Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15
..AM0NG The SPORTS.

have no Tuckahoe in his. It was Coney
Island or nowhere. Since hen Fitz
soundly drubbed Rubin and Sharkey,
and, l might add. since then Mccoy
hunked out of a match with Sharkey.
Now that the gates of Tuckahoe, Coney
Island and adj other fight clubs in New
York are barred, and Fitz has announc-
ed his retirement, Mccoy wants to fight
him. l wonder does he mean it?
Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Corbett are
now friends again. These two have a
mare falling outs and making ups than
the Kilkenny cats. 1t is probable now
that they will be friends for some time,
AS there will not be any use of talking of
a match for some time to come. OF course
they can meet in San Francisco or Carr
son City whenever they want to, but they
will rest on their laurels for a while and
reap the fruits of their recent success
full exhibitions. Fitz will go on the road
and Corbett will stick to his saloon and
cafe.
Corbett, according to followers of the
game. is entitled to a meeting with either
Bob FitZslnmons or Jim Jetferies. 1t is
not likely, though that he will receive an
opportunity to meet Jeffries at present, as
the champion wants to get at Fitzsim-
mons first.
After the mill on Thursday night Cor
bett returned to his cafe. Friday after
noon he went to the bank and placed his
winnings. which he said amounted to a
trifle over S31. 600 in a vault for safe keep
ing. Corbett said that the receipts
amounted to $4,000. There was a report
that he and Mccoy had split the purse,
but Corbett s~trenuously denied it. WHY
should l do anything like that?" he said,
Il knew that I could bea him and was
satisfied to let the winner tax all if Nc
Coy had insisted"
When asked what his future plans
We're. Ccrbett declared: II am going to
try and meet lin Jeffries. / am anxious
to face him. as l think / can easily defeat
him. When we met before ! made a bad
mistake by mixing it up at the end of the
contest when~I had matters my own way.
l should have kept away and I would
certainly nave got the decision had we
gone the nit. II Jetfries is willing / will
fight him at Carson City for $40. 1000 on
the outside. l am not anxious to have
the mill take place at once. November or
December would suit me. If Carson City
is not available. San Francisco, or any
other place where there will not be any
interference will. suit me.''-Boston Trav-
eler. 4th,
Macon Mccormick says: While there
is life there is hope, and though the pres
| pect, at present. for the enactment of an
other Horton law seems dark and dismal
behind the clouds OF gloom that environ
the prospects there is a little ray of light
which shortly after Christmas may grow
and grow until the glory just departed
may return.
/ know a good many people will scott at
this prospect, but five years ago these
people would have jeered at the idea of
heavyweight championship boxing
matches being decided at Madison
| Square Garden. or further own town on
Broadway. And yet such matches did
take place, and no one was much hurt
permanently thereby. What has been
done once may be lone again, for history
repeats itself. Stick a pin in this pre-
diction. Meanwhile westward the course
OF ,%fistiana,. like that of empire, takes it's
way, and to Philadelphia, to Chicago, to
Lexington, to Carson City and to San
Francisco must we look for fistic trays,
for the present, at least.
In a few weeks some of III best fight
ers will be theatrical stars. Jim Corbett
has several months booked in popular
priced houses throughout the country in
which he will appear as 1.-THE Naval Ca
det."
OF all the pugilists who a tempor-
arily donned the the sock buckskin, Jim
is the only one who has any real Thes-
plan ability. He isn't a fine actor and he
will never be a great one, despite the
fact that Clement Scott. E~ngland's fore
most critic wrote him up in the most
glowing terms, hut thin if he didn't have
his pugilistic prestige to back him up he
has histronic ability enough to warrant
his securing an engagement as a juvenile
man in any dramatic company of aver
age ability.-Macon Mccormick.