The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-20
SPORTING NEWS.
Young Corbett Easily Knocks
Out Jack Keefe.
Did Up the st. Louis Man in the
Third Round.
CHAMPION is BITTER.
Story of His Former Manager
Makes Him Enraged.
Declares He Did Not Leave Dem
YER to Escape Creditors.

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St. Louis. here last night, knocking the
East slider out in the third round
Keefe started out well, and kept Young
Corbett busy blocking in the first round.
Corbett encouraged Jack in the second
round. going to the floor twice. In the
third Keefe sailed in with great deter
mination. A right to the stomach and
left swing on the jaw by Corbett end
ed hostilities. Keefe being completely
knocked out.
Last night Corbett made a caustic at
tack on Johnny Corbett. his former
manager. A dispatch from Denver
Colo. was shown him. and he wrote a
signed statement in reply. The dispatch
was as follows:
Young Corbett will cut out Denver
as a stopping off place hereafter. as he
was nearly put down and out in a finan-
cial way during his stay there. A swarm
OF creditors made things lively for him,
and he barely escaped arrest on SatUr
day night on & warrant sworn out by
MS old manager, Johnny Corbett, who
made him champion. When Corbett
was absolutely on his uppers Johnny
loaned him a diamond ring valued at
$50, on which Young Corbett secured
sou. COrbett was dilatory. Johnny was
determined that the champion would
not get out of the city until he re-
deemed the ring, so on Saturday after
noon ne SWOre out a warrant charming
Young Corbett with larceny as bailee
constable Jimmy Connolly went to the
Curtis street theater about $50 Young
CofDett knew there was something in
the wind, as he switched his programmes
ana went on first instead of waiting un-
I'll the last act. and disappeared
Corbett was very angry when he
finished reading the story, and wrote
out the following reply:
me above statement does not sur
NJ
claims that as my manager made HE
feather weight champion has certainly
been INDUCING in a few dreams. To
start with, he was never my manager.
Every sporting man in the country
knows who my manager is; no one in
the world except myself No one ever
saw his name on a set of articles for
me- So far as his attempt to have me
arrested for larceny is concerned, it is
TO laugh. The ring which he claims as
his, was mine. [ bought it in Cincinnati
paid for it and have the receipt for it
in my possession. While Johnny Cor
bett was working for me, washing
sweaters and sweeping out the train
ing quarters. 7. let him wear the ring.
And when / saw fit disposed Of the
same
johnny Corbett's motive in bringing
such a silly trumped-up charge against
me was prompted by only one motive
Jealousy. While ] was in Denver ne
was to all intents and purposes my best
friend until ne found out that there was
no probability of our former relations
being resumed He knew that my fu-
ture ENGAGEMENTS made it necessary for
me to leave that city Immediately after
the show, and I learned that he had
trumped up this charge so as to cause
me to miss the train. For that reason
I decided to outwit him, and my law
yer. Frank Christopher, prominent at
torney of Denver, arranged to get me
away without being bothered
I want to say, further, that If should
decide to state the reasons which
prompted me to discharge Johnny Cor
I bett while training at Cincinnati 10
fight Terry McGovern. the entire sport
ling world will blacklist him. While 1
was in Denver he never got away from
my side. In fact [ found 1t Impossible
/ to get away from him, being forced 10
4 dine him and wine him or tell him
I bluntly that his presence was op5eclloii-
able in the extreme.
The very best proof that I didn't run
away from Denver IS the fact that
bought a home there before leaving
town for my father and sisters VIII
! he hack there in August on my way 10
Frisco to see the Jeffries-Corbett light
(Signed) YOUNG CORBE11.
The champion further SAYS:
Il prefer to do all my fighting on the
coast That is the best place. got q
SGT 600 purse for the McGovern hght' ana !
! the Hanlon fight brought purse OF
! $4,000 That is a lot of money. Be
sides. I like the people and the. climate.
When the sports out there win pet
4 On vou they think they have to hand
YOU half. I received many valuable
presents from friends there. I will night
Yanger when he whips Hanlon or NC
/ Govern. AS for Terry, I think he can
Srhin nearly all of them. He will whip
Atten without doubt. It won't be a
fight Who do I pick to win the Jef-
fries-Corbett battle? Well, think Cor
bett can give him a better fight than
s,,sr nan IN +he world. although I don t
saw he can win. They will surely fight
and it will be a contest
His next fight will be in November
with Ben Jordan, the Engiisn champion
The men 20 twenty rounds at Frisco.