Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-21
AMONG SPORTS
POINTERS.

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PUG1L1sTIC POINTERS.
Next season Terry McGovern will go
on the stage. He will have a speaking
part, play the hero, and incidentally ;
knock out the villain. 1.-THE BoWery
After Dark is the play selected for the
brooklyn boy.
Sam Harris says the purse offered by
the National Sporting club of London
for a fight between Terry McGovern and
Ben Jordan is too small, and that the
featherweight champion will not cross
the pond unless the bid is raised.
While at his training quarters at
Lakewood Corbett said: jeff says he
expects to beat' me easily, and accord
ing to that statement three or four to
one against me ought to be good bet
ting for his people. Now, If Jeffries or
Brady or any of his push want to land
a three or four to one like that they
should send the long green to Lake.
wood or let me know where / can find
II to cover mine. I'd take all they offer,
and the only limit is the sky. Nobody
can tell me anything about Jeffries. 1
know all about him and could tell his
closest friends things about him which
they don't 'sabe.' I am as certain to-
day that l. shall be champion of the
world after meeting Jeffries as that l
am standing here and feeling good. The
man at the top always has plenty to
believe him, but if all the world talked
to me that I should lose it wouldn't
shake my confidence for a minute. I'm
glad Jeffries has got to real work at
last. He'll need all his time and I hope
he will get himself in the best shape
possible"
The sprightly and foxy Kid Mccoy evil
dcntly wants none of brawny Jim JEFF
fries game. Mr.. Kid has been telling the
l<ew York sports how anxious he is to
give way fifty or sixty pounds and get
in a ring with the mighty man from
Los Angeles. and how he would surely
be saluted as the boss fighter of the
bunch after the battle. Last week he
challenged the winner of the .Jeffries-
Corbett mill and the champion promptly
accepted. On Saturday, however. Mr..
Foxy Kid wriggled out of the match by
debating unreasonable conditions to the
big fellow. He insisted on clean breaks,
no hitting in a clinch and he wanted
to wear any kind of bandage he chose
and to have the money cut IS per cent.
to the winner and IS per cent to the
loser. Manager Brady rightly refused to
be dictated to by a challenger of his
champion. and the pair are not likely to
get together. Mccoy is evidently not
overly anxious to put on the gloves
- LILY ~ 6IdlllS dI1u Alo CldllcuSc
was plainly not on the level. Mccoy
will keep his name before the public
and incidentally advertise his Broadway
wet goods esta bl;shment by proposing
and then wriggling out Of these matches,
but he is not likely to increase his pop
ularity with the fight fans.
Jeffries is to be a real actor. He is to
play the part Of an Arizona sheriff-a
man of few words, but a fighter, with
several specialties-in a border drama
now being written by Clay Green. Brady
had under consideration the formation O,
a minstrel company, with George
Thatcher and George Wilson as end
men and Jeffries as the featured at
traction. But he has abandoned thai
idea. Jeffries is to be the central fig.
ure in the play. He will be surrounded
by villains all the time and get the best
OF them in every encounter, of course
There is to be a scene something like the
sensatssnal balloon scene in "The Great
Ruby" Jefssies will fight three men ir
lnidalr and thro* them all out of the
balloon. He won't nave a great deal O.
talking to do. but his lines will be full
of hot stuff.
Will the outcome of the Jeffries-Cor
bett fight have any effect on your plans? p
Manager Brady was asked
Not in the least. Blu I am not IRE.
pared to say who will be engaged fo]
the company. Jeffries is the only acto,
definitely settled upon" said Brady.
There is an impression that James j
Corbett will be a member of the com,
pany surrounding Jeffries. If he should
defeat the champion it might be neces
sary to switch the cast around some
what.
For instance, in the event of Jeffries
defeat at the hands of Corbett, he will
probably be the heavy villain in til,
piece. This would make it rather avk
ward for Corbett if victory would sad
Gle upon him the task of throwing JEFF
fries out of a balloon at every perform
ance during an entire season.
Tom Sharkey evidently means to oui
his manager Tom O'Rourke, after tbei
contract expires in September l. A clos
friend Of the eX-sailor said that s;har
key has decided 70 do so. It was ais
learned that Sharkey was offered tn
partnership in a saloon in East Four
teenth street n hat he had accepte,
1t. Ii such be the Ease, then Sharke,
has turned down O'Rourke very hard.
A short time ago O'Rourke practical
~ bought out the proprietor of tn
above mentioned saloon to put Shar
Key into the business and, of course. of
fered him a half interest in the saloor
Sharkey did not give O'Rourke a def
mite answer and, as he kept putting
Off from time to time, O'Rourke finall
became disguised and threw up tn
sponge.
Since O'Rourke left for Hot Spring
Sharkey was approached on the sam
subject by a well known sporting mar
and, as the latter's Inducements wer
satisfactory to Sharkey, it is said tn
sailor has agreed to SO into the bus
ness at the same place which O'Rourk
had practically secured for him..