The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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THE RING
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The fight between Jeffries and Shar-
key will take place on or about Oct.
%. The men have agreed to fight be-
fore the club offering the highest in
ducements and bids will be left open
until Sept. /. Each bid must be sent
to Matt Clune at the Vanderbilt hotel
and must be accompanied by certi-
fed check for $500 as a guarantee
of good faith The club securing the
event will be required to post for
felt of $1,000 at once and the entire
purse 10 days before the battle. JEFF
fries and Sharkey will deposit $2,500'
each with AL Smith, the final stake
holder, to guarantee their appearance
in the ring.
The winner will take the entire
purse. Brady dictated the conditions.
O'Rourke wanted soft bandages for the
hands to he permitted. but Brady OPP
posed, and they agreed to let this go
over until Monday.
The Coney Island Sporting club and
the Lenox Athletic club are both in
the field as bidders. One of the two
is likely to secure the prize. William
A. Brady, on behalf of the former. Of
fered O'Rourke $50, 900 for the fight if
he would sign Immediately. but
O'Rourke refused. He said the Lenox
club would probably draw more money.
The contest will be for % rounds for
a decision. Another detail which was
left over until Monday was the size
of the ring. Jeffries wants a square
1S-foot. while O'Rourke favors the
regulation 24-foot. Billy Delaney, who
was present at the meeting. said: we
want an 1S-fOot ring. Sharkey ran
away from the champion in San Fran
cisco"
Queensberry rules will be observed.
| Each man will be allowed to hit with
| one hand free and must protect him
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To Tommy Ryan probably more than
any other one man, belongs the credit
| for the splendid fight put up by Jeff
| ries He appeared on the scene about
a week before the fight and changed
| the tactics of the Los Anglican almost
| entirely. Instead of standing up
| straight with both hands up, as was
| his former position, and which was the
position which Fitzsimmons had eN-
| pected. he found facing him in the ring
| a giant in d CrOuching position, the
| faVorite attitude of Tommy Ryan.
| Crouched in this manner. with his
| enormous left arm always extended.
| to FitZsimmuns' face, he kept the Aus
| tralian out of reach, 50 the fight was
| not stand UP give and take affair,
| as was the Corbett- Fitzsimmons bout
al Carson. FitZ, always the agrees
| sor, would have TO get two or three
| l0ltS from Jett left before he could
| come near enough to land at all.
|
Another prospective fight is match
| between FitZsimmons and Mccoy at
| the midleweight limit Fitz is still the
| champion of that class and Mccoy has
| challenged him to fight for the title
| al 15S pounds. If the COrnishman con-
SCENTS to enter the ring again, the
| sporting experts believe that he should
| take on Mccoy, as the latter is easily
the cleverest middleweight outside Of
| the lanky man. Any talk, however,
about Mccoy meeting Jeffries is not
regarded seriously for the reason chat
according to well posted ring follow
| ers. Mccoy would have less chance
| with the new champion than he had
with Sharkey. There is some talk OF
| pitting Big Gus Rubin against Jeff
ries. as he once fought 20-round draw
| with the latter and showed considera-