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...principals in San Francisco's first important title prizefight for 19 years, held last week, were Young Corbett (Raffaele Giordano of Fresno, Calif.) and Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein of Chicago) who won the welterweight championship three years ago, lost it to young Jack Thompson, won it back last year from Lou Brouillard. Corbett, flat-nosed, dark-haired, stocky, confident because he had beaten Fields once when the championship was not at stake, started the fight with a left to the chin that backed Fields against the ropes. Then for five rounds he executed a strategic retreat, peppering Fields with...
...Fourth "Corbett" to win a boxing championship,* Raffaele Giordano chose his pseudonym 13 years ago when, a newsboy who learned boxing in street fights, he was matched against a newsboy named Jeffries. James J. Corbett's brother ran a pool room; Raffaele Giordano bought his father a pool room out of his ring earnings, bought himself a service station when, after beating Young Jack Thompson in an overweight match, it began to seem likely that no welterweight champion would dare share a ring with...
Died. James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, onetime (1892-97) world's heavyweight boxing champion; of cancer of the liver; at Bayside. L. I. A clever disdainful boxer, he knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds in New Orleans, after politely contradicting, in a Chicago saloon, Sullivan's famed boast: "I can lick any son of a in the world." After losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons, trying unsuccessfully to win it back in two fights against his onetime sparring partner, Jim Jeffries, he earned a living by acting (Gentleman Jack, After Dark: or Neither Maid, Wife...
Died. Nellie Corbett Moody, 90, grandmother-in-law of Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. and of Helen Wills Moody; of old age; in San Francisco...
...sparse man of 58, his muscles are as tough as they were when 40 years ago he started to work for his father and installed a gymnasium next to 'his office. For some years he was considered amateur heavyweight champion and boxed with such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, "Battling" Joe Choynski. When the Illinois Athletic Club was opened in 1904 he took on Jack Johnson. At the end of the fight Johnson said, "I will back Lytton against anyone in the world." Merchant Lytton was a judge at the controversial Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago...