The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-06
decision. He backed Rubin to defeat
Maher, and this was a draw.

The big fighters are not doing much.
Kid McCoy's match with Joe Choynski
has fallen through and there seems to
be little chance of a match between
him and Bob Fitzsimmons. Mccoy
would be glad to clash with the Cor
nishman at 1853 pounds for the middle
weight championship, but Fits claim
that he can fight at that heft is a bluff,
pure and simple. Bob's play Is to keep
Mccoy on the tenterhooks until he
grows impatient and offers to fight at
catch weights. In that event there is
possibility of their meeting. Jim JEFF
fries knocked a good deal of nonsense
out OF F'ftz's noggin. He had got him
self into a frame Of mind to believe
that there was no one on the lists who
had the ghost of chance with him.
Bob now views the loss of the cham
pionshp quite philosophically Fitz
says that he could have whipped JEFF
fries easily If he had only stood up
straight while fighting. Substantially
he said: His reach and his crouching
attitude kept me from getting to his
body. In the sixth round he did stand
up pretty straight, and in that round
l walloped his ribs well. In the next
round he went back to his crouching
and that kept me off
Talking of the finish of the fight
he said: Even in the tenth round 1
thought I was winning. l couldn't get
myself to think that could be defeat
ed" Mccoy is the boss croucher in the
business. He is, barring Jim Corbett,
the cleverest boxer the ring has ever
seen, and Fitz would hate like poison
to be defeated by him. for he was one
of Fits handlers and attendants, and
defeat at his hands would be bitter in
deed
Just what Billy Brady's little game
is in taking Jim Jeffries to England is
matter of speculation. 1t isn't glory
he is after, for there isn't any glory in
young, fresh giant like Jeffries beat
ing a has-been like Charley Mitchell,
and it can't be that it is money that he
is after, for their gate will not be one
fourth what it would be in this country.
Then, again, in order to get a match
Brady had to consent to having a min
ute chopped off each of the ten rounds
they are scheduled to box. They are to
go ten rounds, each of two minutes
duration, only a minutes rest between,
and they are to break clean. They are
not to hit in the clincheS, nor in the
breaks. They are to break. too, at
the command of the referee. Brady
is shrewd Snowman, but 1 hardly
thought him a first-class manager of
pugilists. He has 1.-The champion of
the world" as his card, and yet he per-
mits man who never was anything
but 'England's boxing champion" to
dictate and enforce terms against him.
He is dealing with slippery eel, is Mr..
Brady, and If he comes cut of the
transaction FIRST best" he will be
lucky, indeed. Worldn't he feel cheap
if Jeffries was to be disqualified" for
hitting in the clinches or breaks? Well!
The thought almost takes ones breath
away.
Tom Sharkey has posted 1000 with
the San Francisco Examiner to guar
antee his appearance in the ring with
Jeffries,
Oscar Gardner writes from his home
in Wheeling. w. Va, that his long rest
has done him a lot of good. He expects
to fight Dixon or McGovern toward the
latter part of September.
Fred Morris, the American colored
middleweight, who recently returned
from England. will meet Dan Creedon
before the Broadway Athletic club,
New York, August II.
Jack O'Brien, the crack New York
lightweight, Is matched for a twenty
five round contest with Jimmy German
before the Manhattan Athletic club of
Troy. N. Y, August 20.
Jack Stelzner, former sparrng part
ner of Bob FitZsimmons. pronounccs
Jim Jeffords the Californian who wants
to meet Jim Jeffries, the strongest Of
all the heavyweight boxers.
Oscar Gardner has unearthed Pitts
burg bantam named Harry Johnston.
whom he declares to be good enough
to go against the best in his class.
Kid Mccoy, who is training at Chey-
enne for fights at Davenport, Chicago
and New York during the coming
month, received the following telegram
from his brother in New York: Julian
says Fitzsimmons has rheumatism and
declines to fight you" Mccoy very un-
kindly replied to the telegram as fol-
lows: "Fitz has rheumatism of the heart
and not of the arms" If Mccoy is as
game as Fitzsimmons he will be all
right.
The forfeit money binding the inter-
national match between Terry Me-
Govern and Pedlar Palmer which takes
place at the Westchester Athletic club
on September l, has been posted with
the final stakeholder. This was con-
sistent with the articles of agreement
that the two fighters should post $1,000
each. $500 of which is for weight and
the remainder for appearance. The
club also deposited it's money, which,
in the event of it's failure to pull off
the fight, will be divided equally be-
tween the fighters. Sam Harris appear
ed for his charge and Ordway repre-
scented Palmer.
Articles have been signed for fight
before the Sioux City Athletic club.
August Is, between ex-Featherweigh
Champion australian Billy" Murphy
of Cincinnati and Patsy Magner If
Yankton, S. D., who recently fought
15-round draw with Tommy White, the
Chicago lightweight champion.
Friends of John l.. Sullivan state that
he is to open a saloon on Thirty-fourth
street, just west of Broadway, and
around the corner from Corbett's place,
in opposition to Corbett's, and says he
will put de pompadour chap on lie
bum"
Billy" Madden is trying to induce
Fitzsmmons to take on a match with
his champion" Gus Rubin. The
Coney Island club is after the match.
Madden has accepted for Rubin, and
is now trying to induce the Cornish
man to sign.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a.,