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Show BETTING PUZZLES M'GOVERN PARTY 6am Harris Says He Cannot Under-; Under-; stand the Odds Demanded by Corbett 's Adherents. Bam Harris, manager of Terry McGovern, Mc-Govern, and party have left Chicago for the coast, where Harris Is going to look out for the Interest of his little protege in the latter's coming fight with Champion Cham-pion Young Corbett Incidentally when Harris returns he expects to have an addition to his party. He is cocksure that he will need a porter or something of the kind to carry back all the laurels and the championship that the wily manager is sure his boy will win. Never was a man more confident before be-fore a fight that he would bet the long end of the purse, a strange fact being that he has none of the misgivings that crop out when Terry talks of his match with Young Corbett One thing that troubles them Is the way the betting Is gotng. On his previous victory Corbett should be a slight favorite, notwithstanding the latter's rather poor showing since that battle. However, the champion's supporters are demanding all kinds of. odds on the fight and are not inclined to bet their money unless they get them. "X don't know why we should not get at least even money," said Harris Just before leaving. "This boy Corbett is foxy. These bad looking fights he has been putting up are nothing to Judge by. It ia a well known (act that he has not been In condition since he won from Terry almost two years ago. However, we will make the best of it and will place our money any way, so sure are we that Terry will win. Terry writes me that he is already under weight and Is In no danger of taking ta-king on any more flesh. He says that he likes the California climate and would wish nothing better than to train there for every one of his fights. His little gettos with Corbett since he arrived on the coast, he says, are greatly great-ly exaggerated, although there is not the best of feeling between the two boys," |