Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-16

case.
Probably the longest glove contest on
record occurred in New orleans eight or
nine years ago between Jack Burke, of
Texas. and Andy Bowen. The men con-
tested with gloves for 100 rounds. lasting
seven hours and nineteen minutes. At
the end of the hundredth round the ref
cree saw the men We're so we'll matched
that the chances of either scoring enough
points to entitle him to a victory We're
So small that he stopped the contest and
called it draw
George Siler. who is referee in the Rub.
lir-Jeffres contest, writes as follows:
The question which is keeping the
anti boxing fraternity awake on these
Geld nights is whether the Jeffries- Ruiz
lin contest is going to be a prize fight.
boxing contest or sparring match Ac-
cOrdng to the laws. which were placed
on the statute books of Ohio when Lon
don prize ring rules We're in vogue. the
coming contest will be considered a prize
fight pure and simple. Queensberry rules
were unknown at the time the present
laws We're passed. Therefore if the
authorities enjon the Saengerfest organi-
cation from attempting to give an ath-
lttic entertainment under this law 1t
strikes me they are barking up the
wrong tree. The coming affair will be a
boxin" contest in ell the word implies.
The contestants will box with five-ounce
gloves for scientific points. and the man
scoring the greater number of points
will be declared the winner. OF course,
love taps will not enter into the argu-
ment and are not anticipated. knock
out may occur. That. however. is the
decisive point in the game, but it does
not naturally follow that a knockout
makes the affair a prize fight. o.
"Pugilists. like football and baseball
players. wrestlers and swordsmen, bring
i;itO play all their known tricks and
science to win. If there are one or more
dangerous men on the opposing team in
football game. every art known to the
game will be centered on those dangerous
men. not as much to outplay them as to
put them out of the game. Baseball
players spike. rough and buckle into
dangerous man on the opposing team to
disable him and to weaken their oppo-
nents. And with wrestlers and
swordsmen. The former will strangle
| or hammer-lock his adversary to gain
fall, and the swordsman will pink
his opponent as deeply as possible
to enable him to carry off the prize.
lctics. and. judging from the hold pugil-
ism and football have secured, the
/ rougher the sport the better. Boxing.
| like football. is scientific game, and
the hard blows that are dealt out in
| boxing are essential to the sport as
are the rougher features in football.
I Without those hard raps or knockout
blows in boxing, and without tho buck
! ing of centers, mass on tackles ana dis
aiding of players in football, pugilism
] and football would die natural deaths.
Boxing contests between evenly
matched men, such as Jetfries and
Rubin, are a thousand per cent less
harmful than contests where in a
champion meets a fourth-rater or has
BEEN The former would be a contest
/ in all the word implies, While the latter
! would be a contest in name only.
! If there is anything brutal in pugil
ism it is il contests Wherein one pugilst
has as much chance against another as
a rat has against terrier or q drunken
man against crowd of street ruffianS
Cincinnati has had contests OF this sort
for years. but they We're not considered
pugilistic events, for the same reason
that two horses hitched to separate ex-
press wagons trotting down Vine street
in the same direction is not considered
! a race to wagons. because there is no
! class about either. There is class about
! JeffreS and Rubin. however. and. as
! they are evenly matched in skill. and.
! furthermore will be in tho pink OF con-
dition to box 20 rounds it is considered
! brutal and a nuisance. l wonder what
! the anti-boXers consider a contest
Cincinnati Enquirer.
So
How tie mighty have fallen! A few
| years ago it would have been a difficult
| matter to stretch your imagination to
| the point where Tom O'Rourke and
! George Dixon would become bitter enc
mics. But it has come to pass. O'Rourke
and his once great champion and bread
| wonner are now on the outs and fight :
ing like cats and dogs The other night
in Baltimore ORourke came out with
the statement that Dixon was physi-
cal wreck and unfit to poX. Dixon, at
the time being matched with Harry
Lyons, naturally resented the insult
heaped upon him. and got back at
O'Rourke with a hot reply. Dixon
Gained his eX.manager is ring to
! prosecute him, ard is using every pos
e! sble effort to knock him as "A boxer.
| According to DiXon's talk O'Rourke is
, anxious to even up matters because
he cannot come in for a part of Dixon S
Winnings as in years gone by.
ORourke's great combination of cham
pions is now a thing of the past, and
the once ruling power in pugilism Is
in distress. First Sharkey left him.
then Walcott, and now it's George
Dixon, the ebOny-skinned lad who, in
his day. was the kingpin of all the
featherweights. and one Of the most
remarkable boxers in the history OF
American pugilism.
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Il have been around fairgrounds and
circus lots and seen buckwhoa;s fall
for that guessing game with the little
cups, and also know of cases where
students have gone against the green
goods, big mitt and gold brick schemes, -