The Saint Paul globe., 1903-04-07
JORDAN TO MEET
YOUNG CORBETT
Strong Efforts Being Made
to Bring English Champion
to Frisco.

CHICAGO, April 6. - ben Jordan,
champion of England, will probably be
the next opponent of Young Corbett,
and the fight will be decided in San
Francisco in the same ring in which
Corbett demonstrated a few night ago
that he is Terry McGovern's master"
Such was the statement made last
night by Harry Tuthill, trainer of Young
Corbett. Tuthin came to Chicago with
the Terry McGovern party, which ar
rived in the afternoon on the overland
limited. Tuthill merely Travelled with
the McGovern party by accident, as he
is hurrying East to fill some important
business engagements he has. TuthilI
had some interesting things to say
about the recent unpleasantness on the
coast. In talking about the probability
Of a match between the English cham
pion and the American, he said:
'"The club management does not
think there will be much trouble in in
ducing Jordan to come to this coun-
try for a chance with Corbett. He will
be offered such strong inducements
that do not see how he can refuse to
accept. He will be shown that the
receipts of the Corbett-McGovern con-
test reached $4,000, and when he Is
told what the winner and loser got out
Of this I guess his eyes will pop open
pretty wide.
IF the fight takes place, 1t will be
decided either just before or immedi-
ately after the Jeffries and Corbett
contest, which is set for the latter part
Of July. The weight, of course, will
do not think there will be any hitch.
'It is true that Corbett joshed Terry
a great deal in the fight, but some of
the remarks were not as rough as the
other side would have people believe.
He told Terry lot Of truths, but there
was nobody in a position to hear these
remarks but McGovern and the referee.
The latter tells the story himself, and
1 guess what he says is the truth. 1t
was a rough fight all the way through.
A great many of the spectators thought
Corbett could have knocked McGovern
out in the first round, and that he let
up on him in order to punish him for
some of the remarks that had been
made about him from the McGovern
end. would not vouch for the truth
of that, for think Billy wanted to win
as soon as he could and not to take
any unnecessary chances.
"Corbett was decidedly confident,
and, while he had little trouble In
making the weight, I am glad that he
forced this weight on himself, for the
reason that he is a lazy trainer and
perfect loafer in his work. He said
often to me during the training season:
Harry, If I didn't have to make that
weight 1 wouldn't train a minute for
this fellow This will serve to show
how confident he was.
"As for Yanger, 1 do not believe that
Corbett will ever fight him while he
and Hertz are tied up together. The
spat in Philadelphia is sore spot in
Corbett's mind and he will not forgive
Hertz for what he did, or what he
thinks he did.
"Corbett's fighting has been misun-
derstood. He has not made many bad
fights. Many claim that he put up
bad fight with Eddie Hanlon. l do not
think SO. Hanlon is a troublesome fell
low, fighting all the time with his
arms crossed in front of his face. If
you saw him once in action you would
not want to go across the street to see
him in a championship battle. Abe At
tell made fool of him in their fight,
they tell me, and should have had the
decision. Corbett can fight and fight
we'll, but 1t seems that most men make
their star showing against him."