The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
jim coRsETT TO TRAIN MONROE.
Pompadoured Wants to See sharkey
Licked and Will Teach the Miner.

Licked and Will Teach the Miner.
New York, Feb. 10.-Jim Corbett
will take Jack Monroe in hand and
coach the miner for the latter's fight
with Tom Sharkey. The reckless
sailor boy brought that avalanche on
his head by the whitening %broadsides
of criticism which he poured into the
eX-champion while the latter was
training in a gymnasium in West
Twenty-eighth street yesterday.
The remarks were not addressed
directly to Corbett, but were aimed
at him in those delightful asides which
are so telling in melo-drama and
which, it is believed, the ~eX-sailor
learned during the period in which he
was bending his great mind to the
task of e~levating the stage.
Never before yesterday had Cor
bett met Monroe. He was introduced
to him in the gymnasium where both
had gone for exercise. Corbett look
ed over the miner critically.
He appears to be a likely fellow"
said the ex-champion as he went about
his own work.
Corbett a pulling hard at the
weights when Tom Sharkey stalked
into the gymnasium. The barnacle-
cared shellback cast anchor on the
gallery over the gym" His star
board lamp fell on Corbett. A look
of hatred overspread his features and
that look was relieved by his tongue.
Look at that dub" he began.
"He wants to fight Jeffries, does he?
What a chance! Look at those spin
dle-shanks," said the ex-sailor, allud-
ing to Corbett's legs.
Looks as though they were drawn
through a %hosepipe. Him a fighter?
I'd like to get him in a ring with me.
I'd knock his head off. | beat him
twice and I'd do it again for good
measure"
Sharkey said other things Of Cor
bett in his sneering tone. He did not
moderate his voice, either, and the
remarks were heard by Corbett. The
latter said nothing, but it could be
seen that he was not in the
best of humor. And here was where
he laid his plans to get even with
Sharkey.
"Ill get that sailor licked" he said.
"Ill take Monroe in hand and show
him how to do it. That fellow Mon
has a good build for a fighter. All
l want him to have is the punch.
They say he has it.. Then I'll show
him how to VIM"
Corbett and Monroe then had a lit
tie talk regarding the plan. Every
thing was satisfactory to the miner,
but he said he would have to see his
manager, Clark Ball.
"You have everything in your ia
vor to win over Sharkey," said Corbett
to Monroe. eff you follow my adj
vice l will guarantee that you will
beat him. All you need to gain is
little c~leverness, and with that as
an asset the sailor will be easy for
.ou.'
Corbett watched Monroe work for
a while and was more than ever inn
pressed by his showing. He went
away then, promising to see Ball
about this proposition.
Manager Ball is not a man who
grows enthusiastic over anything.
He didn't over Corbett's proposition.
He said the offer was a good one,
but that just now he could not arrive
at a decision. He said Monroe had
theatrical engagements to fill and
that when the time came for him
to begin work for the Sharkey fight
he would probably have Corbett train
his man. He liked the idea, even
though he did not say so. 1t is GER
tain that Ball will accept the offer.
1t was Corbett who got the most
credit for Ruhlin's first victory over
Sharkey. He showed the Akron man
much of what he knows about the
fighting game, and after the bout,
which was won by Rubin in Is
rounds, sporting men and critics
heaped more praise on Corbett for
Ruhlin's victory than they did on
the victor. Corbett sat at the ring
side and coached Rubin throughout.
The latter hardly aimed a blow that
was not planned by the ex-champion.
Sporting men all over town, when
they heard of Corbett's plan, began
to take Monroe's fight with Sharkey
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