Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-07
THE PUGILIST $.
Young Corbett Meets a Pretty
 Tough Customer

Sammy Smith Stays Six Rounds and
 Does Good Work-Pugilists Who
 Show the White Feather On Occa-
 sions-Cowed Very Often By Lit
 tie Chaps.
 Philadelphia, July 7.-Young Corbett fought six rounds with Sammy Smith of this city, at the National Athletic club, last night, and the champion had little the better of the bout Smith was in excellent condition and gave Corbett a hard battle. In the firat round Corbett sent Smith to the floor twice. The first time he took the count, and the second time tue bell saved him. In the fourth and fifth rounds Corbett again sent the Phila- delphian down with hard punches and each time he took the count When Corbett came up for the last round he seemed a little tired and did not fight with his accustomed viciousnesss Smith bored in on hin. several times with hard, straight lefts and upper cuts. The local man fairly rained blows on the champion, but Corbett was able to take the punishment and came DdSh SI1OuSIy.
 The trained boxer knows how to fight. Put him in the ring and he's at home. There is nothing unknown to him there But there are other ways of fighting than according to the rules made and provided by the late Marquis of Queensberry. John l.. Sul- ivan, in one of his ugly moods, started iY, tn h ,1,o,. q, J+S,y, barroom. The small barber got the decision with water pitcher. Joe Co burn raised his mighty hand with the threat that he would beat in the face of hunchback. The hunchback wore q sack coat. He had one hand in q side pocket. "Oh. no, you won't he replied. looking up at the threatening paWe You don't dare. That hand will never fall on me. It will be life less before it does. I'm quicker than you and you know it." The hand fell, but not on the hunchback. Coburn did know how quick he was. He was western gambler. It was the hand in the coat pocket that cowed the pugi1ist. He knew that a bullet was quicker than a blow. When Arthur Chambers was the lightweight champion he took a dislike to the furniture of a PennsyI- yanla railroad coach on it's way from New York to Philadelphia. The con ductor wasn't as big as Chambers and 11e was old enough to be his father. But he thought the furniture was all right in it's place and intimated that if the passenger was displeased with it he could get out and enjoy the scenery. Chambers wasn't accustomed to this kind of repartee to him, and came back with choice selection of old English explosives that threatened the conduc- tors salvation. This was the old man $ cue, and, after he had swept up the station platform with Chambers and rubbed his nose over the ties for good measure. he nearly tainted when they told him who it was he had so thor oughly mussed up.- But the train went on without the pleasure of MT Cham bers's society. No one ever accused Peter Maher of being other than a game fighter. He certainly has taken enough lickings to prove it. but he moved out of q rent-free house because some humorist told him it was haunt ed And the house was in Pittsburg Imagine any self-respecting spook haunting a house in Pittsburgh! Jack McAuliffe, the former lightweight champion. is the best fighter outside the ring of any of his fellows. In q mixup between McAuliffe and Bob |. .F'itzsimmons in the billiard room of q Bath Beach hotel. Fitz did no better than get a draw when the glassware and broken cues were gathered up.