Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-01

winders'' and were generally reprobated
as being novistic and unscientific. Now
adays a fiehte" whose hands are en-
cased in padded gloves can bang away
in any old style. SO long as he lands his
Wallop. The points of attack now are
mainly the point of the jaw and the
solar pleXus. In the old days the fact
that a man could be shocked into in
sensibility by a sharp jolt on the point
of the jaw was not so generally recog-
nized as it is at present, but the solar
plexus blow has been known and prac-
~Eroughton. In their days the solar plex-
us was called 'the mark" and all
! teachers of boxing impaired to their
pupils the Importance of keeping "the
mark well guarded at all times. The
usual attitude then, as now, was for a
right handed man to stand with his left
foot forward and left arm extended, with
his right arm crossed over his body in
such a manner as to defend his solar
| pleXus or mark from being hit. New
| blows of which we hear so much, I
. have always found upon examination to
! be old Ones, only the new scribes don't
know it. If they We're to refer to Mix
Donovan or some of the other old timers
for information on this point they would
write witt a better understanding of the
fistic game a many of them seem to
possess.
IL the news WHICH COIIlCS lIOlIl odId-
toga is true Kid Mccoy has accumulated
quite an amount of flesh. 1t is said that
he now weighs about 40 pounds, and
that he will enter the ring with Jim
Corbett weighing fully IT'S. For years
Mccoy has had a sickly, frail look. and
the wonder has been that he has been
able to put up such fights as he has
against some of the giants of the ring,
like Rubin. Peter Maher and Sharkey.
He is certainly the phenomenon of the
l ,.,-- D>ol SO %lp H,r1, 1n hos accumulated
is hard and firm the fact Of this accumu-
lation shows that he must have got rid
of something deterrent in his system
which heretofore has kept him thin and
poor.
Jim Corbett who is rapidly getting into
tiptop shape down at Bath Beach, hears
these reports of McCoy's corpulency with
great complacency. He believes that
the Kid cannot take on flesh without
losing speed. These men <'e certainly
known, and as a lover of pugilism pure
and simple I hope both men will be in
the very pink of condition when they
face each other in Madison Square Gar
den this week.
Il The pranks played by some, of the
"'yellow'' journals of this city in their
desire to attract attention and readers
are frequently l~aughable. especially to
those familiar with newspaper work and
u III ulliVo, says w
pugilists are the most intelligent and
best educated of any in the world, and
yet I don't know a single one OF them
who is capable of writing or even dictat-
ing a description of a fight at all as ac-
curate or in any other way as compar-
able with one written by an ordinary
reporter. Nevertheless, John L. Sulll-
van, Jim Corbett, Kid Mccoy and Boz
: Fitzsimmons have been paid sums fol
reporting contests in the last year
L tow fold thot which would hn given a
first class reporter doing such work
: They were not paid for their work as
, , reporters but for the use of their names
! Tom Sharkey, who is VIGOROUSLY litter
. ate, is the last one to be feed in this
I manner. Hiring fighters to act as re-
i porters in this manner is a good dea
e akin to the practice which prevailed
!. some years g of paying men for thu
J use of their names as the authors o.
5 novels and stories. l remember a Ions
e time ago of seeing a story advertised il
the papers which purported to have beer
written by Pat Rooney, the Irish com
o edian. h fun of this announcement
u lay in the fact hat Rooney, at the time
could neither read nor write his owl
name.
8 Dougherty offers to pit Wolcott agains
any man in the ring, even Jim Jeffries
and he claims that he has already mad
an agreement with the champion b,
h which the boiler maker is to meet VOL
d colt in a six-round out before the Penn
~sylvania Art club of Philadelphia on tn
n 9th of this month. I wonder
It In doing this Dougherty is taking
leaf out of O'ROurke's book, for month
ago Tom announced that he would d
this. O'Rourke not only has an inter
g est in the Broadway Athletic club. but i
I am not much mistaken he has a finge
e also in the Twentieth Cenury Athleti
g club, which conducts the boxing show
in the Madison Square Garden. He say
e that he has a contract with Wolcott
n and that he will prevent him fightin
It anywhere Or with anybody except un
e der his management. This has SO in
censed Dougherty that he offers to figh