Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-12
THE RING
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Says Macon: The pmng champion
snip contest between these giants of the
ring, Jim Jeffries and Gus Rubin, is ox-
citing universal attention not only in the
sporting world, but far beyond it's con-
nnes. Jefries will have to take off a
tremendous amount of flesh to fiji him for
the ring. Some claim that he will have
TO take off fully 80 pounds but 1 doubt
II this is advisable. He will be trained by
Billy Delaney. and think that that as
tute handler of athletes will be content
II ne lands his man in the ring weighing
from 20 to 22O pounds. If mistake not
this will be the heaviest weight that a
genuine champion ever fought at. think
that Rubin will hardly scale more than
l9o pounds When he strips for the fray
One hundred years ago jim Belcher was
champion of England. He was feet II
inches high, and fought a about II stone
Q6S pounds). While in full possession of
all ms Faculties he was never beaten,
but he lost the use of one of his eyes by
its being hit by racquet ball in game
played with fried. and after that
Be,cher was never himself again.
Tom Cribb, who many regard as Eng
.
almost immediate successor in the cham
pionship. He was short stockily built
man and a slugger par excellence When
he fought his last battle for the cham
pionship with Tom Molineux, the Ameri-
can negro he trained down from $50 to
1875 pounds, but he took nearly four
! months to do it,
Tnff~ nj mill
amount of work to fit himself for the
| coming contest. l have reason to believe
that he was a partial cripple when he
+, fought Sharkey and Corbett. His left
arm which he injured while training for
| Sharkey, is now said to be perfectly well
| again. If he is wise in preparing for his
coming contest he will eschew medicine
balls and bicycling. If We're training a
man l wouldn't allow a medicine ball
to be touched by him, and l wouldn't
allow him to bestrde a bike for any
amount of money.
What Jeffries needs is plenty of road
work and lots of heavy bag exercise. He
should have a big bag made and stuff 1t
until it weighed about 1856 pounds. This
should be suspended so that it would
swing freely. Let him punch this for an
hour or two every day, and it will do him
more good than all the medicine balls and
bikes in Christendom. l am not opposed
20 bicycling in its proper place, but that
place is not in the curriculum of a
fighter.
There is one man in the lightweight
division who is more than anxious tc
meet McGovern but he is the only one
of the lot that Terry and his crafty man
ager, Sam Harris, do not fancy. He Is
George McFadden. McFadden Is one OF
the anomalies of the ring. In private life
ne is one of the best behaved men known
to the pugilistic ranks. He is a consist
ent church man. good son, a mode
husband. and in every way an estimable
man. In the ring however, he is one Of
the foulest fighters that ever drew
glove. He is past master in the art o.
blocking blows. and a thirty-fourth de
gree high mucky-muck in the knowledge
of how to jab a man with his elbows
When he is fighting, referee who know!
the tricks that McFadden resorts to il
kept constantly on the move to proven
him fouling the man with elbow jabs.
No pugilist in the history of the Ameri
can prize ring has ever made such rapi'
strides to fame as Terry McGOvern, tn
, wonderful little Brooklyn fighter. Tn
, advent of McGOvern from a barefOOte
newsboy on the streets of New York t
, the champion of three classes and tn
richest man in the profession reads Xix
a romance. McGovern's great success !
I due to the fact that he is a natural Dor
| fighter. This is what Breakaway has t
. say on McGovern's style of fighting.