The Washington times., 1910-04-03
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the prison.
Corbett was IN a rage. Hen shake
hands after he's whipped me, Viii hegr
he grOWled-
Fitzsimmons made quite an impress.r,
on me that day He looked like q Hght
man 70 nght for the heavyweight cham
plonshln, for. although mis- shoulders
were nearly as broad as my own. anv
one could see at a glance that he was
Just mass or Wlry slneW from head 20
heels. with no big muscles worth men
. ticning- And yet he had knocked out a
lot OF good men I'm a punch or two. and
ne was cool fellow. who evidently
liked 10 night FIIZ was a funny com
( binatiOu of fighter and practical Joker
Even over at SlaW's we heard OF his
pranks IN the training quarters. on this
day. so ] heard later. he continued his
run 20 Carson. and going into one OF the
=. temporary newspaper Offices there spent
half an nOur trying % break all records
on punching machine that they had
brought 20 Nevada 20 try out the fight
ers with. And after that when he saw
a lot Of photographers waiting for him
in the street, he tried 10 escape through
the back window for a joke. lost his
balance and fell head FIRST into 4 SNOW,
drift, where he stuck with both legs
waving IN the air Ike a sign post uu-5I
they pulled him out. after Photograph
ing him first
When we came back that day II was
20 one Of the rOusnesr bouts or the
training season. COrbetu could hardly
wait TO get the gloves on with US be
seemed 10 think every man in front NJ
him was FitZsimmOus. Poor Billy
Woods, in spite OF his pneumatic mask,
had his mouth cVG up so badly That ne
couldn't eat dinneTNrhat night
II was a day or two after this, Il 1
remember rlglt, that White auc DtlaE-
ey decided that jim needed a trvout
SO i was told 20 go out aIC 1glr him
four rounds as hard as 7 knew how
Then ] had the first real glimpse %
COrberrs best work He surely sur
urlSed me- for I had come 20 think he
couldn't hit. Now he let me come al
right across 20 my Jaw so hard that
] could hear my teeth grinding and my
JawbOne snap In the sockets 1 went
right after him and he showed some re-
spect for my left hand by carefully
keeping away from IL got. IN few
good punches for an that. Walkiu-
back 20 the dressing room after the
nrsr round tfOr We nearly always alter
mated, three men 5oNlnI with Cgrbe.-
ln turnb / passed the college atAlete
coming ont with the gloves on
How IS he today he asked with q
grin
tween my thumb and fingers and heard
IL pop
"Oh. he's hitting all right I said
He surely was, too After Uv -four
rounds 7 hal very sore Jaw and a ctI-
over one eye But I was perfectly sat
isfeG- II this was fEhtiuE-aHd tls
kind of lighting that a champion does iu
the -iDg-theu 7 wanted more Of IT,
wanted % 20 up against just that kind
Of work in the ring. for I knew one Of
my blows, n 10 landed, had more effect
than a dozen OF Corbett's hard ones.
even Of his did make my Jaw pop after
ward D had 60 acknowledge that Cor
betr.s cleyerueSs was a long way be-
.Eoud me. and that he often surprised
me hy turning some new trick I'd never
thought OF before. 7 had q lot Of re-
specr for hiU--c0usideriuE his size and
strength But those four fighting
rounds didn't shake the new ambition
that had been growing Up 81 nae from
tie FIRST day IN cam0-tHe ambition o.
become a worlds champion myself
Title of Next Chapter The Eve of the
Great Fight