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Show JIM CORBETT BROKE. Former Champion Has Squandered Two Fortunes lu 15 Years. James J. Corbett, at one time the cleverest man who ever drew on a boxing glove, is now without a dollar and if it were not for his wife, who Tias'T Tittle tofe3a way," Tike all other " fighters of note he would have to depend de-pend on his friends for a livelihood. Corbett has made and squandered two fortunes, but claims he will start to make a third. Few men there are who spend such sums in order to be a "good fellow" such as "Gentleman Jim" has. Nevertheless Corbett says it pays to be a "good fellow." During all his life he has made money and believes be-lieves in spending it liberally with his friends. The former champion said the other day he would rather have the good fellowship of good fellows than all of the money of Rockefeller and Morgan. He believes in having a good time as he passes down the roadway. "When you make plenty of money," said Corbett, "why not spend It with the good people, the Bohemians, your friends the world in general? 'Live and let live," the old motto, is my motto. Give 'em all a chance. Keep the stuff in circulation. It costs money, mon-ey, you know, to be a 'good fellow.' You must have the chink at all times to keep up your end, and when yon get in with a hunch that don't happen to be quite as strong financially as yourself you must keep up their end, too. You are required at times to make sacrifices which you would gladly make to help out a chap in hard luck. "It may be that I am a little soft on this point, but I can truthfully say I never refused a deserving fellow a dollar and if the truth is to be told I must say that I have enough I O U's in my desk at home to plaster the side of a farm barn; and these, too, in sums ranging from H to a thousand." |