Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-18
FIGHTs AND FIGHTERS.
ferries Laughs at the Idea of His
 Being Sick.

ment of puglllStS than project nlmSeiI
 into the limelight of publicity, but his
 press agent knows better, and he tries
 his best to stand by and answer ques-
 tions. Early Sunday evening the
 champions liquid went the wrong
 way, and, of course, there was q
 coughing spell. Instantly the fertile
 brain of the press agent Imagined
 pneumonia and thousand and one ills,
 anyone of which might be more sue
 cessful in bout with the champion
 than any of the fighters of the day pos
 sibly could be.
 'Sick!'' the champion exclaimed
 when seen last night. "Do look like
 a sick man?'' he continued, as he
 stretched himself to. his full height
 Well, maybe I'm sick, but if I am I
 don't want to be much better and I
 hope I'll never be any worse. If I can
 go along the way I'm going guess 1
 ought to live forever. I'm sick enough to feel like going out and training hard
 for my fight with Fitz, and you know
 a sick man never feels like training.
 But we'll let that go. If I'm sick of
 anything it is of all the stories that
 have been published about me I'd
 sooner fight and leave these yarns to the fellows who are actors and think they are fighters
 Toledo, Feb 1S.-The engagement of
 Young Corbett suddenly came to a tenn
 porary termination at Burts theateI
 yesterday afternoon. The young pugil- 1st was on for a turn between the acts
 of the play, "A Stranger in a Strange
 Land" and he appeared Sunday night.
 but yesterday afternoon there arose a
 disagreement between Manager Burt Of the theater and the manager of the
 company, which resulted in the tenn porary cancellation of the engagement
 The house was crowded waiting to see
 Young Corbett do his three-round spar ring act, but the audience was dis missed and it's money refunded. After communicating with New York it was learned that the trouble was all due to misunderstanding, and at 7:30 last night 1t was decided to put on the evening performance. The feeling was rather bitter between the respective managers, and for a while it Iooke1 as 1T the matter might get into the courts. III luck seems to be with Young Cor. Dett, as he injured his arm with his sparring partner Sunday afternooI.. Careful nursing, however. has helped 1t, and he will continue to do his turn. The Toledo lodge of Eagles rendered an ovation to Corbett Sunday night aud presented floral piece to him.
 
 Chicago, Feb 1S.-An exact repeti- tion of the accident that lost Jack Moi fatt two fights with George Gardner brought defeat again to NIoffatt last night at the America club, ill a contest with Billy Stift Wearing an elastic bandage on the left shoulder that had been dislocated on two similar occa- sions, Moffat last night landed some telling blows with his left without ex- periencing any i'll effects and apparent. ly had the fight we'll in hand. He had taken things easy in the first round and contented himself with countering and dancing out of the way of St.ffs wild swings. Tn the second round Moffatt began to use his left q little and managed to reach Stift without any difficulty, scoring a big lead OH the round Thinking that his shoulder had fully recovered from the two former Moffatt started the third round in earnest. He chased his op- ponent all over the ring and was ad- a severe drubbing when in an effort to land a knockout he started a left for Stift's jaw. The blow. sent With terrific force, landed on Stits head. Instantly Moffatt's left arm dropped limp to his side. The referee stopped the fight, and Stift was award ed the decision. Kid Goodman of Bos- ton and Al Fellows of Chicago fought 1S had shade the better of the contest during the first three rounds, but in the last three Goodman used a straight left in connection with right cross te such good advantage that Fellows had all he could do to last the limit. The decision was unsatisfactory. Mike Schreck of Cincinnati and Hugo Eelly of Chicago also went six rounds 10 a draw.
 Buffalo. Feb 1S.-Referee Mcbride stopped the bout between Tom Couhig of Dunkirk and Curley Supplies of Buff falo before the International A. c. at Fort Erie last night after thirty sec onds' fighting in the seventeenth round, and awarded the decision to Couhig. Supplies had the better Of the argument up to the thirteenth round. when Couhig put a hard left to the jaw and right to the stomach, send ing Supplies to his knees. Couhig con tinued to play for the stomach with hard rights in the succeeding rounds. and when Supplies come up for the sey- enteenth round it was evident that lie was in distress. Couhig planted hard left on the jaw and right to the stom. ach. Supplies clinched and refused to break. The referee then stopped the bout and declared Couhig the winner In the preliminary Warren Zurbrick got the decision over George Salee at the end of the seventh round. It was announced by the club management that they would offer 30 per cent of the gross receipts for a meeting be- tween Frank Erne and Joe Cans of Baltimore at 133 pounds. Mike Leon ard and Couhig challenged Erne to fight at 135 pounds
 Philadelphia. Feb 1S.-Joe Gan, of Baltimore had the better of the six round bout with George McFadden of New York last night at the Penn .Atl letic club. Both men fought hard from beginning to end. It was an even con- test in the first round. but after that the Baltimore lad had matters prac- tically his own way. He had McTad- den going in the second round. but the M -1p.