Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — A PRIZE-FIGHTER'S ROMANOS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A PRIZE-FIGHTER'S ROMANOS.

the Story of How Jama* f. Corbett Won Hi* Wife. Mrs. James J. Corbett, wife of the present champion prize-fighter of the world, is 23, a yellow golden blonde with large gray-blue eyes and, it is saW, a perfect dlgure?' * » . r When the now famous fighter was one of San Francisco’s amateur athletes he met Miss Ollie Lake. Cfilie’s father was a widqWer who had gone to California from Amsterdam, N. Y., in 1869. Miss studying iu the State Normal School when young Jim first met her. An affection sprang up between the young folks, but Corbett’s folks not sanction

an engagement, the Lakes being Congregationalists, while the Corbetts were stanch Roman Catholics. The sweethearts were perforce obliged to wait, says the San Francisco Examiner. In 1886 Jim traveled to Salt Lake City to fight Duncan McDonald. There Miss Lake Joined him and a justice of the peace made them one. A second ceremony was performed when they returned to San Francisco, Mrs. Corbett embracing the Roman Catholic faith to concilitate her parents-in-law. A school teacher’s certificate to the State Normal School awaited Miss Ollie Lake in San Francisco while she was being married in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Corbett did not like prizefighting until a little after 10 o’clock on the Wednesday night when her iron-muscled husband knocked John L. Sullivan senseless and became champion of the world. Before that she thought fighting was “perfectly horrid:”

HRS. JAMES J. CORBETT.