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

with pug1lism a thing OF the past in
New York. promoters, managers, fight
ers land the arnacles that cling to the
game for support,are seeking new graz
ing Pastures. Connecticut and New Jer-
sey, the adjoining states, have been
carefully canvassed by both big and lit
tie promoters with the result that clubs
have bobbed up, if reprots can be relied
upon, like Chinese Boxers. Tom
O'Rourke, it is std, will open a boxing
shop in Hartford, Conn. Jim Kennedy
and Pat Powers of the Twentieth Cen
fury club will invade New Jersey, as
will John Dougherty. The latter has
never appeared in the role of promoter.
His previous efforts to advance pugilism
and earn an honest dollar thereby have
been confined to securing an honest and
equal division of the spoils heceived by
the hard thumped and battered fighters
that were under his management.
Dougherty, like Tom O'Rourke, is shy on
fighting material, and to keep in the
game and get other peoples money with
out pulling off his coat and expectorat-
ing in the palms of his hands will launch
out as a promoter somewhere in mos
quitoville.
The latest from the devastated fight
state is that O'Rourke, Kennedy, Pow
ers and Dougherty will not have things
their W way in their seif-selected
grazing pastures. O'Eourke will be cccn-
PEELED to grease the palms of the lessees
of the Coliseum in Hartford, Conn, be-
fore he places his man in the box office.
And Kennedy, Powers and Dougherty
win have a session with the Law and
Order league of Jersey before they print
their fight posters.
With the downfall of pugilism I'M New
York state also. came the downfall of
O'Rourke's stable of bread winners. Six
months 6 Tom had Sha1key, Dixon
and Walcott, a trio formidable enOugh
to invade any fighting territory and get
the money. Later on he added Jack
O'Brien to his string, which gave him a
bread winner, in the principal divisions
Sharkey in the heavy, Walcott in the
middle and welter, O'Brien in the light,
and Dixon in the feather weight. A
strong quartet then, but a decidedly
weak one to-day. Sharkey's defeats at
the hands of Rubin and F~itzsimmons
have ~relesated him so far to the rear it
is doubtful whether he will ever catch up
to the head of the procession. Wal
colts fake with Tommy West throws
him out of the game completely. Dixon,
as game and earnest a little fighter as
ever crawled through he ropes, is done
for. And O'Brien-well. his defeat at the
hands of George McFadden and the odor
attached to that fight will compel him
to, remain in the background for some
time to come.
Thus it will be seen that within the
short space of six months a crack win
ming stable of fighters has Withered away
to a string awaiting the call Of the
knocker.
Before Assernblyman Lewis bill called
a halt to proceedings pugilistic in New
York the majority of eastern pugs' did
not know Chicago was on the map. Now,
however, they are talking of Chicago as
Familiarity as if they were born and
raised On the corner of Madison and
State streets or on Goose Island. New
York for New Workers has been the slo-
gan in Gotham. but the fighters that
come west will find that w~esterners, as
we are termed east, believe fair play a
jewel and that they will receive all that
is coming to them, no more, no less.
The first batch OF eastern fighters since
the Horton obsequies to invade Chicago
will he Tommy Sullivan, Johnny Rea-
en-, Tommy Feltz and Hugh MoPadden,
all little fellows with good regulations.
Sullivan has been fighting successfully
in all the Brooklyn clubs. but his victory
over George Dixon place. him promi-
nently before the followers of the game:
Tommy will tackle Buddy Ryan, and
should he defeat him he'll find Benny
Yanger hot on his trail. Feltz, who is a
protege of Terry McGovern, comes high
ly recommended and will have his first
tryout with Maurice Rauch. Reagen will
have it out with Harry Forbes. and Nc
Padden will tackle Billy Rotchford.
Reagen defeated Clarence Forbes at
Coney Island a short time age, so Har-
RVS incentive, outside of the winners
n of the purse, will be to wipe out that
family defeat. The above-named boxers
will take part in the entertainment at
TattersaN's next Tuesday night, and will
be, the preliminaries to the Dial Hawkins
Jim Popp and Billy Stift-Barnry Con-
nors contests. This viii also be Popp's
first fistic affair at Tattersal!s, and as
his ability for speed and science are well
known his bout with Hawkins ought to
be a warm one. 1t is needless to say
thai the Connors-Stift contest will be
peppery. Their last fight brought the
crowd to it's feet, and the comlng one VIII
do SO also or I miss my guess. The card
on the whole is the best that has been
arranged in some time. =,
Where there is much smoke there ought
to be some fire, and this appears to be
the case with the late Cerbett-McCoy
fight, The cry of fake was raised before
the battle and continued after it. ! was
informed the day before the battle by
a prominent fight manager that MCCOY
would lie down. On the night of the
contest a Louisville newspaper corre-
spondent was handed $500 to bet on Corr
bett at any price. The betting on the
afternoon of the fight vas at evens. At
5 o'clock it was ID to z, at 6 o'clock it
was 10 to G., and at the ringSide, name
your own figures on Mccoy against any
amount on Corbett. The Mccoy men
of the afternoon were hot .!Corbett men
at night, and as Mccoy was reported in
the best condition possible there was
really no cause, other h fraud, for
the sudden shifting from one man to the
other or for the remarkable change in
the betting. The fight has been torn in
shreds and at present is fringed on the
edges, and has kept both Corbett and
Mccoy busy explaining away the bad
angles. Mccoy has had more to con-
tend with than has Corbett, as one OF
his seconds made a plain statement to
the effect Mccoy lost Intentionally. This
came as a surprise to the latter, and in
reply he sal dhe could not understand
how any of his seconds could accuse
him of taking, as he had always treated
them like men. Kind treatment of sec
onds is, to McCoy's way Of thinking.
convincing evidence he did not fake.
That's a new wrinkle, and I'd advise
all fighters to treat their seconds with
kindness and respect just to guarantee
fistic followers and the public in general
they are fighting on the level.
Mccoy came near falling into some
more eaSV money last week. when he