Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-22

ought to give Connors a warm argu-
ment. Quite a number Of Chicagoans
will be at the ringside
Fitz Is 80 years old, Corbett is "a,
Sharkey is %, Kid Mccoy is u and
Rubin is 2S. Jeffries is but 25 years old,
and has hardly yet reached the limit of
his physical powers. While all the
ing older, and Fitz, the most likely, is
getting to a point where he must some-
time bow to age. the young champion is
all the time getting stronger and better.
Jeffries can well AFFORD to wait.
The vanguard of New York fight pro-
moters has already opened up beyond
the limits of that state, and fighting is
promised both in New Jersey and Con-
necticut. Tom O'Rourke is the first o.
the bunch to announce himself open for
business, his club being located at Hart
ford, Conn. He announces his first
match on the 9th of this month, be-
tween Mysterious" Billy Smith and Joe
Walcott. The opening bout was to have
been between Mccoy and West, but the
latter backed out for some reason. Both
of these bouts have a suspicious look,
and O'Rourke was probably looking for
a feeler as to how the state authorities
would tand for fighting when he made
them. West would hardly a been
much of a match for Mccoy, and it was
pretty well understood that the purse
would be divided before the men en-
tered the ring. In view of the fact that
Waacott put up a palpable fake with
West recently, the present match will
hardly draw any great attendance. In
the fight with West, Walcott claimed
to nave broken his arm, but the fact
that he has signed for another battle
shows pretty clearly that this was not
the case.
Should O'Rourke succeed in pulling off
the fight between Walcott and Smith, he
propose to import his fighting string
into Connecticut and give the people
of that state ALL of the scrapping they
will stand for. The lesser lights will
probably wait until they see how
O'Rourke gets along before starting up,
but his success will bring them out in
force If the methods that were in use
in New York are used by the promoters
it will probably not be very long until
both New Jersey and Connecticut get
tired of 1t and order them and their
followers to move up. O'Rourke is smart,
but he mustn't forget about the wooden
nutmegs.
Chicago will be a great pugilistic cen
ter, but the heavyweights will be barred
from fighting in that city and six rounds
will be the limit Of the contests. Frisco
is the only city Of the first-class in the
country WHICH Wlll permit lIe DlS lei
lows to punch each other.
Corbett has gone to Europe and Nc
Coy is evading service in a counter suit
for divorce brought by his wife. An
actress of English descent and With a
French name, took passage on the same
steamer with Jim, who has had trouble
with his pouse. Both deserted wives
declare that the Corbett-McCoy fight
was a fake. The p%ompadour pugilist
carried with him Fl 81, 900 bills and let
ters Of credit to the amount of 500, coo.
It is said that he will double up with
Charlie Mitchell and give exhibitions in
England and on the continent.
Bob .Fitzsimmons Is to follow the lead
of Terry McGovern. and has signed to
write articles for the When
Bob gets tina wonderful fist of his to
work in this line the result ought to be
something that should astonish the puo-
lie.
The irrepressible Billy Brady has an
other scheme for getting a big purse for
a go between Jeffries and Fitzsimons.
He now proposes to hold the fight in ar
out-of-the-way place and make the
telegraph companies pay a big sum for
the privilege of sending the battle out
over the wires. He asserts that at the
time of the Corbett- Fitzsinlmons battle
at Carson City he was offered a large
sum by one of the telegraph companies
IOr the exclusive privilege OIL SGnOing Out
the returns of that light.
In some respects Fitz resembles a
guide lost. inasmuch as he only points
the way the seeker hould go but does
not travel himself. He is quite a free
but he is not a libertine, and since he
married his present wife his home life
has been clean ana worthy of the high
est Communication. 1t is to that fact
that he owes his superb physical condi-
ton at his time of life. Unless the
rifically, he is we'll on the shady side of
40, and yet within the last seven weeks
he has defeated two of the strongest
men the ring has ever known. Defeat
ed them most signally.
In his new venture of writing for the
press Fitz is likely to prove a public
benefactor. Thousands of young men
will read with the greatest attention
what he has to say, and they will be
aGmonished by his advice when they
would turn deaf ears to fathers, friends
ard preachers advice of the same tenor
Champion Jim Jeffries has had a part
written down to suit his meager dramat-
ic talent. He will be "Silent Sam in the
play in which he is to appear. He won't
talk much, but all the situations will
be his and he will always nave the CEN
ter of the stage at each fall Of the cur
tain. How successful he will be as 6
theatrical star remain to be seen.
Fitzsimmons may also tour the country
in a play in which he won't have to say
much, but in which he will be able tt
makea horseshoe and affix1t to a horse
For many years this was Joe Murphy't
"great act" and many a thousand dol
lars it helped to add to his bank &C,
count. Mr.. Murphy, however, did no.
have the act copyrighted. and as he wa:
only al amateur while Fitz was a pro
fessional blacksmith, Bob ought to b,
able to give him cards and spades as {
~farrier.