Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-13
COULD CORBETT
BEAT F|TzS|MMONS
ae Seems to Think So and is
Hot on the Old Mans
Trail.
HAS ONLY ONE MOAOLOCUE.
Il is Exceedingly Rare That Fighter
Can Beat a Man Who Has Once
Defeated Him.

Judging from the reports that come
,rom New York. Jim Corbett has only one
nonologue these days, the subject or
which Is Bob Fitzsimmons the old man
Of the prize ring" Everything and every
body else seems to be forgotten in jim $
consuming ambition TO get In the ring
again with Fitz. lie is dead sure certain
70 give Bob the worst walloping he ever
cot in all his ring career--to hear Jim tell
ID He could whip Bob now but
There is the same old but"
Authorities on the boxing game, that Is,
,post Of them, say u bout between the
i've would be another Carson city afar
and they give as their reason the facl
hat il is very seldom that fighter de-
feats a man who has once whipped him
Dd YOU ever stop to think ABOUT that
phase Of the gamer Can any Of Salt
Lakes fight fans remember case
where "a fighter won the champion
shin from the man who took 1t away2
We'll, It only happens once in y lifetime
Take the present day fighters for in
stance. l'itz couldn't win the title back
from Jeifries, ana neither could Corbett
although both had two cracks at 1t. Ter
rs MCGoYern failed to recover the honor
from Young Corbett," and Jack Root
failed twice TO beat Gardner, who took
the light heavyweight championship away
from MIN But 10 return to Corbett and
fz one man who has had many ring
battles and who knows the game and
fighters from Alpha to Omega. says.
1T Is rare that a tighter can beat n
man who has once defeated him when
both are in good condition Corbett has
taken several Dealings in his life and
hey must have hurt him. All his careful
living and exercise couldn't put him IN
the class with Jeftries. or course, FitZ-
Simmons Is not In that class either, but
lntn there is big difference between the
Two losers.
"Fit2smmons hit Jeffrles some punches
which If Ian ted on any other human be-
ng would have finished him within 10
POUNDS Saying that II rounds fast fight
Ing is FIt2simmons' limit is there any
man who can stay with him, outside Of
Jelrios for those u rounds?
"C0rbetts switching from his old style
back 10 his new methods and then forget
ting them again would mar his work, Just
as II did with Jeffries.
You can't teach an old fighter new
tricks and expect him to use them
through a long, hard fight. His style is
bis own and he falls into II naturally as
a man brtathos.'
If Corbett hasn't the punch to put Fltz
the bad, he's got pun.
ONLY a JOKE.
In Chicago recently James was spend
ing Sunday at a lake resort A party OF
young people We're trying hard to per-
slade the landlady, a Mrs. Gum, to let
lhtm have hop on Saturday evening.
As the delegation Of girls who had been
waiting on Mrs. Gum with the request
Wooped out again ON the veranda, Cor
hu asked.
fNcll. what uckg
None at all, sighed the epokeswoman.
and / actually humbled myself to the
extent Of kissing her, too, and ! got pow
Gfr all over my lips from her face when
Gll IT, she added, yiciously, but she
hluscs 20 let us have that dance"
see unused Corbett. you managed
70 get powder from the Gum but you
couldn't extract the ball"