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Show EXPERT OPINION ON CORBETT. Has Lost Old-Time Steam Dosed on Whiskey in Last Battle. While there Is much difference of opinion opin-ion today among sports In regard to the referee's decision In the Hanlon-Corbett fight, there is no question abotit the fact that Corbett had lnjst most of his steam and that he can never hope to regain his Old championship form. Corbett's blows, after the llrst six rounds, larked force, and he missed so many pwlngs that It was plain he was rattled by his excessive ezej Hons. lf Corbett had been the man he was when he defeated M, -Govern the second time he would have put Hanlon out In the eleventh or twelfth round. Instead, he allowed Hanlon to stall through rounds when Eddie wa wohblv The refer, a declared de-clared hS WOUld have Judged the fight a draw In the nineteenth round, but Hanlon Han-lon showed so much superiority In the twentieth that the decision had to be given to him Hanlon landed a greater number of blows and forced the fighting during most of tho rounds. COrbei! showed plainly the damage whl. h Battling Nelson did to him In their Inst fight He winced when Hanlon lilt him r.n the stomach, and early In the fight Hanlon hnmmere l him there re-p.atedlv. re-p.atedlv. as Corbett was also poor at In-llghtlng In-llghtlng It was a singular exhibition of Incapacity to those who knew Corbett In his prime. Another bad feature was 1 fact that Cot bett's peconds dosed him with whiskey almost from the ontBet of the light. This accounted for Corbett's spurts at the opening of each round and hl slowing down when tho direct Influence Influ-ence of liquor was gone. The rerelpts were f' TT? 5". of which Hanlon gets 13000 and Corbett $13(W. |