The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-21
JEFF'S A c. OF FISTIC
kSKILL SURPRISED SHEEDY
| John L. Sullivan's Old Manager Has Some
: thing to Say About the Present Heavy
Weight Champion--Ring News.

=, magnificent constitution. Had he not pos
sessed it he would have been dead year.
ago.
1 hardly think he will get much money
from this country. II proper appeal was
made, however, to English sporting men, ]
think they would raise him enough to main
tain him properly until the end. He was
intensely pro-British in his ideas and quite
outspoken in denunciation OF 1.-The lack of
liberality in America because 1t denied
equal social rights to negroes with the
whites.
The easy victory Dan Creedon achieved
over Jimmy Handler in Memphis the other
night is not looked upon as an evidence of
Dams surprising ability over his younger
A., competitor. Some of the boys hereabouts
shrug their shoulders and hint that per-
haps there was something doing which
/; was not wholly on the level. Others more
charitable. surmise that Dan may have
caught the Newark boy off his guard and
landed the winning punch SO quickly. Dan
has a punch which is hard enough to put
most any one out IL 1t lands in the proper
place.
If Marvin Hart and the Australian should
come together. as is proposed, We are like
ly TO get a line on the abilities of the young
Louisville scrapper much better than we
here In the East at present possess. Hart
is young. big. fresh and strong, and these
qualities should be able to offset the ex-
p~erience of the Australian veteran. I sim
cerely hope they may be brought together.
Though the prizes OF pugilism are not what
they were half a year ago. there Is a good
deal of scrapping between fairly good men
taking place within 100 miles Of this city.
and by and by I am led to hope there will
be some good fights in Connecticut within
easy reach CT this city.
Tyr-f OF ~ayor orx, old AoVon {c Nrn6tfaH
by the papers here as a prize fight Last
Sunday a couple Of lads dow in Jersey
tackled each other to decide "a grudge
spite" After scrapping nearly two hours.
one. finding he was getting the worst of 1t.
began biting his opponent. Next day this
prize fight! Wouldn't that jar mas pre-
s~erves!"
jim. Corbett has been so successful as a
vaudeville monologue artist. telling Of the
odd and comical things which befelf him
while he was the champion Of the world.
that he now announces that never aSain
will he figure in the ring as a pugilist. He
ever threatens never again to don a box
ing glove in a public exhibition. I hardly
think he really means this. He may think
he does, but. as I remarked a few weeks
ago. fighters minds are changeable. They
hardly know them from hour to hour. let
dlOliS ddy " AAy.
In a conversation with Pat Sheedy the
other day he sized up most OF our promi-
nent fighters, saying:
"Corbett's a wonderful fellow. He has
more ability in more ways than one than
any other fighter that ever lived. He's a
brainy fellow without a doubt, and there
is no question that he is the most skillful
boxer the world has ever seen. / am told
that Jeffries feels very sore toward his
manager. Billy Brady. because Brady made
a match to have him box Corbett six
rounds in Chicago. He repudiated 1t the
instant he heard Of 1t, and 1 don't blame
him.. for Corbett would have made him look
like the worst kind Of counterfeit money in
a bout Of this kind.
Il was in Paris when Jedrtes was over
there, and at his solicitation. and also at
Brady's, / went to see him spar, and after
the exhibition both asked me to give my
honest opinion of Jim's abilities, and I told |
them that he was both a disappointment |
and a surprise to me. He was a disap- |
pointment in his lack Of fistic skill and q |
surprise in his bulk, his strength and mar
velous defense. I said:
Its a surprise to me how you won the |
championship. but 1 honestly confess II
don't see how any champion can lick YOU
He gives very few chances away. 1t is
almost impossible for a man to land fairly
tient. 80 willing to make a long. waiting
fight that he tires out any man who is ag-
against him. In this respect he is
directly the opposite of John L. Sullivan,
He had to win in q hurry, or he couldn't
at ALL"
In speaking Of the Corbett-Mccoy con-