The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-30
sparrer he certainly could not hit one.
half as hard.

sparrer he certainly could not hit one
half as hard.
Gus Rubin is what in race track
parlance would be called an in and
outer He fights one corking good fight,
then bad one then a worse one than
that, and when the hopes of his admir-
ers have been knocked gally west by
this display of bad form he suddenly
pulls up with rush and-does some
thing. 1t wasn't much. perhaps, to talk
about, that victory over old Joe God
dard at the Lenox club, but it served to
re-estabish a whole lot of confidence
in the Akron man, and enable him to
again loom up as a factor in heavy
weight fistic affairs.
The following interesting story of
Kid McCoy's early career is going the
rounds: Several years ago, before
Mccoy foisted himself in the pugilistic
horizon by defeat ting Ryan, he was
| comparatively unknown in the larger
cities of the East Mccoy and a clique
of boxers worked the people of the
small towns of Ohio and Indiana with
series of boxing bouts that were cleV-
erly planned and rehearsed. Mccoy,
for example, would plant one of the
boxers in Dayton.
This boxer would call on one of the
local papers and challenge Mccoy.
Sometimes. he would deposit a flash
roll with the sporting editor as a guar
anty of first installment on a side bet.
A few days later Mccoy would write
from Cincinnati that he had read of
the challenge in the Dayton paper and
would accept. The match was worked
up in the papers, and Mccoy, one Of
the most skillful jolliers of newspapers
in the country, was on hand to give the
affair boom in the tyres. OF course,
he got the decision. sometimes on the
strength of one of those stagefall
and his partner drew large houses and
split up tidy purses
Latest reports from John L. Sullivan
are all good. The once mighty gladia-
tor is attending strictly to business
nowadays. He has turned his back upon
| the wine that is red--also upon that
which is white. He is beginning now
| where he should have begun 10 or Is
| years ago. And yet Sullivan is as pop
| ular to-day as he ever was. His name
will rank with those of the most famous
| heroes of the ring, after that of his ac-
! cidental conqueror is forgotten.
| Joe Cans, the colored lightweight pos
sibility who has had them all wonder
| ing as to just how good he was, and
| who has been looked upon as very
| probable successor to Kid. Lavigne, met
| his Waterloo about a week ago when
| he met George McFadden. practically
| a newcomer TO the upperdom of the
| fistic art. This lad McFadden went a
rough journey with the colored man,
| but had him down and out in the 23d
| round, when he himself was apparently
as strong as when the gong first set
! the couple at it. He went at it like a
man of championship stripe, too. He
was presented with plenty of punish
ment at the opening of the fight. but
he gulped it down without whimper,
and in the meantime went at his man
until he tired him out, then delivered
| the parting blow. McFadden will be
| given another trial at good timber, as
! he has been matched with Frank Erne.
IF I had been WE'LL" says Kid Nc
| Coy, Il really think I could have
stopped Choynski in the second round.
But after that. round I could not hit
hard enough to dent my glove. I jolted
Joe on the nose often enough to have
put it clean through his head, but he
didn't seem to mind it much. Now, I
do not want to appear as belittling
| Choynski. He is a fine fellow, as you
know, and can still hit with the best
of them. l am honest in confessing
that it was my good legs that carried
| me through so nicely tnat night.
|
While it has never been learned Of
| ficially what amount of money FitZ-
| simmons and COrbett realized out of
the veriscope pictures taken at their
fight. it is said, however, that they got
| SOS, 900 each.
There is no chance of getting White
and Santry together, the latter having
| baked every effort to make arrange
ments, and White will go back to Den
yer without taking crack at the man
| who has claimed so much.
May was the month originally set for
the Lavigne- Burge fight, but it may
be postponed until October. in which
event some of the aspiring lightweights
may get their "beatings" if they sum
up courage enough to make match
| with the champion.
| Patsy Haley realizes now that the
| fast pace he has been going was not
good for a man in the boxing business
He is going to Newmarket Junction, N
| H, to rest till the fall.
kid" Lavigne may not go to England
to meet Dick Burse. The London club
does not want to allow him $500 eX.
pense money, as it first agreed.