The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-31
FLAWS ARE 9
WHAT THEY USED TO BE.
Macon Mccormick Shows How Sullivan Began
a Notwithstanding About Crooked
ness in the Ring and "Fixed'' Matches
-Anent J%effries's Refusal to Meet
Corbett-Boxers' Gossip.

sold the fight, and when some three year.
after Hyer became Sullivan's friend agains
john s.orfissty there were lots of Aha!
told you SOS" from hundreds of people.
Jem Mace. the clevcrcst man that Eng
land ever PRODUCED once threw Il fight. III
deliberately acknowledged this and claimed
that he did it to punish his hackers fol
some breach of faith with him. at the lin.
Bells Life III London. then the creates
sporting paper in the world, announced thai
Mace's name would never again appear II
its column; that 1t would utterly ignore hin
and his dOings. Did it keep It's promise.
Not much. Mir. Mace got fresh hackers
fought and defeated the best men in Eng.
land and became its champion. Then Bells
Lie was glad 10 print everything 1t couid
get hold of about him.
But consistency IS a jewel. Why Goes
Jeffries refuse to fight Cosbett again unless
he accedes 70 his ridiculous terms. while he
in the same breath announces that he will
set aside all other engagements TO accom-
mediate Bob l.itzsimaons:
country in San Francisco, in giving me Il
sketch of his fistic career. told me that he
mad deliberately laid down to Jim Hall IN
Australia for $I5. ard he complained hat
he didn't get the mone.% ard also asserted
that while he was boxing some one sto.e
the gold cuff buttons out of his shirt.
The night, Fitz boxed Joe Choynski in the
RostOn Theater | attended the affair. A
friend whom 1 desired 10 accompany me de-
ciinet!. telling me that It was currently re-
ported thai IL was liked" / went 20 see
it nevertheless, ard after the contest vas
ever one of Fits party complained Of bad
faith, saying ChOyrski had tried TO cop
u sneak on Bob and came near doing il"
Some one in the party warnei him 70 shut
up. saying: Cheese it! Cheese il, Thc re-
porters will hear you" / vas uc.er able
to get to the bottom of this charge. for
things of this Kind are very difficult TO
prove, but there was a strong suspicion In
MY m.nd at the time that there was Il basis
OF fact TO the charge.
Admitting. thai; fitz has fought on the
level since his arrival IN this country. he
viii hardly deny his "Barney" with Hall in
Australia. Why shut the gates Of mercy
on Corbett and leave them gaping wide
open for FftZsimmons. Admitting. Jcfries,
all you charge to be true. you cannot make
the punishment fit TIE crime better than
by meeting Ccrbett and giving him a thor
oush COCO licking. jeff. old man. a good
r:ary people will imagine it is because you
think you can do Bob easily, but has
your doots' about COrbett that makes you
demand such strange conditions. My pri-
vate opinion publicly expressed Is that,
well and fit. you can whip any man In the
ring in a tiaish fight. some easier than
others. but you imagine that against Cor
bett there is always a chance that he
night win. and defeat at his hands would
be bitterer than gall
Kid Broad is back in the city from Dem
yer, where he defeated Young Corbett IN
what he admits was one of the toughest
encounters he ever had. The Kid claims
to have made more money there through
this fight than he ever did in any he had
previously engaged in. Every seat in the
mouse was sold the afternoon before tine
oattle. and he feels very much elated over
giving Young Corbett his first defeat.
The Kid says that Young Corbett is re-
markably clever, as game as a pebble, and
one OF the hardest hitters he ever met. He
would X very much to have another try
Terry McGovern. and he will probably
Eet III III h9 DpFGavprQo Inpo ~N,,1
while Bob Fftzsimmons was playing in
cincinnati last week he was interviewed
by an Enquirer representative, to whom he
announced that he was out of the ring for
good and all. He also made the startling
that while he was in the ring he
mao peen willing to meet all who desired
to tackle him. and that he had offered to
stop Jeffries in six rounds.
NOW, TINS may be true. but 1t is news to
me-. l rave been laboring under the idea
francisco: shortly after he won the cham
plonship. In language which l wouldn't care
% repeat In a family newspaper such as The
Republic is that he would never give Cor
bett a chance to regain his lost Iaurels.
l also fail to remember where he Offered
TO stop Jeffries In six rounds, but then /
iont Know everything. and it may be that
fItz did make such an offer; n then
asain It may be that Bob only dreamed he
made 1t. l think he dreamt it, but / do
,emembsr that just about a week or so
.>.SS NNS IpbIt ld" ultl, kTOWlnG mai
FERRIES was high In flesh and entirely out
If condition, while he was In proper ffght-
n, trim having just defeated Tom sharkey
est. he challenged Jeffries to fight him b.
the Horton law died. OF course. jeff
unwilling to accept this proposition,
tut FITS bluff was promptly CALLS. by Jim
lfter he fought Kid Mccoy
RITZ did not accept this offer. but made
himself prominent the night of the Mccoy
'nrh0ft offnf w rnr-1Iy
,orbett in the ring on his victory over the
1 merely mention these facts in the in |
erests of the truth Of history, lest we for |
'et: lest we forget-the real facts in these |
asses.
tfs iecieior. This was forc,bv hro,,pht |
o mind in Louisville last week when Kid
OF brooklyn and Jack Bonner the
,ussed miner OF summit Hill. clashed. For !
he first half of the fight Carter seems to
ave had things pretty much his own way. 4
nd though Bonner put up a rugged de- |
ense. 1t looked as though Carter was dead |
ure Of getting the decision. He looked to
@ a four-tlme winner when suddenly Bon |
ook a lot of the steam out of him. After
'hen the. limit was reached Bonner was
here ready and able to respond to the call
f the gong had It been sounded.
raw. though I think in doing SO he erred.
he common English practice in limited
ound contests Is that the man having the
nd 1t Is the true way to decide such bouts
As I partially indicated in these columns
gently. Charley Mitchell and Kid Mccoy
Ill probably be associated together in the
ear future as liquid dispensers to the thirsty
no will flock to Buffalo as patrons of the
an-American Exposition. No doubt they
I'LL get a good location, and their hosiery
likely to coin money.
Meanwhile. Mccoy is about to engage in
baE-punching exhibition against strong
AN Rolandow. The Kid ought to do him In
jify in such a contest. for he far excels
ne modern Samson in fleetness and in