The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-23
LOOKING FOR MATCHES
La Fontise Brothers Start Out
on a Boxing Tour.
NOSE HAD hartley GOING
Notwithstanding the Fact That the
Montana Man Had the Best of the
Bout, the Referee Called Him
Out on an Alleged Foul.

Nose La Fontise, Jack La Fontise, his
brother, and young Choynski will leave
for the East in a few days. 1t is the
intention of the trio to pull off fights
wherever the law tolerates such things,
each being ready and willing to meet
corners of their respective weights. The
La Fontise brothers are well known in
Butte and Anaconda, where they have
made their homes for several years.
Nose La Fontise has made a record for
himself in the prize ring. Young Cho-
ynski has a national reputation, and
wherever he chooses to bill his men
there will be crowds to see them. 1t
will doubtless prove combination
worthy of the considera ton of men who
are looking for game.
The Lafontise- BARLEY bout in Denver
last Wednesday ended in a manner
which will give fighting a black eye in
tnat city for some time to come. 1t
looks from this distance like an carp
decision, reminder of the time Shar-
key and Fitzsimmons met and separat-
ed under such unfavorable circum-
stances in San Francisco a few years
ago. The Denver News gives the fol-
lowing account of the affair:
A few more such exhibitions as that
at the Colorado club last night, and
there Will be no need to repeal the
Cannon law, for so far as Denver is
concerned the prize fighting game will
be dead past all resurrection. The pre-
liminaries were the worst possible, and
the ending of the main event between
Frank BARLEY and Nose La Fontise on
foul in the twelfth round sent the
audience away in anything but pleas
ant frame of mind.
The audience was the smallest that
has assembled at the Colorado club
since the law went into effect Not
outstanding that the betting on the
fight had been heavy, the house was
disappointing. The articles had provid-
ed for clean breakaways, and it was
decided between the principals and
their seconds before the contest began
that there should be no hitting in the
clinches, that both men should fight
absolutely free, or full arm distance.
This was strictly followed up to the
fatal moment in the twelfth round the
men giving one of the finest exhibitions
of clean fighting seen in the ring here
up to that time. BARLEY was inclined
to strike too low, and in the ninth and
again in the eleventh hit La Fontise
below the belt, but the referee seemed
unable to see it either time:
I'm the twelfth round BARLEY was
clearly distressed and La Fontise went
after him with rush. After sharp
exchange at full arm length La
Fontise rushed BARLEY to his corner
near the end of the round, and in close
quarters used right and left viciously.
The crowd at once set up a yell of foul,
and Bartley's seconds jumped up, de-
manding of the referee that BARLEY be
given the decision. The referee parted
the men and ordered La Fontise to his
corner. Just at this the gong sounded
and La Fontise supposed that time had
been called. r
Referee Billy Woods turned to Bart
ley awarding him the decision, and the
latter crossed the ring to shake hands
with La Fontise. AS he approached La
Fontise and the latter grasped the fact
that he had lost on a foul. he was fur-
Gus and rushed at BARLEY to show that
he could put him out The seconds in
terfered, the police jumped into the
ring and all was over in a moment.
La Fontises said, after he went to his
dressing room, that he may have lost
his head and gone in too rapidly, but
he felt that he had Barley beaten and
set in to put him out. He was conf
dent that he did not hit except when
both hands We're free
The claim of some spectators that
La Fontise deliberately fouled because
he was gone, is ridiculous, as the man
had BARLEY going when the decision
was given against him."