The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-24


simmons thinks he ca change the re
suit of our fight he can have another
chance. Any of them can get to me
from here to America. The more thu
merrier. This is going to be busy
season with me-
/ think may safely turn Mccoy over
to my sparring partner, Tommy Ryan
put L have not anything to do with
mat. l want all of them to know
F1tzsimmons, Sharkey, Corbett, Nc
Cormack and any one else-that l am
open for engagements, and the belt Is
mine, to be fought for. l hope to be
back in time to spar at the boiler
makers union picnic at Timer park
New York, September so.
Inc boilermakers are good people
was one myself once. l was a good
union man, and am yet. 1t would not
hurt prizefighters to have union.
| They need it.
JAMES J. JEFFRIEs.
Billy Delaney, the celebrated trainer,
who will prepare Jim Jeffries for his
battle with Tom Sharkey. says:
OF course / am confident that JEFF
fries Will beat Sharkey. Before he beat
| Fltz l was just as confident as l am
now. After that engagement at Me-
chanics' pavilion there was no doubt In
my mind as to who was the best man.
Jeffries gave Sharkey hard 3Subbing
that night, but the one he Ill give
him next month will finish him. You
can't make me believe that the sailor
| wants to fight Jeff. He would get out
| of it If he could, but he can't. He is
forced to meet Jeff. l shall go straight
| through to New York and we will be-
| gin work right away. We will have just
a month to train, which is enough"
will you make any changes in your
course of training" Delaney was
| asked.
| Il have no changes in mind now"
he replied, but / can't say exactly
what / will do until l see Jeff and look
him over. presume we will go through
the same routine as we did for Fitz,
and probably we will work at the same
place"
There is a probability that Jeff Thorn,
the English middleweight defeated by
Mccoy, will remain on this side of the
pond this season. Thorn is the Won
der of his ring contemporaries. He has
habit of appearing for his fights at
tired in dress suit and wearing a
monocle. Thus accoutered he will enter
the ring. size up the crowd, and then
retire 20 his dressing room and put on
his ring costume. He is hard puncher,
who can stand lot, and the rapidity
with which Mccoy brought him to mis-
Cruel last week shows that the Kid is
his life. 1t likewise proves that
it was only chance blow that
enabled Mccormick to put him
out in that memorable Chicago battle,
and there is little doubt but that the
Kid will have ample revenge at their
coming return battle. 1t has been re-
ported and believed for long time
past that McCoy's health was falling,
but when he was here recently he look
ed in the best of health.
The benefit performance for Jimmy
Scanlon, the doughty fighter who was
injured in the preliminary last week,
will be held the week after the carnival
says the Denver News. Details have not
been as yet arranged, but Scanlon's
friends are assured that the benefit will
be held.
Scanlon is getting along as we'll as
could be expected at the hospital. 1t
is a hard time for an active man to be
compelled to remain quiet. and the har-
ness for his broken jaw does not per-
nit him to talk. He got around the diff
ficulty to an extent by using a slate
and pencil. The other day while he was
being called upon a friend asked him:
We'll. Jim, will you ever go back be-
hind the ropes?" "Ss
IF / ever get to wag this row of
teeth, or what is left of them, you can
bet will do something. I think l can"
came the reply scratched on the slate.
Il don't believe that Jack La Fontise
broke Jimmy's jaw at ALL said Jack
Stelzer. the heavyweight, yesterday.
IF you remember. about ten days be-
fore. while he was having his fight with
Stiff, he was knocked out with a blow
somewhat like the one the Montana
man landed on him. He was in groggy
shape for several days and he kept
complaining that his ears and teeth
were sore. Now, l believe that the
bone was cracked then. but he didn't
know it. The blow that he got from
La Fontise didn't seem to be hard
enough to do the business alone.
''Those heavy jaw ticks are danger
Gus things, it was the same kind of a
blow with which Fitz killed Riordan
at Rochester, a slanting strike on the
jaw and the side of the face. Shouldn't
wonder if it jars the brain good deal
! got it once mildly and the jaw grated
on its hinges for some time.
"A man wants to keep his teeth to-
gether if he is fighting in the ring. If
he forgets himself and lets his lower
jaw sag. the shock will be the greater
l think it bad practice to chew gum
while at it, for i nnsettles the face"
The complete programme issued by
Manager Otto c. Floto of the contests
that are booked to take place at the |
Colorado athletic association during the |
week of the celebration of the Festi- |
val of Mountain and Plain, are as fol- |
lows:
September 25-Kid Parker of Denver
VS.. Perry Queenan of Chicago.
September 26-Mose La Fontise of |
Montana VS.. Eugene Bezenah of Gin
cinnau.
September 27-Tommy Ryan Of SYRIA
cuse VS.. Jimmy Ryan of Australia.
September 2S-Frank Childs Of Chi
cago VS.. well-known heavyweight.
September 29-Jack Moffatt of Chi
cago VS.. Frank Mcconnell of Califor-
mia.
September 3O-Joe Choynski of Cali
fornia VS.. Ed Dunkhorst of Syracuse.
There is one thing certain, anyway,
and that is if the fistic horoscope has
been cast all right there will be some
hot old times down on the island this
fall. The schedule is for jeff and
Sharkey to meet on the night of Oc-
tober p, and the winner to give Jim
Corbett another chance for his white
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