them down.
and they demanded that he post a forfeit
| Of $4,000 with Eddie Burke. bookmaker.
| to guarantee that he would make good his
part of the bargain and not lay down to
Mccoy Jim came to me for the money
/ d
1t was for $4,000. and l was told that It
went TO Eddie Burke
81 objected when. he told me of the
scheme to rob the public In the fight with
| thinking that it was not a matter for me
to interfere in. Now wish 1 had made
public what I knew before the fight"
Friends Of Mccoy deny that he lost the
| fight with Corhett purposely.
Eddie Burke. when seen last night
said there was not one word of truth in the
story told by Mrs. Mccoy and Mrs. Cor
/ bett so far as he was concerned
Il am well acquainted with both Mccoy
and Corbett." said Burke. but l had no
| more to do with their fight than any other
outsider | thought Corbett would win and
bet a small sum on him.. l would have bet
more had the odds been more liberal 1
| gave Mccoy ALMOST an even chance with
Corbett, 80 / refusedito bet when the odds
| fell below 10 to g. l am a bOOkmaker, but
1 believe my record for honesty is well es-
| tablished. Il would have nothing to do with
a deal to throw a fight for ten times the
amount that was at stake when Mccoy and
| Vesper Bont Crew Welcomed Home.
On the French liner La Bretagne. which
arrived in New SYfk yesterday morning
from Havre. tweHty-four hours late. were
Coach p. A. DeEuEusy and the men Of the
eight-oared shell crew Of the Vesper Boat
Club OF Philadel0bie. bwho won the interna-
tional championahipsfo for eight-oared shells
r rss q, ns
| March. 2: Edwin HedIey, 8: william Carr
4: John Geiger. dssJames Juvenal. 9; Henry
De Baecke. =, JEAN, Exley. stroke, and L..
| c. Abeel. coxswain. All were In excellent
health and had apparently enjoyed the trip.
| The oarsmen left for Paris about two
months ago. s;-~-
delegation from the Vesper Boat Club.
| consisting of Capt. Frank Madden. Charles
p. Lawrence and A. ]. Cottingham. went
| on board the steamer at quarantine. while
| dozen other enthusiasts awaited the vessel
at the pier and cheered the returning ath-
letes when they were seen on the forward
deck. waving the big silk flag presented
to them In Philadelphia just before they
| went abroad.
Coach Dempsey; when questioned by a re-
porter after landing. said
"of course. we are delighted to get home.
particularly In this way. with well-won
victory to our credit It was not row.
| over by any means. We had to work hard
/ from start to finish against rough water
and head wind. The French method Of
running on races differs from ours. but
we were well treated and have no COM
plant to make. We have not decided on