The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-21

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a long distance. Over year has passed
since Corbett tried conclusions with Tom
Sharkey in New York. That was his last
appearance in the ring, and his strength
was failing rapidly under the savage on
slaughts of the sturdy sailor, when his
second, Con McVey, jumped through the
ropes. thereby causing his principal to
lose on a foul In the ninth round. Corbett
cannot have improved any In strength
or speed since that momentous occasion.
On the contrary, he has probably retro
graded"
CHOYNSKI-MCOY AFFAIR.
The browning disgrace Of the New York
fight promoters came in the meeting be-
tween joe Choynski and Kid Mccoy.
Now they are busy explaining the cause
of something that should not have been
permitted to happen. 1t may be easy to
convince some people that the fight was
on the level, but the evidence is all the
other way. AS the veteran boxer and ref
cree. George Siler, says: There was too
much money on Mccoy He could not lose
not even after he had been knocked out
by Choynsl1i, nor after he had lost on a
foul, had the rules of the ring been OBJ
served. The sounding Of the gong should
have terminated the battle. Instead, Ref
cree Johnnie White took advantage of 1t
to allow Mccoy time in which to recover
from the finishing blow delivered by
Choynski, and afterward to deal the
Hebrew boxer foul blow that terminal
ed an affair that will go down in the
annals of the ring as one of it's most
disgraceful." These are the things that
turn the better element against boxing.
There is no cutlery against the sport as a
sport, but against the men who miscon-
duct it.
JUST AND THE UNJUST.
Just and unjust are made to suffer
alike, as instance the assertion that the
defeat of Dixon by McGovern was fix
ed That belief was doubtless engendered
by the knowledge that some Of the people
interested in the affair were not above
resorting to such base means to get the
money Any one who read an account
of the battle knows how unjust to Dixon
Is the imputation that he laid down
to McGovern. The brilliant career OF the
little colored man has been dimmed to
certain extent by the fact that boxing
in New York is known to be so crooked
that the defeat of premier by new
aspirant for the honor is safely classed as
a fake And so the just suffer with
the unjust. And the outcome of it all will
be the stoppage of boxing under the
protection of the most liberal enactment
the country ever had for the perpetuat1on
and protection of the manly art of self
defense.
PUBLIC OPINION DEFIED.
The promoters of boxing must by this
time have realized that they are treadlng
upon dangerous ground. They are GER
tainly not so blind but they will see the
inevitable result of the course they are
pursuing. The question naturally follows:
Twill they call halt before 1t Is TOO
late?" Not by any means. The men VINO
are in full control of boxing in New YORK
are blinded by the idea that there is no
power-not even that of public opinion,
which shapes the destinies OF nations not
TO mention boxers-that can Interfere sue
cessfully in their harvest of 1li-gotten
gold One day-and at no distant one
fhav will awake to realization of their
fatal mistake-but 1t will then be too
late, for the Horton law Will certainly De
repealed unless there be something done
~ convince the public that crooked work
in boxing in New York is to be stopped.
Willie Green.