The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-01
STILL THE CHAMPION
YOUNG CoRBTTT WHIPS DAVE
 sULLIvAm
Former Left the niuR Without { Mark, While the Latter Had Received Some Severe
 PunishnenA

1 San Francisco. Feb. gs.-Champior Featherweight Young Core&tt had no diff. Aculty in retaining hla 4aareis tonight defeating Dave Sullivan of New York, ir the eleventh round of Scheduled twer. ty-round contest. Corbekk left the ring without a mark. while on he other hand Sullivan received a terrific beating. onls the merciful action of Referee Graney In stopping the contest sAs<gng the New Yorker from having his fak# beaten into pulp. Sullivan pat up q game hghi and while cutboxea. outfou@llt and out generailed, he gave ehe ehNnnrion caust for worry An one Fotn1
 Taking another feaknre au& ez skse sight which was SullivaE's gameness. the con test was never in doubt. Corbett had his man safe during all stages of the contest and it was but a question of time when Sullivan would have had to quit. The fourth round nearly saw the end of the contest and only by taking the Hull count on four different occasions did Sul- lfvan manage to pull through. The main feature of the light was the great amount of in-fsghting. They hung together for \ minute at time, using either hand they could get free. corbet proved himself very much Suilivan's superior in that style of fighting and seemed to punch harder from shorter distance.
 After the disastrous fourth round Sulit- vans ability to come up in the succeed ing round was a surprise. He seemed to have taken 8 new lease of life. but it was only a flash in the pan and did not prove of any benefit to him. as he receiv- ed more punishment without any chance of ultimate success. The contest on the whole was one-sided.
 Jimmy Brit was an interested specta- tor at the ring side and figuring on his chances to beat the featherweight.
 The general opinion of the sporting element which has seen both men in action Is that Corbett will be the favorite in the betting and that Britt. while giv- ing him a great fight. will not prove to be the winner. The betting ranged from 2 to to 3 to 1 on Corbett in the fight tonight.
 The contest between Zeiger and Raefel was declared a draw at the end of the tenth round. Raefel put up good fight for a short-ender and the crowd he- came very demonstrative at the decision. evidently thinking that Raefei should have received the verdict. Raefel throughout landed the most telling blows. but Zeiger on the other hand did the most landing. The latter was clearly over weighted. Zeiger recently lost decision to Britt in this city.
 Corbett entered the ring at 10:19 p: m. Sullivan followed a minute or so later. Sullivan's seconds were Spider Kelly. Frank Mcdonald and Jimmy Barry Cor bett was seconded by Tim McGrath, George weedon. Billy Otts and Billy Roche. Corbett received a popular dem onstration. Sullivan was warmly re- ceived. A challenge from Johnny Burns of New York was received and read, as was also one from Spider Welch, local pugilist
 Kid Herman of Chicago was also there with a challenge. As corbett disrobe6 1t was seen that his condition was superb while Sullivan also looked to be in per- feet trim. The pugilists agreed to pro- tect themselves in the breakaways.