The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-11
SPORTING NEWS.
Young Corbett Said to Have
Some $4,000 Planted.
Has Been Guessing the Winners
at Frisco Track.
WON $4,000 IN ONE DAY
Shortly Before That Had to
Borrow $500 from a Friend.
Purchased a Ranch Near Denver
for ssthe Old Folks"

Denver, Feb. 11-"Jinnov Rothuall
the younger brother of William Fl
Rothwell. otherwise Young Corhett.
champion featherweight of the world
is in Denver. Jimmy, as his friends
anectionately term him, has lust ar
rived home from San Francisco. and
he is full of coast fight news and gos-
sip as an egg of meat.
MOST important, however, is the fact
That Jimmy Rothwell is advance agent
Tor the domestic drama in which his
distinguished brother is starring at
present entitled Lifting the Mortgage;
Or Giving the Old Folks a Home
surprising as it may seem to many
DenVerites, Young Corbett is not
broke, but has a bank roll of over $780,
600 to his credit. He has sent his
brother Jimmy here to pay up a num-
Der of small debts and take up the
mortgage on the ranch he bought for
ms father and sisters some time ago.
After wasting his substance for
years and blowing in his coin against
the ponies, tickle Fortune has lately
smiled on the Denver champion, and
within two weeks he has gone down
the line at Oakland and Ingleside, MAX
ing the block artists rub, and quitting
over $4,000 to the good. This is in
part verified by Police Sergeant Herb
Southland, who has just returned from
San Francisco, and who saw Young
Corbett win $4,000 in one day.
Several weeks ago Young Corbett
purchased a ranch near Denver for his
folks and made the first payment.
Then he began bucking the ring and
succeeded in picking more losers in
one day than all the easy marks at
Oakland put together. He was down
and out financially and was forced to
borrow $500 from Harry Corbett, the
San Francisco bOOkrnaker
AT this time things looked bad for
the old folks at home, but, just as in
plays and story books, the hero tri-
umphed when the dawn seemed furthest
off. The Kid struck Il winning streak
and there was nothing to it. Every
body syho knows him knows he will al
ways put down a bet, and with good
luck on his side the Denver boy made
the Frisco pIungers look like pair of
deuces ION the dial of a nickel-in-the-
slot machine.
My, but things are dead around
this town compared to what they are
in Frisco, said Jimmy Rothwell to an
interested listener, yesterday afternoon
I feel just as if l was out in the coun-
try.
- Maybe I'll be here a week and
maybe I'll be here two or three weeks.
II came on business. for the Kid, and
I'll have to wind up before 1 can go
back. Things are. coming easy for the
Kid now and that's no pipe about
him winning $4,000 on the races. He
has the coin. and he's going to make a
plant this time. I'll fix up about the
ranch while I'm here and a few other
private matters.
I" Now. I'll tell you about this boy
Britt. He's pretty clever and they
think he's the candy on the coast, but
the Kid will cop him sure when they
meet. I believe now Britt would like
to side-step the match The Kid has
agreed to fight Dave Sullivan before
Jimmy Coffroth's club the last day of
this month, and Britt says if he does
their match is off. He's afraid to meet
the Kid, that's all there is to it, "
Champion Young Corbett is to be-
come a horse owner.
| Corbett will form a partnership with
| Glenn Jenkins, the we'll known jockey
who met with so much success abroad
for the past few years, and who last
season rode for Sanford & Son. Jen-
kins will have. charge of the horses
and do the training, while the cham
pion will do the betting for the firm
| 1t is said that Jenkins will go to Ran
cho Del Paso, the great Haggin breed
ing establishment near Sacramento,
and select some choice yearlings.