Show NOTABLE FRAUDS OF PRIZE RING Instances Where Public Is Badly Fleeced by Men Who Handle Fighting Game WHO FAKED JOE GANS CONFESSION RECALLS OTHER KNOWN FR o Levy claims that no one in caUl California ever aver bet on Joe GallS Galis and ud lost ost money ploney by doIng but the tact fact remains that ever body who has heard of hiS hi prevIous mumps will Ibe be wary about rIskIng money on future affairs in which ich Gans is one of the principals Lcy expreSses himself thus You Yoa cant jump on Cans Gans for crooked work as long as s hewon The man who Is 10 blame o e Is the one flone who has betrayed the tT st ot of His frIends Britt BrittIs Is the faker who should be roasted Gans Is only the man who won When fakers fall out they some put the wIse and the as o recalls some of the thecel cel bi ted bunco games handed the public in former years In the first place the indignation of J Edward dward BrItt Is somewhat lug his battle with Young Cor Corbett bett bettis remembered for the were maI ma y r at af the rI ide who vho While no af were forthcomIng spoke right out Ir meeting with the slon that Corbett was robbed ot of that battle batUe by bj Britt aid ad the men In ch of the rth J w Some Professional N w Tricks c are other celebrated fakes on the 1 tapIs One Is the story of how Fitzsimmons laid down to JIm Hall in lh In Sporting men mendo do tb not blame the CornIshman for this as i h knew no better at the titus time and andor or as 85 his boss Jem Mace told hI bI l i showed three years later in inthis Inthis this country how easily he could have defeated Hall by putting him on the in four easy OSy rounds In Fitsimmons wa the victim of a fake in which even his opponent h had d no part when after beating Tom Sharkey In eight rounds Wyatt Earp and gambler gave the fight to the Ule sailor on a foul Th In the last of the Horton law l lakes fakes were exposed In the Athletic dub club Joe Walcott into Tommy West during the then first n ten rounds of a fight The money ho sone down on West however and andIn andIn In the eleventh Walcott was given or orders orders ders to lulL quiL He w went nt down and de cUned to wake up West was vas not a party Darty to the deal and was as much sur as the men who placed their on t the e Demon McCoy and Jim Corbett The same year Kid anI Jim orbett Corbett made e passes n each other for five rounds McCoy became tired sat down and could not be en to carry on the exhibition That was a raw one rho Phe same year at the Broadway Ath AthletIc th letIc Club lub it was hinted that Gans had Frank Erne at his mercy until he lost interest in game in the twelfth round roundAbout roundAbout About the me time a bunch of money was on Walsh to beat Jimmy Handler Handler had a pock ock ell t of the tickets and dozed off in int Inthe t the e second round at Coney Island New Years rears day Kid McCoy and Peter Maher met for rounds before the Coney Island Athletic club The fighters had been guaranteed a purse ot of The night was cold and there was Only in the draughty old barn where the mill was to b held It is alleged that a frame w nut up for Maher to win but McCoy Mc McCOY COY was to get the bIg end and he put up Oi t yelp for the 01 have the mon money y said McCoy to Brady who had guaranteed the purse Put up the other and Ill goon ray refused and with worth of spectators tors howling to keep warm a wrangle rangle ensued At last Brady induced McCoy f Coy t tO enter the ring It is hard to say I what bat Maher thought about It for h iii rhean told that the KId was to tolie lie do 7 Instead Mccoy dId for him neatly and scientifically In five rounds What would have been the out orne had th the other been in the house has been quoted as sayIng that he had bad to tie Joe hands when he be fought Philadelphia Jack OBrIen in PhiladelphIa in 1902 There may have been a few other fakes scattered in between but these thes landed the big money |