The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-21
General Sporting News.

LOkll alt INV hdNC Ial-
sons on their football teams.
Motor cycles will be the proper caper
for paced races next season.
Peter Maher has been putting in the
week sparing at a Boston theater.
Tom Sharkey will be "a years Old
three days after his fight with Corbatt,
which takes place on Nov. %.
Maxey Hough n Freddie Began
may be matched to box in one IF the
Louisville athletic clubs next month.
Joe Choynski Is said to have again
broken his hand In his bout with Kuh-
lin last night at Philadelrh ia.
An ordinance has bcea presented to
the city council Of New York e pro-
hibit six-day bicycle racing at Goth
am. b
Challenges galore are stiIl pouring in
on Oscar Gardner from feather-weishts
who once knew how to whip him.
Fred Taral, the tockcv, now weis lis
1875 pounds n may never riie again.
although he says he will attempt il
next season.
Jim Judge and Charley johnson will
meet at an early date for n 20-round
bout before the American Sporting
club of Scranton.
A six-day go-as-you-pleasa pedestri-
an contest has been arranged to take
place at Madison square Garden dur
ing the week beginning Dec. 25.
Ben Tappan of Vienna, Austria, has
purchased h tro'sing stallion Legere'
from ]. A. Shelley of Ellenville, N. Y.
The purchase price was 1900.
Childwick. the win er OF the Czaro-.
witch in 1894, is SAID to have been pur-
chased by an American breeder. Child
wick is the sire of severai winners.
George Kirwan. the Chicago "Mys-
terry" and George Bye-s have been
matched to box l5 rounds before. the
Lenox club on December 9.-New York
Journal.
Major Taylor. the colored champion
bicyclist, has begun training on the
one-third of a mile course at Wood
side park for his onslaught on the
American records
Oscar Gardner is n mcdel husband,
thrifty. temperate. the father cf two
children. and n care-taker Of the dol
lars that he earns by the sweat of his
dangerous hands.
Ives and Schaefer have both signifei
their willingness 10 make a match for
a series of billiard games ut different
styles to be played IN New York curing
the winter.
Jack Bonner n George Byers. The
Boston colored middls -weight, lave
been matched for 20 rounds ut the Lee
nox Athletic club. The date will rrul-
ably be Dec. ..
Jim Barry spikes The story THAT he
refused to meet Freddie Began in Cal
ifornia as a full-blown fake. Hen light
Frederick in any old place where the
coin Is in sight.
Sammy Kelly has Jesn ut deaths
door, and yet one New York critic who
must have had as much AZ sl3S on
the contest said Sam QUIZ" tefore
Oscar Observation-Disclosures.
The troubles of the Grsltcr Now York
club may prevent n McCoy-Maher
contest, scheduled for Consy island
Dec. s. from taking place. although
the club declares 1t VIII bring II or.
Arthur Poe is the fftt nf his M ne
to beco ne known to the athlete world
through ire medium Of Princeton foot
ball. The other Poes were Johnson,
Edgar Allen. johnny and Nelson.
Paddy Smith. brother Of Denver I'D
Smith, and once the conouerer of Go.
Green. won a fight a Roxbury. Pa.
the other day. scoring a knockout over
a member OF the 18th regular infantry
named O'Brien.
Tom O'Rourke is giving the New
York boxing public some cracking good
shows these days at his Lenox Athlet-
ic club. The Dixon Sullivan. Ccrbett-
Sharkey. and Dixon-tiardner Vi uts
will be decided tnsre within the next
month.
The boycott declared last summer
against the Cleveland Baseball com, a
ny by the Central Labor uninn % thot
city is of. and Presto ent Robson has
| affixed his signature to an agreement
presented to him by the later organi-
zation.
The OF the America Ath-
letic association say they will leave the
small fry fighters severely clone this
winter and will only schedule such
men as Oscar Gardner. Jimmy Barry.
Terry McGovern, George Dixon, I'on-
my White. Solly Smith. Dave Sullivan.
Bob Armstrong. Joe Choynski. Peter
Maher, and others who are well known.