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Show TTlti the enthusiasm over Champion Jerries entering the ring wasted and the authorities' Interference with the rita-rurni battle, the lemon act scheduled sched-uled for St. Patricks day, in which Gana is again, te play the leading role, asstuaes proportions of rather a noticeable notice-able character says "Jim" Corbett. On the dope furnished by psst contests. BrUt hasn't any better show In landing a victory than Herman had. He will be outclassed out-classed Just as badly, and In all proba-. proba-. bllity Gans will again make good the boast that ten rounds is enough to finish fin-ish any one of the light-weights except Nelson. ' . . . Britt Is a good little man, but not .in the running with Oans for a minute when the black man Is In shape. m Put It will take another contest of tne character of the Herman alfalr to wake the Nevada fight promoters out of their dream. ' . In fact, already the pugilists are being notified that the purses In the Nevada country are beginning to take on a natural nat-ural sise, and that in the future It will have to be something pretty good to reach the mark set by Nelson and Gans at Goldfleld. If It were possible to secure an opponent oppo-nent that would give Jeffries a battle, then and then only would the big purse be warranted. I look to see the Brltt-Gans affair a bigger mistake financially than the Gans-Herman Gans-Herman fiasco. The people are not going to give up their good hard coin to see Gans maul a man he outclasses. One fight In which I took part the public pub-lic has never been able to understand. It was the Sharkey affair at Coney Island. Isl-and. And before I go any further let me say that if ever a fighter was called upon up-on to use deception to cover up an In- ury it was my part upon thlsoccaslon. have been accud of quitting and deliberately de-liberately giving Sharkey the fight, but while I have never openly declared myself my-self before, I want to say that I was required re-quired to display more nerve on that occasion oc-casion than in all the other fights put together, with the one exception of the fight with Jeffries at "Frisco. It will be remembered that Sharkey copped me a stiff swing in the second round of the fight, and I went to the floor with my legs crossed. Well, when I rose my head was a bit dlssy, and I paid little attention to my feet, so stalled through the round without with-out any further trouble. In the third round I noticed a painful feeling In my ankle. In the meantime-1 was stalling along with Sharkey, fighting him a hand-to-hand battle. My friends looked on In amaxement. Neven before had I i elected to mix It with a big tough fellow. My ankle kept getting worse and I could barely step on It. I knew If I made a yell tne people In the audience would give me the laugh, so I went on. Contrarv to all my plans 1 was forced to fight Tom at close quarters. I knew that so long as I was able to stand I would stick, as Sharkey Is dangerous' only at long range, when be can get In a swing. Finally I told my seconds that It was all tip, and unless Sharkey went down quick I would be helpless with the stiff ankle. They begged me to go on and I did.' I had lost control of one foot entirely en-tirely by this time. , . . When the ninth round was reached my ankle had swelled to twice its normal sise. According to' the articles, we were not A LU J II - CI I t iu mi in I'lini'iirv. Duarney Riirw to bring the fight, to a quick end. and he began disobeying the rules. My second also saw the chance to bring the fight to an end so he climbed into the ring and protested against Sharkey's actions, only to hear the referee award the battle bat-tle to Sharkey, because he had broken the rules by jumping Into the ring. I fought practically eight rounds under a most terrible handicap. In foot work I was helpless. I might Just as welt have had wooden legs. I was compelled to rough It with the very man who liked that sort of game best. |