Show WE FIG MAN MANI WILLIAM A. A BRADY the Most Picturesque Figure in inthe inthe I L I the Sporting and Theatrical World Tells His Life Story I r Copyright 1 1914 by bv William 3 J A. A Brad Brady CHAPTER CHArTER xu After the tile Corbett tour Lour III In England and his in Purl Paris I J went vent hack to America on tho th Majestic i a t wc week k ahead of ot others to show you 1 0 how the Interest t In ill pugilism grown when w e we cast anchor In the tho hll hay av the steamer was vas surrounded h hy by from all au the New York papers trying to In got gL an Inter Inter- vl view If v. They shouted for Cor Brady and I r was fd from rom side sille of ot th the boat beat w shouting t questions back and forth across the sLI Ir of oC water vater that separated d th their lr tin tiny j craft from Crom tho tiit liner The one ono particular particular parti parti- cular thing the they wanted to I know MH whether Corbel Corbet would tight sight Fitzsimmons Maier Maher or Ir somebody else elliC It IL IK Is almost Impo Impossible to the interest that vae 8 taken laken t bv Iw the public ImbUe in III nt ut that time titus Tho The reason renon why I them here i II small Internet Interest In it toda today 1 I 18 be be- Ka 1 S cause there Is no head d to It If It some som f nn flue fine big clover clever young oung fellow would conic come forward tomorrow find and pulverize Mr Jack Johnson pugilism would revive c instantly It Is II under tinder a n cloud now bile bile-a because us a black blackman blackman man n JP happens nR to hold the ch championship championship- u a black man who might have hav done his race more mort good than Booker T T. Washington Wash ash ington or anybody else If It Johnson had baa had bad the tho executive ability the mental caliber e tho the natura or the disposition of ot I have o down in history his his- Corbett he lie gone Jone tOI tory a as 5 on one one-of of or the greatest men the negro ro Taco race has ever clr A negro not hope to be governor I or even rn mayor But Dut next to that Mutt to be the b best t lighter hi in tho orld World the he Iu remo physical organ 11 of or the world wax was a n great t heritage to be handed handell to n a black man nina Johnson Johnon unquestionably had lt hadu u n good s brain If Jr ho had bad pursued the tho name course as tS Corbett ami and stuck to hl hi own race If IC ho lie had bail not flown down In tho the face taco of justice and aud made himself an o out outcast t. t cast from Irom his bis own country ho tie might have had allY anything thing thing- It ii the world from the whites and Ind blacks But no He lie failed Called to grasp his opportunity and his rl race o Ha haS half 01 been compelled to bear with him this the burden burden bur bur- den of the tue obloquy ho lie has hae Incurred incurred- It Ita a wag a stormy time when Cornell Corbett got sot back t. t to America Pugilism had IO gone forward for Cor- ward bo tr b-tr Py leaps and bounds There were ere twenty men eager ager for tor an au o opportunity to meet the champion While w wed we'd 11 been in E Europe Eop op the prestige had d de deVeloped eloped wonderfullY in this country He lie was us now th the tue acknowledged wl- wl edged middle weight champion BeSideS Beside th this a h hll he had boxed with i hey heavy wel weights hh and had won several matches matche b by clean clenn cut knockouts and he stood ready and willing to meet Corbett roi tor the tile hl heavy weight ht championship he ho claimed to L tip D standing the tho fact that 0 Continued Continue on page o 18 L I. I ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL SPORTING NEWS I T THE FIGHTING MAN Continued from sport page the scales at pounds To be sui sura Corbett weighed very CY little more mora th than thon not not more than pounds at 1 his b beet beat st st. But although Fitzsimmons w was light In th the legs he was a heavy beav weight above the waist Furthermore Corbett about this time had hadd got rim ring gear tear car Naturally e every m mOon hates to risk the crown eron he ho has won It ItIs Is 18 a a. one sided affair at best Ho lie h has hns everything to lose 1080 and anil no nothing thins to gal gain Corbett was earning an anywhere from rein i 75 to a a. year lie was living Irving c on the fat tat of the land It all looked mighty good to him and he hated hated to take a chance of losing It ft We were ere all aU In clover for tor that matter everything e wt was going swimmingly But victory 1 has hM 1 Us Its worries no le less than defeat Every h tr triumph triumph tri tri- brings Its apprehension And Am v wo the tho public on once beg began n to that If got It Into their heads that tt Corbett wm was afraid fraid of ot this revenue evenue wool would Imm Immediately 11 disappear And that which we ve f feared came ups upon us On our our arrival In New Ne' York from Europe and on Corbett exhibiting are a 3 re- re thi that to accept the challenges FitzsImmons had repeatedly hurled at bin him our audiences began to melt 30 away Something Some Some- thing had to bo be done this time an Irish sailor looms loomed About A o t above o the pu pugilistic III Uc horizon on the Pacific Pacific Paci Pact fic coast const The name of this newcomer was ns Tom Sharkey Also Peter Malion Mali Maher on account of or Iris his wonderful knockout although he knew little or nothing noth noth- although punch althOugh ing ng about boding boxing b was rapid rapidly becoming an Idol Charles Kid McCoy l another nother grant foat boxer halt had come to too tho front during on our tout tour In Europe Europa McCoy weighed d about abou blow blo- and had a remarkable 10 pounds short snappy blow like the snap snap o of ofa a Ho hit tilt Sharkey at the Lennox a R whip Athletic club with this blow and k kim knocked him im at least last six sir or 01 eight feet In fact went Into the air de a Sharkey with the floor short abort curve cur and hit the back of or his hiI M head d. d With alt all these aspirants after his crown Corbett lived a ann very unhappy life Ute Just about this time Each of the would be had friends who bragged abou ChA champions a their lr Idol and who sneered a at Cor Corbett's Corbetts tl's to treat Impossible reticence It v was I as their taunting with dignified silence since area the sporting writers In tho the newspapers first began to hint at lit a curious reluctance reluctant ou out and then came IDe Corbetts Corbett's part on openly and char charged cd him with cowardice something mus must And BO eo we realized d that and done dono quickly be bc done Un Understand Corbett as not p physically th that afraid of anybody It was waa 9 ring fear the ed him There was waa more mor than nh possessed e drubbing In the ring danger of ot a mere prestige i iSo of or losing the danger daner there was 1 for a means mans to avoid 1 0 about cast So Sono no wo eons In Interest In- In to by 3 which this We 1 sought ht a a way with any kind of n n n. 1 the public mind tere terest t of or t temporizing tem tem- temI match This was only a wa way I but It was WUI better thanin than I I admit I Ithe inthe in inthe remained had nothing Peter Ja Jackson Cor- Cor Cor-II Cor after the game and was constantly constant willing willingto bett tt and the latter was perfectly I Ito he ho he knew v that to meet him because other somehow or safe But ha had had J him and all terms torms not agree upon th they could fruitless fruit fruit- a match were attempts to arrange fruit fruit- plight a strapping strap midst of or our In the strapping strap strap- lu less Australia named Steve e ping fellow from wS loomed ODonnell O'Donnell was I e a ODonnell O'Donnell up clever boxer but lacked w wonderfully I stamina flamina and ring wisdom I II a Corbett Corbell and myself lC hit upon So aspirants b by off orr the staving scheme of I ODonnell O'Donnell Into the ch champions champion s place shoving as It were We Ye tried to force Fitts make ke a match with the newcomer newcomer new new- 1 to m simmons from Australia and to this is about comer we went co so far as to put up 10 i with Uh the New Ne' York Tork Herald Herold But was as too wary wary- ace He wanted anted Corbett or nothing IOU Tou se see all fin was gaining moro more this time lime Fitzsimmons reputation n b. b by meeting everybody every every- everybody and more that at defeating them theme We e felt and body boN of O'Donnell's contemptuous ht hi was as that that red considered that 11 he be prowess worthy had riot not made madee good sufficiently en In Inthe Inthe entitle him to s such stich a 8 match matchu to the tins ring to force forc upon as u we wc wore were trying mons coons and th that t. t In consequence lanky lank Bob would Rtin nothing In reputation contest st with mth ODonnell a a. from re p-re prestige Te Uwe Ure bolster O'Donnell's So to up the theand him within th the bring to and in a n anay wa way nay foolishly arranged arranged ar challenge zone sone we et very ranged tor him to meet Jake In to n contest in tn an round eight Boston exhibition ODonnell O'Donnell made a miserable e at ain who was an end nd failed to b blat beat 11 Iran then thenan and that settled ODonnell O'Donnell eld cid trans tran saw a more remarkable there ther I 1 never ne an and J ref of ring hie ble example of th the e operation It psychology than during durins- this match will be remembered tha that t had long loner drawn marvelously mat fought Sullivan a a a. out battle awa away back In After r that he had lain dormant so o far as we e kno know slid hd had but now nol b been en resurrected for tor this contest with ODonnell O'Donnell It Tl was like bringing nJ a a. race nce horse that had passed th the period of his u usefulness and had been relegated relegate to to the p peddlers peddler's cart back to torace torace race Tae a D. year two ODonnell O'Donnell was Wa only 22 years rears old an and was AI A S perfect specimen of an athlete It vias ryas almost almost- an Insult to put him him up UD against such auch U a 1113 roan man II as sprain But even e men who possess ring wisdom ld m and coolness s In the last st I degree are apt to ha have havi their hods h ds turned by taunting an at di did aid Pompadour Jim In his bill light fight with wit Charley Mitchell l at nt Jack Jacksonville I imag hn imagine ine me that the Australian youngster oun ster wa was wag not used to the cruel guying that is par part of ot ring tactics Be He that as It may John L. L Sullivan an squatted himself back of oC s corner come and Corbett occupied the tho same same- position In ODo nells nell's corner conter Sullivan raved ave and r roasted a led ODonnell O'Donnell all An through h tho h bout and ud threw taunting nn and remarks across tho the ring to Corbett the tho new champion All AH tho the retorts retort that Corbett Corbett Cor Cot bett or an any one ono el else o made had no more mora effect on the stolid I than Ihan a acorn corn corn- stalk gad d' d would have ha on a n plow horse But nut th there thoro ro Is hi no doubt that Sullivan's Sullivans beh behavior behlor lor anti remarks were vero the means menns o of causing O'Donnell's pitiable exhibitions moro more than an any other thing After the bout Sullivan was wa in n Rey Reynolds y- y hotel In Bo Boston ton as ODonnell O'Donnell Delaney Dc De- lone laney and myself passed parsed through to catch the tho midnight train No sooner Booner did be he catch 81 sight ht of us than he rushed over o grabbed ODonnell O'Donnell b by the arm and started to repeat tome some of the insulting language he had used during the tho match Notwithstanding tan Hns the fact that th Sullivan nn woe an old man ODonnell O'Donnell stood like a chump and took it nil all all but wh when n. n as l I thought the tho Bostonian had gone ono farenough far farenough enough h I pu pushed hod ODonnell O'Donnell Aside faced Sullivan and handed him tho the same Rama kind Q jf rf abuse hed he'd given Riven to ODonnell In fact I slapped his face and he did not resent It lt This was all aU a a. case CABO of blurt bluff blurton on my part since Sullivan could h have ve crushed me ma with a blow blo But it goes to show that when those fellows got sot up against anybody with a little nervo nerve they were no good The Tho only prize n fighter who had ST great at pluck outside the ring as well as in lri it was waI Charles Mitchell Mitchell was wa game and was a f fighter r In the full sense of the word oro Ho Ito was cruel but he ho was the nerviest one ono I ever knew As un an Instance of or his pluck when he ho was wu in New York trying to got set Corbett to meet Stavin In the former was playing at Miners Miner's theatre on the flowery Bowery One night ho hc was in tIn the barroom next nest door to the theatre surrounded with the tho cream of ot east side fighting men who were veto his friends friend when in came am Mitchell and Sullivan an After a while Mitchell went over to Corbett had a few words with him and invited him to go down tho the cellar and fight tIGht him then and there there thera an anthis and this in spite of or tho the fact tact that Cor Corbett ctt was surrounded b by hh his adherents The Tho farce b between tween ODonnell O'Donnell and II- II rain Instead J of helping us out of our dilemma b by apP appeasing 1 the tho public e clamor for tor a match only sene served to stir sUr up new rancor The press went at us with re renewed renewed re- re energy enem and vl vigor or Wo stood the tbt lambasting that the they gave O us as long as we I could and at last realized that it was as absolutely that Corbett meet Fitzsimmons To bo be continued |