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Show G0DDAED AFTER 'EM. The Plucky Barrier Champion Challenges Chal-lenges the World. IT HAS THE RIGHT RING TO IT. uLanky Bob"' Fitrstuiiiious It Mad at Corbett Hnllivan in a Paint A. Iteminiecence of the Fight Be-tnern Be-tnern Pompadour Jim and Peter CT Jackson-How the 3:15 Clans Has Grown This (Season Sporting Splinters. Joe Goddard, the Barrier champion, is after big game. He lias just issued the following fol-lowing challenge to any man in the world: Since James J. Corbett has succeeded to the title of champion of America, I notice that several sev-eral pugilists have declared their willingness to fight him. and that the Coney Island Athletic club have offered a purse of $-J5,000 for Corbett and Peter Jackson to fight for. Sow, I do not claim that I can defeat anyone, but I am willing to arrange a match to fight any man in the world, in any ciub offering the biggoet purse, and will wagor $5000 on the result. I am not looking for aijy "easy marks," as they say in 'Frisco, but I would Just as leave meet the best roan, and the first who will come forward. Peter Jackson is not entitled to any more consideration con-sideration than any other boxer. I fought him in Australia, and at the end of eight rounds had decidedly de-cidedly toe best of the contest, for Jackson was beuteo, and it was only because the referee was a personal friend of Jackson's that he did not da- I m a ha u-li-iTai TaitaAn i i'i nil n i tr and 2:15. At Cleveland a week later she won the same class in straight heats iu 2:174 2:19 and 2:15. In the same class at Buffalo Buf-falo she won again in 2 :16, 2:17 and 2:14. At Grand Kaplds, Mich., August 3, she won the 2:15 class in straight heats in 2:12, 2:14 and 2:143. At Independence, la., August 26, she won the fastest heat in a race and trotted the fastest three-hcat race in the free-for-all class ia 2:12, 2:10 and 2:00 an arerage of 2:10 for the three heats. Her mile at Independence, September 1, in 2:08, placet her next on the list to Nancy Hanks, The Ex-Champion in a Faint. John L. Smllivan, the late lamented champion cham-pion pufrtlist, was a sick man Wednesday in New York. Dr. Grier was called in to take several stitches out of his nose, and the great tighter fainted under the operation. Dr. Grier said that Sullivan was suffering from general muscular exhaustion. Ue eave It as bis opinion that be simply exhausted himself day after day while he was training, and ae a natural result his muscles could not knock me ont In eight rounds, which he failed to do, and instead of being the knocker-ont he was neurly knocked out himself. Pacts speak for themselves. Corbett will not flyht for probably one year. Therefore I think it will be m order for one of the clubs to offer a parse for some boxer and myself to fight for, for I am in the ring to tight, and am willing to pnt up my own money on my chances of winning. This has the right ring to It. Carbett and Jackson. The San Francisco Examiner, in reviewing the recent victorv of Jim Corbett over Sulll van, gives the following interesting reminiscences remin-iscences about the new champion and his memorable meeting with Pcior Jackson. On the invitation of Phil Dwyer, Jim went to New York, and in Brooklyn met Dominick McCaffrey, whose boast it was that no man had ever laid the weight of his glove on his nose or given him a black eye. Corbett did both, and won so palpably that the victory could not he taken from him, despite the efforts of the management so to do. Corbett has since said that he learned his most effective trick from McCaffrey, Mc-Caffrey, and that was catching his he entered the ring. There was nothing in the ex-champion's appearance late in the day to indicate that he was seriously ill. and to a reporter he said that with the exception of a slight soreness on the nose, where the stitches were removed, and a cold, he never ' felt better in his life. A Chsnvs for Klcharde. Frank Richards, the colored man who insists in-sists that he is a fighter, now has a charce to demonstrate what there ie in him. L. Thompson, who not long since made it exceedingly ex-ceedingly interesting for Richards, ie out with a challenge to the latter for a thirty round contest to come off at Park City within with-in thirty days. Sporting Splinters. Jim Daly will have a speaking part in Corbett's new play. Jim Hall easily bested Ted Pritchard in a six-round set-to in London Monday nigLt. The sparring was light. Charlee McHugh, the amateur boxer of Philadelphia, will turn professional and box under the name of Frank Needham. California can justly lay claim to being the birthplace of two pugilistic champions, John C. fleenan and James J. Corbett. A match race between A. A. Zimmerman, record 2:068-5, aod Nancy Hanks, record 3:07 over a regulation track, would be interesting. inter-esting. Knowledge of pace has disappeared with the old; our-mUe heat races, and it is as much ayAart in these days of sprints and dusbaaUte Egyptian's method of embalming, embalm-ing, f r , Ptill Dwyer, who already owns an'.SOOO-tree oraD e grove on the Indian river, Florida, will, it to said, purchased another orange grove with the mocev he won on the Corbett-Sullivan fight. " The valuable stallion Henry R., 2:3oi, by General Stanton, was killed in a collision on the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, near Winona, about a year ago, and the owner sued the railway company for $8000. The case has just been decided, awarding the owner $5000. Of the largest winning owners at the Saratoga meeting jnst closed G. B. Morris heads the list with the sjni of $0237 to his credit; W. II. Timmons comes next with the snug sum of 72tv. while C. Fleischmann is third upon the list with $0350; John Mullins follows with $rG35, and then Bashford Manor, $5475; Glen island stables, $5350; Alexander Shields, $4000; Whitten Bros., $4i60: Fred Lowe, 400; Santa Anita stables, $4MX), and E. Leigh, $4000. Other owners are credited with amounts from $3750 down to $25. The total amount distributed was $134,204. opponents arms ia a ciincn ana bearing bia whole weight down on them. This he put into practice with Peter Jackson, Jack-son, and it proved very distressing to the Australian when they met on May 2L 1891. That battle is too fresh to need rehearsal, but there are few outside of those who saw the meeting of the two men in the Turkish bath, who know just how nearly gone the black was. Corbett was as fresh as paint when he left his carriage at the bath door, while Jackson needed the support of two men to mount the steps and get to his couch, and the slightest touch of the rubber's hand caused him intense agony. Corbett was intensely in-tensely disappointed wten he discovered how thoroughly Jackson had concealed his true condition in the ring. "You fooled me, Peter," he 6aid with a laugh. "Yes. Well, you fooled me, too." "It was a long fight" "Pretty long. You didn't do much leading." lead-ing." "I didn't go there to lead; I wm to be chopped up, you know." "Yes," said Jackson, thoughtfully. "I believe that was the programme." "But I stayed as loug as you did V "I believe you did," assented Jackson, and the interview ended. The heavy infighting that occurred in the twenty-eighth round of the light was the result, re-sult, so Corbett says, of his missing his grab for Jackson's arms. Corbett has one advantage over most fighters. He is versatile, and if his estimate of a man proves wrong, which it seldom does, he can change his plans on the instant and tight on entirely uew tactics and do this a dozen times if necessary. He is not the sprinter he is commonly charged with being either. He may not be within reach of his opponent when he is hit at, but he doesn't skip over four or Ave inches out of range aud is alwavs facing his man close enough to be hit it he stood still. One thing is said of him, and that is that he is too good natured to make a successful fighter, and that may be true, for a more boyish, fun-loving disposition was never put into a man in that business. Life with Jim Corbett is one huge joke, and it will be something more serious than defeat in the ring that will chase the perpetual smile from his face. Lanky Bob Is Mad. Lanky Bob Fitzsimmous is warm over the way he was treated by Corbett after the fight, and in an interview with a New York Sun reporter a few days ago he said: "There is just a faint possibility that I may join the line of pugilists who are knocking at Jim Corbett's door for a match. I am not overanxious to iro out of my class, as 1 don't see that 1 could be tier myself much. Still, 1 huve a wILderpl-opea wILderpl-opea ides that 1 could ffivo an excellent account of myelt, no matter who I fought with, and there are not many men in the world that i would be afraid to tackle. "1 was treated pretty shsbbily by Corbett at Nw Orleans. We had a little difference of opinion opin-ion some time a so, but I scarcely tlunk he was justified in treating me he did. He told me that he dldn t want to Epeau to me, and he said that before quite a larg crowd. "It happened that 1 didn't want to speak to him, having a note for him that 1 was asked to give mm, so his generons piece of information was uncalled f r, as it was in bad taste. He probably prob-ably tnought that I was eoing to challenge hiia. He had no business, even though I had! to be afraid of a middle-weight, after defeating John L. Sullivan : bat as it happened. I had no idea of ChalleniriEr: Oorbett, but if I do fiht htai, it won't be such a one-sided affair as his fight with Sullivan Sulli-van was." The 2:15 List. The number of additions to tho 2:15 list so far this season has been something unprecedented, unprece-dented, and what is more important from a breeding standpoint, the majority of the newcomers are either stallions or mares, geldings cut but a small figure comparatively. compara-tively. Martha Wilkes, record 2:08, easily heads the list of mares. She was folded in 18S3, and ia by Alcyone, dam EHa, by Clark Chief. Her record at tbe close of the season of 1691 was 2:18J. Early this season she began to manifest great campaigning qualities. At Detroit, in the 2:19 class, she defeated a great field kx straight beats in 2:163, :17L4 |