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against Fitz, and he'd put twenty- I kept boring in, but not chasing him
seven of it on at Allenhurst .. He'd too hard, and Corbett went on side-
eat a quart of ice cream for dessert. stepping, jabbing, cuffing at me. He
He was about all that the dreadnought was way out in fr:ont on points. I kept
division had to offer in my time, shoving my straight left at him, going
but I never took him seriously. Fitz in all the time. He slipped it easily.
knocked him cold in two rounds. He got to thinking it was a joke. He
'' The bigger they are, the 'arder they began laughing at me, flicking his left
fall." at me and making cracks when my own
Once, in camp, Tommy Ryan got left missed.
sore at Ed and soaked him on the nose The thunderstorm broke in the
with a croquet mallet. I stopped the twentieth round; just when it did, I re-
fuss-I think Ryan could have spotted member, I got my first chance. I muffed
Ed 100 pounds and licked him with his it. The rain had a gale behind it, and
bare fists-but Ed somehow got sore the thunder seemed to hit the building
at me. The next day, big old Ed tried when it cracked. The storm and the
to give me ,a pasting in the training crowd's yell made a hell of a noise.
ring. He got so mean :finally that I Corbett was coming in faster, hitting
clipped him on the chin with the train- harder, not trying so hard to get away.
ing glove and sat him down pretty While the uproar was loudest, he all of
sudden. a sudden gave me my chance. He
Ryan bawled me out for hitting Ed didn't break back quite fast enough
so hard. from my left. I slipped my left past
"You should talk," I said to Ryan. his chin, turned it for a short, chopping
"You hit him with a mallet!" swing at his jaw-and missed it. Jim
Ryan said: '' I know, but you might didn't know how close I'd come. I
have hurt your hand!" slowed up still more.
Sometimes people ask if I didn't
ever have a sparring partner try to The Punch That Got Corbett
sneak a punch over and lay me cold.
Well, I didn't set Ed down for trying In the next two rounds, Jim Corbett
to knock me out-just for being mean. actually tried to knock me out. As far
Usually I sparred with first-rate men- as points went, h~ had his title back
guys that were too square and smart to again, but he wanted to stop me. I
try to grab off some publicity by didn't know it until afterward. I'd
knocking me out. And the other an- slowed down to get him coming iri, but FOR YOU FOR THEM
swer is that when I got in the ring with he thought I'd. shot my wad. He
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had. If he had any trick, I wanted At the bell for the twenty-third, I
him to pull it. The only time I ever came out slow, baiting him. Corbett
touched up one of the boys was when slid in, jabbing me in the face, watch-
I :figured he was loafing-when he ing for a chance to park his right. The
wasn't trying. second he cocked it, pulling it back The Same
If I couldn't protect myself against just a little, I shot my left hand and
a sneak punch from a sparring partner, stepped in behind it. · I hit him two
how would I be when I got in with a punches in one-the straight left
guy that stood to win maybe a million clipped him, then I turned my hand
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in. The mob began yelling at us. It Jim Corbett came the nearest that
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tl}.understorm was going to break. It Editor's Note-This is the second of a series of Address, _________________ _
was sweltering hot in the fight pavilion, articles by Ms:. Jeffries and Mr. Orcutt. The next City _ _ _ ________ _._,tate- ----'--'--
and the crowd got restless. will appear in an early issue.