Show I RISE AND FALL OF YOUNG CORBETT AS SEEN BY CHICAGO SPORT SCRIBE In classing William Wililam II IL Young Youn Corbett as Alii a Jt live one Olle we W take seme sm li Ii license 1 cense He is live In the sense ense that there U re is no sod od above him although the grass is h rather thick under his hits feet lie Ho hailed balled from froni Denver We c use ue the i ast tense tN fI because he decided that the th town circumscribed his lii r t and Monti he lie quit back there He Ijo H It Is i the th only pugilist who gained worldwide fame by b o a d defeat feat Many years yea ago he fought a man men of tHo the name I of t Benny whom m many ny or of orI I be 1 will wili doubtless bt remember knocked him cold in a It fierce fight and hut but for that he might never have been known r was blessed with a t I Iwho who di lid l not believe in hi saying anything derogatory of an opponent oJ that Benny had licked and when wh the Chicago man ama returned from rein Denver D nver the news newn ufo w was WiUS spread far and nd wide that Corbett was wan the wild Ud iid man of the mountains the hardest hard st hitting man on earth parth the most sire III coolest Iett shiftiest fastest cleverest most bloodthirsty ty fighter with one exception exception exception tion that ever trod the boundaries of a It ring Afterward he fought a II draw with the one exception and aud almost had But that tsat event vent f was al at owed to pass t g unnoticed and when Corbett came out of the west matched to fight Terence lt rence McGovern another man that some will recall he was known only as the fighter lighter that Benny Benn ranger tat ed When Corbett passed h Chicago on his way to t New Kew 1 C Conn it i I was an anthe the tho first time he had 4 tt l it e I nigh high altitude He pal j ai al a professional visit and wondered dered all the tit newspaper men were not at the sta station station tion to meet him He concluded they ha had l gone Eone to the wrong train and called them up UI by b telephone This is Young Youn Corbett he be said saidi i What hat dont you know me Im the great Denver Deliver r fighter Yes Y Im In 18 the pink of condition and my muscles mU cles are an like whip whipcords cords Flor Tor breakfast brt 1 I at ate The next morning the following Appeared in the tho newspapers Young Corbett of oC Denver passed through town yesterday 0 And that was wa all alt they th said About bout on one month later Corbett Corbell had stuff sture written by himself in some l mp newspapers his mother was giving interviews he was a gl followed Io around r d by the kids k he ie hr had a theatrical contract and al all because e he lie heI had licked the mighty Terrace Terence r ne McGovern th the Brooklyn I le whirlwind n Corbett was wise wis The TIu n 11 thins thing he h did was wa not to t fight light until he h had bed picked up tip some flome spare change chang on the strength of his reputation When Whon that began to fad fade he unc ed a few easy ones and when witch that employment grew stale he bt licked McGovern again and once more waxed fat Following that event vent t h he repeated l his hi previous stunt Foxy Fox young fellow f they said Meanwhile Corbett kept ke t the governors gOVErnor of about ten states statts up nights and learned to lose Jose all his coin at faro and the ponies Being Beins invincible in his own mind ho h walked right up to the brink and looted looked over not ot noticing that Battling Nelson was wag there to give him a shove Strangely enough Young began bc his hie career with a administered red redby by a Chicago man and aud he finished where J h man he ha started but with a different Chicago Chi o oman j |