Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13

done to make the shoot a grand success.
The football players hold a meeting
tonight at the Westside barber shop
quarters to find ways and means of
bringing Denver here for Decoration
Day.
Patsy Corrigan is in town on his way
to Denver. Corrigan is after the middle
weight championship of the world. His
experience with Jeffreys, Sharkey, jack
son, Choynski and Green has been a
creditable one and Sharkey acknoWl-
edges that he cannot make the man OF
witty m quit.
The tennis players are quite active
when the weather is good. A large num-
Der attended the courts Sunday last.
Among the games was a very good
double between Sam Barker and Fred.
Holbrook VS.. S. D. Mclaughlin and w.
B. Hamilton, Barker and Holbrook WIN
ming; also a very good single between
Geo. Bush and d. D. Mclaughlin, Bush
winning.
The organization committee Of the pro-
posed Butte City Athletic Association
held a meeting Tuesday night and de-
cided to push the organization to it's
completion and to permanently organize
and incorporate at the earliest possible
date. The charter roll is limited now to
80 members. They intend to occupy quar-
tiers on the sixth floor of the Hennessy
building by the end of next week. A
competent instructor will be engaged.
The Butte Baseball club just organized
go to Helena to play two games Saturday
and Sunday. The team is about the best
ever formed here. They are: Kemble,
mgr; Murphy, c.; Moran, Sd b.; Perron,
1st b.; Hubert,2 I'd b.; Cleaveland, c. f.;
Merkle, l. f.; Rea, r. f.; Alternately, p;
Mahoney, S.; MsDonough, p.
Nick Francis is also organizing a team
from some old time professional players,
among whom are James McHugh, who
played first base with Reliance of Oak
land. Jim Kelly who caught for the old
San Francisco, Jack Foley who played
ton and Barney Burke who played first
base with the Multonomah's of Portland.
He is selecting some excellent stock.
Chas. Moth, the Graeco Roman cham
pion, Jenkins. the Michigan strong boy.
and Tony who wrestled the Turk last
summer at Detroit, have signed to wres-
tie within IL days at catch as catch can
style best two out of three for 500 per
side. A match is also pending between
Moth and Billy Woods Graeco Roman
style Moth to throw Woods three times
in an hour. 1t will be remembered hat
that was Woods first athletic profession.
There are also several other parties af-
ter Moth; Jack O'Neil, who wrestled the
Turk last week is after Bill Jones, the
strong boy of Butte. jenkins has zone
to Deer Lodge to train. Moth will train
here. The friends of Harrington, the
lightweight Cornish wrestler of Michi-
gan, are endeavoring to bring him here
to wrestle Louis Morgan the Butte pet
Tony Harris, the Montana middle
weight champion Cornish wrestler, will
wrestle best two in three falls, five min
utes between falls, two minutes between
bitches. There is to be no draw for a
800 purse Monday night at Renshaw
hall.
Macon Mccormick in Boston Traveller
Those who could, but didn't see thu
fight between Peter Maher and Gus Rub
lin before the Lenox club last Tuesday
night, will only regret the failure once
and that viii be as long as they live, fol
it was, far and away, the best heavy
weight contest ever fought under Queens
berry rules. AS the advertisement writers
say about funny farces, there wasn't
dull moment in it, and when it was owe,
and Charley Whit's verdict "a draw,
was proclaimed, the happy 5000 lovers o
tistic sport who witnessed it were adam
with delight.
The admirers of "the Irish champion,
stimulated by the news that he ha,
trained faithfully for the event made hin
a ten-to-siX and even a two-to-one fav
orite before he entered the ring, despit
an erroneous report printed in a local pa
per that Peter and Rubin had boxed 81.
rounds once on a time in Philadelphia
and that on that occasion the big Swed
had thriced fioored Maher in one round
AS a matter of fact, they never boxed il
Philadelphia at all, but they did clash OF
one occasion at Akron, Ohio. Maher tell
ing me of this bout, said: II let up O.
him. l didn't want to make a holy shoS
of him in his own town, so I didn't try t
put him out at ALL" Ruhlin's friend
claim that he held his own with Maize
that time. and say that the reason Pete
didn't put it on him." was because h
couldn't. Be that as it may. certain
is that neither could put the other on
Tuesday night, though both tried tlei
level best to do SO.
Rubin was the first to enter the rims
He was envelOped in a big bath robe an
ne received a very meagre welcome in
deed. His manager. seconds and attend
ants were Billy Madden. Charley Gof
Jack O'Brien and Dave Curry. He ha
the southwest or lucky corner of tn
ring. When Maher was seen stridin
down the aisle to the ring the hous
fairly rose at him and the loud applaus
he received was accented with cries G
"Do him up in Jig time. Peter" and S
on. His squires We're his trainer and part
ner, Peter Lowry, Spike Sullivan, Pete
Burns, Jimmy Maher and Billy Henness!
He walked over to Ruhlin's corner an
shook hands with him very cordial!
Hes certain he can lick this big fe
llow,'' exclaimed a cynic. That's VIII
he's 20 friendly with him." They wer