| Show INGBATE SAYS JOHNNIE COR BETT Throws Out Some Warm Ones About Recent Break With Champion John Corbctt former manager of V11 lam Rothwoll Young Corboll returned re-turned to Denver lngl week from Chicago Chi-cago John Cprbett rcllnqulBhcd tIm manngoment of Young Corbctt at Cincinnati Cin-cinnati and hereafter tho two will follow different paths While In Chicago on his wn to Denver John Corbett had a long conVrcnco wtlh Abe Allen who left the management of Jack MoKonna several sev-eral wccka ago and has since been without with-out Il man to look mutter hiD Intorjstts and 11 deal wus practically concluded by1 which the California lighter Is to continue bio career under the management of tho former director of the destinies of the featherweight champion Im I through with tho kid said John oibctt last night We quit last Thurs day when 1 tod him L did not like tho wa things wro going and left him Since he IIISR go no East iho lust time his icad has swollen so that he thinks he cnows It nil Jlo llslenu lo everything hoHe Eastern fellows toll him and did not want to do as I wanted him lo and ns ho was getting worse In lilA respect Instead of bettOr every day 1 quit The 11r Is In good condition notwithstanding ho reports to tho contrary and 1 think he will heal McGovern as easily as ho did when Lucy met before The Uld Is i several sev-eral pounds overweight but ho will be able to got down all right for the fight and nhould bo ablo to bt at McGovern without any trouble McGovern Is trained loo fine now and I bcllevo will prove easier for the kid than he did before Ingrate la I one of the terms John Cor bett applies to the champion J left him because I did not want to bo held responsible for thc eccentric ihlnga tho kid 1 may do Not that he neglected his work for ho did not but his opinion 01 himself la so strong that nobody Is ablo to do anything with him Ho antagonizes the newspapers Instead of making frlcndii with them and should the fight at Louis I vlllo go bad I would have tho blamo fort for-t If I had stayed with him After I left him and went to Chicago I did all I could to keop our falling out quiet and whenever I could put In a good word for him 1 did so Ap soon as I got out of town however he started there In Cincinnati Cin-cinnati saying ho and 1 had npllt because I did not manage him properly Well I guess anyone who knows our history knows whether I have mismanaged him I made him tho champion thats what I did 1 took hold oC him live > cars ago when lots of people I Insisted that ha never would amount to anything Ho was beaten by men who never had a license li-cense to bent him and tlmo Tiftor time wan accused of being a quitter but T knew It wis In him and I stuck with him I llnall got the match with McGovern and he demonsrated that my faith In his ability to beat tho best of them was all right Since that time I have managed man-aged him as a champion should be managed man-aged so far an ho would let me and If thorn Is I any kick coming at nil I have the kick to mako and net he Our first contrapl for a fight after tho Thanksgiving day light was made with a Denver club and we fought hero three days ahead of the tlmo originally contracted con-tracted for Wo had everything paved nicely I for half a docn good tights before be-fore the tlmn for the second meeting with McGovern Then what does he do but put up such a bad light with Kid Broad a man who hind Just been beaten by Kid McFaddcn and Abe Attell that they even charged him with faking the light J could relate u long story of injustice In-justice and Ingratitude on the part of tho kid If I I wanted to lint what Is I the use Wo have quit nnd Ill go my way amid events will prove whether he can get along better as his own manager than ho did with me The reports that Tuthlll Rothwelln trainer Is not a good man arc Corbett says untrue Tuthill Is I nil right said he last night tlHe knows the game and Is n hard worker He and tho kid get along all right Thoy had nice training quarters near Cincinnati and there Is no reason why ho should or not bo nil right A good deal of Eastern money wjll bo placed on Corhett III his coming light I with McGovcrn according lo John Corbettn statement John Coneldlne 1 Honest John Kelly Eddy Burke and n number of Eastern men arc all preparing to back the Denver boy rind nomo big money will be placed on his chances of beating the cxchamplon the second time According to Corbett there wns no way In which tho fight could have been pulled off In Connecticut About fortylive prominent men signed n petition which was sent to tho District Attorney nnd lie said lie fight could not bo pulled off and nothing could be sold to chango his stand Manager Crowley treated us In the best poslblo manner paid us our forfeit and our cxpcnwfcs until the date of the Ixuls vlllc fight so wa did not logo anything I dont know just what plans tho kid has In view after tho McGovcrn fight Regarding the talk of the light being fixed and the reports circulated by Rob Roy Benton Corbett says the matter la not talccn seriously by any one In tho Knat Sam Harris he soy Is I anxious If I possible to get out of the match with Young Cornell having boosted McGovern since his last light with Corbett no that he has regained some of his lost prestige and as n result be I loves he can mnko money with tIm exqhamplon unless Cor belt balls him again Tim lalcmcnls mado by Rob Roy Benton Corbett In slnunlos were Inspired by Harrlp Corbctt will atuy In Denver until next week and will then go hack to Chicago 1 Jack I McKenna who was Abc At tells manager Is now writing special ar helen on the fighting game for a SL Louis paper Negro Porter Puts It on McGovern While on a sleeping car en route for Cincinnati Terry McGovorn and Joo Humphries attempted lo have some fun at the expense of the negro porter Who do you think will win the light he tween Ld 1 Dunkhorat and Casper Leon Z asked Humphries All dem tights fakes replied the eon of Ham Fakes spoke up McGovcrn Do you mean lo say that the McGovcrnCorbott light is going tii he crooked 7 Yes sah dat am no different from tho pdcra DIs yar Terry McGovcrn got no business with Corbctl Didnt Corbett dun lick him do last time t Why they toll mo oat McGovorn am akccrcd to death of torbcll hut McGoverns manager needs do money an JiltS why dey l nm gwlnc to light If McGovern himself had anything to nay da would be no light rinn Ilumphrlna naked him If I ho re mcmbtrcd tl10 famous fight between the Gold Dust twins Who am del Gold Dust fellows I nrvnli did hcah of done babies Why Bob Arm trOng and Denver Ed Martin replied Humphries Well liltS a pair dill got away from me said tho porter 1 dont recalls do scrap How long did they light tho porter asked Sixtyone rounds said Joe Dey must ho two dandles said tho porter Yea they were They fought until they wens black In tho face But to get back to din yeah McGovern Corbett light continued the porter dat boy McGovern novak did anything but frlcrjiteii a few second raters out of the ringHo Ho didnt hay said McGovcrn hats the matter with Goorge Dixon He whipped him to a finish Well Ill tell yo bout dnt fight re marked tho portor Dixon can whip Mc Govern In one round but Terry wont light him V WhatB your name naked Terry Why thIs ynh am Collins C Cutlln of West Virginia Terry then stood up and extending his hand wild Mr Cutlln my name Is Terry McCoy crn of Brooklyn 1 Tho porter was naturally taken aback but ho declined to revise hIs opinions and whllo McGovcrn assumed an cxprepslon of amuHtmcnl still hr was not so pleased as ho might hnvo been Fogel Will Fight Freedman That Now York la to be Invaded by tho American leuguo I next season Is I acknowledged acknowl-edged by tho most prominent officials of that hunlllng organization but It remained re-mained for Horace Fogcl cxmnnager of tho New York club to substantiate tho rumor by Indisputable fuota amid to lay bare the whole scheme The American league officials npnrccl all the fact Bald Mr Fogcl that to obtain ob-tain a firm foundation for lie new organization or-ganization in New York city apd to popularize popu-larize the new team at the start they will hnvo to present not alono a winning aggregation but ono that will be com poaed of the most turnouts plajera In tho country With hat end In view the now club will I prosent nuch playcrfi an I ilolo DiMnhunty Freeman Williams imd othcrn of like caliber all of whom htivo Hlgnod coniraclH with the understanding that they will play In Now York with tho American leuuun club It will be Frccdman against F6gel In Now York next sicnsion for 1 have signed I contraut lo manage the new club And I every club In the I Amorlcan league will lend Its assistance to make the new loam a winner AVe nro not going as far up an I tho Bronx either but our grounds will be located on Manhattan Island I Tho New York club did at one limo have ft chance to secure Lnjole Dclahanty and Fllok continued Fogel but that wail before McGraw was made manager Thofio three players have agreed to meCt Mr Frcidman at hla office on Uroadwiy on September COth next the day before tho American league Hcnnon closes but they have written to Mr Freedman Consider Con-sider us out wo refuse to deal with McGraw Mc-Graw To back up his statements Fogel produced pro-duced loiters documents and even I con tracts and wan 111110 supporlod hy tho word of n goptleman closely comicoted with baseball alfalrft and who Is on lie Inside and who seldom makes any mlo taken In regard to tho snorU |
