Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16
AMONG SPORTS
Sharkey and Joe Choynski, $500, ant
Tommy Ryan and Jack Root, $4,000.

tommy Ryan n JACK EtoOt, $S,VVV.
Tom O'Rourke, manager of George
Gardner of Lowell, has completed ar
engagements for a 2%0-round bout between
Gardner and Tim Murphy, the cham
pion middle-weight of Australia, who is
now in this country. O'Rourke expects
that the battle will take place at a
Francisco, where Murphy is at present.
Billy Gardner. Georges brother, will go
with him and meet some of the feather
weights on the Pacific coast.
do you know that fellow Corbett
wouldn't fight me at Coney island until
Brady consented to give him half OF the
gross receipts, or practically half of the
purse said Jim Jeffries at Dayton o.
He demanded half of the IS per cent.
almost at the ringside. and refused alb
solutely to go in the circle until he got
it. Brady wanted the fight to go ahead.
The crowd was there, and everybody
was ~clamoring for us to go on. In fact.
l vas ready, and in order not to disap-
point a big crowd, and SO as to get a
handsome sum anyway, Brady mad the
concession, bu without my knowledge.
If l had now it 1 10 not know whether
l would "a fought him. / tell you it
was a 'short-skate trick If l tight that
'geeser' again it will be for the whole
pot-pot-you can bet buttons on that.
The manage of George McFadden has
lposted $1,000 to arrange a battle with
Frank Erne. The money is to remain up
about a month, and if Erne fails to re-
spond b. that time McFadden declares
he will be entitled to the lightweight
championship. The latter wishes to
have the battle decided at 1873 pounds.
Frank Erne, Who holds the light
,o:rl 81 y,,sinrChin has haan email
llenged by George McFadden in a most
business-like way. M%cFadden's man
jager has posted a forfeit of $1,000 to
make a match, at any weight suitable 10
Erne, the WHINE to take all. The Coney
Island club has offered a $4,000 purse Tor
this match, which is good money THESE
DAYS. Erne, however, refuses to meet
'McFadden on the ground that he has de-
feated him once. But 1T will be remem-
bered that Erne had no great advantage
over McFadden in the mill, and many
persons thought the decision shoulo
have been a draw. Erne prefers tc
take on Jack O'Brien again, who is said
to be in rather poo shape since his
humping match with McFadden, which
ended in a draw. McFadden's money is
up and his terms are reasonable.
A friend of Tom O'Rourke, who re-
Gently returned from South America
walked into the Dalavan the other day
and said to the proprietor: tom, I've
drought you a little kitten all the way
from South America" Whereupon he
pulled out of his coat pocket a small IT,
ger. 1t is just a month old, and striped
in a way to make a Princeton or Tam
many man enthusiastic. The little fea'
lw is about the size of a kitten, but has
the claws and teeth of a mature Thoma.
cat. It's fur is as soft as velvet
+, ORourke was much interested in the II
ger, and had a lot of fun fondling tn
little beast till suddenly it clawed {
large piece of flesh out OF his cnln.
fascinating brute at a distance. Ton
has not decided what to do with Tige
He has been named Joe Walcott, AM
may possibly be presented to Richar'
Croker on his return. as a political mas
cot. Then again. O'Rourke says he ma:
keep the animal till 1t reaches it's ful
size, and Sharkey, Who by that tim
may have made a match with Jeffrles
lcan use it as a Wrestling partner.