Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-04
SPORTING GOSSIP.

tween Sharkey, the erstwhile able sea-
man, and Fitzsimmons, the former speck-
leo blacksmith. There are other men with
hard business heads who believe tina they
can bring the great fighters together with
personal profit. The Fremont Hot Springs
company of Alcova, Wyoming. is on deck
with a $4,000 offer for the fight. The COM
pany has capital stock to the amount of
$l,ooo,oOo, 50 there is little danger of the
purse proving a gold brick, The only con-
dltion attached to the offer is that the pu-
glists must train at Alcova, and battle
with regularity in the hot springs. rang
ing from 1872 to 139 degrees Fahrenheit at
any time of the day.
rom Sharkey had an easy thing with
1aoh McCoFmlck in Philadelphia Satur-
oay hlsht' when he put the latter to sleep
III lhe second round. The bout lasted as
long as 1t did probably because the sailor
wanted 10 give the great crowd present
sonlethlnS FOR their money. Sharkey de-
cloed TO END the exhibition, and, after a
ilVeiy exchange in the opening of the sec
Jig ne put IN a left uppercut, sent right
ana leit IN turn to the jaw, and brought
me llSht up again to the same spot. Nc
Cornlck went down and stayed the limit.
Nhen he got to his feet again Tom
banged a right on the stomach and left
on the jaw, and the local man went out
of business.
At q meeting held in New York on Sat
urday by representatives of the three
universities comprising the 1ntercolle-
slate Rowing association, it was decided
TO have the annua boat race this year
between Pennsylvania, Cornell and Co
lllinbla take place on the Hudson river
at Ioushkeepsie Geong about June 81 or
=. This will be a week earlier than the
Harvard-Yale race at New London, which
will be held ON June 30.
:, IN addition to Pennsylvania, Cornell
and Columbia, there will probably be two
other crews in the race, viz, Wisconsin
university and Toronto university, max
ing tVe IN all. 1t is an open event, and
Will be kept open from year to year,
thus, under sporting law, making it a
championship event. The winner of this
race Will be recognized by all true sports
men as the champion college crew of
America, says a Philadelphia writer, and
for that reason it is to be regretted that
Harvard and Yale cannot forget ''tradi-
lion or sink narrow prejudices and ludi-
crous superstitions and enter it, instead
, of going off by themselves and compel
ing in a dual contest for the empty homo
OF dec ding the question of supremacy
between themselves in imitation of thu
OXford-Cambridge annual races fol
seemingly no other purpose than to en-
deavor to create the impression at home
., AMI abroad that they occupy relatively
the same position as leading universitie:
in America as that occupied by OXFORD
and Cambridge in England.
The Hudson at Poushkeepsie is wide
enough to easily permit a dozen o" lE
:, crews to row at one time. That makes
this the ideal course for an American col.
lege regatta, and, therefore,, leaves nc
good excuse for Harvard and Yale tt
II nfTnt, in ,,nT1,Cinor 70 nnfnr tho rnnn ON
perhaps, a few years hence, after these
! two naughty New Englanders discover
! that the American people will recognize
only such championships as are won ir
open competition, they will change theil
:, attitude and eventually come in.
Cornell is being warmly congratulated
on all sides for the stand she has taker
in declining to row at New London, 6
curse pronounced unfair for a big boa
! race by all professional coaches an(
!, OarSmen.
Yale's insincerity was exposed to pub
! lie view in a manner not at all creditabls
to old Eli as a true sportsman by the
7 Blues willingness" to meet Cornell, ever
:. though the latter is no longer champion
= but her unwillingness to measure blade!
= in the same race with Pennsylvania, tn
= present champion. Yale declines to hav'
anything to do with Cornell in football
! baseball or any other branch of sport
. hence. why make a distinction in aquat
), lies? And why discriminate between Cor
+ nell. e~x-champion, and Pennsylvania
present champion, since Yale, for reason
known only to herself, would not NEE
either in any other branch of sport? Ger
!. tanly the meaning of consistency mus
be differently interpreted at Yale than i
is defined elsewhere. However,, so Ions
f as Yale can use" Harvard in her pro
English ideas as to Qua contests a Il
Cambridgc-ONford, she will no doub
continue to be happy and immovable b.