Show CRBETT I BOLNG MAD A Published Interview With Su livan the Cause HE WILL FIGHT HIM AGAIN Willing to Fix the Date for Next October Oc-tober If Sullivan Has No Backers Corbett Will Fight Him Without Backers or Backing His Compliments to Sullivan SYRACUSE N Y Dec 26 Corbett is in this city The Sullivan interview made him boiling mad He said ISay lor me that i he thinks he can lick me why the devil dont he fight I will fight him for 10003 0 side or as much as he likes next October when our theater engagements are closed I he has got no backers I will fight him without backers or backing back-ing We will settle it for a purse 1 feel sorry for the man Send word to Sullivan thatI say that I can lick him in four rounds He is very lucky that I did not knock him out quicker than I did It is a fact that when I sparred the man at his benefit he sent no less than five men to me asking me i 1 would go light with him Up to the I present time I have had nothing but kind words for him Now Imust say that hes acting like a big loafer and is playing the I baby act It makes me tired to read his snivelling I interviews Sullivan is now fighting I with his mouth and that is about all he will do I say now without swearing by my mothers hair that Sullivan will never be champion as long as I am able to walk and im done saying pretty things about him As far as his being drugged is concerned I dont believe it but that talk is all well enough to create sympathy why that man simply mesmerized the people of this country before I met him People thought he was a great fellow I I had known that he was made of such flimsy stuff I would have done him quicker than I did didPlease Please convey my complimenrs to Mr Sullivan and tell him that I say I am willing to fight him in October I want to convince him once and for all that he is no longer champion and is not going to be I he wants to fight now is the time to sign the papers and make arrangements ar-rangements I he does not mean to fight then he will please shut his mouth and retire to his proper place |