Gunboat Smith on Corbett, "He never picked a winner in his life!"

Well, I’m out in San Francisco when I got the call. I got into a place called Ogden, Utah, and I picked up a paper. I was coming east. And Jim Corbett had an article. He never picked a winner in his life, Jim Corbett. He said, “Leading Gunboat Smith to fight Bombardier Wells is like leading a lamb to slaughter.” I was with a big thick Irish manager of mine, and I says, “This goddamned Corbett never picked a fighter in his life. I’m gonna win this fight, now what do you know about that?

Funny excerpt from Peter Heller's "In This Corner", page 37