... GENTLEMAN JIM CORBETT DEAD MAN WHO MADE BOXING HISTORY From On Own Correspondent New York. Saturday. JAMES J. CORBETT IS DEAD. GENTLEMAN JIM ,' TH E GREATEST OF OLD - TIME BOXERS, AND THE MAN WHO MADE RINGCRAFT THE GREAT CLEAN SPORT IT 18 TO-DAY, PASSED ...

... all. It was a record—£s.ooo purse and £9.000 stake money—and it made his name world-famous. GAY LIFE They called him Gentleman Jim and Pompadour Jim because of his trim mode of dress. but he didn't mind. In the ring he was a battler with nothing ...