Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-04
CORBETT AND THE BIG ONES
Gentleman jim Tell, Injecting Ineero Tamaee Vest and Otbr

blue eyes as he siaked me to q hearty
4 grip.
"'Oh. yes. the coming baboon--I re-
/ MEMBER. said Col Ingersol IN the
: pieasantesi way imaginable and going
! right ahead shaking my hand Tho
| lh.ngs he said, somehow or other. didn't
| sound BIZ raw at the time he was
saving them and / didn't feel that IA
! bGon Sung till later when | fell 10
thinking his remarks over. Er-young
. man. he went on. was there ever a
prize hCht IN which both sluggers
Killed each other IN the ring?
Il told him that I couldn't recall any
fights Of that kind
Too had too bad, he said srll eve
ing me pleasantly Too bad that all
Prize nights don't result that way. Do
you expect 10 thrash Sullivan?
l replied that ! was going 10 make a
hard stab az II.
Stab AZ H. said the colonel pick.
ing up my words 'Um-thats the way
j ought 20 be. Prizefghters ought 10
be armed With bowls knives when
tney met in the ring That would be
me hight Thing for the quick decima-
ton Of the prlzehghting species.
Gnarlei WarcIuhs wouldn't be so bad
for the purpose either Then prize
hChting would be plain out and out
savagery, and therefore possess a GER
tain primitive merit, instead Of thinly
yelled hideous baboonishuoss. existing
in a period Of comparative civilization.
az q u.s.
Pretty deep Tor me all that At the
moment I wasn't Up TO 3, exactly
whether it was all meant FOR a knock
or a boost particularly as Col. Ingersoll
fairly beamed on me while he said
these things. lie went away presently
with a kindly nod Gore grinned.
Just wanted 10 hear what he'd
say said Gore You needn't take II to
heart. The coloners been dead agln
prizehehtlng all his llfe-its his ret
aversion. When he comes 20 Chicago
and the newspaper men can't get him
10 talk politics or agnosticism or any
thing Ike that. they start something
by mentioning prizehFhting. But he's
@ fine old boy and he treated you bully
Don't mind What he said.
"Along about that time ! met another
man q note On his day. the preacher
Talmage-they tell me that he was all
there With the acrohats. but never
heard M predch-to 40 "a on some
thing ON me when We we're introduced
that didn't tumble 10 the meaning 81
till ia asked somebody. You want 20
remember that was pretty Young
fellow az that time and maybe bit
10 the raw when I happened 10 be
steercd against the toppy ones. though
I tried o. be there with some kind ~ a
blum and a stall every time and never
siie-stcpped folks because ! felt. as
often did. that they had me hufaloed
when Il came ~ the know thing
Il gave a short sparuug and hsg
punching exhibition. for a charitable
benefit of the gymnasium ~ the Y. NJ /
{. A. IN pittshurg and after the show /
the head man ~ the gymnasium intro.
duogd me % Mr. Talmarc. who was l
present I knew him hy reputation. ~ l
course. and ! vas rather surprised that /
hod care io exchange the rnitt thing |
with @ prlzehghier. and be was the /
ont asked 10 have me presented % him. |
a. that
Wen. well said the cadavefous
man. cooking his head 20 one side /
ana looking me over out 81 tho Sits /
NJ his almost completely closed eyes
.n "a queer sort Of way that made me
nervous well. well and % here We
have Young David. and TIE time near
at hand when he'll be az battle with
Goliath. oh7
hate 20 admit n. but dye know I
was Just an the POM Of replying that
! hadn't signed articles to meet any
body by the name az Goliath. But the
head gymnasium man Who introduced |
rs Kicked me on The leg in time and 7
iidnt give myself away. 50 7 just
mumhled something
'But you VIII b. a. closer quarters
With your giant than David was with
bio the preacher man wound up. SIN
.yelng me slitwise. and then with a
-aiher clsmmy handshake. he went
lway.
r remarked 70 the head gymnasium
nan that 7 believed the famous skv
dot had been trying 10 IA me- he
sughed. Just little way he has with
Inn that's an be said
who's his man Goliath that ~