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Show Corbett Still Talking. MINNKAPODIS. Minn. Dee 30. James T ..ibett. conqueror of John L. Bulllvan but who later lost tho title to Robert Kltz-slmmons, Kltz-slmmons, between the acts at the theater said "Jf Mr Jeffries Is looking for a fight he need not go very far. I believe I could gle him a hard battle, and I would be willing to meet him ngaiti for the championship cham-pionship of the world 'The stor of my first fijrht will how I stood up and fought him on even terms till a wild blow put me out In our second sec-ond battle a crazy poke, which caught tne on fhe tloatlnK rib, was what lost the fight I received thle bjow In tho second round, greatly weakening me. and It accounts ac-counts for the short duration of the fight "In both contest! Jeffries' blows that did the greatest damn" were wild swings of a rough-and-tumble order. Thej were ol a kind that could hav. bocn easily blocked and to this day I can't understand how the;, ever got me." |