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Show it. I intend to take care of it and save it." "How about the color line?" was asked. "I see I have been quoted as saying I would not fight a colored man," he replied; "but that is not so. I have never said the first thing about the 'color line.' "You know 1 fought Jackson, and I think the fight will prove that I whipped him." Sporting Splint-. Fred Johnson, George Dixon's late victim, wants to fight the winner of the Lynch-(Jriffin Lynch-(Jriffin battle. Corbett has put on about ten pounds since his fight with Sullivan one week ago, and looks in best of health. Champion Phil Casey, late trainer of Sullivan, Sul-livan, tried his hand at his favorite game, handball, on Sutday, but he and his partner re defeated. George Dixon agrees to give Boston Johnny John-ny Murphy half the receipts of the former's benefit in New York if he fails to best Murphy Mur-phy in four rounds. THE WOULD OF SPOUT Faithful Phil Casey Talks About Sullivan's Sul-livan's Condition. NEVER WAS CORBETTS EQUAL. The Californian Talks About the Color Line Jini Hay Ficht Mitchell Mitch-ell New Wrinkles in Kaciug 31 aeon Thinks Kkelly la a Oood Bookkeeper The Famons Usee Trae.k at Independence Sporting Splinters. Much has been said since the championship champion-ship battle at New Orlranc ; much has been said about Sullivan not being in condition. It will be noticed, however, that the ex-champion ex-champion himself makes no such claim, nor does he offer any excuse, frankly admitting ad-mitting that he met a better man than himself. him-self. Colonel Kelly, who was with 8ullivan all the time in New Orleans, and who has just returned home, says the big fellow was never in it, and we believe that at no time in his career was he ever good enough to defeat Corbett. Full Casey, Sullivan's faith- The managers of the Coney Island Athletic Ath-letic club are still talking of offering- a $135,000 purse for a fight between Jim Corbett Cor-bett and Peter Jackson. Bob Fitzsimmons made his first appearance appear-ance in a speaking part at Brooklyn last night. He will fljrht Hall at the end of his theatrical engagements. C. T. Hubbard, a contractor of Worcester, Mass., won $2000 on the Corbett-Snlllvan fight. He bet on Corbett because his wife dreamed the latter would win. Corbett says the man above aU others in the world that he wants to meet ie Charley Mitchell. He has made up his mind to make Mitchell do more fighting and less talking. Tea Tray's breakdown after his recent long race will result in the pride of Brightou Beach being sent to the stud. It will also put a ban on the resurrection of four-mile races. It has leaked out that Skelly's backer, Billy Reynolds, wanted to forfeit the fight with Dixon, owing to Skefly's sickness, caused by change of climate, hut Skelly would not hear of it. Myer haa returned to Chicago and tolls his friends there that he still thinks he can whip HcAuliffe and was knocked out by a chance blow, and wants another trial. To any who witnessed the fight this talk la very amusing. McAuliff e punched him ont gradually grad-ually but surely, and despite Alt Kennedy's assertion that he would back the Streator lad against the champion again, be could not find backing from the public with counterfeit coun-terfeit money asrainet gold bearing bonds. He is a tyro at the game oompared with Mc-AulitTe, Mc-AulitTe, and with the latter in anything like fighting trim, he would be a 1 to 10 snot as against Myer. ful trainer, says: "Sullivan couldn't win under any circumstances. circum-stances. He wasn't in it at any stage of the nght. Why? Because Corbett surprised us all. He is the cleverest and most active man 1 ever saw in the ring. He Is not so powerful a hitter as Sullivan, but is endowed en-dowed with the most extraordinary skliL It's a question in my mind whether Sullivan in his palmiest days could whip him." "It is claimed," said his questioner, "that if Sullivan had trained say from four to six months, he would have been in a better position posi-tion to win." "I don't care whether he trained six years, he would never be in better condition to fight than when he met Corbett. Aek Johnston, Johns-ton, Wakely or any other man who has been close to Sullivan for years, and see what they say about hie condition. They will tell you that from his hlpe up he was as healthy and strong as of old, but his siok-ness, siok-ness, prior to his battle with Kllraln, and he says that he had no license to whip Kilrain, seemed to have affected his lower limbs, and his weakness there cost him the losa of the fight with Corbett. To show yon how (rood hi condition of wind and body waa, it fa only necessary to state that at tbe end of tbe twentieth round he said to his seconds: 'He hasn't delivered a blow that has hurt me.' Then he had been fighting considerably considera-bly over an hour." In speaking of the weight of Sullivan and Corbett when they fought, Casey said that Sullivan scaled exactly 21 i, and Corbett ITS pounds. A Famous Track. Probtbly no one who has not seen the wonderful speeding ground that C. W. Williams Wil-liams has built on the outskirts of the modest mod-est little Iowa town, and few of the thou- sanus woo nave visueu it, Know mat mere is an incentive to an extreme effort on the part of the horses that traverse the famous course which is not found at any other track in the world. Adjoining the property known as Rush park, where Mr. Williams has his stock farm, is the state insane asylum, asy-lum, and when the kite track was laid out its projector remembered his afflicted neighbors neigh-bors by building a stand close to the outer fence for their special use. This is near the first quarter, and no class of spectators can outdo those who come from the wards of the big asylum in enthusiasm as the fleet-footed steeds battle for money and renown on the balloon-like course. Under tbe watchful care of a strong corps of keepers there is j seldom any undue excitement or violence, but every horse that passed the really crazy crowd receives a tremendous ovation. That these yells and cries are productive of speed is admitted by every trainer who has occasioned occa-sioned them, and it is not improbable that Williams himself saw a benefit of this sort when he extended the hospitality of the track to the inmates of the asylum. C. J. Hamlin, the successful breeder, was impressed im-pressed with the advantage of having such an indefatigable claque wben he drove Belle Hamlin and Justlna to skeleton wagon in 2:13 during the meeting of October, lc90, and in speaking of the champion performance, perform-ance, said: "When I was passing those lunatics lu-natics near the turn they were yelling like demons, and I felt the mares bound away as if they had been struck with the whip. From there they flew at a rate that wes astonishing even to me, and I am sure those craiy people peo-ple made Belle and Justin go faster than they would otherwise have tro;ted." Jay-Eye-See, 8 :06 1-4 Pacing j 2:10 Trotting:. Trot-ting:. Jay-Eye-See is the personal property of Jackson I. Case, who conditioned and has driven him in a way that makes his performance per-formance a proud feather in the cap of the mayor of iiacinc. II is great mile was so perfectly rated that it deserves more than a passing notice as sustained efforts by both driver and horse, as the quarter time given below shows: Independence, August 26, :81J, -.81); tSlfi, :31K-2:004'. With an average record at both ways of going of 2:08Js, with the record of having held at different times the world's record for four and five-year-olds and aged trotters, for trotters over a half-mile track, and atill tbe fastest of trotting: geldings, with the best combined record that is to the credit of any performer, and the prospect of a still faster one, the fame of Jay-Eye-See is secure se-cure for all time as one of the giants of turf history. New Wrinkles in Ravctngr. An Eastern sporting writer says: "Kentucky is in the very front rank as the home of statesmen, as the home of trotters, and as the upholder cf the popularity popu-larity and intesTity of the turf. And if other states would imitate Kentucky more closely in turf matters it wou'd be far better bet-ter for then. At Lexington, Ky., an innovation inno-vation was made last fid where a horse was sent to the stable if it had not won a heat in three, instead of the usual rule of one heat in five. This change caused every horse to be sent to the front from the start. Another drawback to racing is the long pauses between be-tween heats. That is a great mistake. Have the horses up promptly and avoid long waits. Favorites are often beaten before they go a beat by permitting unnecessary scoring. These things disgust tbe public and help to make trotting unpopular." ' No Color Una for Jim. Ia a recent interview Champion Corbett said that Sullivan hit him twice at New Orleans, Or-leans, once in the face and once over the heart. Speaking of his future movements the young champion said: "I feel that there is a lot cf money lying around awaiting me, and 1 am not going to lose any time getting |