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Show II YELL AIDS CORBETT TO DEFEAT SULLP V rterr fistrr Ci:-?S ill o s' :'t .t.mV"J"n,iioi w, i i. ie tm.im ' nnj v mffif P v 1 v - -f r i r, - s v ! ' As 'k ;-. iOFJ' v ' I n ' - x s i?ro.h! '( xsx Only V 1 n . knmis! ' j I t TO lwt;..rt3ttiw i-i-i. hit CORBETT AND SULLIVAN IN 1916. - 'J James J. Corbett was in a Fifth avenue, New York, hotel, when n little old Irishman made his way through the crowd of Corbett's admirers an grabbing the once famous pugilist by the hand, said : "Say. don't you know me, Mr. Corbett?" "Don't know that I remember you," replied Gentleman Jim. "Well, you certainly ought to remember me look again." Corbett sized the fellow up critically, but could not place him. "Why, Jim Corbett, I'm the fellow who sat back of your corner at New Orleans just 24 years ago and yelled at you, 'You're not Irish if you don't lick him in the next round.' And you jumped from your corner at the sound of the bell, and with a right-hand jolt knocked Sullivan out and became the champion of the world. I always will believe that I made you the champion." "Say, I do remember someone yelling that nt me," exclaimed Corbett, "and, b the v?iy, it was just 24 years ago that I knocked out Sullivan and became the new champion." |