Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-07
e.,o is Anxious to Get Eddie
Robinson in Another
Match.
LATTER SAYS He IS WILLING.
o., vould Like Contest to Take Place
IA Private, or Charge No Admls'
sion to the Public.

.,.,r 1apanese Of this city are get
,orlted up to a high pitch Of excite
n ,,ovt over the Jiu Jitsu VS. ca'ch-as'
",,c dispute, and sato the Jap VINO
,.ongbt Murayama here Is now out with
o,5er challenger TO Robinson ana NJ
aI.ros mat he will get a man who can
heat tho local athlete
pohlpson. like Barhs, is willing
aynat want" says Eddie" Is that the
,,ns nut up enough money to MAKE
,'torestng made nothing out OF tne iase
nn,cb ana / Was disappointed peV"uT1
naNn 2bllc was disappointed. They uid
wy pee ANYTHING wonderful because !
not IN 100 one sided, | lost a whole
'mN,ontbs work. and that counts toI soi,uV
n ,rjne Now, II the Japs want 10 talN
bnslaess will make them se w ~, LIPS to no
sluelis ar aunoarance money, aud as
ssibs bet / will meet their Jap Dut Nv
,,,,,et agree 10 set my Two snoulIcts nv w.
,be mai. | viii meet him stra ghI Jl1
Iitai that Is, the man VINO ls tenpuvrVSt
Sslniess Is the man who, loses hul u
nnee,gptSer match IS arranged ! don't want
a"ospt Of admission charged. Let tn'
Si,c 60 IN for nothing Or, | am WIZ
tng Ia have the contest take place. ~
nfvate. lust o few invited guests a. II
we're Now II tilu JUS ~ - Vt,n Cor
lst them put up the money ana sign ior
the match
roues I Corbett rises 10 remark that
A. Viq GOOD betting to take chances ON ll'
,dark horses" In the pugilisuc game
This does not sound very Logical az ntst Nv.
XII when you come 10 look back over inc
urccords Of Important ring battles, II Is
nj so far out OF the way after all, FOR
a starter. take that meeting between BOB
Ftgdmmons and Jack Dempsey, Nearly
eyery aghting man had i all doped out
that the Australian would ceItalny ~
an awful whipping Dempsey money was
everywhere, and had the FitzslmmonS
neople heen possessed OF more nerve they
right nave won fortunes. 50 great was
Jo6n L. sulliyan's hold upon the aiec'
lions Of the public that the large mayor,
Inv refused to regard Corhett I'm the light
N anything but an almost certain loser
In many betting centers sullivan ruled
40 fayorte, and more than one sport
went clean broke that night at New Or
leans some fourteen years ago.
Corbetts triumph was short-lived and
uIs safe 10 say nearly every one recalls
that day at Carson City when t1tz hand
ed Jim that blow In the solar plexus
COrbett himself was so certain or VIM
Ming that he bet all Of his own money
al the prevailing odds, But fitzs turn
was soon to come In spite OF Jim Jef,
fries great strength and acknowledged
hitting power, the sports refused to see
ANYTHING save Lanky Bob The latter
was also brimful Of confidence. and 1t
was only few hours before they en-
tered the ring that he remarked to his
trainers "Why' he's 80 big l can't miss
him"
II has been the same with the little
fighters Every one began to look upon
Terry McGovern as couldn't lose"
proposition. They failed to figure IL out
at Hartford 80 when the boys met
second time tho Brooklynites friends
were ready for more Of Corbetts game,
but the result was the same, Corbetts
recent defeats at the hands Of Jimmie
Britt and Battling Nelson we're Instances
Of going wrong As a champion who
continues to make good, Jeffries Is about
the only one before the public at present