Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-11

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that was enough to weaken any man.
When l give away weight to a good man
these guys yell fake if I don't so in and
take long chances.
Il wouldn't tell you all his stuff, but I
have got to do my own talking. They
think all fighters are m~uttonheads and
have not got brains enough to take care
of their own business or even eat. 1t Is
different here. I can tend to Tommy
Ryan's business just as good as anybody
else, and I am going to do 1t. When
these fellows get off the track o me
I III try and put them straight again If I
know how.
And I am all right on that Mccoy
proposition, too. and 1 can whip him, and
Kennedy of the Twelfth Century club
in New York wired to me and asked me
who l would fight there, n I wired
back Immediately Mccoy. But I couldn't
get him.. Kennedy answered that he
VI as afraid that he could not get a match
with Mccoy and asked who else I would
take, but I told him if I could not get
Mccoy I did not want anybody. l had
the best of him in Chicago-he knows 1t,
too-and everybody who saw the fight
says So. L udu MS Tong ue AdllSLfS Oul
good and plenty"
Sports who want a straight tip on the
coming fight will find it right here. Read
what the fighters themselves say and
then get your money up quick:
Corbett-Iu make Mccoy think he
never saw a boxing glove.
Fitz-Ruhlin n Sharkey won't think
I'm a has-been after I'm through with
them.
McCoy-Corbett will be easy money.
He can't hit hard enough to break an
egg.
Sharkey-After I'm through punching
a few in Fitz I'm going to bet Rubin
'steen million dollars I can stop him in
six rounds.
Ruhlin-Fitz will be a cakewalk for
me, and Til make Jeffries take to the tall
timber or fight, and if he fights there'n
be a new champion around town.
Jeffries-I guess I'd better get in line
for some of that easy money before :"
Horton law is lead. I've got a warped
wing. but I a whip the whole bunch
Of 'em with one hand.
Joe Walcott came to Boston the other
night from New York. On the train he
met a Boston sport who queried him re-
garding the split between 0'Rourke and
himself Joe said: Yes, it's true. Tom
and myself are don Imagine him say
ing thar 'niggers are no good Where
would he hav been if it had not been
for Dixon and myself? I am going back
to New York in a day or two and 1 will
post a forfeit and challenge sharkey to
fight me-"
Rubin is as modest as he is good-na-
tured, particularly when Sharkey is the
subject Of discussion. Gus will tell you
that Tom is the cleverest big fellow he
ever met. And Billy -fadden sits with a
L ct cqipht fooo and cocnn1c ffho roo+ror -
New York orld.
Oscar Gardner ought to do one of tive
things. Either get himself in the shape
he has been heretofore, or take to the all
green grass far from the madding crow6
that pays it's money see fights.-NeW
York orld.
Peter .Maher and Jim Jeffords, the
California heavyweight, will exchange
fore September 1. They have been
matched to box a 20-round bout at the
Hawthorne Athletic club of Buffalo. luz
ing the last week in this month. Mahel
should have no trouble in beating the
Californian.
Archie Brown is out with challenge
to meet Benny Yanger, 1.-The TiptOr
Slasher,' at 120 pounds at 3 o'clock. Ii
addition, Colonel Hopkins, Browns
hacker, will bet any amount of none,
on the fight that Brown gets the decis
ion. Brown will meet the Slasher befort
any club offering a suitable purse fol
any number of rounds, and, further, il
willing to agree that the Winnie shall
take the whole Of the purse. Colone
Hopkins will take any bets which may b.
offered him on the fight. A side bet will
be made by Browns hackers on the igh'
for any amount at the prevailing odd
This hou bring Yanger to time. as h,
has beer claiming that Brown did no
care for his game.
Sam Fitzpatrick has been e~ndeavorin,
to make a match with Terry McGover1
for Kid Lavigne at the same weight h
let Erne come in at. Sam Harris, Nc
Governs manager, has refused to maxi
the match at this time. Lavigne wa;
anxious to meet Terry and had asker
Fitzpatrick to try and get him to sign
The little terror is resting on his laurel
just at present and has gone in for tn
literary, having a romance of love ant
the ring builded upon his own caree
running in an evening p here. SOM
think it is too bad that his literary eff
forts have backed the match with La
vigne, as it was thought that they woul,
put up a rafting go. Their styles ar
enough alike to make it a more evel
match than the Ernie bout looked in ad
vance and there is little difference Il
roi~',t o" reach between them, and La
vigne wanted the go n promised t
lra.l. hard and get into the best posstbl
shape, but it looks now as II the Hortol
law will die and its wake and funera
!, be over ere Terry will will a him o.
at 12S pounds.
There must be as many boxers at Bat
Beach at present as there are in China
They are a suspicious lot. and the caus
of their assemblage can only ne a1rrlD