The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-21
DRAMATIC CRITICS
SHE'D "A FEW TEARS
Mummers Object to Jim Corbett
On Broadway. But There
Have Been Many Worse.
Never Was Kid
Champion Of
Any Class.
auIEEr CROSS.

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| NEW YORK, January 21-lt Is posi-
| BILE, 1t is even probable that Jack O'Brien
and Gus Rubin will scrape resin in the
| same ring. Rubin. accompanied by his
manager, the veteran Billy Madden, has
seen O'Brien, and Jack has promised the
| big Westener a go-if
| Any time OB,ien isn't there with an
| IF" when a match is in the offing, III
ltGke half the bet.
| Tom O'Rourke, who opens his club
near philadelphia January 81 with %
round bouts, has been after this pair for
| some time. But ORourke says-let him
tell 1t himself:
| II don't know what they want IL
| they mean business and really want to
| fight can give you better Inducements
| than they can get anywhere else. Rubin
has been anxious to get on with C'Brien
l for some time. He thinks he can beat
the Philadelphia, and now that Jack
| is at the top OF the heap II is Only nat
ural that Gus would like to get some
of his game
What's the hitch?" asked
"Welll' replied O'Rourke. 'O'Brien
says that he doesn't want to fight until
The is through with his theatrical engage
ments And, at that, you can't blame
him for gathering in all the coin lie can
before he risks any loss OF popularity
by possible defeat
O'Rourke Talks Some Sense.
How long will it be before his show
dates expire
II think he told me that he is booked
for ten weeks" said O'Rourke II have
no doubt that after that he will take on
some one"
"Ruhlin?'
THAT you'll have to ask oBrien." am
swered Tom, with a Broadway smile.
| Then he added:
81 tried to get Nelson and McGovern
for my club but they are going six
rounds in Philadelphia. think they are
foolish. They would certainly get moro
money for twenty rounds than for six.
II they fight in Philadelphia there will
lie knockout before they go the dis
lance"
"rhen you think that it will be a quick
fght?"
Between those two fellows. yes. After
| they have finished inside of six rounds
there won't be any gate for them to 20
a longer journey. People won't go to
see them go twenty when they know that
a winner has been declared In few
rounds. They have told me that they
| will fight at my club after they show
at the Philadelphia one. That won't he
any good"
In matters of fgting, particularly with
regard to the box Office end of 1t.
o'Rourke generally knows what he is
talking about"
They Rail at Corbett
Certain dramatic critics have shed
few tears and pulled their boards in a
/ wall that Jim Corbett should desecrate
the sacred boards of Daly's Theatre.
They point to the fact that this play
house has been the home of dramatic
art and a lot of other things that n
can't remember.
But ] don't see where they have a
kick coming. Why don't they keep Sarah
Bernhardt out of the precincts OF the
prize ring? What business has she to
butt in where once trod in lindress man-
Illness the EIoboken Chicken and the Bir-
| ing Kid? Sally Is trying, even with the
aid of the courts to Introduce .Canille"
| In fve-round go into the old Auditorium
| iE Waterbury, once sacred to the smash
| or the shops and the rip to the middle.
Keep your actors and actresses out OF
/ our rings and Well let you have your old
= Day boards to yourselves. At that. Jim
Corbett isn't a fighter. he's mn actor now,
and heap sight better than a great
/ many I've seen on Broadway.
i This Is the Restoration period for the
iknuckc busters In little old New York.
Never Was Kid Champion
| II there's anything In the superstish
| thing-they wouldn't know what prece-
dent meant-then the flock of young
scrappers who are bobbing UP all over
town under the name of kid ought to
take a tumble. There never was a kid
champion OF any class, as far back as I
can so, and that's some distance. There
was near one, George Iavgne was
| sometimes called Kid
Take the heavies, Jenl Mace, Joe Goss,
| Tom Allen, Tom Sayers. John Morrisey,
John G. Keenan,, Paddy Ryan, John j.,
Sullivan. Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons
| and Jim Jeffrles.
! In the mddles, Jack Dempsey, ritz.
again; Jack oBrlen and Tommy Ryan.
Jack 0NieAufe, George Lavigne.
| Frank Erne. Joe Cans in the light
weights, and the bunch laying recent
| claim to that title Battling Nelson. JIM
my Britt and Young Corhett, Nelson was
christened Battling; It's not a nick
.Itnume.
Among the feathers Gal, MCCARTHY,
George Dixon, Terry McGovcrn and Abe
| Attell, And there's frankie Mel, Harry
Harris, FAIRY Forbes and Joa Bowssr
on the bantam roster
Not a'rKid among them, with the
possible exception OF Laygne And Yet
nine out OF every ten OF the fry to-day
| name themselves kid something.
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