Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-02

very much lear that it VIII be a long,
long time before another heavy weight
championship fight will be pulled off in
this vicinity. We shall see before the
ides of March.
BY the time this reaches my readers
eyes Jim Jeffries and Jim Corbett will
probably be matched for "the~ champion
ship of the world" and the best purse OBJ
tainabfe. A good many people look upon
this match with suspicion-as one made
merely to protect Jeffries and his title
from the rude men like Sharkey, Rubin.
Maher and Fitzsimmons. I am not of
this number, for ! am convinced that
Corbett honestly believes that he can de-
feat his erstwhile sparring partner.
am satistied-perfectly satisiied-in
my mind that Corbett thinks he is again
in championship form. This may be a
dream or delusion on his part. In the old
days, before Q~ueensbury style of boxing
came into vogue, a fighter who became a
saloon keeper and lay off for a couple of
years almost usually came to grief when
he re-entered the ring.
When Corbett boxed Sharkey before
the Lenox Club he made no proper pre-
paration for the contest. He held the
ex-sallorman Dirt cheap and he found out
his mistake when too late. 1t is reported
that he will have Kid Mccoy for his
training and sparring mentor in his
match with Jeffries. wonders will never
cease" says the old proverb, and this
report is a re-affirmation of the
truth of the maxim. o they have
buried the Ratchet, which is the proper
caper, and Mccoy, who hates Tommy
Ryan as old Nick is said to hate holy
water, is to train the eX-chanpion in
order that he may rifle Ryan, who is to
be Jeffries' mentor.
Meanwhile, it is understood that Nc
Coys match with Maher will be brought
to a proper ~cons,mnlation about the
middle of December. at Coney Island.
The Irish champion is the Algebraic X
the unknown quantity,' of the pugilistic
world just now. All the big guns of the
ring-the aspirants for the championship,
fight shy of him. He is ready to tackle
my of them, but none of them seem to
banker after his game. He and Mccoy
ought to pack the Coney Island club
house as it was never packed before, and
pictures of their contest should be very
attractive. 1t will be the hardest hitter
OF the ring opposed to it's "supposedliest'
cleverest fighter.
When Tom Sharkey gets in shape to
enter the ring again, which will hardly
be before Christmas, he and his old
antagonist Joe Choynski, are to clash
again. Joe and Jim Corbett love Zach
other, nit. Joe undertook to stop Shar-
key in eight rounds, but failed. Then
Jim, to show how much better he was
than Joe, tried to do the sailor in four, and
he too failed. AS Captain Cutie would
say: THE moral o this ere would seem
to be, take part in spite fights. They
are seldom satisfactory to the fellow who
is trying to get hunk with some other
fellow"
During the past week there has been, I
am sorry to say, another fatality in our
local ring. Harry Apfelfi a Brooklyn light
weight, While boxing With Jack Fox, last
Saturday night, before thePelican, which
is one of the minor boxing clubs of the
City of Churches, stumbled and fell on
/ MS race SfrjEjnp his ohm with - pf,1
! force against the floor. The fall ender
ed him unconscious, and he was taken
to a hospital, where he fingered until
midnight of Wednesday. Fox and all the
officials of the club. besides the seconds
OF the men, are now under arrest. The
affair is a very unfortunate one, and no
doubt the opponents of boxing will take
full advantage of it.
A gentleman who recently returned
from England met Pedlar Palmer in the
office of the Mirror of Life in London a
few days after he got back from America
and had quite a chat with him. The
Pedlar felt very proud over the reception
which had been accorded him here. say
ing: mo fighter ever got as warm a
welcome in America as | got. McGovern
gave me a banquet and l was well treated
by everybody. l got the big end of the
money, too"
How was that?' he was asked, "
Because, in the first place. he re-
piled, I'VE split the purse. or rather the
gate money, even-that was share and
share alike, n in the second place I
sold out my interest in the pictures that
was taken of the bout before l went into
the ring"
What do you think of McGovern?'
was the next question put to him.
Hes a bloomin' good un,' was the re-
Spouse.
How lie he knock you out then?" was
the next query.
why, it was a bloody Huke," was the
answer. You see I thought he'd fight
me like we fought in this country, but
instead he comes at me like a bloomin'
jumper. | didn't know his style. Now, |
the first thing I knows it was all over"
My informant tells me that Palmer's !
story has impressed the English tina his |
defeat was due to a chance blow, but all
the same MIR. Palmer will not box Me-
Govern again. Sam Harris, who is Nc |
Governs manager, offered to take Terry
to England and match him against Pal
mer there provided the latter would bet
$1,000 "on the side" on the result. The
Pedlar has found it convenient to ignore
Mr.. Harris proposition. !
This reminds me that the Geographic"
photographic or other graphic pictures !
of the McGovern- Palmer bout are not
likely to be exhibited soon. In the first
place the contest didn't last a full round. !
ana people won't pay TO see that except
as the adjunct of a vaudeville show. and
then, again, Billy Gray, who, as the man.
ager of the Westminster club, has, / I'M
derstand, possession of the pictures, will
not permit them to be exhibited because
he is mad at both McGovern and the man
who bought Palmer's interest in them be-
cause of a certain disclosure made which !
reflected severely upon him.
On the other hand. the pictures taken
of the championship fight between jeff
ries and Sharkey are said to be perfect,
and they will be put on exhibition hero