Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-27
From I ! Inside the l ! PrizeRing | INTERESTING LETTERS OF AN
 EX-WoRLD'S CHAMPION
 HEAVYWEIGHT
 By BOB FITzSIMM0NS
lcopyright. by Jossph 3. Bowlss.)
FOUL PLAY IN CORBETT
 AND sHARKEY AFFAIRS.

FULL FLA IN CO6bEII
 AND sHARKEY AFFAIRS.
 Since writing my first two articles, the one on the Corbett affair at Carson City and the other on the Sharkey matter out in Frisco, have been in receipt of numerous letters which hint that I have been keeping back some- thing about both of those mills.
 That's right. l 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 by me. The tone of three of the letters refer to is such that some righteous indigna- ton las got me, and I'm going to han I 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 I 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 I don't know myself or what I've been talking about.
 There are 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 tin pedestal looking down on the sporting crowd and telling them how good am, or how honest I am, either, but Pm will ing tC let my record and my patience speak for itself, and I don't want any half-baked near-sports srunning upto the ropes trying to make feeble bluff. be- cause I'm going to call it every time. With that warning rll go ahead and hand out those things spoke of, prin- oipally because of what the wise man can read between the lines above, if he ilas mind to.
 
 When told the story of the Sharkey fight omitted a lot of things because I couldn't see any useful purpose in telling them. Since then. as I've said. I've had few letters and I'm going to answer those by opening the subject again. I'm going to take the Sharkey fight first, pe"arse it, came, first. and some of the things that occurred there had bearing on the Carson City basi- ness.
 tried to let Wyatt Earp down easy. but it doesn't seem to be appreciated. so I'll say he acted like yellow cur. in spite of his record. I knocked Tom Sharkey out fair and square. and Earp knew it, but when it came to amour cling the decision he never made it. Tn fact no decision was ever rendered out side of the one I made myself. When I dropped Sharkey and he lay there like log until his seconds picked him up, Earp merely walked over to his corner, put the check for $20000 in the hands of Toms seconds and walked out of the ring and out of the build ing.
 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:
 "The referee says I've lost on foul, gentlemen"
 All this time Tom lay like a dead man. until a certain man well known in San Francisco came down from his seat in the balcony and stopped over him. possibly five minutes after 'arp had left the building. As 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"
 Those weren't the exact words. for I can't give them here. but they are close enough for all practical use. In ths fog that was hanging over him Sharkey heard them. anyway. and did as he was told. He drew up his legs' snd his groans could be heard all over the ring. I said before that I dida't think he was in on the original play. ' can say that still. but he WIS in on tiie finish to 1t. aad did just what he was told. I know ard proved later in cnurt that the doctor the Sharkey crowd had got to inject something into him. to make him swell up before they baudssed him. had joh dc.ng 1t, for Tom EowIed like a stuck pig and put up . ho; battle to keep them from do- ing fl. Then they bandased him and when the regular doctors showed up to examine Tom his crowd wouldn't stand fo have the bandages disturbed. It looks funny nov. but it was no joke then. took that case into court and proved by Toms own seconds that he was faking. I proved by others that the whole thing vas . job. but I was up against the political gang there and the judge, after telling me he would give . decision in my favor If proved my case. velehed on his word and