Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12
PUGILIsTIc POINTERS.

fU0lLIotlC rUlN Emo.
Ryan began a rigid course of training at
the Jeffries quarters today for his COM
ing fight with Mccoy, which takes place
in Chicago on May %. Ryan is himself a
strong trainer, having coached some OF
the best men in the profession. The ia
nous boxer is considerably overweight,
but hard road work attacks his adipose
tissue quicker than that of any man in
the camp.
George Gardner, the New England mid
dle-weight, has his retirement
from the ring. He has been under con-
tract to Tom O'Rourke. Gardner asserts
that O'Rourke got him few matches in
New York and tried to prevent him from
taking on bouts on his own hook around
Boston. The Creedon-Gardner 15-round
bout scheduled for Lynn, Mass, on Mon
day night, was called off because
OHourke interferred, according to Gard
ner.
They seem to have reached a conclusive
opinion in England that their boxing
champions are no match for our experts,
for we don't hear anything these days
about them sending men here to try for
our titles. A year ago an exciting condi-
ton of affairs existed. Pedlar Palmer,
Ben Jordan, VIII Curley, Frank Craig,
and Il few others of more or less note We're
preparing TO make a transatlantic eX-
cursion for the purpose of sweeping the
pugilistic board, so to speak. They came
all right and went away again, but not
one of them proved to be worth a plugged
nickel from a pugilistic standpoint. Only
one man of real merit failed to put in an
appearance. Iabez White: he was wise
enough to let the others make the expert
want Now lnlapCtnv1 tJ1orn fS Cnrna
talk of his being brought over in the near
future. Well, all we can say is: Come
along, a warm welcome awaits you!-Po-
lice Gazette.
Tommy Ryan says: my match with
Kid Mccoy at Chicago May 3 marks a
new departure in middle-weight con-
tests 1T Will also establish a new prece-
dent in the matter of weight. Until very
recently l54 pounds was regarded as the
standard weight for middle-weights. Fitz
and Dempsey fought at that weight for
the championship, n I have never en-
tered the ring with a greater avoirdu-
pois than 154 pounds. Very heavy men,
however. have entered the middle-weight
class. and many of them find it imposs,-
bic to weigh down. This is probably true
in the case of Mccoy, although he can
surely get down to 1873 pounds as required
in our articles. l will possibly fight Nc
>'s ~ y poSAiNAos l. T. uo"A WHY
fast, and am actually now within the
stipulated 1913 pounds. l regard Mccoy as
the greatest c~atch-Weight fighter in the
world. When we meet in Chicago we will
meet on equal terms. 1 think I will be able
to demonstrate on hat occasion % hard
1t is for a catch-weight fighter to keep
prime under an arbitrary weight" Ryan
says he will train at Asbury Park until
two lays before the fight.
The fight promoters and club managers
won a great victory in New York Friday
when the test case on the Horton law
was decided in their favor. Magistrate
Meade decided that the Horton law stood
for itself, and that no permits We're nee
essary to pull off boxing contests in New
York City.
The game will now go on until Sep
TENDER l, when he Horton law becomes
a dead number and contests from that
date on will be illegal.
The few short months that the fight
managers have between now and the first
day of September will be put to good use,
and there will be one contest after the
other at all the leading clubs in and
around Gotham.
Those old time foes, Kid Mccoy and
Tommy Ryan, have at last come to terms
and they are to meet in a short time in
1hicagO for a -thousa dollar purse.
II is that it is to be divided
$4,000 to the winner and the remainder
to the loser. This is all right to tell the
public, but 1 think the division will be
share and share alike" However, the
cutting of the purse won't make any diff
ference to the public, for each man will
do his best without a doubt. There is
no good feeling between the Kid and
Ryan. Some years ago, when Mccoy
was but a fistic novice, he was in Ryan's
train as a sort Of rubber and attendant
and they do say that the Syracuse lac
used to use the Kid for a punching bas
! am told that many a good hiding he
gave him merely because he could. B.
and by Mccoy improved in skill and
and also in craft and cunning. When he
was matched against Ryan to meet al
Maspeth he got even with Tommy in a
manner that was hardly on the level. HI
gave Ryan to understand that he was in
hard luck, needed money, and would lie,
him win merely in order to get the los.
er,s end of the purse. Ryan, believing
TINS, did not train properly, and when he
met the Kid at Maspeth HI was giyer
the X and a most ungodly licking.
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