Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-11
MILLER IS TRAINING.

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A San Francisco dispatch says that
Charlie Miller is working harder in his
training for the siX-day contest, which
starts there on February Ia, than he ever
worked before. Manager John West says
that Miller's loss of the twenty-four hour
pened.
Charlie had won so many long-dis-
lance contests so easily that he thought
it quite unnecessary to train very hard
or worry said Mr.. West today, He
thought that victory would be his with
out work, and the defeat in the twenty
four hour contest was a lesson bitterly
learned, but learned, nevertheless.
Charlie now intends to take no chan
ces. He rides one hundred miles at least
every day, travels twenty-one miles an
hour on the road unpaced, and is the
best man for work that I ever saw. He
was always so, but lately he has worked
even harder than he worked before"
Mr. West firmly believes that the cham-
pion will uphold his reputation in this
contest. The best of care is being taken
to prepare him. Il believe that many of
the men who went through the New York
contest and who did not feel the effects
of that marc race now will feel them
when they get into the third or fourth
day of the coming race remarked Mr..
West.
Mr.. West says tina many of the riders
will quit in the coming roce owing to
seat soreness. "They will find that while
their skin is tough enough says West,
that the pelvis bone is to be looked af-
ter, and few Of them train more than skin
deep. l am using my own methods with
Miller to prepare him this time, and
the benefits of these will be seen very
quickly. Charlie Miller will win, as he
has always DONE"
Macon Mccormick, of New York,
says: Man is an initiative animal and
prone to follow a leader. This is true in
pugilism as in any other business. The
man who is champion sets the style for
the lesser lights of the ring almost as ar
bitrarily as the Prince of Wales sets the
fashion in dress the anticipated chappies,
who think they are ''SWellS,' so Serviiely
follow. When John L.. Sullivan discov-
cred how easy it was to knock a man
out by a righthand jolt on the point of
the jaw, every scrapper IN the land fol-
lowed his lead. 1t was a good fashion,
too, for very few men We're hurt seri-
ously by such blows after the floors of the
rings were properly covered with pad
ding. When Bob Fitzsimmons stopped
Jim Corbett with a punch on the solar
pleXus, predicted that such blows would
come into fashion and that they would be
productive Of many fatalities. The re-
suit has shown that l was not a false
prophet. Tom Sharkey depends mainly
on body blows for his success, and he is
getting them Down as fine as silk. 1t was
one of his stomach punches that took all
the steam out of Kid Mccoy. 1t was
what schoolboys call a "belly-go-buster,'
and it was a peacherino, too. After he
got it Mccoy was as timber as an eel, and
there wasn't enough steam behind his
subsequent blows to enable one of them
to make a deep dent in a pound of butter.
1t was body blows that enabled Teddy
McGovern to wallop Casper Leon so
easily They are to be the fashion for some
time to come, l fear, unless Tim Hurst's
proposed stomach pad is generally adopt
ed, and hat is not likely to occur until
some poor scrapper is killed in the ring
In the city, Philadelphia, Chicago, or
some other big city.
AS / write the probabilities of another
fight between Bob Fitzsilnmons and Tom
Sharkey seem a good deal brighter than
they were last week. Tom O'Rourke, like
captain SCOTS famous coon, has come
Town from his perch" and has covered