Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20

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and in order to win any gate receipts the
winner must throw Billy Woods three
; times in one hour Graeco-ROman style.
Graeco-Roman is the brutal style that
was in vogue with the glad1ators' ana is
not countenanced in England. Woods
depends upon his activity in avoiding
locks to win the gate money.
A short time ago D.. A. Mcmillan and
w A. West, two wrestlers who are quite
well known in Butte, wrestled at Fargo,
Dakota. Mcmillan had to average a fall
every - minutes, but he was unable to
Go so and had only four minutes in which
to make two fails. Knowing that this
was an impossibility, it is alleged that
Mcmillan got a hammer-lOck on West
and cried out to West lou enough for
several people to hear, "Give me the match
or I'll break your ARM West could not
afford to lose ar arm SO Was compelled to
give up. Had it not been for his forced
surrender it is said West would have won
the match.
Macon Mccormack: A referees lot is
not a happy one, even If he gets so per
exhibition for his services, if his sense of
impartiaity and his loyalty to his club
mates conflict. When to this is added
the clamor of a couple of thousand UNI
reasonable partisans Of an East side ia
) vorite boxer his job is not at all an en-
,viable one if no knockout comes to his
rescue and renders his decision not only
inevitable but also satisfactory to the
entire "awjence.' This was brought for
chilly to my attention last Tuesday night,
while Charley White was officiating as
referee of the Frank E~rne-George Nc
Fadden 25-round bout before the Lenox
club. The men boxed at 1874 pounds. and
weighed just before entering the ring, OF
a scale just outside of their dressing
rooms. Erne had height, reach, skill and
ring experience in his favor, to say moth
ing of several pounds the best of the
weights, as McFadden did not scale more
than 1870 pounds. Notwithstanding the
fact that McFadden had knocked out Joe
Cans only a fortnight before Erne's sup
pOrters had such confidence in him that
they made him a 10 to Z favorite in the
betting and had the Queensberry rules
been faithfully adhered to they would
have been fully warranted, for McFadden
fought SO foully that had the bout been
before the National Sporting club of
London he would either have altered his
style of fighting or been disqualified be-
fore the end Of the third round.
1 met Charley White in the vestibule
of the arena before the boxing began,
when he showed me a letter he had re-
ceived from B. j. Angle, the referee OF
the National Sporting club of London,
the most famous boxing club of the
world. The letter was in reply to one OF
lCharley's asking for information regard
ing the practice on interpreting the rules
by Angle. In his letter Mr.. Angle says
Holding is not permitted in England. A
boxer is disqualified after one or two
cautions" Then he gives his reasons
therefor, as follows: "A powerful man ir
a clineh is enabled to inflict punishment
which is most certainly against our ideas
of fair boxing. / mean by pressing his
opponents neck. Again, a competitor re.
ceiving punishment may, according t.
your rules deliberately hold. If this oc.
ours several times during a round i
must be considerably curtailed."
Now there wasn't a single round II
Tuesday nights fight that McFadden die
not violate the rule against holding, de
spite the protests and expostulations, no
cautions from Referee White. Their
was hardly a minute in each round tina
he did not use his elbow against Erne'
throat and face, and there wasn't
round in the whole % that he didn'
clinch to avoid punishment and hold OF
for from a quarter to half a minute.
honestly believe that if a watch tab hat
been kept on these holdings they woul,
aggregate fully Is minutes. Half a dozel
times White called out during thes
in0lQlnSS, NOW leave go ana step back
both of you" McFadden would reluct
iantly obey, and then repeat the offens
the next minute. Half q THOUSAND loud
voiced admirers in the "bleacheries,
who. to give him confidence and to intim
idate the referee. would give "Thre
cheers for M~cFadden.' and cry, Eat hir
up, George He did his best to compl
with his partisans' request, but he WASH
equal to the task, but he did rough Ern
Numerically wit his elbow.
McFadden is a m~arvelously strong bo
for his size, and he blocks wonderfully
His flesh seems as hard as nails an
punches that would puff most mems fes
are hardly noticeable on him. He is
hard man, too, to bleed. A dozen time
Erne smashed him fair and square O
the nose and mouth, yet all the blood h
shed wOuld hardly be noticeable on
white handkerchief. His vulnerable pal
seems to be his stomach. Erne gave hi
five or six terrible wallops on it an
each Of them made him gasp like a fs
out of water. With ordinary fighters
has a good guard for his stomach, an
his hacker, Billy Roche, says that IL
= points Of his elbows nave played have
with more than one pair of fists thu
tried to find his solar plexus. but Err
was too clever for him, and thrice veal
ened him perceptibly with b~elly-gO-fu!
tiers. Had he fought strictly in accord
ance with the rules I think Erne woul