The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-13
Gossip Of the
9portina World

What was first suspicion is now re-
sarded as well-substantiated fact,
ana that is that Pedlar Palmer lay
down in his late meeting with Terry
McGoVern. The Brooklyn lad was I'M
doubtedly innocent of the frame, if
there was frame, and of that there
seems to be little doubt now. but GER
tain it is Palmer himself wasn't alone
IN the job. His friends over in London
We're in, while on this side whole
lot got the wrong steer. The double
was given thousands of English sports
IN the big metropolis across the seas.
The fact that many of Palmer's close
pals in London surrepiitiously put swell
money on ,McGovern confirms the sus-
picion that arose Immediately after
the knockout after the night of the
tight. Some of the big British bookies
lost great deal of money, and 1t was
their holler that let the cat out of the
bag. Again, it should not have re-
CURED the confederation of the Eng
lish dupes, for no sane fighter of the
cleverness and power of the Pedlar
would have stacked up the flimsy sort
OF game he did, unless he was get
ting well paid for it. London echoes
say that the golf sock push who so
warmly fawncied the Pedlar end of it,
you knaW. the real thing and their An
glomaniac imitators, were hit hard: in
IdSl, tHcy hIleW WHAT uSh
them. And all this goes to bear out
the assertion that the English sports
can give we Americans cards and
spades and a few shovels and beat us
until we are black in the face, on get
ting a cinch.
There is a pugilistic trust in New
York, the parties thereto being the
Lenox and Broadway Athletic clubs of
New York city and the Greater New
York club of Coney Island. They have
come to an understanding and formed
a pool which can hardly fail to be
mutually advantageous both to them
selves and the great mass of their pa
irons. Those who have ever had oc-
casion to visit Coney Island on cold
night in winter know that the tenn
perature there is about as chilly, as
bleak and as marrow-piercing as that
of Greenland. There is no means of
heating the clubhouse-by-the- and
in winter one can go from the Tender
loin" to Philadelphia about as quickly
as to Coney Island, and a thousand
times more comfortably. Consequently.
nothing but championship fights could
be expected to draw paying houses
there during the winter season.
The new arrangement transfers
number of very interesting contests to
the New York city club, but retains
the big championship matches for
Coney Island, where on account of
their virtual remoteness, they are less
likely to arouse opposition than they
would be if brought off in this city. So
far the matches transferred by the
Coney Island folks to New York are
the bout between Ben Jordan and Eddy
Santry, the contest between George
Dixon and Will Curley, and the clash
between Harry Ware and Joe Bern
stein. What the result will be in the
way of lessening the size of the purses
is what is interesting the scrappers. 1t
would be good thing for the managers
Of this pool to arrange and define
number Of pugilistic points on which
there have been differences of opinion
in the past.
IT have unbounded faith in Ruhlin,'
said Billy Madden. land think he can
whip any Of the big fellows. To show
my confidence in Gus I intend to pest
a forfeit on his behalf for match with
the winner of the Sharkey-Jeffr.es