The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-27

when COrbett turned about and faced
me, and the fight was decided then and
there. I made up my mind TO mark
him on the body and leave his face
alone, for that was the only way /
could get the steam out of his legs. and
if you don't know it. III tell you right
now, that a punCE IN the stomach Will
hurt a man worse and make him want
TO sit down TO rest quicker than wal
Top on the nose. The first makes him
tired and the last only makes him mad.
When we got together in the first
round we were both feeling each other
out, and 7 was telling him a story. It's
a habit of mine to talk a bit when
I'M lighting. and some of the things I
said seemed to make Jim bit niffed
at me, but that was part of the game.
Get Busy in Eighth.
OF the battle as it went, the newspa-
pers at that time gave a pretty ac
Curate account of it as remember. But
then things look a lot different TO the
boy on the outside to what they do TO
the fellow that's doing the fighting. 1
seem to remember that was doing a
lot of humping up against corbett's
left hand, and thep 1 think I began
10 get busy. Along about the eighth
round-that was the one If you remem-
Der that it was said the job was to oe-
cur in-I got angry for the first time.
1t had been said pretty roughly that
I'd taken a big piece of change and
" as going to let Jim trim noe in that
round, and il struck me that right
there was a good place to put a crimp
in that lie 1 know I got little buster
than before, and j guess I had Corbett
on the run for the first time in reality
Somehow it seemed TO surprise him a
bit, and l had little warm feeling
over it IL my insides. He looked at
4. -.
ribs. and a new idea seemed to strike
him with the punch. I was afraid he
had tumbled that I was trying to plant
him on the body. so l played awhile for.
his face and worked the notion out of
his head
A iot'of chaps who are fond of air
ing their opinions and lack of knowl-
edge OF the lighting game VIII tell you
that when the fourteenth round opened
1 hadn't a notion where I was going to
plant COrbett, but then they didn't
know all about II. I'd been practicing
on the quiet for that solar plexus for
a good many days, and I'd figured out
to the dot just where it ought to land.
Then lead and a follow for the face
and the right went over for the law
and l shifted a bit and the left touched
jim where 1 thought ii would. and I
crossed him quick with the other hand
just as/he started to fall. It was pref
y Hdfu Tor MIN 10 ngure out Just how
IL happened, and don't blame him for
thinking he still had a chance. I know
what it feels like to lose the worlds
championship. and I guess he felt the
same way 1 did later. but 1 won il fair
and square. and I think he'll acknowl-
edge it now.
Bigger Man Than Senators
Coming home from the fight was the
hardest part for me some way I sup
pose I'm still boy in some things. for
couldn't seem to get it right IN my
head that there l was on the top of the
heap, where I'd been aiming for good
many years, and maybe the lads who
Travelled with me thought there was
something queer about Fitz. and I'm
going to tell something now I'd thought
was going to keep locked UP forever.
II was when we dTifted into Washing
ton-the first time I'd ever been there
and L went up to the capitol and
looked around "A bit. l met a lot of
men--senators, congressman and office
holders and citizens, and just people
and we shook hands. and I went into
the senate chamber, and it was there
something hit me- You remember it
was just after the sugar scandal. and
stood there and thought to myself:
You've got a lot 10 be thankful. for
old pal There's some great men here
and some good men. Some OF them
have got their greatness in funny ways
mean ways, a whole iOt-and some
of them have been stealing their great
ness, and those that stole IL and