Show GLORY FOR CORBETT McGoverns Latest Position Is Untenable l UNREASONABLE REQUESTS I I I I I What Has Happened Since the i Hartford Fight To Make Good Now Corbett Had Bet ter Whip Some More af Them While His Hands In Young CorbelL demonstrated clearly that he is I the superior of Terry MeGovern and is entitled to the featherweight feather-weight ehampionbhlp of the world In San Francisco last Tuesday night According Ac-cording to the press reports of the light Mechanics pavilion where the battle was pulled off was filled by a greater crowd than ever before gathered In the historic light pavilion Experts at the fightinG same and fighting men recognized recog-nized authorities on ring tactics galore had collected there to see the two little fighters po There is no doubt that Terry McGovcrn put up a game and furious fight and biought Into play known to some of the cleverest work the profession this portion with regard to the final decision which went against him and rightly so Is unwarrantable unwar-rantable lie was knocked out so why does he continue to piotest and Impute that someone was not fair with him or what makes him declare that a mistake mis-take was made by the timekeepers It was their business to keep the time cor i jectly and certainly after he get that i wallop on the jaw that did the business I he was not in l such good fix as the time keepets were lie cannot rightly tell anyone that he knew better than they that the time had not been up when he managed to get up from the floor His seconds and backers are not to be accepted ac-cepted either as reliable guides They were greatly Interested of course In their favorite and when they saw him go down under the terrific punishment administered by Corbett It is a safe bet that they never thought to notice what time It was When they heard the measured meas-ured counts oC the referee however it Is almost a certainty again that they grabbed their stop watches and everyone every-one was prepared to dispute the count I of Eddie Graney if the decision was I unfavorable to them TERRYS PROTESTS Corbett knocked Terry out and thats all there was to It McGovern was whipped plenty Ills cries of robbery and I was up within the limit are only puerile wails and are worthy of no consideration By his defeat oC Mc Govern Tuesday night Corbett has shown conclusively that the blow on the jaw that got the Brooklyn Terror In Hartford about a year ago was no accident ac-cident It was a well delivered punch and Corbett handed it to McGovern so quickly that those who saw It and were Influenced by the reputations of the two men failed to appreciate it and naturally i natu-rally I 1 howled lucky blow Corbett has whipped the only man about whom there I was any real doubt the championship cham-pionship that he took from Terry was won on the square and the right man has it now Corbet has the reputation of being a man who like to enjoy his pugilistic honors to the full and he is said to have weaknesses for dissipation Tf he can handle these things with the same ease he does Terry McGovcrn his chances are real rosy for retaining his present title for several moons to come TERRYS TOO MANY TRIADS In their meeting1 in San Francisco the night following the fierce 1 struggle for supremacy McGovern asked for an other chance at Corbett Sam Harris who handles MeGovern stems unreasonable unrea-sonable enough to suppose that his man Is entitled to as many trials as he wants Corbett graciously answered that he would consider their request and there Is reason to suppose that the Denver fighter will give McGovern another an-other trial If the Brooklyn boy is really anxious for It Just why McGov crn feels that he should be taken on again is not clear There are at least l fifty fighters on the coast at the present time each clamoring for a fight with I Corbett and it seems about up to Mc Govern to try his hand on some of the lesser lights for a time HANLON HEADS LIST Though Eddie Hanlon has had a very recent chance at the champion he seems the mostly likely candidate for the next battle His showing against Corbult In their last fight was most excellent and there arc many who believe Hanlon Is due to gain the laurels However there are those who say Corbett took no especial pains to win from Hanlon and was merely laying back for bets with oddson against him for the more prominent fight l with McGovern Cor bett showed plainly against McGovern that he has not gone back any In the past eighteen months as many sporting men throughout the country believed BETTER NOT TAKE TERUY Corbett announced the other evening that he proposed to go out on the road for a while and reap further benefits from his fresh laurels In exhibition bouts In tills evuit there will be disappointment dis-appointment among the tight fanciers who arc looking forward wi tit expectancy expect-ancy to a list of victories for their l favorite fa-vorite In the near future It would seem about right for Corbett at this time to take on as many of the California Califor-nia fighters as hu can dispose of at least a part of the challenges that have been hurled at his head He can easily hold his present form for a sufficient length of time to make at least half a doen fights I If Corbett will turn In now aim lICK a siring oc ueitur lighter In hlii class It I I will do away with a large amount of ho chance blow talk that Is peculiarly liable to crop up In the next few weeks after his light with McCoy tjrn Especially Is this thing to bu feared by Corbutl If he decides to talco Terry along on his theatrical tour Tof fries was accused ot having gone Into a fixed fight at San Francisco immediately immedi-ately thu Information was made public that he and Fltxslinmons would cross the country with their now fninoui combination motto cii jelly for its bawlouts FIXED FIGHT CRY Thereare more reasons than one why people may cry fixed fight McGov ern had held the championship of the featherweights unhullled when Cor bett took It away from him at Hartford Hart-ford Cries of unexpected blow followed fol-lowed the encounter and many believed Corbett has secured the title 011 a luke What he did subsequently only went to confirm a large portion of the public In that belief Corbett announced outright out-right that since he had gained the championship ho wiis going to makes the t moat of It I and he forthwith went upon the road with his theatrical company com-pany refusing fiatfooledly to consider any fight propositions until he had had time to make a bunch of money out of his prestige Especially did Corbett do cline to meet Terry who was hot after hIs lost laurcla again KNOCKOUTS COUNT From his attitude at that time Cor bett I led many to think him In absolute fear of McGovern and the latter of course felt assuifd that such waa the case Naturally then Corbett was considered con-sidered l something of a usurper who had no real right to the honor he was enjoying Things have shaped themselves them-selves since In such a way as to make the Hartford fight look like a clean wellearned victory for Corbett but in a years time who can say that Corbett hasnt really become a better lighter He may have gleaned here and there the necessary knowledge of McGovern and 1 he appears lo I have had a great t deal of it to defeat the Brooklynlte Whatever What-ever It was Unit gave him the championship cham-pionship no one not even excepting Terry himself i I wll dispute I I that McGov ern was knocked clear out and since that time has successfully defended his title He has grown stronger evidently and his fight of Tuesday night at San Francisco Is evidence that today he is a better man than t McGovern The latter lat-ter may have gone back In the fighting game and lost some of his oldtime speed but whatever the cause Corbett whipped him and McGoverns cry that in taking the count he was merely obeying the Instructions of his seconds Is unjustifiable He was down too long |