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Show : Mm,f SfiHT-TO-H-FINISH - " ".-? m m j ' - ... - : v"; CHICAGO, Jan.' .26, William H. KothweU bette known a3 Young Corbett, the former feather-weight cham- 'pioii "passed through Chicago in company with his man- ager, Harry Pollock of New York. ' The pair will visit Rothwell's family at Denver for a few days, and then proceed to the Nevada battlefield by way of Salt Lake. . Nate Lewis, the manager of Kid Herman, stated that there is an excellent reason to believe that Promoter Riley of ..Tonopah will offer a substantial purse for Corbett and the Chicago Ghetto champion. There is a possibility of ' Attell and Herman meeting during the Tonopah fight carnival car-nival in March. Sporting critics all over th East are dlaffnsalng tha attitude of Manager M. M. Riley of the Casino Athletic club of Tonopah, Kyn toward tha Young Corbett-Harlem Tommy Murphy finish light which was arranged aevexal days ago at tha Metropole hotel In New York. Tha general attitude of tha critics la that Riley haa not beea la tha fighting game long enough to know a really good contest, and It is pointed out to prove this that the coming fight between Joe Qaaa and Jimmy Britt, which is the trump card of Riley's fight carnival, will probably be a streaming farce, despite the fact that Riley put np $25,000 for the match. One of the sports, in fact, had this to say: "Biley's opinion on a fight between Young Corbett and Haxlem Tommy Murphy, especially a finish contest, does not couat for very much. These two bovs were strong enough to pull the biggest crowd that ever packed the National Na-tional Athletic club of Philadelphia and there is sot a club ia the East which would not take them, if it could put up the money. The fight is worth a $10,000 purse at the very least, in the East or the West, and if they do aot get an effer from Nevada it will merely ba because the fight promoters of that ssetion have not been in the game long enough to distinguish class from riff raff." Matter Up to Richard, A dispatch wss received in New, York saying that the matter had been laid before Tex Biekard, the promoter, of Goldfield, Nev., who engineered the gpeat contest between Joe Oans aad attling Nelson last fall. Richard, unlike un-like Ruey, did not turn the matter down without any further ado. He said that from what he knew of the fighters, both of them were clever men. He was a bit uncertain about whether they would make a hit in the West. But Tonopah has gone too high in the minds of the public aa a fighting center, and Rickard is beginning to feel the force of competition. As soon as he hears that the sports are out after a fight he immediately pays attention to the matter and triee to do some business. This is just what he will do in this instance. After he has sounded the minds of the prominent sports of Goldfield, he will probably give his decision on the Murphy-Corbett match. His Rating Ia Bad. As a matter of fact Riley seems to have made a big mistake in his rating of the fighters. His choice of Kid Herman Her-man to meet Joe Gans proved a big failure. After Gans had won this fight as simply aa he would a fight with a newcomer, instead of seeking some really good man to oppose to the lightweight light-weight champion he matched the negro with Jimmy Britt. Britt has not been in the ring for over a year, is entirely out of condition and would undoubtedly fall a victim to either Corbett or Mur-phv. Mur-phv. The articles for the finish fight between be-tween Corbett and Murphy have been signed. The battle is to be fought on or before March 20, and bids will be received re-ceived for the next ten days. Each side posted $1000 as a forfeit yesterday, the balance to be posted on the day the bids are opened. The purse will be split 60 per eent to the winner and 40 per cent to the loser. |