Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-10
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
James Corbett Would a Minstrel
 Be.

He Is to Be Interlocutor in a Mammoth Minstrel Show-Jimmy Britt and Young Corbett May Meet for a Big
 Purse-Austin Rice and Tommy
 Feltz Have Twelve Round Draw
 Other Boxing News. :> James J. Corbett, who has played so many parts since he left his desk in California bank, will next season blossom out in an entirely new role that of minstrel performer. Behind him will be whaS his managers plan to make one of the most stupendous minstrel organizations in existence.
 Very quietly negotiations to this end have been in progress for several weeks. Lest rival managers profit by the novelty of their scheme, the promoters behind the Corbett project have hugged their idea snugly to their breasts, and even. now refrain from making any official announcement l.. M. Erich, the Tle 'e!.u'd theatrical manager, and William McCullum, manager of the Cook Opera house, Ro- chester. have the project in charge and to all practical purposes consuinmated. Enrich has had Corbett under his trlanagement for two seasons at the head of the Empire Vaudeville com pany, a combination which has result I ed most profitably for all concerned. At the end of this season the former champion, will have played all the leading vaudeville houses at least twice presenting his monologuc, and i his value as an attraction will be large | Ilv increased if next season he appears lin a new light.
 For this reason, and perhaps because big minstrelsy projects seem to be in the air, Enrich conceived the plan of organizing a mammoth minstrel com pany with well known names like that ! of Corbett to serve the purpose of headliners. @
 Corbett will sit in the semi-circle and act as interlocutor of the black faced group. On the ends may be Mo 1Intyre and Heath, and George Wilson. The engagement. of Mcintyre and Heath who are the highest priced black faced team in vaudeville, is now somewhat problematical, but ne Igotiations with them are still under way Sullivan Harris & Woods also were in the field for their services, of ifering to star them in big musical i farce comedy, but they replied that they were under previous contract to Martin Beck, one of the managers of the Orpheum circuit. The enga ge- tn{TT fNSnNTraA> VFysirnx, ;e, y,,oro IItain. NNS;>ss s,'i'7''.. V <, 1 Corbett will introduce his. mono. ilogue in the olio of the entertainment as we'll as using words of more than two syllables in his responses to the lend men in the first part. i He is al ready polishing uD his vocabulary with this end in view, and is said to be pre- pairing to issue a flow of language even more marvellous than that of the late William H. West.
 1t Is the present plan of the promot
 CTS to call the minstrel company ICleveland's Minstrels, and it is saiC
 that arrangements with William S Cleveland, the originator of this title
 nave been completed for the use o1
 this name. Cleveland now resides ir
 Chiago and is out of theatricals tenn
 porarily, at least
 Ihls company will make the third
 nlnstrel combination of unusual size
 to be launched next season. Unde,
 the management of Klaw & Erlanger
 Lew Dockstader will head what is in. tended to be the biggest minstrel pro auction the world ever saw. As Z novelty female chorus will be intro
 ouced. George Primrose, as soon a, he heard of Dockstader's plans. de } clared he would put out a company q, greater magnitude, but one based un , on the old familiar lines of minstre
 entertainment.
 Chicago Jan 9.-If Young Grino, tb
 Australian pugilist,. has really .scom
 pack" he must be put down as th
 physical wonder of. the age. Afte t years of excessive dissipation he wa
 passed up as a wreck and q man wh
 never again would be able to enter tn = ring. 5 Yet this same Griffo a couple O weeks ago, at the age of 32, appear
 in bout at Peoria with feIIoy = named Jack Bain, and the Austxalia1 l surprised everyone by winning easil l and showing great form. That h , would be able to set a fast and fur 5 ous clip for eight rounds and finis I fresh and strong was more than tn l most hopeful expected
 Now comes Sam Tuckerhorn, Grit fo's latest manager, with challeng f to fight any 1855 pound man in tn 3 world. Griffo says he has cut ou
 ''the cup that cheers.''
 San Francisco. Jan 1O.-It begins t , look here as if Jimmy Britt and Youn | Corbett will soon hook up in a twent , round contest at the San Francisc Ll 1 fh1ofin al :.