The 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...
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