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

English cousins will take to moving
pictures of the championship fight. They
haven't had a big fight in England since
Peter jackson and Frank Slavin clashed
before the Pelican Club of London some
years ago, and this mock turtle repre-
sentation of one ought to please them
nightly. ~
Cincinnati. strange to say. considering
the prominence given to boxing by ats
leading newspaper, has never DEVELOPED
any considerable number of pugilists*of
first note. True, it did produce Peter
Nolan. who at onetime showed evidence
of championship form. but he is the only
one of its citizens to ever attain any
thing neal that prominence in a fistic
way. Lately it has given us Charley
Burns, who is a rafting good 14O pound
man. Last Monday night over in Brook
lyn he met Owen Zeigler of Philadelphia
for the second time, and placed him hors
de combat in five rounds, though Zeiglet,
had previously obtained a decision over
him at the Brooklyn Athletic Club.
Apropos of this contest there is a good
deal of talk to the effect that Zeigler was
not in perfect condition., and hat many
of his friends had been thrown down
through the fact that he did not inform
them that his left arm was not in proper
condition for a fight.
l know Zeigler we'll, and l had quite a
chat with i'm in the lobby of the Mon
tauk Theater in Brooklyn last Friday
night Among other things he said to me
when | asked him how it was that Ed
Dunfass of Philadelphia had knocked him
out about a month or so ago before.
well. it was like this he responded.
This fellow Dunfass is 20 pounds heavier
than | am, and a good deal taller. When
we started in to box I tented for him
with my left. and I reached him easily.
We came together a couple of times and
each time l was able to land IN him with
out much effort. Then said l to myself,
This fellow is dead easy; l can cop him
! any time / want to. Wishing to give the
audience a little run for their money l
got a bit careless, and the first thing I
knew he swung for my jaw, and when l
came to it was all over, and I was a
licked man. You see, l was over-confi-
dent"
why don't you take him on again." /
asked. Z
Il intend to-" was his reply. but over
in Philadelphia we can only get a purse
of one or two hundred dollars. while if
l fight over here we can get five or six
hundred. I'll take him on again, and
I'll do him for sure. though 1 want to
tell you, as I odd you some weeks ago,
l am going to get out Of this boxing
game before long. There is no money
in it for anybody but a champion, and
I recognize the fact there are a lot of
youngsters coming into the game who
are a good deal fresher and faster than
l am. Now, you see, on mex Monday
night am going to meet Charley Burns
Of Cincinnati again over in Brooklyn.
III have to give him SONS 20 pounds
weight. Notwithstanding the fact that
when he and l met some months ago
over in New York he gave me the worst
lacing ! ever got in my life. He is about
the hardest puncher I have ever run
up against, and l hay tackled IA few
pretty nifty ones in my time. l out
stayed him before, and 7 think I will
again.
Then Mr.. Zeigler began moralizing.
Said he: This boxing game is a mighty
stiff one, and / am pretty near done with
it. You not only lave got to contend
with the man you fight with, but some
times against people you think ought
to be your best friends. Look how l got
it out in California. Why, my OWN man
ager had the nerve to tell me afterwards
that he had doDed me and and got the
money. I think he was right and that he
gave me the dose, as alleged
II have got a place down at Bath
Beach. 1t pays me pretty Well in sum
mer. and right after Christmas I am go
ing on the road as a salesman. I hin
after a little While ] will doff the gloves
for good OF course, while ! am travelling
through the country, if I can run up
against any soft thing in the way of a
dub %scrappe who links he can fight.
and in reality can't box hard enough to
keep himself warm, I will be his oyster,
but in the main, you can just tell my
friends who have photographs of me in
their boudoirs they can write Under the
picture Owen Zeigler-Retired on his
laurels.'
l am satisfied that Zeigler is now con-
WINGED that Charley Burns is a huckle-
berry above his persimmons.
Terry McGovern is to box Harry Forbes
of Chicago, in this city the middle of
next month. They met sometime ago,
Commandments through a Sun1av
school,. Since then, however, Forbes
friends declare he has improved consid-
erably, and they affirm he will give Terry
a much harder battle than he did when
they met before. This may be true, and
then again it may be press agent CUFF.
[ am inclined to think that, barring
accident, Mr.. Forbes has about as much
chance of defeating or even leaking
even with Terry as I have of getting
rich in jig time. People who talk about
the wonderful improvement of the lads
who are to face McGovern somehow are
overlooking the fact that he is doing n
little improving himself. He is daily
getting bigger and stronger, and the
practice he has had on the road, knock
ing out all corners, has given him a con-
fidence of inestimable value. AS he is
not a drinker or d~issipator, I think the
en- is still in the A B c class of his
school.
The American trotting horse is fast
gaining favor in Europe, as is shown by
f1n fnof fLnt t,,o nv, rl