Show a i J I W Won on My Ring Battles Bob ob Wr Writes s for Herld Herald and Tells How He Be le t Corbett for Worlds Championship BY ROBERT FITZSIMMONS Iu In this the preliminary bout I am taking on pen I want to sa saat say sayat at once that I am not out to but butter r a anice I nice hot slice of good then PI pr open thet the teeth eth rot out imd d I It down the throat Im Im not goIng to take up cu culture and hold bold i it up ps as R a thin thins or of nI all tings things I either for r what I dont kow know about I it would fi fill a book too Mg to cry carry around In the waistcoat pocket Ph Phy I culture Is 15 aU all rIght In It its place ant and good is also but I dont think Im Im strong trong enough on either sub subject I to make I it read true I have written about the care of the body and andI I ment I It but even eYen my iea Idea of It Is Quite a lot different from the professors and there are eno enough gh of them In the business to take care 0 rye Ive been asked a good many times about m my feelings When 1 ste step In in the 1 ring a and perhaps Id Id better clean up that first of al all Looking k over the years ears Ive been using the glove gloves I think I 1 may say that t most import important ant fight Ive Ive bad was the one wih I JIm Corbett Corbett in CarSt CI City Anyway Jou you look at i It it mens means about as much to me as anything could mean J I I 1 jump In and tel tell the ret real tale t 1 tuat Itte little bUsiness I it ought to give ghe H a pret pretty ty lv fair noton notion of what the old man teen ilke le then ben h he through the j ropes and looks the outfIt over Il Ill str start off right hero by s saying Ying I I never had n a perve erv in m my lIe life I 1 dont know anything about and andI I 1 dont want to hon I Iwas was putting in good hard licks on the anvil back In New Zealand the only thIng thing I 1 knew about nerves was when I collided wih with witha 0 a bit or of hot and th lat latIonS last IonS long I kow w what ft I It meant much except tat that i it was a good thIn thins to keep away tram from ive walked Into the ring something over oer 30 tImes in my Ufe hife and I cant ant r member that I ever had or n a shake except I what I got front the oth other r fellow when I got Cr less Nero Nerves ma may be al all allright rIght fa far some Bome folks folks but Ive Ive managed to get along without them and Id like to bet that som somO of oC the doctor boys bos would lo lose a bunch Of good hard money if the ret ot of humanIty was like me meNo meNo No healthy m r ought to kuo whether he has lIas nerves nerves or not any anyway anyway way ad If If he has then he and you ent cant go back on that that But what I wanted to taUt talk about was that Carson Caron Plc Pleased sed WIth Match When hel U tm t ti made I tink think I Iwa Iwas wa was about as wel well satisfied a as it if Id been left u a million for b been en walt Ing for it chance chanco at Corbett 1 a go a long while it it you ou remember Jim think m ch of me those d for some somo reason OJ or othel and he leer took ay any pans to hide It it either but then ho he was a young oung fellow and heu l lot or of things since then Ive Ive for many a fight but n er a I trained fr that that ono one and i it wan wa pod h hard rd work al all the tle time Because I fettle myself lf up the way the had boe doing d lot ot of foolish stuff found o md It way into the papers and t tien e the report got out tat that I veta g only oily and had I it fixed up wih with a gang balt back cst cast to lay Iny down That made me sore eOre for Ill say honesty honestly tnt that Id have gone into the ring with fh Corbett If there beo been beena a dorar In i it for me anywhere In sight sight and I think lie he it i just A wel well as asI asI I did However I just kept on work ig antI and sayIng nothing much and I went through a pretty stiff grInd al all before the came along I It was pretty hard work waiting too but n 11 put the in for I knew that if I Iwa wa goIng to whIp Jim Id have to be bethere bethere there when the la last t gong onS tapped Its things things a little bi bit t to SD say that over a thousand pien ha have YO aked asked me how I 1 felt just then Ven when I climbed through the ropes rye never realy really talked much about about I it bouse because I i it never nevo seemed worth while but rm Im I gOing to tol toll the tho facts now I feel much of anything except that Id Id I made up my mind that I 1 Was going t to whip whip theman J IC I had bad to sUck stick tere there for tor hour I around I that ring In aly I looke looked the cr crowd ov r pre well yell t rt remen I ber Wait fa One tu felt hat who who st sat In and when I looked t hint ut at over Ocr to a chap clup next to him him ad and said my So Soaked Kangaroo roo Corbet Corbett 1 II knock his blanke blanked head off Look at what he cul leg That made me sore for a minute and andI I leaned over the ropes and saId to him You Il Ill give Jou you a hundred If y sa say that again at m my th fight And then I 1 felt to foOlish d went over to the side of the rIng ring r I w was thinking most ot the time about Corbetts feet They sa he most ost othis of his fights wih with thorn them and I was figurinG out a way wih with mine mineI I If you ever eer sw saw the tho pictures the they t ok ck okon ckon on ul remember r F ts walking a appt with my hod head down most or of th dle ob orbett tt shod shot up in it ring clad d t Was just figuring f T out how I was was ging goIng to work t make JIm forget his feet I dont thInk I wa 3 sor sore at him just then It would haa have been the same if t had been nn any I oter other man for I win d tp t win that tIght fight st it I dropped dead the next net mm ute Well Yel I kept working on i it and I decIded that I would let let him chase me mea a little and that Id Id tr to work worl him I into a corner and thou then work hin bin some some Lots of people wi will tel tell you ou that I threw a way away chance chances when I might I have have landed him but dont beleve believe them for I I had to weaken I those feet and logs legs andI decIded to dOl do doit it one wa way and just us as I 1 reached this poInt JIm climbed through the trough ropes and he was smiting like a cat seen a saucer sauce Pt of cream How dId I feel then 11 III ten tell YOU Did you ever go out pith a gun after something big in the game line Do Jou you remember h you ou walked about waiting for n a chance chance Just one look at what come for Remember the jump that went through you In Inthe 1 the chest wh when n you taught sight of it hats i it just the way r fel felt I I I I u f I I j I I I 1 u L I I I I p I C I i I I I I 1 I I I Ro Robert rt c when Corbett turned about dud faced me Inc and the fight was decided ad there I made up my mind to in mark ark him on the bod body and leave face alone alon for Cor that was the only wa way I could get the stem steam out ot of his leEs legs and If you dont know It it Il Ill tol toll yo you rIght now that that a pun n the stomach wiL will hurt t aman man wore and make him want to sf sit down to rest Quicker than a wal wallop wallop lop 01 ott tle the nose The firt first makes hin him tired and the la laSt t only makes him mid mad When we bt got together In the first rund round we were both feeling each other out and I was telling him a sto story Is Isa Its I a haJ hatt of mine to talk a bit when Im Im fighting and some ot of the tho thing things I Isaid said seemed to make Jim Jim a a bit at me me but that was part of the game re Get Busy in Eighth Or Of the batte battle as It wont ont the pr pets at that Ume gave 0 pretty prett ao ac accurate curate account of i It as ge I r But then thon things look a lot different to th the by boy on on the outside to what thy they do to the fellow doing the fighting I ISef Sef seem to remember that I was doing loing a alot alot lot of bumping up against loft left and thep I think I bogn began to get busy about the die eighth was t the e one It if you m m ber that it wa was said the tho job was s to OC OCcur occur cur inI got angry for the time I Lt had been said prett rought roughly that thal Id Id taken a big bib piece ot of change and andas andas as going to let Jim Im trim r tp in n that round and It struck pie Fe that right thee there wa was a good place to put a crimp In that le lie I know I got a little busier than before and I guess X I h had d Corbett On the run for the first time In realty reality Somehow It seemed to him a abi abit bi bit and I had a little ar arm feeling OVer i it In my Insides Jc lie looked at atme atme me once whelm I reach bird on the I and a new idea seemed io o strike him wih with the I ptas as afraid afraid he had tumbled that I WI was trying to plant him on the bod body 8 so I played hi his lace faco and worked Ute tile out of his head bend bendA A lot or chaps who are fond of air lug their opinions and lack of know knowl ede edge of the lighting game wl will tell teU you that when tIme the fourteenth round opened I a where I was sas going to plant Corbett but then they lea know al all about It it Id Id been practicing on the quiet for that solar plexus for fora a good man many days ana I Id d figured out outto outto to the dot do just where It ought to land Then 8 a led lead and a follow for the tho race ae and the right went over for the jaw jawand jawand and I shifted r a bi bit and the left lett touched Jim where I thought I it would and I crossed him quick with the other hand jut just a be started to fal fall I It was pret prett pretty t ty hard for or him to figure out just how I ii happened and I 1 dont lahie him for 1 thinking he sti still hd had a a chance I know I what I it feels like Uke to lose the worlds championship and I gess guess he felt the se same way a I did later but butI 1 won it fair tair fairand and square and I thInk hell acknowledge edge It now Bigger Man Than Senators ors Coming home from the fight was the tho hardest part for me some wa way I sup supPose Pose Im Im sUn still a boy In some things fOt for forI r I seem to get i It right In m mi h head ad that there ther I vas 8 01 on Ute the top of the tho heap where I id been aiming tOl tos a bool good many years ear and maYbe the las lads who traveled wih with me thought there was was I queer about Fits and In Im Ingoing going to ten tell som m lhing now Id Id thought I I was going to keep locked up forever I I it was vas when Washing first time Id ever been thee there and I went up UI to the and I looked around a bIt I met 1 a lot of I congressmen and office officeholders holders and citizens ad and just people and we shook hands and I Went Into the senate chaber chamber and it was there something hUme hit me You remember it was just ater after the sugar candal and I stood there and thought to my myself el Youve got a a lot to be thankful for old pal pal some ome great men en here and some gool good mon men Some or f them themba ba haVe got their greatness iii tay mEan mean waY ways a whole some idom or iii th Q have breit If and those that stol Hol 1 It an ani worked their friends in tricky wa ways s for tor what the Cot got mUt feel quIte a bi bit ashamed when they look themselves in the lace face nIghts nights I gues youve got the the lot of C them old chap chaD Theres about as much talk of you ou in inthis this ibis country now as any of them and youve brought yousef yourself up to Iq 1 wih with not I a thing but your 10 two hands bands youre never leyer had to lie He to a lot of wIdows and kIds and steal your friends mone money to do i it eIther There are arc a lot lotof lotof of men lle li te e that wf will cal call you m brute but Id id rather be a brute that wn way than thaI r a gentlemanly crol crook their way Maybe Ib you oJ folks s that rOad rad this wi will think this was conceIted but i it meant that way I meant i It and r I stilt tean menu it and amid Im rm goil going to go o on tring trying to mead it and is its the only bit bitor or real advice Im Im going to put over the plate Next week Im Im goinG going to tel tell you so about that business out In Frisco where they trimmed d me for my m record and my friends for theIr rols rolls pretty a abi abit bi bit of crooked york work a as fInd out outside side a states pron prison and T 1 can an prove every Ve bit bitof of i It and that will help somo as the boy Oy ays s Copy Copyright 1905 p bv JOs Joseph Br Bowle 7 J |