Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16
AM0NGSPORT

| meet Ryan. win or lose against Peter
| Maher. at 15S pounds. within four months.
! Then the vivals shook hands and separ-
ated.
There is a funny story going the rounds
concerning the failure of the picture ma
chimes to reproduce the last part of the
last round in the Jeffries-Sharkey bout.
1t is to the effect that at the time of the
fight. the picture taking machine broke
dow after one minute of fighting in the
last round. Thus one of the most inter-
| osting parts of the performance. includ-
ing the glove incident. was left out. The
managers determined to reproduce thai
part for the benefit of patrons. Accord
ingly Billy Brady was rigged up to look
as much like Siler as possible, the latter
having returned to Chicago. Jeffries and
Sharkey We're taken to the ring and
everything was ready for the fake
Then the trouble arose. Sharkey was
still pretty sore at the champion. Ac-
| c~ordingly, he was inclined to mix it in
earnest in the exhibition. w~hereupon
Brady, in the double role of counterfeit
referee. but Jeffries' real manager. would
! put up a warning hand to restrain Shar-
key. On the other hand. when Jeffries
wanted to retaliate on Sharkey, Tom
ORourke, the latter's manager, would
start to climb through the ropes to keep
The pugilists apart. OF course, all this
showed in the pictures. and the fake
was too palpable. so the management de-
cided to leave out altogether the missing
part.
In reply to Spike S%ullivan's claim that
he has first right to fight E.rne for the
lightweight championship, Al Herfo!d,
Joe Cans manager, says:
sullivan accuses Cans of evading a
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had a partial agreement to meet Sullivan,
| but after McFadden defeated Lavisne,
George Considine and Tom O'Rourke,
who then represented Sullivan, requested
me to drop Sullivan and take up NC
Fadden as the better drawing card. l
took it for granted hat they had the
authority to withdraw one principal and
substitute another, so Cans went against
McFadden and won.
IF Mr.. Sullivan will look back for three
years he will remember this: Cans and
Sullivan We're matched to fght II rounds
in Boston. On the day before the one
set for the light Sullivan saw a copy of
Cans record and he was suddenly taken
i'll. Again, two years ago. the two were
matched to meet before the National
club. A week before the selected day
Sullivan called off the match. The only
tirst-rate men Spike has met are Haw-
kins and Mcfarland. He won from
Hawkins by a lucky punch and from Nc
Partland he got a terrible beating. Cans
gave both Mcfarland and DAILY a good
drubbing and paid his little debt to Nc
Fadden with interest.
Il posted in New York two months ago
81 900 as a forfeit and as a part of a side
bet of S., 900 that Cans can whip the win
ner of the Erne-O'Brien match. To Sui
I offer this: If Cans is successful
with either Erne or O'Brien provided
they are matched, he will meet Sullivan
under an agreement by Which the VIM
is to take ALL"
A we'll known follower of fistic events,
who was a witness Of the recent Erne-
O'Bri.n light. said:
THE lightweight fight between Erne
O'Brien developed two things, viz.
that Erne is not strong enough to cope
With all the eastern lightweights and
that if he meets O'Brien again there will
be a new lightweight champion.
Referee Siler's decision of a draw
pleased the Erne followers, but the
O'Brien faction was hot under the collar.
They claimed that inasmuch as O'Brien
had landed a majority of the blows, had
been IN the aggressive for "A or the %
rounds. and had knocked Ernie down
three times with clean blows, he certainly
was entitled to the winners md. I was
SO sure of getting the decision thai in the
last five rounds, with the exception Of
the last. I let up on Erne. The decision
was against me Il I'm ready at any
time to prove that I am Erne,s SUPERIOR
The concensus of opinion is that Erne
was lucky in getting off as easily as he
did. fia received a terrific drubbing on
the body and will be an invalid for some
time. Three times IIrne was cleanly
knocked down, and he fought on the de-
fensive all the way through, apparently
being thunderstruck at O'Brien's fright
full pace. The New Yorker bored into
Erne's guard at will and rave old timers
an idea of Kid Lavigne's style. Both Of
O'Brlen's eyes We're blackened, his lips
We're puffed up like a balloon and his
nose was cut open, but he said they We're
honorable scars
With the season we'll along, quite a few
of the bowlers are suffering from sore
fingers brought about by excessive bowl
ing. But there are not so many afflicted
this way now as there has been in the
| past, for the reason that the men are
learning now to care for their wounds.
The trouble is brought about mostly
through caliouses caused by excessive
bowling when the men have not taken the
pains to reduce the callouses. This
causes split fingers, which, if not attend
ed to. become so painful that a lay-off
of a week or SO is necessary. How to
care for these bruises formed an interest
ing topic of conversation in a bunch of
prominent bowlers the other day.
Il pin my faith to collodium,' said one
bowler. When I have an open cut dose
it up with this drug, which forms a coat
ing and the wound soon heals"
That's all right for an open cut" was
a doctors opinion, but when you have
a small crack in our finger at one of
the joints the best thing you can do is
to soak the finger in hot water until the
callous becomes soft and then put or a
touch of vaseline. In a few days, If you