The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31
IN TIVE HEAVY CLASS
The Wrestling Contest Will Be q
Fine Exhibition.
VERY EVENLY MATCHED
Both Mcmillan and Cannon Have Good
Records to Maintain-It Will Be
a Fair and Determined
Struggle.

The McMillan-Cannon wrestling
match to be pulled off tomorrow night
at the Grand opera house is attracting
great deal of attention among the
athletic fraternity in this city. There
is good reason to believe that this
match is going to be the finest exhibit
ton Of the kind ever witnessed in
Butte, for the men are in the heavy
class of the best wrestlers on the mat,
and will give the patrons their mon
eys worth. They are evenly matched,
one weighing 200 pounds and the other
1877. D. A. Mcmillan, the champion
mixed wrestler of America, is not a
stranger in this city, where he has
several relatives and friends. Louis
Cannon is one of the best known ath-
letes on the mat to-day, having met
all the fast ones of the country. Nc
MILAN in 1884 wrestled Carkeek in thiS
city, and since then has been in almost
constant practice and training. He, too
has met all the stars Of the wrestling
fraternity, and has earned for himself
a most enviable record for fair and
honest work and dealings with those
ne mas mad occasion TO meet. Both men
are here to give a first class exhibit
tlon OF skill and to do their best to
win the match. There is nothing of
the cry-baby about these famous ath-
letes; whenever one of them loses
match that settles that particular go.
The loser takes his defeat in the true
athletic spirit, and does not worry the
public with printed abuse of his adver-
sary, but goes right along and prepares
himself for another match in the hope
OF retrieving his losses in the proper
way. Hence the public need not fear
repetition of the Turk Moth hippo
drome, which gave everybody an acute
attack of disgust, because the loser
declared that he had been fouled
Mr.. Mcmillan said yesterday, while
talking about athletic matters in a
general way:
Il do not pretend to be the only
wrestler In the country. There are
others. Take, for instance. Tom
Jenkins. Why, that man can throw all
of us; about that there is no question.
Simply because a man comes here with
him in saying that he is the only one
of the lot I understand that such
declarations have been made by GER
tain men who have visited this city
in recent times. The result of their
enga gements has no doubt settled the
fallacy of their sweeping assertions.
Since I left Butte I have been in some
cessful engagements. / have been al
most constantly on the go. and have
met some of the best men of the day.
I fully appreciate the fact that Can
non is a. mighty good man, and / also
know that he is a hard proposition to
go against on the mat. / want to say
to my friends that they will see a fair
and, determined struggle between Can
non and myself
Speaking of the Turk. Hall Adali,
Mr. Mcmillan said: II want to say
right now that this big Turk is too
is no use in saying that he can be
mat to-day: he is indeed the peer of
and as you know he has fairly and
in my opinion. is the best proof of the
champions on this side of the water,
championship
sirous of giving him another so. II
understand that Moth is still in this
state, looking for something good. I
arrange for a match at any stySc that
he may choose to name. I will go him
at any style. This I will promise to
and agree to donate the gate receipts
That shows how willing I am to meet
the man who fell before the Turk in
this city,