The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-27

ust 81. and see whether there won't be
another tale to tell
Terry McGovern has a large list of
trainers helping to prepare him for his
fight with Pedlar Palmer. They are as
follows: Tim Kerns. George Munroe
Joe Fairburn and Stockings Conroy.
Tommy White says he made mis-
take in getting at Dixon at a light
weight and that he wants to meet him
again.
London Campbell of Pittsburg has
| hackers who offer to match him gainst
| any boxer in the world at 125 pounds.
Well" said Tom Sharkey when he
heard about Kid McCoy's unexpected
knockout at the hands of Jack McCor-
| mick. Just what l expected. You go
in and try to box pretty, and the first
thing you know you go down and out"
The date of the Gardner otchford
battle has again been shifted. The pair
| are now matched to fight before the
Broadway Athletic club of New York
on September %, for % rounds at us
| pounds.
Charley Mitchell is still talking about
fighting Jim Jeffries, but it is not likely
that he will face the American cham
| pion in genuine ring contest.
| Joe Cans, the clever colored light
| weight may be matched to meet Matty
| Matthews before the Broadway Athletic
| club of New York during the early part
| of next month.
Martin Flaherty the Lowell (Mass.)
| featherweight, will probably be given
the first chance to tackle Ben Jordan.
when the British champion arrives in
| this country.
| Joe Youngers of Buffalo has gradual
! ly drifted into the weller division, and
can no longer make the lightweight
| limit.
The Broadway Athletic club of New
l -y-1r t. 4.
and Dan Dougherty for 25-round con-
ties a. los pounds.
Martin Judge of Baltimore will have
to deposit $3.50 to guarantee his appear
| ance in the ring If he wants a match
with Joe Cans, as Al Hereford, the lat
ter's manager, will not consent to a
match on any other terms.
| 1t has been finally determined that
| Tim kearns and Jack O'Brien, the
| crack Gotham lightWeights, will meet
on September 20 before the Broadway
| Athletic club in a 25-round contest.
A New York friend Of Eddie Santry
! has offered to bet 81 900 that the Chi
cago lad can defeat Dixon in a finish
| fight.
| Henry Padden, manager of Fred Nor
ris. the BLACK Cyclone has issued a
challenge on behalf of his man to box
the winner Of the McCoy-Thorne bat
| tie.
|
hard on Frank Erne's rrail. Kid Nc
| Partland has just posted a forfeit of
| $500 to bind match with the cham
pion. Mcfarland wants to box Erne
at 1876 pounds, noon, on the day of bat
| tie
Joe Maxfeld, the Cleveland (Ohio)
| bantam, claims that he has backing
to fight any lad in the country from
105 to 10 pounds, Caspar Leon preferr-
ed.
Old Jake Kilrain will probably meet
Steve O'Donnell In a 20-round contest
before one of the New York athletic
clubs early in the fall.
Jim Papp, the Canadian lightweight
champion says that he got bad deal
from the referee in his recent fight with
Jack O'Brien before the Hawthorne
Athletic club of Cheektowaga, N. Y.
| and wants to meet the New Yorker
again.
| Tom McCune expressed himself as
dissatisfied with the result of his recent
match with Dick O'Brien, the Philadel-
phia welterweight. Jack Leonard,
manager of the Tri-City Athletic club
of Davenport, Iowa. offers to give a
$500 purse for a return match between
| O'Brien and McCune, to take place at
Clinton. Iowa, during the early part Of
next month, If McCune will bet $3.50 on
| the side.
| George Kerwin returned from New
| York yesterday looking none the worse
for his recent fight with Matty Matt
hews, and will begin training to-mor-
row for his match with Sellars before
the Dubuque Athletic association of
Dubuque, Iowa, on August 80.
George Dixon is not satisfied with
the referees decision in his late battle
challenge to the Chicagoan for another
| contest