The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-03
BRITT MAY BE
NEXT VICTIM
coTbstt Offers to Meet Him at
l29 at 6 O'Clock.
AFTERMATH OF BIG FIGHT
HANLoN Is NOT DISCOURAGED,
WILL CONTINUE FIGHTING.

Il is pretty near a dead certainty that
tie next fight that VIII set the talent
talking viii be between Young Corbett
and Jimmy Britt. There is only a
paGnd keeping them apart right now.
C0rbett calls for 129 pounds at o'clock
and Britt for $50 pounds at O'Clock
1t would seem that pound IS hardly
worth haggling over any great length
Of time. When Jimmy Cr01fTOJhs
matchmaker of the Yosemite club, re-
turns from New YORK. ne win take &C
tive measures to effect q match. which
Is the best in the cards right now.
Il ana not going TO DO anything until
Cronroth returns says C0rbett.
want TO see him first. ] don't really
know how good man Britt is. and 50
i want 10 be careful about making the
match. / know ] can make a bunch
Of money beating him, but 1 believe IN
going slow Britt need not fear about
me running away from him. L have
been offered theatrical engagements.
but I don't care for the road. I would
rather fight"
Though Corbett has been on the water
wagon three months and over some of
his friends expected to see him drop
his whip after this fight, but he sur
prised them. He popped a number Of
eorks for his friends, but not a glass
Of wine touched his lips.
Never. again, he said when asked
10 sip up some of the sparkling fluid.
Two things ] have cut out for good.
Drinking and high gambling There is
nothing in them. l would like TO have
ali the money I have lost on the
ponies
Hanl0n had a few words to say about
his defeat. IN all my fights I was
never more confident of winning than
in this one, he said. Il was even more
sauguine of defeating Corbett than I
was Yanger the last time. I would have
fousht him at 1S5 pounds before I
would have lost the chance I had
fought him once, and I thought I had
him sized up to q dot but it proved I
was mistaken. ] can now see where
made a few mistakes in my night, but
notwithstanding them I don't think I
can beat him. / guess you remember
how he leaned on me. and when 1
pushed him of he would let fly both
fists. Instead of pushing him away
and giving him a chance to bring his
mitts over which was what he wanted.
7 should have leaned on him and let
the referee break US apart
"Corbett certainly used great head
work. I can see where his experience
stood him in good stead. After ] have
fought as many battles as he maybe
] will have his headw0rk With all
his headwork I thought I would beat
him right up TO the time I got the first
knockdown. He was kidding me good
naturedly all through, and 1 went back
at him. I said TO him. You haven
got Terry McGOvern in the ring to-
right I knew that he was trying to
rattle me. I was pretty badly dazZed
after the first knOckdOWn. He started
me with a left punch into the body,
which made me drop my arms from
pain, and then he whipped over both
his right and left.
Il heard the crowd yelling when
went down, and I realized that it was
the first knockdOWn Of my career.
Dazed as was I heard the count dis
tinctly. Ny one fear was that the
referee. or my seconds, would stop the
night before I was completely finished.
No matter what happened ] was de-
termineG to fight as long as / could
stand on my feet. I figured that if l
could catch my second wind 1 would
get stronger. and eventually win or
make it a draw I stalled through the
fifteenth round pretty good, but that
kEockdown in the sixteenth blasted my
hopes / was helpless then. and while
I would have gone on 1 guess Graney
did right stopping the fight there"
H3nlon said that the soTest part Of
his body was his arms, which were
black and blue from stopping Corbetts
blows. Otherwise he felt pretty good.
Il thinkI viii take a long rest now,
he continued. II have had my share of
the hard ones. Since I have been q
professional / have had only one easy
fight, and that was with H8ugh. Cor
bett twice, YangeT twice and Attel
once. They could not come much hard
err than that, could they2 i don't say
that 1 am going to retire, but I might
had any one else beaten me but the
champion. That is the way I feel about
it."
Hanlon said his folks took his de-
feat better than he thought they would
They were glad that he escaped with
as few injuries as he did. and did their
best TO make things as cheerful as
rnav- could