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Show William Muldoon Amazed at Jim Corbett's Speed William Muldoon, New York's grand old man of boxing, believes that Jim Corbett, the wiry dancing master from San Francisco, had the most endurance endur-ance of the old-time heavyweights. "Corbett, moving fast all the time," he says, "gave the greatest exhibition of sustained speed and endurance I ever saw iu his Gl-round match with Jackson in the early '90s. "About the forty-fifth round Jackson, Jack-son, dragging an injured leg behind him, finally drove Jim Into a corner, where he wanted him, but Corbett jumped clear over the negro's shoulder. shoul-der. . . . And that was after two hours of fighting. "Jim was so relieved at getting out of the tight place that he laughed hysterically to himself for two whole rounds. Corbett probably would have regained the heavyweight title from Jim Jeffries at Coney Island In 1900 but for his theatrical friends at the ringside. ring-side. They applauded him constantly, shouting, 'Great boy,' 'He's a wonder,' until Jim, always listening for words of praise, turned once too often to smile. "Jeff landed one left hook on the head. That one was enough." Liberty Magazine conducted a straw vote among its employees to determine the most popular sport from the standpoint stand-point of a spectator. A surprising result re-sult developed. Out of 72 votes cast for all sports, 43 favored college football foot-ball and only nine baseball ! According to that poll a literary atmosphere is surely fatal to baseball, for the proportion is not at all consistent con-sistent with the poor attendance last season announced by the National league. The fact Unit the ballots were cast when baseball was in retirement and football was at its peak most likely accounts for the strange discrepancy. There is, nevertheless, a well-defined belief that baseball among the youngsters young-sters Is giving way in favor of other seasonal pastimes. Its failure to Interest In-terest college undergraduates has long been a matter of discussion. According to Adolph Topperweln of El Paso, Texas, admittedly one of the best marksmen in the world, miniature minia-ture golf is ruining the shooting of the present generation. When Andy Cohen, former second 1 baseman of the New York Giants, was doing a turn In vaudeville, he told a story of a time when he was sent in as a pinch-hltter at Buffalo In the International In-ternational league. "Cohen batting for Murphy," wai the announcement, followed by a shout from the stands : "Flanagan leave the park." If Flanagan had been at one of the games in the Giants-Reds series recently re-cently at Cincinnati he would hare had to leave the ipark, for this an. nouncement was made: "Rosenberg running for Hogiw." m |
