Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-12
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Macon McCornick's New York letter in
Boston Travellers: BY the time this
reaches my readers eye. Pedlar Palmer.
the pet of the National Sporting club OF
London, will be With us.
Jim Jeffries is on the other side of the
big herring pond and soon we will be
hearing what our English cousins
think of him. He is to do two turns a
night at favorite Music halls and by so
doing he will earn his expenses and those
of his manager, "Hustling" Billy Brady. |
Jeff spoke rather cortemptuously about
Charley Mitchell and Jim Smith, calling
them dead ones" before he left, and it
may be to make things pleasant and
cOngenial,' necessary to deny that this
statement was ever made. Statesmen
frequently shoot off their mouths very
recklesly to reporters and then repudiate
, their words when they see them in cold
, type staring them in the face from the
columns of a newspaper. If they are so
| privileged to amend their remarks, Why
is not a fighter equally privileged? l
pause for a reply.
There used to be an old turfman in
Kentucky named Jim Shy, Who was par
ticularly unlucky in heat races. He would
frequently win a heat but seldom a race.
Out of this fact grew the saying. SHY
win a heat Steve O'Donnell. who is one
of the cleverest sparrers in the BUSINESS,
isn't much of a boxer. but once in awhile,
like Shy. he "wins a heat" He was for
tunate enough last Saturday at Tucka-
hoe, before the Westminster club, to put
it all over Bud Ruble, the big Dayton,
Ohio, boy. who came east with the nreis
agents reputation of having foored Kid
Mccoy in a fOur-rOund contest in that
prettiest of inland w on the bank OF
the Big Miami, besides of having other
wise made it fstically unpleasant Tor
handsome Charles. | didn't take much
stock in the press agents story-the gen
tlemen who write the advance notices OF
fstic events for the papers have such fer
tile imaginations that l often wonder
why they dom turn their attention TO
that other branch of fiction-novel writ
ing. Mr.. Ruble wasn't common amuse-
ment for O'Donnell. Steve gave him 'such
referee stopped the bout in the eighth
round to save the Westerner from a
Knockout. Thus, "another promising
candidate for the championship wide
press agent) got "the dinky dink.' If
Ruble ever made matters lively for Me-
Coy, Charles must have been away off
his FORM
Parson Davies, seems to have struck a
streak of hard luck. pugilistically speak
ing. He came to grief with matches IN
Chicago, in New Orleans. and last week
in St. Louis, where the match he and Tom
O'Rourke had arranged between George
Dixon and Eddie Santry was prevented
by the police. Just why this was stopped
deponent sayeth not. I merely mention
the fact. 1t is now said that the match
will be transferred to New York. Santry
is a fairisll sort of a fighter, but hardly
up to the first rate form. I hardly think
a bout between him and Dixon will be
overly profitable here. What the New
Workers want is a bout they can bet on.
and chose in the know" will hardly bet
counterfeit money on Santry's chances
against Dixon.
This is a big country, too big it seems to
be fenced in by the Atlantic and the Pa
cific oceans, and there be those who are
iconoclastic enough to repuhiate the idea
that New York, and New York alone, has
the power to confer championships. The
Dubuoue mot one New Yorker knows
where it is or can find it on the map) Ath-
letic Association is to hold a fstic carnl-
val the latter end Of this month as a sort
of adjunct to a trotting meeting, and its
programme announces contests FOR the
middleweight championship of America"
between Jack Root and George Byers,
1.-THE 126-pound champion of America"
between Tommy White and Eddie San
try, besides contests for the champion
shin of Iowa and the West. Louise House
man, is the manager. and his side part
ner will be the referee. Good purses will
be hung up and the fighters VIII get belts
"A plenty. / don't see why Houseman
hasn't as good a right to make champions
: as Billy Madden. a..
plavwrights and actors are great adj
mirers of the fistic game, and whenever
they get a chance to see a scrap between
a good men they take it in" by shoals.
= There are a lot of them summering and
living in and about New York, and the
night that George McFadden and Joe
, Cans lashed I noticed in the assemblage
,John J.. McNally of the Boston Herald,
who has just finished a new musical farce
to b. called 1.-The Rogers Brothers in
Wall Street, for the talented pair who
now show the funny side Of the money
center of the world: Sydney Resented
: who rewrote 1.-THE Senator" and is the
author of many other good pieces: Geo
: Mccarthy. the author of Peaceful Val
ley" which made so many good Ameri.
can dollars for Sol Smith Russell; Otis
Harlin, the versatile comedian. who be.
comes a star next season; the Roger:
brothers, Lee HARRISON, Ben Teal, Franz
Mckee. Tony Pastor, ~good-nature(
"Rosey,' erstwhile the managerial pilo'
: of obese. but funny and successful Ma!
t Irwin; John r. Kelly, and a dozen other!
equally well known to the public. Al
: watched the mill with intense interest
!; and more than one of them had a be
down on it's issue. Most of them backed
!; Cans and thought he ought to have hac
: the verdict on "points" at all events. TIL
colored race track contingent was out il
force, clad in shirts loud enough to dead
n en- the report of a thunder clap, and som,