The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-19
Young COrbett Tries to Show
Ponies How to Run.
Said to Have Dropped an $4,000
Roll at Oakland.
COULDN'T PICK WINNER
Missed a Bet on Which Ferry
boat Would Beat In.
Kept His Pledge to Eschew
HighbalIs but Haunts Track.

San Francisco. Jan. 19.-The Hayes
Valley Athletic club won out in the
grand scramble for the Young Corbett-
Jimmy Britt match. The affair will be
held in Woodwards pavilion on March
IL. If the gate receipts fall snort OF
present expectations Young Corbett
will blame himself. possibly. for not
accepting the terms offered by Cofrotn
of the Yosemite club at Mechanics pa
vilion If the affair proves an over
whelming success financially CoIroln
viii chide himself for steeling his heart
when Corbett asked him for a little
something on the side.
Now that the match has been dis
posed of so far as bids are concerned.
the sports are beginning to discuss the
why's and wherefores of the wrangle
the clubs became involved in. 1t Is well
known now that the Yosemite club lost
the attraction because Coffroth refused
Young Corbett the customary cham
piOn's bit.
Corbett knows right now that 60 per
cent. of a Mechanics pavilion gate is
better paying proposition than 80 per
cent. of all the money that can be
crowded into any other fight arena in
California. He wanted per cent on
the side, however, and Coffroth stead
fastly refused to accede to the demand
The Yosemite manager felt, maybe,
that tha match would come to him
eventually. He did not dream that
Corbett is just such another stubborn
individual as himself. Tt is now clear
to everybody that Corbett was determ-
ined to dispose of the match at a dis
count as it We're. rather than knuckle
under to Coffroth. 1t was a contest to
finish between a hard-mouthed man
ager and stiff-necked champion, and
we will not be able to tell who has won
until the receipts are counted UP on the
night of March IL.
One thing is certain, the time has
arrived for Young Corbett to get into
| l, 10 f,-TTn
to his New Year vows. He caused it to
be published that he was through with
high balls and horses. He has re-
Trained from looking on the dancing
water when it is amber colored, but he
has dallied with the sport of kings in
such a whole-souled manner that the
$4,000 he earned through whaling Eddie
Hanlon has passed. into the Golfers of
the bookmakers at Oakland track, it is
said. One afternoon, it is stated. he
! lost close to 81, 500, and for several days
| his average losings were $1,000.
Yesterday is said to have been the
worst day Young Corbett has had since
he began his present streak of playing
! the races. and he is reported to have
| sloughed offsS2. 200 inabad debts. That
was not quite all. Just for good meas
ure he made a. bet Of $50 on which
| ferryboat would win the race across
| the bay returning from the races, and
his bad luck stuck to him He strung
! his coin on the wrong boat.
Last week his two worst days at the
Emeryvil1e track are reported to have
cost the game little fighter 81, 400 and
| $500, while his only winning day showed
| a profit of but $500, so it is estimated
conservatively that the bank roll of
| IS, 900 with which he commenced opera
tons after beating Hanlon has dwindled
! already one-half.
Now that the Yosemite club has lost
the Young Corbett-Britt match, it is be-
lieved it will turn it's attention to Eddie
| Hanlon and Terry McGovern. Coffroth
[ has hopes of bringing these little fellows
! together in February and a good many
! believe that if he succeeds in signing
! Terry and Eddie he will have an attrac-
! ton which will prove nearly as power
full as the one he missed
If popularity has any effect on box
office receipts, Eddie HanlOn should be
able to roll dollar for dollar with Cor
bett or Britt. This was shown at Colma
the night Scanlon and Millett boxed. 1t
is the custom at all fiStic functions out
this way to have a kind of stock parade
of all the ring celebrities within reach
prior to the main event.
! Corbett and Britt were trotted in the
night in question and they received a
warm greeting. Then there were yells
for Hanlon and when Eddie entered the
ring there was the widest kind of an
ovation. And McGovern is equally pop
ular with San Francisco fight patrons
and it is felt that the pair will furnish
a big drawing card for whichever club
| arrangeS the match.
Coupling the names of Eddie and
| Terry recalls Hanlon's remark to Young
| Corbett in the ring during the recent
fight
You haven't got McGovern before
you now said Eddie at one stage of the
proceedings.
At first blush this looks like a sheer
at the Brooklyn whirlwind but Hanlon
declares it was not intended as such.
1T was this way" explains Hanlon,
"Corbett was kidding me the time we
were fighting and knew he was try
ing to get me mad had been told
that he had a way of making Terry
wild whenever they fought, and that
was why I said to him You haven't got
McGovern Before you now
Corbett pleads guilty to the charge
of trying to ruffle Hanlon's temper
while the scrap was in progress. He
goes further and tells of some of the
things he said to Eddie.
1T was good-natured joshing, but
of course 1 was looking to see the lit
tie fellow lose his mead and come at
me open mouthed," said Corbett. 'Just
before he made that remark about Nc
Govern he complained that I struck
him low. I knew 1 did nothing of the
kind, and I said to him, Come, Eddie,
don't be looking for sympathy in your
own town. You're not fighting in Den
yer, you know 1t was then that he
got back at me about McGovern.''
Asked what particular kind of badin-
age he resorted to when fighting Terri
BILE Terry, Corbett said:
"Oh it was all good-natured, but I
found Terry an easy boy to rile. In
|. one of the clinches 1 remembered that
read about his mother intending to
bet her home on the fight. and I said
to him, BY the way, Terry, I am go
ing to buy my dad a home out of the
winners end of this fight If he had
had it yesterday he would have bet it
against your mothers This made him
as mad as a Turk, and he came at me
like a tiger when we broke away.
Jim Scanlan's showing against Joe
Millett at the Colma club convinced the
fight fans that the Pfttsburg man vii
never be a brilliant performer. At the
same time Seaman had shade the bet