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Tace for the championship of Norway. The fastest skat-
<ers In Norway participated. Including A, D. Norseng and
E. Godager, and although Hagen fell he won the race in
i6m. 42s., beating the second man by nine seconds. During
the Winter of 1886-87 he engaged in his initial profession-
,al race. His antagonist Avas Axel Paulsen, and the race,
which was one of 25,000 metres, came off at Christiania,
Hagen winning in 56m. 69s., he having the advantage of
•a strong wind behind. Afterwards, in an international
race at Hamburg, Ger., he took the three first prizes, and
placed the world's record for 10,000 metres at 20m. SOs.
Later on he won a 5,000 metres race at Christiania in 9m.
57s. On March 5,1888, he competed with Axel Paulsen in a
ten mile race for a stake and the title of champion speed
skater of the Avorld, then claimed by Paulsen. Hagen won
the race in SSm. 268. During the two following Winters he
did not take part in any race, but when, in the Winter
of 1890-91, H. J. McCormick, of St. John, N. B., arrived
in Europe, and challenged Hagen to skate for the title
of champion of the world, he promptly accepted. They
agreed to skate three races, at five, three and one
mile, In this order, six days elapsing between the first
race (on Feb. 16) aiid the others. Hagen was victorious
in each contest, the times being respectively 15m. 56^s.,
■9m. 15s., and 2m. 57>^s. The track was a quarter of a
mile in circumference. In the Winter of 1891-92 James
Smart, champion of England and Holland, went to Ha¬
mar, Norway, to train, and soon afterwards a match of
three races was arranged between him and Hagen, at
•one, three and five miles, for the championship, all of
which the Norwegian won,'taking the five mile event
in 15m. lis., Dec. 27,1891; the three mile race in 8m.
46s., and the mile in 2m. 49s., the latter two races being
contested on Jan. 1, 1892. The track was about 1,000
Tnetres in circumference. Later on Smart, being in bet¬
ter condition, visited Christiania and challenged Ha^en
to engage in another similar match, with the exception
that the longer event was to be ten English miles instead
of five. The challenge was accepted, and the first race,
ten miles, came off on Feb. 21,1892, on the Fjord, Hagen
finishing about 1,000 metres ahead. The time, 3Sm. 26s.,
was poor, owing to the fact that tAventy thousand spec¬
tators were present,the pressure causing about 400'metres
of the track to be covered with water. The other
•events, SSOyds. and two miles, took place on the bicycle
track at Christiania, Feb. 28, Hagen Avinning the first in
Im. 203^8. and the other In 5m. 4Ss. Overtures were made
to him by different parties on this side of the Atlantic,
proposing a visit here, but he preferred to wait till he se¬
cured a backer of reputation, or heard from some re¬
sponsible club. He finally made up his mind to visit us
this Winter, and he arrived at St, John, N. B., on Nov. 20.
prepared to make a match, or matches, with the fastest
skaters in the States and Canada,

Harry M. Jewett.-No amateur athlete in America is
better knoAvn than the Western runner whose portrait
.graces a page of this year's annual. A graduate of Notre
Dame College, in Indiana, of which institute he held the
xill around athletic championship for three years,he is noAV
a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, whose colors he has
borne to the front at the proper time in numerous races,
more than one of which were championship events. At
the games for the Western championship at Detroit in
1890 he defeated John Owen Jr., his clubmate, at one
hundred yards, and got a place in both the running long
and high jumps. He again defeated Owen at the August
games of their club, same distance, and afterwards went
to Syracuse, N. Y., where he beat Mortimer Remington
and secured first prize for the shot putting game. At Buf¬
falo, N, Y,, in 1891, he twice ran one hundred yards in
even time, and ran 220yd8. around a curve in 22|^s. At
the Canadian championship games, same year, he won
the furlong race around a turn In 22>^s. and finished so
<;lose to Luther Cary in the "hundred" that many thought
that the verdict should have been a dead heat. At De¬
troit, Sept. 29, he finished second by a foot in the 120yds.
handicap, won in ll%s., and at Travers Island, Nov. 17, he
won the 100 and 220 yards runs, in the latter event equal¬
ing his time at Toronto. During the past year Jewett
added materially to his fame as a fleet and improv¬
ing sprinter. Commencing operations on June 11, at
the Spring games of the New York Athletic Club, at Trav¬
ers Island, he carried off first prize for the "hundred,"
with George Schwegler second, in lO^s. He was beaten
four feet by Wager Swayne Jr. m the 220yds. run, the
time for which was 2S%s. At the games of the Canadian
Amateur Athletic Association for the championship, held
at the Montreal A. A. A. grounds on Sept. 24, Jewett was
successful in both the 100 and 220 yards events, run re¬
spectively in 103^8. and 21%s., the latter being the fastest
on record. Crossing the border, he made his appearance
in this city on the occasion of the annual championship
field meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union, held at Man¬
hattan Field on Oct. 1. Here he repeated his perform¬
ance at Montreal by capturing both the 100 and 220 yards
sprints, run in even 10s. and 21%s. respectively. In the
former Luther Cary was second and C, P. Spence third,
and in the latter Spence was second and Cary third. His
last appearance during the season was made at Travers
Island, at the Fall games of the New York A. C, when the
best he could do was to take third place in the SOOyds. run,
won by E. W. Allen, with W. C. Downs second.   Time, 32s.
 

He was before the record committee of the A. A. U. on a
claim of 9%s. for running one hundred yards. Jewett is a
native of New Y^^ork, stands 6ft. lin. In height, weighs 1641b
In condition, and his chest measurement is 39)4m. He Is
a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, and is a general

favorite.                             --------

James J. Corbett.—This accomplished professor of the
art of self detense, who at one bound leaped to the pin¬
nacle of pugilistic fame by defeating the theretofore
invincible John L. SuUivan, and thereby becQming
possessed of the title of boxing champion of the world,
was born at San Francisco, Cal., of Irish parents,
on Sept. 1, 1866, so that he is noAV in his twenty-
seventh year. He is half an inch over six feet
in height. He was given a good education at the
Sacred Heart College, and after he graduated and started
out to fight the battle of life, an Influential friend se¬
cured him a clerkship in the Nevada Bank, Avhere he re¬
mained several years. He joined the Olympic Club, the
leading amateur athletic organization beyond the
Rockies, and in time became an adept in the use of his
fists, being naturally fond of boxing, and taking advant¬
age of every oipportunity afforded him to engage in
friendly bouts with his felloAV members. Subsequently,
having become very proficient, he accepted an engage¬
ment as instructor to the club. He won the title of ama¬
teur heavyAveight champion of the Coast before becoming
a full fiedged professor of the science, and subsequently
met Jack Burke, the English professional, in a point
contest of a limited number of rounds, in which Corbett a
little more than held his own. The cleverness marking
his display on this occasian elevated him in the estima¬
tion of his firlends and clubmates, and doubtless had much
to do with deciding him to afterwards enter the lists for
what glory there Avas to be gained in the roped arena.
It was in the Spring of 1889, while he Avas employed by
the Olympics, that he made his initial appearance in a
ring erected on turf, his opponent being Joe Choynski,
and the agreement to try conclusions with nature's Avea-
pons being the result of a mutual desire to settle a long
existing grudge. They met near Fairfax, Marion County,
Cal., on May SO, 1889, and proceeded to settle their differ¬
ences. After three rounds had been contested, without
noticeable advantage or damage to either, the sheriff ap¬
peared and stopped the music. Efforts were made to se¬
cure a railroad train to carry the fighters and their
partisians into another county, but without avail, so
they returned to 'Frisco. This result did not satisfy
either principal, and soon afterAvards they mutually
agreed to fight for a purse according to rule. This they
did on June 6 following, the men and several hundred
spectators being conveyed by water to DUIoav's Point,
near Benecia, Cal., and the fight took place on a barge.
Corbett proved himself to be much the cleverer boxer,
and he flnaUy settled Sir Joseph after fighting tAventy-
seven rounds in Ih. 47m, Corbett wore two ounce
gloves, while Choynski used skin tight driving gloves.
Corbett met a number of other professionals of that
section in glove bouts of limited duration, includ¬
ing Dave Eiseman, Captain. Jim Daly, Duncan Mc¬
Donald, Mike Brennan, Frank Glover, Frank Smith,
Joe McAuliffe, John Donaldson, Matrin Costello
and Dave Campbell, all of whom he outclassed. Pre¬
viously to Sullivan's departure for Australia with his
theatrical company he and Corbett engaged in a friendly
set-to at the club house, which gave Jim a good inkling
of Sully's style, which no doubt proved of benefit later
on. In response to a telegram from Bud Renaud, of New
Orleans, he went to that city during the early part of 1890
and engaged in a six round glove contest with Jake Kil¬
rain, whom he was credited with outboxing, and the an¬
nouncement of this fact increased his reputation. He
afterwards came East on a visit, and while here met
Dominick McCaffrey in a four round boxing match in
Brooklyn, April 14, 1890, the latter bein^ easily bested.
Returning to San Francisco he gave up his position with
the Olympic Club, and not long afterwards was matched
with the black Australian heavyweight, Peter Jackson,
They fought for a purse of $10,000, offered by the CaUfor¬
nia Athletic Club, May 21,1891, the contest being declared
a draw after the sixty-first round, the little execution
done during the last half of the battle contrasting unfa¬
vorably witb the good fighting up to that time. Soon af
terwards he started on a sparring tour, visiting various
cities throughout the country, and gaining admirers
everywhere. When John L. SuUivan sent forth his mem¬
orable blast of defiance in the Spring of 1892, offering to
fight any man in the world for the championship, Corbett
was the only one to accept the terms, which he promptly
did, having for some time looked askance at the title of
champion of the world, and a match quickly resulted, as
business was meant on both sides. The particulars of
that memorable contest, for $20,000 in stakes and a purse
of $25,000 in addition, together with the championship,
are fresh in the minds of our readers and do not require
statement here, Suffice to say that the young and clever
Californian, to the astonishment of those who had for
vears worshipped at the shrine of Sullivan, vanquished
the long invulnerable man of Boston in twenty-one
rounds, lasting an hour and a half, at the arena of the
Olympic Club, in the Crescent City, Sept. 7, 1892. Sulli¬
van weighed 212& and Corbett 17SB). This victory placed
Corbett squarely on his feet financially, put his name in