Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
WANTS THE TERRIBLE TURK.
TO the Inter Mountain.

To the Inter Mountain.
I trust every inducement will be Of
fered the Terrible Turk to visit this
city SO that the sporting public may be
afforded an opportunity to witness some
interesting wrestling bouts which can
not but be gratifying to all patrons of
sport.
l would suggest that as a special fea-
ture of the 4th of July celebration an in
ternational tug-of-war take place.
(There is excellent material in this camp
I am sure.) Say a team of II, English
men, Irishmen, S%cotchmen, Germans,
Austrians, Italians, Frenchmen, ETC., etc.
1 trust this suggestion will be acted
upon by some of the leading sporting peo-
pie of this town and that the necessary
satisfactory arrangements be entered
upon. "A B~RITISHER."
Have the days of the prize fight zone
never to return? That is a question that
has been asked time and again and those
who have replied to it are of many minds.
For instance, Billy Edwards denies that
pugilism is degenerating, while the great
One-time champion, John L.. Sullivan, is
just as positive that there is 40 such
thing as fighting now
'There is no use in talking" he said
the other day. 1.-The prize fight is a thing
of the past. 1t was not many years ago
that men knew what it meant to fight,
when they went into the ring for busi-
ness. There was not SO much clever
boxing in those days, but the fighters
were strong, sturdy men who knew that
they must depend upon constant ham-
mering if they hoped to win battles, and
who were ready to receive all the pun
ishment that their opponents could give
them without as much as winking.
Tho io Nnrhnff dnnSf hn1inyya fhot
he will ever do nay more fighting. I
haven't a particle of ill feeling against
him. 1 always wished him the best of
luck. but still 1 will say, and I say it cam
didly, I don't think that Corbett was ever
anything more than a clever boxer. AS a
boxer he was one of the smartest men
who ever entered the ring, but that is all
that can be said of him.. There wasn't
any force in his blows, he couldn't punch
a hole in a piece of cardboard.
Il had Corbett hit me a hundred times
and I didn't feel it any more than you,
but 1 had been going too hard a pace.
You know a man can't drink and smoke
and keep the late hours without entirely
running his career as a fighter. 1t is my
opinion that it is not so much a matter
of years as it is of fat with a man in the
prize ring, or with any other athlete for
that matter, and I believe that If l had
taken as good care of my health years
ago as I am doing today, I. would be just
as good a man as 1 ever was. A man
ought to be just in his prime at fifty pro-
vided he don't let his fat get the better
of him..
''There isn't any such thing as prize
fighting in these days. The beginning Of
the end came when they began to make
laws against the sport. Now they have
got so particular that they are putting
an end to it fast. In a few years people
will have forgotten what a real prize
fight was like. l don't call these boxing
contests prize fights. SO far as l can see,
it is all 'hippodroming' and no fighting.
or course, boxing is all right in it's place,
Just like any other sport, but 1 can't for
get myself so far as to be able to look at
two men boxing with soft gloves and
think l have been seeing a prize fight.
For the life of me l can't see what OBJ