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Show HERMAN IS GIVING I Corhett and Windy City Fighter 1 Will Divide Ten-Tliousand- 1 Dollar Purse, 1 GANS LENDS HELPING I RAND TO YOUNG CORBET? Tim McGrath Is Training thoj Denver Boy for Coming Contest. Tribune Special Sportlns Service. . SAN FRANOISCO, Feb. 23. Theroj will bo enough stirring in. Nevada on' tho 18lh of next month. If present .ar-r rangemcnts go through two fights will be held which wijl attract attention' outside the boundary lines of tho sagebrush sage-brush commonwealth. In other words, a the Gans-Britt mill will not play by I itself. Harry Pollok gave assurance H last week that the Herman-Corbetts I match had been clinched for Reno on H March 13, the day Gans and Britt wilL 1 inoet. A couple of gambling men by 1 the names of Kohl and Johnson, who R manage a large casino at Rono, aro pro-1 I rooting the contest, for which they I B havo hung up u $10,000 purse. Tha- IN purse is ample. The weight agreed up- II on. 136, three hours before iho fight j BIB indicates that Corbctfc is not the pudgy I I littlo feather-weight ho onco was. I I When he was fighting hero he could . I 9 do as low as I2S. Herman fought Gang I I at 133 ringside, and mado tho weighs I in a bloody walk. The Chicago fighter I is really a 130-p6nnder. so ho is giving R away moro weight to Corbetc than he- j did to the champion, who whipped himj U without going to the bat. Though fight-i B i.ng at a much heavier weight than! J ever before Harry Pollock seems per- fectly satisfied with his protege, fon 1 ho says: "Tho kid is really in good jl shape." and I oriy wisli that ho hadl 1 1 behaved himself three years ago one ! half as well as he has done now." If the ox-champion is bested at; B Kcno.it won'r. bo for lack pf prepaTa- n tion. Unless ho changes his mind ho H will work with Joe Gans at Tonopah. It H will be recalled that recently Gans ofx i fered to bet part of his bankroll on' H C'orbctt to beat most anj- lightweight,' I barriug his distinguished self. Corbotq B fl and Gans have been on intimate terms. B ever since they worked together at Sanj 1 1 Rafael r year or so ago. When a f el- B low is down and out. trust Gans to givaj H him a helping hand. .Toe was once downy B fj and out himself, and -therefore know g what the sensation feels like. Tho Tonopah club may havo some ob.iec- H tion to Corbctt. who is to appear in a1 U counter attraction, fitting himself in Gans camp, but, anyway, this is Pol- lock's present intention. Tim McGrath.: formerly of San Francisco, but now on. Wall street, has been asked to tako, charge of the training. Usually Harry, Tuthill trains Corbctt, and perhaps hoj would have him now if he could secum his services. Tuthill trains tho Is'ow York National League- club overv year J and beforo it is time to fight Tuthillj will bo expected to report to Mugseyj McGraw at Los Angeles. But Mc-j Grath knows Oorbett like a book, for; ho has handled him before. , |
