The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-10
BUTTE NEWS.
WERE ALL JEFFR|ES MEN
The Result Enthusiastically Re-
ceived in Butte.
STANDARD IN THE LEAD
1t Was the First to Give the Result of
the Big Fight-Loud Cheers for
New Champion OF
the Ring.
STANDARD IN THE LEAD

! Fitzsimmons, of course, had friends
in Butte last night, but judging by the
echoes from the crowds that watched
the bulletins it was noted that Jeffries'
friends were there, and that if there
were any Fitz men they did not make
much noise.
AS usual the Standard was ahead of
all the others who flashed bulletins
the advance bulletin announcing the
result was posted in the Standard win
dow full two minutes before 1t was
posted in any of the other places.
When the Standard flashed this news
the crowd yelled so loud that the arc
light overhead went out and then
some one shouted: "And SO is Fitz
OUT
A man walking from the opera house
towards the Butte hotel heard loud
cheering in front of the Standard Of
flee. He heard some one say:
There it goes again. The Standard
has posted the result and see how
quiet things are in front of the Miner
Office
He ran up to the Standard window,
saw the verification of the words ut
the Miner window and saw them post
ing the seventh round.
The crowd in front Of the Standard
office filled the street back to the walls
OF the California brewery. Men and
boys stood on top of the brewery and
many climbed up telephone poles and
read the bulletins and shouted for JEFF
fries.
After Fitz went down in the second
round money was laid at even terms
on Jeffries. 1t is said that Henry AL
bertson raked in several cold hun
dred. Before the sixth round was fin
1shed Fttzsimmons was tied up and
Jeffries money went begging. As far
as Butte is concerned Fitzsimmons is
has-been and hundreds and hundreds
of men now take occasion to say that
Corbett was an easy mark and that
F'itz, after all, had not a very brilliant
reputation or long string of laurels
behind him. But that is only the way
of the world.
The night opened up with a percept-
ible wave of Jeffriesism There seem
ed to be an undercurrent of that sem
tlment and counter current that
Fltzslmmons was on the wane. There
was not that enthusiasm usually man
Hest when an accredited champion of
the prize ring is about to meet man
whom money says cannot win, but is
willing to stand three quarters in ia
vor of the other fellow Still, after all,
when It was given out that the cham
5pIon OF the world had been vanquish-
ed the surprise was not so intense as
the cheering. The telephone wires
were kept hot for II rounds, and there
were some queer things heard over
them, such as: ut is possible?" "That
is good" Gee Kill" "The deuce you
say" etc, and others that were not
intended to find their way in the news
papers.
Considerable money, though not
large amount, changed hands on the
result of the fight. 1t was not a hot
betting race in Butte. Many hats and
cigars were bet. After it was all
over, when word spread over town that
F,itzsimmons had been knocked out and
that he was no longer the champion
of the world, expressions of regret
We're few-indeed, where the crowds
were largest there was a unanimous
acclaim which showed positively that
the result found fayor thara