The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-03-02


forced on him only or perhaps hen he
is desperate from failure Of his favor
ite style. Seen at his best the adopted
citizen must do the hopping about and
the coming In when he IL ready. and in
such manner he has put 10 his credit a
string Of the prettiest. cleanest knock
outs recorded In modern ring history.
Limit-round. point-boxing and a
new-fangled regime generally in the
eastern fighting country has about tied
the featherweight problem in a knot.
minus head or tail. The enlargement
Is hopeless, II appears, without the aid
OF Nevada fistic freedom.
Not long since Frank Erne got de-
cision from George Dixon on points,
and on the eve Of his rounding to in
good Growing gear. along came another
one of the herd and does Erne on
points, Martin Flaherty. the new
champion, Is now running with the
bone, while the Dixon followers are dis
dainfully making claim that there is no
marrow in e.; that the only and true
champion is yet George Dixon.
Dan Stuart should have arranged a
finish contest for the much mixed class.
in which Dixon should have been one
OF the principals. A limit ought To be
est notch. - as to cut of an army OF
lightweights, ranging from i2i to 12s,
who are sufficiently numerous In them
selves To make Il championship pay
ing institution.
IL Is reported stuart Is to hitch on
trailer to his programme, purporting to
have To do with a settlement of the
question; yet what has he chosen for
material-Dal Hawkins OF San Fran
cisco and Martin Flaherly Of the East
cannot be nodded into a top notch
feather by getting a winner. Flaherty
has been milling in the East Tor some
time at from 1876 To l29 pounds. and the
other day got his decision over Erne al
1875 pounds. which Is the lowest he has
peeled for a long time. Flaherty claims
10 he allie TO weigh In at l2a, though II
is doubtful. As To Hawkins. he Is "A
bigger man yet than flaherty. he
never. believe. held himself to be
lighter than l26 to l2s pounds
These big feathers ought to he herded
in a band and made to pound out a
champion among them. The trouble
with them has seemed to be that not
one of them has ever had much quality.
except as Ia bigness. and they want to
obtain the hard-earned laurels Of little
George Dixon to handy among them
selves, not one OF whom could hope to
come to weight with him. if he wanted
to be particular
Jim Corbetts finished STYLE Of going
Is not such as To give him great name
as a Knockout rapper. The very foun-
dation of his school is to husband at all
times reserve force; " there Is an
opening In goes thump. but enough
energy Is held in tow to sustain. in case
of failure, a proper equilibrium. II he
misses he does not bring up against his
man In a spent condition. there In n
singing hit left for close quarters in
the other hand and a body well under
government to guide head duck
Thus he has parceled out TO the sevcra,
departments of his fighting engine a
siege. IL he should turn the whole into
one blow, going I'm bodily with the mo-
mentum, u ought to be as hard as any
man can hit Against registering
machine for the purpose he should lift
the beam as high as Fitzsimmons.
on several occasions II has been held
in this column that the poor boxer was
not so much to blame for the volume of
talk as the reporter OF him. Observe
the proof here. From Nevada the talk
from Jim and Bob comes rafting along