The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26

SiDle chance I0f a ulsPute, ne Is SURE to
| take advantage of it. But talking
| about champion decisions without A
| knockout, what did Frank Erne get
| over George Lavigne, Dixon over Cur
| ley and hundreds OF other cases that
could be enumerated. The fact Is that
about all the fights you hear Of nova
| days are championship fights. There
are few legitimate holders of real titles.
However, I must add here that there
has never been so-cal1ed heavyweight
championship battle fought III this
country. excepting the last one, and the
title won without a Knockout. John l..
Sullivan knocked out both Paddy Ryan
and Jake Kllrain, under the obsolete
London prize ring rules to be. sure, but
they were championship mills all the
same, and both bona f1da ones at that.
Then comes Corbett under the Queens
bury code. He knocks out sullivan,
and in turn is Knocked out by Fitzsim-
US down to the present fight in which
Jeffries triumphs, but without putting
the sailor out. That 1t was a fair vic
tory, however, and the best man woi..
is amply evidenced in the actions Of
the two fighters after the battle was
over. Jeffries, clipper as a schoolboy,
hieing himself with frolicking friends
uptown to an all-night wine supper,
and Sharkey, battered and helpless,
surrounded by doleful morners, being
carted off ito hospital and a DOCTOR
Tommy Ryan, as the chief adviser
and trainer of Champion Jim Jeffries
! is the envy of the whole biting frater-
nifty. He received $4,000 for his last
six weeks work, and IN addition has
been engaged for a year at a most at
| tractive salary With affairs in this
| whether he will be seen in the ring
again for a long time. This will be
| good news to the string of fighters
| who stand some show of being matched
! with him. 1t will let them out and give
them a. chance to match With some
man whom they stand some show OF
licking. With the peerless Ryan there
is not a man Of his weight in the world
who has a look in. He is III a class all
by himself, and to meet defeat he must
| give away pounds and sZa, and lots OF
1t. Ryan Is one of the decentest fell
lows in the business, and he longs for
| the day when he can get out Of the
game for good. He is worth something
like $4,000 in cash to-day, and with his
skill as a trainer and handler of the
big fellows and the income lie receives
from his New York and Syracuse prop
erty, it doesn't look as if he would
have to worry much longer "
While Jim Jeffries and Jim Corbett
| are debating over their coming fight
Tom Sharkey and Bob F'itzsimmons are
also figuring on coming together. 1t
was said that the ex-champion has
| waived the prejudice which he has en-
| tertained against Sharkey ever since
the time they met in San Francisco,
when Fitzsimmons declares he was
| robbed, and has consented to take he
former sailor on. He intends to pur-
!, sue this course, 1t Is reported, In view
Of Jeffrles' determination to give Cor
h1rA H-A Al -.
| tends that he Is as good as he ever was.
Such q fight, the sports think, would
be the trump card Of the year. As
| Sharkey has made up his mind to take
4 q trip to Ireland after Christmas, the
match, II it is made. will not take
place until next summer. Fitzsimmons
may agree to this, as he expects to be
on the road during the cold weather
Peter Maher came across Tom Shar-
key the other day and the pair had q
chat over old times. The big Irishman,
who is hard at work training for his
mill with Kid Mccoy, said to the sail
| or:
We'll, Tom, old boy, If defeat Nc
Coy I will go after battle with you.
How about it?"
Il am satisfied. Peter. We fought a
draw, and 1 guess there is still G. doubt
If you can beat me. am willing to
|
Sharkey promised that, IL Maher beat
Mccoy, he would fight him. A local
club. after being informed of the in
tended match, is willing to offer $4,000
for the meeting, which may take place
| next March.
The associated press dispatches of
KID Mccoy is a complete wreck,
physically. The fighter has been train
Ing at Muldoon's farm for his fight
with Maher, and suddenly the an
nouncement comes that he has gone to
pieces. The fight. of course, will be
off For long time there have been
stories afloat about McCoy's condition.
Last summer while he was in Colorado
it was said that he was unable to sleep
| without the application of ice bags to
the back of his head. Other tales of
like nature have been going the rounds
| of the newspapers, and the collapse of
| Mccoy is, therefore, not entirely a
surprise.
Australian Billy Murphy has de-
cided to quit the ring for good. He
| will return to- New Zealand in the
spring.
1t is said that Owen Zeigler, who
was recently knocked out by Charlie.
Burns of Cincinnati, has decided to re-
tire from the ring.
ice Bernstein and Dave Sullivan have
been matched for the fifth time. They
meet at the Broadway Athletic club on
December 1.
Owen Zeigler's friends claim that the
| Philadelphia welterweight lay down to
Charley Burns in their recent contest
in New York.
Kid Mcfarland and Eddie Connolly
have been matched for q 26-round bout
to take place at the Broadway Athletic
club on December 10.
A Cleveland athletic club has offered
a purse for 20-round contest between
Joe Cans of Baltimore and Jim Popp,
the Canadian lightweight.
Martin Judge, the Philadelphia light
weight, wants TO meet any boxer in the
city at 13S pounds, ringside, Matty
Matthews or Kid Mcfarland pre-
ferTed.
Jim Popp. the lightweight champion
of Canada. has signed to box 20 rounds
with Spike Sullivan before the Haw-
thorne athletic club of Buffalo on De-
cember Is.
Oscar Gardeners hands were so badly
crippled during his recent fight with
| Iapk Hamilton that will r.