Evening star., 1907-10-27
"SPORTS" EAGER TO WELCOME
A REAL HEAVYWEIGHT
of their tickets and remain on the leveI
IN spite of all temptation.
Hungry for a Fighting Idol.

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| IN spite Of all temptation
Hungry for a Fighting Idol.
"Dye know what it would be worth
TO me If could dig up some big fellow
capable of being spun to the top of the
heavyweight cIass?" I heard Jim Corbett
say the ether afternoon. We'll, l could
make about hundred thousand dollars
gut Of him inside Of three years, and d
| hate to say what his bit would be for
/ fear that 1 might be accused of eHag-
geTation. The country is hungry again
/ for q fighting idol OF the big class. There
/ hasn't been one of that type since Jeff
4 got under cover. This country sort .
needs big lubber Of a heavyweight who
/ IS capable o. putting it on all hands. II
only FOR the sake of giving the boys
chance to toss their caps up over him
/ and chew the "a z about him and get al!
/ worked up about him. Somewhere. right
| at this minute. there is a fellow who
could b. trained to measure up to any
standard heavywei ght fighter, if only
he could be found. I often think of can
ceiling all of my theatrical engagements
and embarking on still hunt for the
fellow capable of being coached inIo
doing the trick as a heavyweight. That's
| where the gold is, and the man who Is
lucky enough TO get hold of the next
competent. high-notCh heavyweight. with
all of these mining camps a-gylng that
are dead tired Of the tiddlng o. the little
/ fellows and that want the big uns to
kick iT-that man is going TO make enough
coin inside Of two or three years to set
tie back for life and tWi1dle his thumbs.
NO, 1 don't think the game has been
killed at ali for heavyweights by these
taking revelations during the past few
months. None of the men who figured
in the fake stuff ever was genuine
keriack. They'd never got to the
I Top of The heap, and none Of them had
ever succeeded, ! believe. in capturing
the imagination and the thorough liking
Of the Americans who are fond o the
lighting game. Il would have been
different thing wholly different if Sulli
van or Fttz or JEFF or one Of the cham
pions Of the other time had been proven
guilty of taking. If any of those men
had been caught with the goods-I speak
supposititiousIy, und rstand for they
We're all as dead square as men are made
the game would have got a blow be
tween the wicks from which it would
have scarcely recovered in my time. No
genuine champion heavyweight Of the
United States and of the world ever en-
gagged in phony work. And the new
sura-enOUgh heavyveights who may come
along from now on have only to show by
their way OF handling themselves from
the very outset that they really are and
purpose remaining on the level TO get
all of the old lovers Of their game right
on their staf-always supposing, OF
course, that they've got the fighting mer-
chandise and don't belong TO this pifting
class OF Waltz-ne-agaln- W llhe Dig Plugs
that have been four-fush.ng around OF
late years. The game for the big fel-
lows is going to be better than it ever
dreamed OF being Just as soon as the
right material is brought into view, and
that's why | m jealous IN advance OF the
lucky chap who is bound to spring some
real crackerjack in the big class sooner
or later"
cbarpio, Gentlemen Roxars
This reminds me that there are some
real "toffs y'knaw" and dead swell
rnues " amateur Aobters I'm the his class
- -, -: 80 ~
VINO are '"Pao'e VI manning sooo a7
heaVEWelghtS IN the professional prize
ring, only there isn't any chance of get
tino these bio eaIIou,s Of oantili+v TO
dance TO the center r. the call of fine
for nelf and low-hrowed glory
A while hack I ret Dave Mont eome,-v
the actor lust after he'd returned to New
York from a six weeks visit with Danny
Maher the American Jockey at New
market 'Fath Weu Nontg0mery took
in a r,,D,b.r of +ba aroto1,r egh+s ha-
tween reaIly-and-trilIy gents" while in
Jordon and ha had a renarkahle account
of a Giant whom, he saw at one of these
gert1enen's huYinp cIubs This .qent
said Monteomery was a Cant FitzcIar-
ence Month, ,i.enrv Vere de We're some
thing or Othar--a cantain In active service
in the CoIdstraan, n, Guards Monreomerv's
dissertation nf him fttsd in with a p,,uhar
of other dissertations I've received Of This
remarkable individual. who appears to be
a regular Onida- -hero-1ike devil Of a fel-
low He is civ feet siv in his socks as
wide across the shoulders as the men
rolks i'm II ,orna Doone " and he weighs
close m o5o although without an ounce
@I Of unnecessary ,5s me meat on IN ms g,gannc
boxer of the British Isles. and it was
laughable to listen to Montgomery's de-
scrpton of the way he put away no
iess titd' SeS eia o,S iiiTa aIi o- aneil a.
boxers in tbe coI1rse OF an hours saanca
at the gant!emens boxing club. Mont
somery. who is one of the fighting talent
ana taxes IN an OF the Dig mills, sincerely
co,,id Lo,.a 'r+ - an ~ ,Lo-o +t, NJ
Angeles hay raker was al the ton of his
powers. and he saws that he'd be willing
10 bet money marbles or. chalk that this
same Capt. FitzcIarence We're de We're,