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Show Corbett Was Best of All the Heavyweights i (By Ed W. Smith.) Chicago, Jan. 12. Choynskl. who was to box Marvin Hart In Lexington. Xy., the other night when the ownens of the opera house called off the Hart-Schreck Hart-Schreck bout, says that he would have taken part only In a short exhibition end that at the present time he has no serious Intention of re-entering the ring. Joo is a partner in one of tho most prosperous of the local physical culture cul-ture schools and Is getting along nicely. nice-ly. He can well afford to sit back and watch the battle from afar. "Corbett, In his day, was about the Ideal boxer," Joo said In the course of a lengthy discussion of tho situation list night. "Yes. running my eye back over tno entlro list of tho last twenty-Dve years I can recall none better nttea to carry car-ry off tho title, at least of champion boxer. "But Jim could fight, too, let me tell you. Remembor that 1 caught him when ho was young and fresh and full of ambition, and I can truthfully say . that Jim always had the fighting spirit, whether It was inborn or noL He was . . . . I . . U 1I I ' VUUUfUl HI III 1 LllUlS 111 UiU ling, although not at all endowed with natural physical tfrcngth or mgge dness. Considering this, Jim did wonderfully well. It was a cose largely of a bright, vigorous mind being be-ing able to overcome tno - tittle absences ab-sences that ring giants might have h3d but who were not blessed with Buch an active mind." . |