Show TiE RING National Sporting Club Will Not Ilamig ti u Purse I London May 13A crowded meeting of the National Sporting club was held tonight to-night at which the secretary read the I cable dispatch addressed by Manager Brady to the club expressing Champion Corbetts willingness to meet Jackson before I be-fore the club I Jackson was present dressed in the latest j I lat-est style Hemade a speech begging the i club to put up a purse and let him have I a chance to meet Corbett His proposition proposi-tion however met with no response Owing it is said to Corbetts sneering allusion al-lusion to the National Sporting club it I has decided to decline to put up a purse Peter Jackson said tonight to a reporter of the Associated Press I do not think Corbett is In earnest this time He knows he is unpopular with the National bpcirtirtg club and had a I small show with them to hang up a purse Then it Is very near the close of the season and their books are full for the I next season I feel and I told the club I as though my last chance at meeting Corbett is gone He knows that we cannot i can-not fight in America since the action of the Louisiana legislature There is no I place where we can meet There Is no other club that will hang up a purse i will meet Corbett anywhere and have always i 1 al-ways been anxious to do > so You will remember that my challenge has always been open to him But I dont think I Brady is really in earnest about this pro ifre ll ettaoi posal He must surely have known how i i unpopular Corbett it with the National Sporting club 1 Have done all that js in my power and I am now ready to leave England I shall sail for America soon after Derby day and go direct to San Francisco I II I |