Evening star., 1908-12-20
BIG PURSES REWARD
FIGHTERS TR|UMPHS
Second Jeffries -Corbett Fight
in San Francisco Melted
Principals $48.638.

Winners OF championship glove fights
held in this country during the last ten
years have earned big money as their
share of the purses hung up by liberal
promoters.
The largest money prize taken down
by two fighters in that period WAS s4S
he knocked out jim Corbett in San Fran
cisco
JefTries altogether won a total of about
s12o63 in seven battles for the heavy
weight championship. When he defeated
Corbett on the coast the men fought for
a percentage. and the gross receipts were
S3,340. But this sum was not record
breaker for the memorable fight between
jeff and Tom Sharkey at Coney Island.
which the boIermaker won on a dee sion
by the late George Siler at the end OF
twenty-five rounds drew gate of s66.-
300. of which the men got SIC. 400 and
Jeffries S2l .S79
Nice Bit for JEFF.
When Jeffries wrested the champion
ship from Robert FitzsmmonS in eleven
rounds at Coney Island he received about
$1,000 as the winners end Of the spo:ls,
the gross receipts being about $4,000. In
another fight won by Jeffries from Fitz
in California the admissions amOunte ed
to $S1. 500. Jeff pOcketing sl6693. The
Jeffries- Rubin mill in Frisco drew $50
$40. the champion receiving Sl4. 439 for his
signal victory Californians paid sci .161
to see JeffrieS knock Jack Munroe out In
jig time. big Jim taking away 81 .4s9
with him for about five minutes work
inside the ropes.
While it has repeatedly been asserted
that nearly $4,000 was taken in when
nd Mr(' ind, 1tro1 N 1poi
never-to-be-forgotten fake in the gar
den, it is a fact that the fighters cut up
only s3S 80, and. according to report. the
money evenly divided
The gross receipts at the Carson City
battle between Corbett and Ftzsimmons
We're $1,000. the fighters share being
$16.5N0. torbett got the bulk of this coin.
but Fitz was satisfied with about $1,000
in cash and the championship title. FitZ-
simmons aud Sharkey when they met for
the first time in California and the Cor
nishman, lost on "A foul which was de-
clared by the referee. Wyatt carp. gun
fighter and all-round bad man. the pub
lie paid s21,G30 the doors and the
pugiGsts cut up about s14.Io0
Largest Receipts.
The largest gate on record in America
was that at Goldfeld when Cans defeat
ed Battling Nelson on Il foul after forty
odd rounds the amount reaching S69 10.
of which the fighters received $4,000.
The Nelson-B Britt mill at Colma drew
S4S. 81. the boys cutting up 81 i02. Britt
and Young Corbett played to 81. o.243 in
Frisco and took down between them just
$249S9 In a second battle between Mel
son and Britt in Frisco the attendance
netted S21.1I0. Of which the lightWeights
drew down slI.275. Then Britt and Cans
fought before house that yielded $21.-
765 at the Golden Gate and sliced up
81, ,223J.
Young Corbett and Terry McGovern in
their second meeting. which took place
i'm the earthquake city. drew s21 76:,. Cor
bett winning the losers share of this fat
purse. After that Cans and Britt met
again and the gross receipts reached
$4,000 the men getting $4,000, of which
Cans bit was about $1,000.
When Corbett was knocked out by JEFF
fries in the twenty-thlrd round at Coney
Island the receipts We're close to $4,000.
Jeff's rake-off being fully $1,000 and
Corbett's trifie less than $4,000.
Tommy Burns has won more than $780,
GEO in the last two years by beating such
alleged fighters as Bill Squires. Gunner
Moir, Jem Smith and Jem Roche, while
he will receive $4,000. win. lose or draw.
in his coming mill with Jack Johnson in
Australia.
OF the puglists named in this story
Jeffries Jim COrbett. Sharkey. Rubin,
Britt and Nelson are all we'll fixed finan-
cially. FitZsimmOns and Cans have a
little coin slowed away somewhere, but
Mccoy, Young Corbett Munroe and Nc
Govern are practically broke.