The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-03-09

WIN has run VI Ills NldSSs tiit
monarch OF the heavyweights alone
blocks his path.
In all this rounding up OF heavy
weight material for slugging purposes
In training quarters, particularly by
Jim Corbett, IL Is remarkable that Pc
ter Maher. the lone star of Pittsburg,
did not get In on a handsome salary.
Ii has been said that Peter did have
an offer looking that way but this has
been denied. Certainly TO Corbett he
should have been a pronounced aid.
having buckled into Fitz ON two occa-
sions. and being besides. according TO
Bob, the stiffest hitter In the business,
next to the kangaroo
Corbett, above all. as he claims.
wants stiff thrasher To try To corner
and slug him. as Fitz NAV develop a
tendency to try to do. and Nlher ought
to come closer to occupying position
OF that sort than any OF the foot-free
ones In the business. Peter. seeing
that Jim once made over 10 MIN free
his championship papers, should have
tossed aside any qualms from profess
sional jealousy, II such there were. aud
have gone out and sluCged the pompa-
dour man a week or SO before the real
mill.
Concerning Fitz. he appears 10 stay
pretty close Ia his old reliable, Jack
Stelzner. aided by Dan Hickey and
wrestler Roeber. AZ bottom FitE is
said to think more of Dan Hickey than
any of them. He has hidcd Dan every
morning for over a year now. whether
| there was anything On the tapis or not.
the two having become almost like
brothers.
BY the way, unless a man can lick
| Jim Corbett outright be takes big
/ chances In sparring with the CalifOr-
nian. even though he Ii hid to go In
and warm II up, as Jim frequently adj
monishcs his preparcrs to do. In this
respect. however, jamie il no different
| from the majority of champion boxers.
who all learn early In their career new
4 or Ia allow a man 10 get cut of an en-
/ gsgement-no matter how friendly
/ with the crefit ~ puroh bestowed
ard not repaid: II so h. VIII surely crop
out IN the newspapers with IL SOONER
or later. with n scare-head 20 II ih<,
/ will make the champion boxer sick.
| Tom Ryan once told me he would lick
l his brother n he hit him on ths nose
when anybody was looking. END Dan
Crcedun tumblrd into "a hornets nest
once with Corbett from tapping him a
! trihe hard when sparring with him for
/ the Mitchell encounter.
| You may he sure that the bunch If
heavies Corhett has in the Nevada cor
raj 10 prod him up have learned how
! the thing stands ere nov. they ar. ac-
] curate enough to slash the air In close
/ proximity Of the Dompndour and grunt
! and grapple and look wild. but the
devil n business thump they'd land IL
they had his head tied.
..
/ two minor contcsts-tbose between
I Billy Smith and George Green young
CorbetD. and Martin Flaherty and Dal
| Hawkins. that he did not exercise "A
! very deep. p.-insight in getting strong
/ drawing cards. Nevertheless. Dan has
been keener than at first sight appears
II will be observed that he has match
! ed extreme East against extreme West
{ In about the only way IL could have
/ been done. with justice to the West
. San Francisco Is 10 bc considered the
main feeder to the stuart carnival. on
! account of its cluseness, aud II is right
/ that the western ring dcvotees he rep
resented. Billy Smith is better To pit
against Green than Champion Tom
| Ryan, In probable evennpss of battle
| while Dal Hawkins ought to MAKE n
! good showing with Martin FlaheItr.
! The winners will not bc champions pf
] anything, however, unless they claim
the title of champion finish fighters, as
against the limit round and draw box
! ing style Of the East,
/ Last week looked in on q new regis
| tering device, got NJ by Chicago in
ventor, to measure hitting s,TeIgth. 1t
I Is nickcl-slotter, in the hEure of n
man in ring costume, standing about
! five feet six inches high. Tn" face and
I head are pneumatic. and un being
I thumped in the nose it threw ~ lls
arms wildly, pivotinc back and kissing
and registering ON a dial In fiuut the
weight of the thump. The inventor
! says he has been working ON T. five
/ years. The defiant. pugilistir hiss is
| the hest thing about H. which iuclincs
! one to load il up for another smash.
JOSEPH DONOVAN.