Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17

with Fitz.
Billy Habberly who was the champion
amateur catch-as-catch-can Gracet
Roman wrestler of the Pacific coast for
many years is attaining quite a prof
ciency.in boxing. He is under the tuition
of the Bean Brothers at their academy il
San Francisco and is full of athletic
FRANKS. OF Habberly, Billy Woods his
playmate in boyhood says that Billy
never has known his own strength and
when Dan Mcleod was practicing about
the Olympic Club he often took Habberly
on the mat with him. He being a much
stouter man for his weight than Mcleod,
Mcleod never could gain a fall from him.
Shortly after that Habberly distinguish
ed himself in the arena but through the
influence of his wife Billy quit the mat. In
build he greatly resembles Sharkey, but
his weight is under 100 pounds. The Ma
tional Review, the San Francisco sport
ing journal, says that Habberly in one of
his pranks skipped the rope 1920 times
without a miss the other day. Should
Habberly conclude to go after a good
grub stake by entering the boxing or
wrestling ring there is no doubt Of his
success.
Nick Long formerly sporting editor on
the Philadelphia Item, but now editing
the National Review and acting CORES
pendent of the Melbourne Sportsman and
Philadelphia Item is endeavoring through
the friendly offices Of H. ". Schlichter
(Slick), a great sporting writer of the
east to get Jack Daily Of Wilmington, Del,
to go to San Francisco and fight Spider
Kelly, who has donned his war paint and
is growing blue moldy for de want NV a
fite."
Joe Walcott, (the Barbados black is
to try to knock out Dan Creedon in %
rounds before the LenoX Athletic club on
June 5th. Creedon weighs 20 pounds
more han the black but was put out in a
punch in their meeting this spring.
Peter Maher and Mike Morrissy (tb'
Irish %champion), are matched before the
Lenox Club New York, June Goth. Cor
bett, Donovan and Siler visited Morrissy's
training quarters the other day, and
found him to be a remarkably active and
skilful man.
Frank Eme and Kid Lavigne are sched-
uled to box 20 rounds at 1873 pounds at the
Buffalo Hawthorne club on July Bird, for a
81, 500 purse.
Connie McVeigh poses as a Beau
Rrummel around Corbett's palatial gin
mill in New York, despite the printed
sta tements that a frigid GOODNESS exists
between he and Corbett and it would not
be a. surprise to some acquaintance of the
pair in the west should Jim put Connie in
as manager of the new place on lower
Broadway near Wall street which Jim is
to open shortly. The place of course will
be deliberately fitted up and jim evil
IDENTIFY will cater to the Wall street bulls
and bears. Connie is the natty and
portly sort of fellow to handle such trade.
Joe Kennedy, the 17-year-old whale OF
the Young Mitchell school, San Fran
cisco, is coming to the front very fast
as a likely opponent for the new cham
pion. He is to fight Gus Rubin before
the Excelsior club. San Francisco, on
June %. Mitchell, the greatest middle
weight fighter the coast has ever pro-
duced, knows more about fighting stock
than any of 'Frisco's sporting managers.
He has made a fortune in producing
fighters and handling events, so care
should be taken in betting on form in this
fight.
Theo. Van Buskirk, formerly the
heavyweight champion fighter of the
Pacific coast, and whom Jim Jeffries in
jured for life by striking him in the
groin in their fight at San Francisco a
! few years ago, occasionally gets a fight
| ing spirit and wants to re-enter the ring.
Buskirk was the making of a champion,
and were he not injured as he was by
Jeffries at the time. probably would have
whipped our new pride, as up to the
time of the injury, which the referee did
not regard, Theodore had Jeffries away
behind him in the race. However, it
seems hat Ruskirk, who then claimed he
would be right behind Jeffries when JEFF
fries got on top, has not kept pace in the
race that will warrant further patronage
as a likely champion. Paddy Ryan
would lave been better off had he let
Sullivan alone after Sullivan had gotten
to the top. Buskirk can do better at his
saloon in Marysville, Cal, by entertain
ing friends there and managing fair
sport.