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Show Tells Urifisliers If Is Their Turn fo Take Home the Money. PRAISES O'KKIjLV AND URGRS HIM TO FIGHT Is Not So Sure That Jeffries Can Defeat Jack Johnson for Championship. Tribune Spoolal Sporting Service XKW YOKK. SopL. I. James .1. Cor-hott, Cor-hott, ho oi tlie pompadour haircut and histrionic talents, to say nothinu of his tenure as champion pugilist some venrs ago. has burst forth in righteous mdig-nation mdig-nation over tho .'Mnusing .loirrios-.lohn-son situation. " Gentleman .Jim" is now basking in tho Approving smiles ol gonial British music hall audiences. Kli Irno snaveness C'orbett has been flattering the staid and sport-loving subjects of King Edward about tho perfect per-fect build of their heavyweight athletes. Ho professes to hope that the championship champion-ship of tho big fellows' division will go to the island kingdom in thc ucnr future. fu-ture. However, between tea sips "Gentleman "Gen-tleman .linii' has found 1 into to take a dig or so at the heavyweight situation. In addressing a group of Englishmen recently, Corbott is quofod as having said: "I believe that .lefl'ries intends to , meet Johnson. 1 haven't any special Jiilormatiou on the subject, but everything every-thing points to his having let himself be tempted. Whether ho will be able to do tho trick if he and Johnson do nfect is quite another matter. Jt will be asking ask-ing Jeffries to perform a prottv sizable ; mirnclo in tho ordinary wnv: lint then that isn't saying that 'ho might not bo able to como back into the ring as good, or nearly as good, as he was when he retired. re-tired. Any 100I can figure out on paper that it wouldn't, bo such a hard iob. seeing that Jim is only 3-1, just a year or so older than Johnson. But then Johnson has never quit the ring and Jeffries has, and it is just hero that tho trouble lies. Go After Title. isy l lie way, J am really sorrj to see so little chance of a British heavyweight heavy-weight coming forward and picking up the titlo. It is high time that a British-or British-or won it, and yot there doesn't seem to be much chance of tho right man coming forward. "1 can't understand your big men. You have got a good few about, and T fail to sco why it never occurs to t hem to havo a try for the money thcro is laying waiting for them. There's that big iellow O'Kelley, thc wrestler I mot him in Manchester a man who was built expressly for tho ring. He has got every plrvsieal point in his favor and looks to mo as likely to do far better bet-ter in the ring than over he could on tho mat, no matter how successful he might be nt tho latter. Why doesn't ho havo a try? It wouldn't hurt him to mako a trial, and if he found that it suited him, well, he would only have to go to America and pick up a tidy fortune. for-tune. Given half as much science as Driscoll, Welsh or Moran. and there wouldn't be a man to stand up to him with his build and strength. "So wake up, j'ou Britishers. American Amer-ican boxers havo taken a lot of English Eng-lish money over to tho states, with them. It is quite timo that yon sent some big men over to fetch it back." |
