Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24
F|Tz TELLS OF
ANOTHER FIGHT
SAYS BOUT WITH C0RBETT
WAS NOT SQUARE
Lanky Australian Takes Rap at carp.
Promises Further Disclosures
Regarding the Battle In
New Orleans
BY BOB FITzsIMMoNs.

Copyright 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles)
Since writing my last two articles
the one on the Corbett affair at Carson
City and the other on the Sharkey
matter out in Frisco, I have been In
receipt of numerous letters which hint
that 1 have been keeping back some
thing about both of those mills.
That's right. I have and I'm going
to say right here that there are lots of
matters connected with those two
fights that will never be told ny me.
The tone of three of the letters 1 refer
to is such that some righteous indigna-
tion has got me, and I'm going to hand
out few wallops where they belong.
/ let several people down light in those
two articles, and If they hurry UP and
claim they were not fairly treated it's
up to them to get some more Of the
same medicine.
AS 1 think I've said before, I'M
pretty easy going old chap until they
get my dander up. Even then I don't
get mad, but there's one thing no
white man ever said to me yet and got
away with, and that is that 1 don't
know myself or what I've been talking
about.
There are a lot of so-called sports
who owe their present position to the
fact that I've kept my mouth closed
concerning some propositions they've
made to me, and If you should happen
on one of those crooked pikers you
might find out that they went away
with flea In their ear that they have
no difficulty in remembering.
I'm not sitting up on a tin pedestal
looking down on the sporting crowd
and telling them how good 1 am, or
how honest am, either, but I'm will
ing to let my record and my patierCe
speak for itself, and I don't want any
half baked near-sports running up to
the ropes trying to make a feeble bluff.
because I'm going to call it every tine.
With that warning I'll go ahead anG
hand out those things 1 spoke of, prin-
cipally because of what the wise man
can read between the lines above, If he
has a mind to.
Secrets of Sharkey Fight
When 1 told the story of the Shar-
key fight I omitted lot of things be-
cause 1 couldn't see any useful pur-
pose in telling them. Since then, as
I've said, I've had a few letters and
I'm going to answer those by opening
the subject again. I'm going to take
the Sharkey fight first, because it came
first, and some of the things that oc-
Cured there had a bearing on the Car
son City business.
1 tried to let Wyatt carp down easy.
But it doesn't seem to be appreciated.
I knocked Tom Sharkey out fair and
square and carp knew it, but when 1t
came to announcing the decision he
never made it. In fact no decision was
ever rendered outside of the one 1
made myself. When 1 dropped Shar
key and he lay there like a log until
his seconds picked him up, carp
merely walked over to his corner, put
the check for $4,000 in the hands of
Toms seconds and walked out of the
ring and out of the building.
He didn't have the nerve to stay
there and face the music, in spite of
the fact that he wore a gun. I knew
then for absolutely certain that I'd
been trimmed, and it was myself who
called for order and shouted to the
crowd:
1.-The referee says I've lost on foul
gentlemen"
All this time Tom lay like a dead
man, until certain man well known
in San Francisco came down from his
seat in the balcony and stopped over
him, possibly five minutes after carp
had left the building. AS 1 say, he
stopped over him and his words are as
plain to me now as they were then
He said:
Put your hands on your abdomen
and groan as if you were in great
pain"
Fought Against Injections
Those weren't the exact words, for I
can't give them here. but they are close
enough for all practical use. In the
fog that was hanging over him Sharkey
heard them anyway, and did as he was
told. He drew up his legs and his
groans could be heard all over the ring.