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Show JEFFRIES STOPPED " CORBETJ; IN CAMP .Previously Unwritten Chapter Chap-ter History.Disclosed. Disclosing a bit of previously unwritten un-written fight history, Jim Jeffries, la a chapter on his career, published In a recent Issue of Liberty, relates how he knocked out Jim Corbett while the latter was prepurlnjj. for the fight in which he lost the heavyweight title to I!ob FltzslnllIlo!lS, In 1881; "'. The knockout, as Jeffries tells the Hory, occurred when he first put the gloves on with t"oii)?tt In the latter's trulning camp at Corson f City, Nev. Accounts of the meeting at that time and since, however, has cred'ted Corbett Cor-bett with knocking out Jeffries, then a1 raw but powerful youngster recruited re-cruited from a Los Angeles . boiler chop to gerve as i sparring partner for Corbett. "Corbett didn't knock me out; I knocked hi in out, Jeffries Is quoted as saying. "The story thnt he knocked nie out was Just a ballyhoo for the fi'lit to worry I-'itzsInmions and boost Cor- . bett's stock by crediting him with a knockout punch. Pelaney (Coibett's manager) told me to say nothing and to be tuire not to contradict It If anyone any-one asked me anil I never did." According to Jeffries' version of the affair, wliL-ti occurred behind locked doors, his temper was aroused by an attempt to have him expose his chin for a knockout blow from Corbett. Cor-bett. .. They wanted to see Jf Corbett had a punch and they got me to step In and leave my chin uncovered while he took a punch at nie. It made me mad to 'know I'd been tricked. My lip was cut ngainsi my teeth, but Cor, bett never knew It. I rushed him and mixed for a minute, then I got a punch over. I hit him and knocked h I m against the wall so hard he nearly near-ly went through. "Then I pasted him a couple of good ones to keep him there nnd his hands dropped. He was done for and another punch would have finished bim. They rushed in and pulled me away and gave mp time to cool off. There wasn't any more boxing hai day." |