Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-01-27 | Page 6 | An Old Timer's Scrap Book

11 A OliD TIc jl CR RA RABy lP By Dy TIM McGRATh Six days dars after the unsatisfactory San Anselmo match between bel Jim Corbett and Joe Chonski I attended the famous barge battle which was the result o of the up break-up of the former light fight b by peace authorities Through Eddie Granc Graney I was able to see the match which was one of the classics of at the prize ring 4 I was in hi 0 corner comer We Ve all quietly boarded a launch before daylight headed daylight ht headed somewhere In Suisun bay we tied to the barge owned by Williams one of or Corbetts Corbett's seconds The same seconds and officials as at San Anselmo officiated Cho two ounce glo glo es es were missing A souvenir hunter stole them donned a pair of driving gloves cs owned by byn a spectator Before the bell Ashe to get goat slipped a 1000 bill in I Corbetts Corbett's gloved hand and told him to bet with His idea Idea was to hearten Corbett and discomfit Joe But Cor Corbett tt had no more moret t I than crossed the ring and sh shown tl the 1000 before Hose GU Gunst San Francisco 5 sportsman backing shouted hed he'd take the bet gr grinned Cd as Corbett went back after the Ule bet was made At sunup they started V v. v I The seventeenth saw Corbett suddenly stop boxing to give Chonski the hardest b body beating bealIng Ive I've ever cr seen stell a man suffer Coming out desperate In the eighteenth succeeded In dazing Corb Corbett tt but butI I Jim somehow lasted lastro th the round From the nineteenth to the twenty twenty- twenty twenty-i first Corbett beat bent face so O hard that his seconds actually had to trim him off the shredded flesh with scissors i I In the twenty fourth I a asked d Grone Graney Grancy whom I was helping to throw lup up the V sponge Joe Joe e jut Just tottering to his corner comer heard neI me n muttered I li EddIe dont don't throw the spon sponge e let him kill kUl me mc first he lie muttered through wu bleeding Ups lips To Eddie Eddies s a tearful plea ulea that he stop reply was as Noi No Youre You're my friend You'll not be sticking with me if rou give away the thc fight I In III the twenty seventh Corbett knocked Joe down five Then humane Instincts outweighed out friendship and Francy threw in the sponge We helped cam carry poor Joe Joo to lil his corner I Cho ui went to a bathhouse and remained there five da days s Cor Cor- CorI I K bett ha had lo to walk with a cane for tor some sonic time because of the rib punching UC he look I t z J. J 4 I t L' L r r 4 t tL J. J k li A J ML