The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-11-25
DRILLING
CONTEST,
Previous Records Broken.
Fresthy and Talon the UnquestiOned
Champions Of The World
Burns and Lewis Have Challenged thS
Record Breakers for From
$500 to $4,000 Aside,

BUTTE. Nov. % The drilling lourua |
mont closed last night. ard Joe Freethy |
and Tom Talon are The unquestioned |
of the world. with the great
record of 3s Is IL inches. TO convince
skeptica people that then record of ;1S's
inches. made the first night, was not the
result of luck. thry gave an exhibition
night. and beat their first record by ZIG
of an inch. This performance throw
Davy and Tague's great record clear
into the shade, and stamps them as the
greatest drillers in the world. The fol
lowing is the order in which the teams
finished. and the prizes will be awarded
accordingly: Freethy and Tallon.:iS GIG:
Talon and Kitto. - BIG; Jenkins and
polhinhOrn. 31la; Davey and Taguc.
- 3 II: Burns and Lewis, 81 li-lG; Camp
bel. and Scnnette. 33 15-lG; Reagan and
Reagan. H3 i1G: Doble and Doble.
81 l2-1G: Page aud tiatfney.2I ll.lG: Nc
Auliife ana Mcdonald, ~ lj-lG; Talon
and Roberts, II lilo
Freethy and Talon have been IN only
four contests and they nave carried OIL
the first prize each time. Ahcarn and
Dwyer. the Colorado team, did not make
their expected appearance. They left
Lcadvlle all right and got as far AS Po-
catello. bat in laying over there to wait
for connection they got hold of news
paper winch contained record made by
t'reethy aud Talon. That settled 1t.
They knew they had no business trying
To beat 3S3a, and they turned right
around and started back home without
any further ceremony.
Before the drilling commenced to
night Page announced that he would ac-
cppt Taguc's challenge and arrange IA
/ match as soon as he got IN shape.
jenkins and Polkinhorn were the first
/ team to drill. polkinhorn did the
changing. They both struck about sew
pnty slow and powerful blows to the
minute. and kept it well all the way
( through. They had the best kind OF
| luck up to the thirteenth minute. then
the drill first struck and then broke oil
/ btdly, leaving Il big piece IN tle hoi
! The next also broke aud drIl'lug moo
pieces Of solid steel they could not make
any hea,lway. With this hard luck
against them. they drilled a thirty-tiva
and half inch hole.which was virtually
done in twelve minutes. II they hal
| had good luck all the way through they
would have come close up To FreethN
and TallOn.
| Dennis and Mike Reagan closed the
d g, eta Att
with the very first drill, which broke
fhghtly. Little pieces were chipred OH
, the next three and the fifth one broke
square across III" bit. This left hl4
1ir,r Of steel at the bottom OF the hole
aud tine sixth irlli was badly broken IN
forcing It's Nty through ii b'th mon
seemed TO lose IA little of their strength
along about the tenth m'uu'e. Ih'ii
( last two drills stuck badly. hut IL spite
! of al tins tncy got down .l}i5 mchra
Dayry and Roberts UuGyrtuOE to beat
/ .}G inches, hut luck was against them and
! they did not come any"her" near u
/ rhcv butu int terrific blows al acout ..
/ to thr minute, but they missed fer"rH
| strokes in changing pN!nG 10 id''N 81
/ prdciiring together. The lif@t t%o drili'
came out all right. bur fully hall IN
inch Of the bit Of the third one broke oil
| After that every drill was badly brokcr
! and battered from chewing up steel dnu
the men quit at the eleventh minute
| Tiis hole measured l0i ln1hcs.
/ Then Freethy and Talon went at II
again To- beat thoir first record, aud thci
accomplished the feat with an astonlsh
( ing degree of ease. The men worked To
oethcr well. Talon started IN at u,
| strokes to the minute and Frecthy at 81
and Il Is was dept up all the way through
4 They were very fortunate with thcli
drills. only breaking two Of them. After
| that. under the terrible rain uf mighty
! blows. the steel sank down INTO the DlI
/ block Of granite as though it WAS only
/ Christmas plum pudding. The announce
mpnt Of IS l3-lG inches was greeted witt
Wild and long. g.cont nued cheering.
Jack r'rcethy, who came over IRON
NHrysville to see his brother drlll anu
hack him. was the hupFlcst man IN tht
crow 4. and he was also heavy winner
lie offered odds of three to one mat me
men would beat their record. iie won
more than Sl.M0 during t"5 tOurnan'cnl
and lost only one bet.
4 match will be arranged between The
rcrrrI breakers and Burns and Lewis
l'rLn latter called at the Standard oiilct
tL,s afternoon and left challenge To the
u;rners IN the tournament, accompa
"ind Inv a forfeit of S5O. This forfeit wa'
,oo,,,nrai this evening by Freethy ant
T,linn who will drill them for an,
an,nunt from 800 to 5000. Burns ant
I'arras had hard luck when they drilled
M tboir hole measured 81 - and they
are confident that they can neat 'h'
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