Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-25

daylight and not in the glare of the cleo
trio light.
There has been friction between Jeffries
and his trainer. Billy Delaney, and il, is
probable hat the man who has de-
veloped Jeffries will never again train
They met Wednesday afternoon and
reproached Delaney for having
stated he was mistrained. Delaney re-
torted that in making the statement he
had only told the truth, and that he stood
by what he had said.
AS I have stated above, I am of the
opinion that Jeffries was not in first-class
condition. His injured arm had not fully
recovered from the injuries inflicted on it
by the bad medicine ball, and, besides, he
had not the speed and alertness Of a man
in perfect physical condition. If he had
been in tip-top form I think he would
have beaten Sharkey decisively. AS it
was, he gave him the worst pummeling he
ever received, though he did not put him
hors de combat, as Fitz did in San
Francisco.
may be mistaken. but it looks to me as
though Jeffries has seen the zenith of his
powers. I hardly think he will ever fight
again as we'll as he did the night he met
Fitz. Brady says he needs a long rest,
and I think Brady is right in the state
ment. We are not likely to see another
championship fight for nearly a year to
come.
Peter Maher n Kid Mccoy have at
last posted their %forfeits in a stakehold-
er's hands mutually agreeable to both,
and both are now in training for their
contest. Maher is looking splendid, and
I think he never was in as good fighting
form as he is at present. There are re-
ports that Mccoy is not we'll physically,
and some say that he is in need of a
surgical operation. He hasn't looked right
to me for a long time, but l hardly think
he is in need of a surgical operation.
1t is very hard to dope" this fight on
form. When Joe Choynski met Maher
before the Broadwater Athletic club he
had no difficulty whatever in landing on
him. He certainly did have Peter very
near Queer street. Then he got gay and
attempted to finish the Irish champion
right off the reel. In doing this he run
right into one of Peters stiff jolts and the
subsequent proceedings interested him no
more for several minutes. Now Choyn-
ski is not as clever as Kid Mccoy. Nc
Coy knocked ribbons out of one Gus RUN
lin when they met at Syracuse. Rubin
was Makers equal for twenty rounds in
this city, though Maher explains that
was due to the fact that he injured one
of his arms early in the battle. One thing
is certain, that in facing Mccoy Maher
will go up against the ,1..>.est man by
far he ever encountered. On the other
hand, Mccoy is meeting the hardest hit
ter in the ring. l think the chances are
even, and take you pick.
Tom O'Rourke contributes an interest
ing article to a New York daily pom the
general subjects of decisions. Having
been behind some of the greatest fighters
of the age, this king of managers is quail
fnI IN Iicc,,cc hic S11Iiaot nto11iOa1t1v
The recent great battle prompted him to
write as follows:
When Referee George Siler awarded
James J. Jeffries the decision over Thorn
as Sharkey he was, I am convinced, so
much affected by the intense heat that
prevailed in the Coney Island club house
hat he temporarily lost his faculties and
indicated he wrong man as the winner.
That he should insist that he did not
make a mistake even after he has had
plenty of time to think the matter over
is not at all surprising. My impression
when l heard Siler's decision was that
Sharkey nae been disqualified for what
he was pleased to regard as a foul. l
think the majority of the spectators
took this view of the situation, for if it
had been announced that the decision
was based or points scored during the
contest, there would certainly have been
a hostile demonstration against the
referee.
But the Jeffries- Sharkey battle is over
and there's no use kicking about the re-
suit.
In connection with Mr.. Siler's error one
thing impresses me-the deficiencies of
referees will be laid bare to the public
now that they really I'VE to be men of
judgment, GOODNESS and some ability in
order to prevent a howl when ever they
decide a battle which doesn't result in a
knockout.
They were all good referees up to a
few years ago, when championship fights
were not decided except by a knockout
blow. OF a palpable foul.
Now that the referee really has to do
some work, in a mathematical way and in
other ways, followers of the boxing game
are getting onto the fact that a whole lot
of four flushers hav tunneled into the
game.
The public is now as wise as the best
of the referees, and the average man
who attends a boxing exhibition doesn't
have to nave a bet down to protest when
an injustice is done.
During George Dixon's career as a
fighter he has been badly treated by
referees on three occasions that l have
reason to remember very distinctly, for
l lost good money as the result of the
error of the referee on each occasion.
George Green refereed the twenty-round
bout between Dixon n Solly Smith in
San Francisco and gav Smith the deci-
sion in the face of a mighty protest from
the crowd. Smith was then billed as the
hampton, although at the time champion
ship bouts were not by general consen:
decided in limited round contests. Sam
Austin also gave Dixon the worst Of a
decision in his bOut with Frank Erne be-
fore the Broadway Athletic club. Austin