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Show ': 0m MM J j Comparison With Former I ffhampions; Good Ones on flic Road. I -a J. Corbett Is stopping- at tho I brf ' llotc1, u',,cre no recclved I T j, dRy Monday. Of course, the I r1, ,he talk Invariably diverted to f which line Corbett at one 'lime ?n In the heavyweight class. tx tpsaks rather disparagingly of ent.day fighter. ays Jim. "d0 '" t"at m not a white man In the rins iih any class. Tako tho boys & ra jne-John L. Sullivan. Peter myself, Bob Fitzstmmons anrt There Is nobody In the rln.g iThit could touch any one of them. S-Blidlewclght. class, where la there " -ho could make a match with fh' Thorc Is not one today that -mona could not have knocked out ETrouDds. But I do not expect to nV.tate of affairs to remain lonp. Iriro many young fellows who sire ifdally some of whom nro bound out 'winners. Just as of old; and ' bjw e one of 1,1030 allows com- i man? to Tommy Burns, Corbett 1 uns Uieblggest surprise that ever 2 In the prize rim?. He won a A Sjmhlp, seemingly going through all Ma 2n with case, but was so far out-WZ out-WZ vy John&on that It fairly stag-PCli.-public Corbett expected more 'Js-is. Johnson, on the other hand, Tlf iTa hard nut to crack. |