The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-21
that Jeffries, too, has at last got hold
of the right sort of press agent.

Joe Shoy Lshl, Llle former Aaflloiliid
| heavy weight, is now a full-f1edged
| resident of Cincinnati, having taken
house on Walnut hill. 1t is understood
the selection of city was left to Mrs.
| Choynski and she decided on her old
| home.
There is a hitch over the match FOR
| Tattersalfs between Choynski and
young John Root the young west side
middle weight, According to Cincin-
natl paper, Choynski was offered GER
tain terms for six-round bout for
May %. but declined it on the ground
that the purse offered was Of INSULT
Gent size. Choynski wired his own
| terms to Houseman a couple of nights
ago and negotiations are still in prog
gress. If the match is made Choynski
Will do his training in Cincinnati and
will probably have Charley Burns as
his assistant. Joe is in fine condition
and is bigger than ever before.
The Olympic club of San Francisco
will pull off the finals of its feather,
light and welterweight tournaments on
May "a: week later, on May 81,
George Green and Al Neill will try con-
illusions before the Western club at
Woodwards Pavilion, and the fight be-
tween Rubin and Kennedy. will be
liked in about a week, on the arrival
| OF Ruhlin in that city. The San Fran
cisco Athletic club has taken a COM
mendable stand in its effort to put down
trickery. Alex Greggains. shrewd
boxer himself, will referee all fights and
is competent to detect any attempt at
fraud. Such trick as Haywards
worked will scarcely be tried again.
The club managers have adopted rule
providing that any contestant who en-
tiers into any jobbery or any person
who is connected in any way with an
attempt to defraud the public, will be
| ha rr "a i,,o haf
club or entering It's rooms. While the
club managers have taken the right
stand in regard to pugiists their de-
sire to make money may be the cause
of a horror some day. The clubrooms
as at present arranged are perfect
fire trap. At the last entertainment
fully 1000 people We're packed tight in
the small room. There are only two
small exits, both under the rows of
seats. In case of a fire hundreds Of
persons would be penned in and roast
ed to death.
Spike Sullivan, who is matched to
fight Kid Mcfarland at the LenoX
Athletic Club, New York, on May 90,
has laid a wager of $500 with Honest
John Kelly that he will defeat his OPP
ponent, and says that he has $4,000
which he is anxious to place on him.
self in the coming battle.
Kid Lavigne is leaving no stone IN
turned in his efforts to obtain another
match with Dick Burge of England,
whom he has already defeated. Evil
IDENTIFY the Saginaw boxer thinks his
former opponent easier game than the
redoubtable Spike Sullivan, with whom
) he was recently offered a match by an
Eastern club.
Martin Flaherty, who fought Oscar
, Gardner to a draw a week ago will
shortly issue a challenge to any man
in his class in the world. Flaherty is
said to be especially anxious to make
a match with Ben Jordan, the unde-
: feated feather weight champion of En-
gland Gardner, who has bean fight
ing CONSTANT of late, will probably rest
: up for a while to prevent his growing
stale from the effects of constant
training.
Replying to the challenge by Kid Nc
Coy, George Byer's manager has de-
i. posted $500 as a guarantee to match
Byers against Mccoy at a middle
! weight. Byers is satisfied to have the
battle settled at Denver.
Joe Walcott and Jim Watts of
, Louisville are now matched to box 20
: rounds before the Kentucky Athletic
l club of Louisville on May 20.
George McFadden, the clever new
conner to the light weight division, again
I gave proof the other night of being of
the timber that will place him in the
$ front rank of the class. Following up
S his defeat of Joe Cans, he last Tuesday
night took on Frank Erne, and while
e he gave up the decision to the Buffalo
lad on points, he stayed to the end of
e the twenty-five rounds of the journey
9 and was strong at the wind-up.
4 Bobby Dobbs, the colored weller
4 weight writes from England that he
n is instructing the aspiring English
3 youth in the art of self-defense, al
I though he will return to America in the
, event that some club would make il
q an object for him to meet Mysterious
: Billy Smith. The mysterious one is
L equally partial to Ego" with Dobbs
y and if O'Rourke will make the proper
: inducements Bobby and Smith may
4 be seen in fight at the Lenox clut
y within the next two months.
q My pet ambition is to get on =
q match with this much-advertised Der
) Jordan, whip him, then wallop Peddlal
e Palmer. return to America and retire
q from the ring" writes Oscar, alia
8 Kid, Gardner to a friend. Il am sicl
n of the bluffs that these so-called En-
e glish champions are making 1 know
| can beat Palmer, and am enough
stuck on myself to believe that car
beat Jordan