The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-18

Instances Where Public Is Badly
Fleeced by Men Who Handle
Fighting Game.
TOP NoTCHERS WHO FAXED
JOE CANS CONFESSION RECALLS
OTHER KNOWN FRAME-UPS.

Morris Levy claims that no one in
California ever bet on Joe Cans and
lost money by 50 doing, but the fact
remains that every body who has heard
of his previous mixups viii be wary
about risking money on future affairs
in which Cans is one OF the principals.
Levy expresses himself thus: You
can't jump on Cans for crooked work
as long as he won. The man who loses
Is TO blame. He is the one who has
betrayed the trust of his friends Britt
is the faker who should be roasted
while Cans is only the man who won"
When takers fall out they some
times put the public wise. and the
Gans-Britt f1ascO recalls some of the
celebrated bunco games handed the
public in former years.
In the first place the Indignation of
J. Edward Britt is somewhat surpriS-
ing when his battle with Young Cor
bett is remembered, for there were
many at the rf0gside who, while no af-
fidavits were forthcoming. spoke right
out in meeting with the expression that
CoTbett was robbed of that battle by
Britt and the men I'm charge of the
ring
Some Professional New Tricks.
There are other celebrated fakes on
the tapis- One is the story of how
t1lZS1UlElOfiS Edlu uOWu 10 jim HAN III
the antipodes, in 1890 Sporting men
do not blame the Cornishman for this,
as he knew no better at the time and
only did as his boss, Jem Mace, told
him. Fitz showed three years later in
This country how easily he could have
defeated Hall by putting him on the
mat in four easy rounds.
In 1895 Fit3simmOnS was the victim
of a fake in which even his opponent
Il -Ear ofF ffvC
ShaTkcy in eight rounds. Wyatt carp,
gun fighter and gambler, gave the fight
to the sailor on a foul
In 1900. the last Of the Horton law,
several fakes were exposed. In the
Marlborough Athletic club Joe WalcOtt
ripped into Tommy West during the
first ten rounds of a fight The money
had gone down on West, however, and
in the eleventh WalCOtt was given or
ders TO quit He went down and de-
clined 10 wake UP. West was not a
party to the deal and was as much sur
prised as the men who placed their
simoleons on the Demon"
Mccoy and Jim Corbett.
sThes same year Kid Mccoy and Jim
Corbett made tentative passes at each
other for five rounds. Mccoy became
tired sat down and could not be en-
couraged 10 carry on the exhibition.
That was raw one.
The. same year at the Broadway Ath-
letic club it was limited that Cans had
Frank Erne at his mercy until he lost
interest in the game in the twelfth
round
About the /me time a bunch of
money was laid on Andy Walsh to beat
Jimmy Handler. Handler had a peck
etful of the tickets and dozed off in
the second round.
WrangIe at coney Island.
New Years day Kid Mccoy and
Peter Maher met for twenty-five rounds
before the COney Island Athletic club.
The fighters had been guaranteed
purse Of $40, 900. The night was cold
and there was only $4,000 in the
draughty old barn where the mill was
to be held. It is alleged that a frame
was put up for Maher to win, but Nc
Coy was to get the big end and he put
up yelp for the $4,000.
''You have the money" said Mccoy
to Brady, who had guaranteed the
purse. Put up the other "a, 600 and I'll
go on
Brady refused, and with $4,000 worth
of spectators bowling to keep warm
wrangIe ensued. At last Brady induced
Mccoy TO enter the ring. II is hard to
say what Maher thought about it, for
ne had been told that the Kid was TO
lie down Instead Mccoy did for him
neatly and scientifically in five rounds
What would have been the outcome had
the other $4,000 been in the house?
Tom O'Rourke has been quoted as