The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-06

Prince Warwick, who was transferred TO
tho the Austrian government in 1893 for
use in tho royal stables, tho price paid be-
ing 10000. His sire, Almont Medium,
record 2:1S4, is now in Iowa. Warwick
Medium had been ailing ever since last
September, when he was taken from the
cars at North Yakima for n race at tho
state fair. He first showed it while he was
being uncarred, and was too sick to so on
the track.
Aside from his peculiarly handy man
ner of putting men out by conversational
and other means, JIm Corbett has facul-
ties which have won for him tho prestige
of ''wise guy" among those who are de-
voted to the manly art, either as patrons
or professors. He was approached this
week with n proposition that he fight Mr..
Fitzsimmons with only a kaleidoscope for
an audience-the owner of the machine to
give the purse and make il large enough
10 let the gate go. He promptly declined
the offer, says the Pioneer Press, and gave
as his reason for declining the fact that
il would not be possible for men to fight
under bloomsbury rules before the ma
chine, as it took too long TO adjust the in
strument to make the time in the fight
certain. The rest between rounds is 10
btCOuues anu TIC says lLdl no hLONS lEOll
experience that it takes more than 10
seconds TO adjust tho instrument, and
man could fight n whole lifetime without
getting winded IL he had TO wait for the
machine between rounds.
But he hardly told the whole truth. The
kaleidoscope is so built that if one of the
contestants should happen to get punch
in the right place, and not thereafter
change his position until the undertaken
changed IL for him, the kaleidoscope would
do the George Washington act and refuse
TO tell lie. MIR. Corbett has probably
not inquired into the competency of the
kaleidoscope as a witness but no does not
intend 10 take chances. 1t is among the
possibilities that when the two men face
each other in the ring there may be some
thing untoward happen and the coroner's
jury can lay the blame on the contact of
the Uranium of the deceased with the
floor, with much better grace if there is no
lying kaleidoscope around TO prove the con-
trary.
But the probability of death resulting
from prize fights is really not great. Since
the Lavigne affair some statistical fiend
has been at work and has discovered that
only 40 men have died in regularly con-
Quoted prize fights during tho present
century. This is in America alone and in
that time there have been something like
5000 fights, so that the actual chances of
Heath are apparently n good deal lower
than those taken by tho average citizen
when he goes out on the street after dark
The same statistician, might possibly,
from the record of the American ring.
quite easily prove that the only way for a
70 bin,c off hn -
green old age, is TO take to prize fighting
for living. But in spite of tho figures
there is an evident disposition among the
patrons of the ring to readjust the rules
TO remove the present element of danger.
Though how it is TO be done unless they
bar that blow on the jaw, as the small boys
bar gouging, it is hard to say.
Tho winter races are doing nothing at
all and they are being closed up as fast as
possible. Owners even of "dogs" will not
be sorry that they are no longer tempted
10 run their beasts for $50 purses, and the
general elevation of racing consequent
on the closing of the tracks ought TO DO
app-eciable. Tho falling off in the 'play"
did it, of course, and the fact is some evil
dence of what genuine horser1en have
contended-that you cannot very well
uaNt uOIeb race WITHOUT belkltlEs out
that there is no excuse for betting when
there is no horse race.
But there is no lack of demand for good
horses, and the tracks that put up actual
sport will not suffer. This was shown at
the sale of the racing stable belonging to
the late duchess of Montrose the other day,
The stud was one of tho most famous in
England and the demand for good stock
was demonstrated by the prices. Twenty
head of promising youngsters brought
nearly $, 900 each. or Sl3s.2 75 for the string.
Within a radius of 80 miles of New York
there are at least 900 race horses in train
ing. The average cost of wintering those
horses is not less than $50 per month for
zach horse.
The public at Birmingham, Ala, re-
buked the gamblers who attempted to
conduct winter race track at that place.
and as a consequence the association has
given up the venture.
Somebody who has nothing else to do
but say wise things has remarked that we
live in n fast age. 1t is particularly fast
IN the way things grow old. Here. for in
stance, are the bicycle sharps talking
about veteran cyclists already, and they
apply the term TO men who are just out of
their teens. But they are veteran bikers.
4 bicycling isurnal applies the title to
LAM, who started cut as a globc-sirdlcr.
lie has been lost for some time, and there
is some probability that lac has been cap.
tured By the Armenians, who are now
prosecuting the poor Turks 50 unspcak-
ably. He is a youngster, and the last
time he was heard from he was headed