Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-06

A1OW 0iu LCCi tACh U tCti yOos Did you ever go out with gun after something big in the game line? Do you remember how you walked about waiting for chance? Just one look at what you'd come for? Remember the jump that when through you in the chest when you caught sight of it? That's it; that's just the. way felt when Corbett turned about and faced me, and the fight was decided then and there. Imade up my mind to mark him on the body and leave his face alone, for that was the only way could get the steam out of his legs. and if you don't know it, I'll tell you right now, that punch in the stomach will hurt man worse and make him want to sit down to rest quicker than wall lop on the nose. The first makes him tired and the last only makes him mad. When we got together in the first round we were both feeling each other out, and I was telling him a story. It's habit of mine to talk bit when I'm fighting. and some of the things 1 colu oCCmOO tO Jliu q u1L iothSo at me. but that was part of the game. Of the battle as it went, the newspa- ! pers at that time gave pretty ac- curate account of it as remember. But then things look lot different to the i boy on the outside to what they do to the fellow that's doing the fighting. I seem to remember that I was doing | lot of Jumping up against Corbett's left hand. and that it didn't annoy me in the least, and then think began l to get busy. Along about the eighth round-that was the one if you remem- | Der that it was said the job was to oc- cur in-I got angry for the first time. It had been said pretty roughly that I'd taken big piece of change and i was going to let Jim trim me in that round, and it struck me that right there was good place to put crimp ip that lie. I know I got little buster than before, and guess had Corbett | on the run for the first time in reality. | Somehow it seemed to surprise him bit and had little warm feeling over it in my insides. He looked at me once when I reached him on the ribs. and a new idea seemed to strike him with the punch. was afraid he had tumbled that was trying to plant him on the body, so played awhile for his face and worked the notion out of his head.
 1 A lot of chaps who are fond of air
 ing their opinion and lack of knowledge of the fighting game will tell you that
 when the fourteenth round opened
 hadn't a notion where was going to plant Corbett, but then they didn't know all about it. I'd been practicing on the quiet for that solar plexus for a good many days, and I'd figured out
 to the dot just where it ought to land.
 Then lead and follow for the face and the right went over for the jaw
 and shifted bit and the left touched Jim whereJ thought it would, and I
 crossed him quick with the other hand
 just as he started to fall. It was pret- ty hard for him to figure out just how
 it happened, and don't blame him for thinking he still had chance. know
 what it feels like to lose the worlds
 championship. and I guess he felt the same way I cid later, but I won it fair and square. and I think he'll acknow-
 ledge it now.
 Coming home from the fight was the hardest part for me some way. l SUD- pose I'm still boy in some things, for I couldn't seem to get it right in my head that there was on the top of the heap, where I'd been aiming for good
 many years. and maybe the lads who .traveled with me thought there was something queer about Fitz. and I'm going to tell something now I'd thought ! was going to keep locked up forever. It was when we drifted into Washing | ton-the first time I'd ever been there and went up to the capitol and looked around a bit. I met a lot of men-senators. congressman and ofiice-
 holders and citizens, and just people and we shook hands. and went into the senate chamber. and it was there something hit me. You remember it
 was just after the sugar scandal. and stood there and thought to myself:
 "You've got lot to be thankful for, old pal. There's some great men here, and some good men. Some of them
 have got their greatness in funny ways mean ways. whole lot-and some of them have been stealing their great i ness, and those that stole it and
 worked their friends in tricky ways for what they got must feel quite a bit ashad.ed when they look themselves ! n the face nights guess you've got the lest of the lot of them old chap. There's about as much talk of you in this country now as any of them, and { weave brought yourself lp to 1t with
 not a thing but your two hands, and ! you've never had to lie to To- If wij- ows and kids and steal your friends
 money to do it either. There are lot of men here that will call you brute.
 but I'd rather be a brute that way than a gentlemanly crook their way"
 Maybe you folks that read this will | fink this was conceited. but it wasn't meant that way. I meant it and ] still uiean fl. and I'm going to go on trying 10 mean it. and it's ihe only bit { of real advice I'm going to put over the plate. Next week I'm going to tell you something about that Sharkey bus iness out in Frisco. where they trimmed me for my record and my friends for their rolls with as pretty a