The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-18
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yTax 5aur,sz J. .Corbett, Former Heavy
 weaeht Champion of the World-)
 1s fWrafSen for The F'armer.)
 who's white champion now
 We all know the Atn1etfcs a
 champions of the baseball WorAo' Due how about the boxersT
 Around town here light fans hao come to regard 'sGunboat' Smith as the class of all the white fellows ana his record looked pretty good at that. gTTntfa last week anyhow when the t,rra ha4tleshtp Carl Morris was
 warped alongside-Smith didn't look
 quite so good then as we had him ng- fured-
 Ever since experts and newspaper tsrfffcs have been divided over what
 T,ar,rssrs.S in the nth round of that Tnafcfa-vhen the gigantic Morris was ldisadaIihed by Referee Billy Joh for ifouIfnR his lighter but harder hitting irTuponent Some contend the Gun lboat,- was a beaten man at the time, EreaIizing that he was up against 1t, de- icfded the easiest way to escape a ibeattng was to claim a feul-which rhe referee allowed.
 stiil others argue the "Gunboat" had the original white hope licked to Ia frazzle and that Morris deliberately lfouled to escape the ignominy of a
 TJnfort5fnAtsiy did not see the ibort. Being a baseball fan was in IPhiladelphia to watch the Giants and | Athletics play and am therefore not in position to speak except rom near IEay. However, my representative was on the ground, and consider him as iEood q judge of boxing match as iznyone know From what he tells lEne the s.Gunboat'' was struck a foul lh1ow in the fourth round but that it ivras unintenfionaI on Morris part and. anyway, it did no damage and did not warrant punishment. In the fifth iround-wheni the claim went in and Twas aIIowed-my representative states the blow was not foul at all and lfurfhermore 1t. looked as if it had been blocked by the s'Gunboat's'' arm. New Ierfhsless the latter imme ediately put in his claim and the referee allowed it. lIt looked to those who sat in the. IneIEhborhood of Carl's corner, where the men were engaged at the time, as if Smith quit ssco1d turkey
 How | asTn not eofHg 5o attenpt to judge any fight have not seen. all though ! have talked with at least dozen weII-Posted men since the bout l took place and they have confirmed my representatives story-thats Carl was given the worst of it and that it looked like he had the "Gunboat" go- ing. None of these men is prejudiced one way or the other either, and, even leo, believe would tell me the truth
 Tn stead of Helping clear up the Il sort of tangled things mp more. There is only one way out of the difficulty that can see and that is to have them fight it over again. Morris is willing, understand, but Smith s mauaxer szys the ssGunboat'' is book lea for a trip abroad and that he will do no more fighting until he returns. AEeamEnfIe Carl is willing to take fhm any heavy-weight in the business.
 Morris Is no longer the big green boy of two years ago when he came 1ssnt to conquer the pugilistic world. At that time he knew absolutely nothing aboutsthe game of fighting at aII. He was just a big target for eVsryfhtng in shape Of a punch that was aimed at him. He was the best walIon assimilation that had happened along I'm many a year and, when it licked over the wires not so very long ago that he had been knocked out by Isuther McCarty, the fight public was greatly surprised. He had seemed a bit more than human when it came to taking punishment and knowing that kcCaxty was no demon walloper local fans who had seen both in action could hardly. believe the report La ter Carl said he had been "job6ed' . and after looking the big fellow over lagafn enc is Inclined to belteye that iahere is something in his story.
 Morris will. give any heavyweight a Natt1e from now on-wIlfte or black. Ills enormous bulk and weight give him great advantage over his rivals, zF3fh the possible exception of Jess WIIIard whs has him tied, or perhaps beaten in saze. But Willard is not the type Of fighter Morris is, or at 1eas2 was not the last time he showed here about a year ago. Jess is too easy going in his methods to accom- pItsh much. On the other hand Nor ris is all business in the ring and never Ioafs a minute. Naturally with his weight and size he is on the aggressive from the tap of bell. Furthermore. he has learned considerable about boxing and for such e huge piece of human I ltE moves around fairly well.
 There Is nothing fashy about the Ck1ahonaan. He is a steady pIodd CT bat his style is effective just the same. Give him another year and think he will whip any heavy now before the public. A little more skill at hit ting and it will take a. tough man to stand up before him any great length of time. He has the strength, and he has the waIIop, too, but he don't know how to use either to the best ad- vantage as yet
 But for man who was whipped to a standsti1l two years ago by roly poly Jim Flynn fifty pounds lighter than he. Morris has done remarkably well One thing to his credit is that he did not permit the set back by Flynn to discourage him in his ambf- ton to become champion. In spite of all the unI<ind and thoughtless khkSSs said about him Morris Kept steadily on the job untn to-day he would enter the ring favor1te over any other white heavyweight in the bus- mess, not excepting the "Gunboat" who has just bene awarded a victory on a foiiI.
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