Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06
THE RING


Here is a chance for some ambitious
faatherweight to take on a good man:
Butte. April 6.-Sporting Editor Inter
Mountains: l returned from Hunter
hot springs Monday, where l nave oeen
.or the past two weeks getting myself
in condition, and l am now Wllhns 10
make a match with Kid Oglesby at la
rounds, ringside, providing we can get
al place to pull the match Off. am
wiling to go to Hunters springs ana
rull the match off, where know we can
Get a good purse. the winner to take
all I don't see how Ogesby can avoid
g meeting with me, as think I am en-
titled to a match with him. / have met
some of the best men in the country,
and have been in the fighting business
ten years, and in that time have only
met defeat once and that was with Os-
ca. Gardiner. I have defeated such men
as Dial Hawkins. Young Sharkey, who
row holds the lightweight championship
% Illinois. Jack Frasier who is now
matched with Ben Jordan in England
for the title of featherweight champion,
Tommy Cooney. Jack Grace, Spider
Gallagher, Eugene Bezenah, who went
10 rounds with Joe Cans and fought
Nose La Fontise 20 rounds in Denver,
and Billy Gallagher. I was matched
with Jimmie Barry in '9S for the bantam
| weight championship of the world. The
tattle was to take place in Lexington,
KY, hut at the last day the governor
| stopped the contest. l have fought
draws with Soly Smith, Kid Hogan
| and Pete Boland. l have met and de-
feated over fifty men in my career.
Since l have been in this state l have
received letters from some of the best
| boxers in the world, who are anxious
t, come to Butte to box. l think this
| City would be one of the best fighting
towns in the United States if there was
ma good club here and no police inter-
ference. When two first -class trained
men come together there is no danger
of either of them being hurt seriously,
and the next day you will see them both
on the street. Maybe one has a black
eye and the other bruised face. l
have witnessed thousand of fights in
my time, and only twice did l see them
prove fatal, and in both cases it was
the entire fault of the matchmaker, he
matching fighter against dub. A
man to be the ma tchmaker of a club
should know every fighter in the bust
ness, his condition at the time and at
all times, avoid putting a good man
against some unknown, who is only
looking for the losers end of the purse.
l have made matches for the following
clubs, and l have yet to make my first
bad one: Memphis Athletic club, Mem
phis, Tenn; Hot Springs Athletic club
Hot Springs, Ark; Fort Wayne Ind
and Cripple Creek, Colo. If there is a
club to start here I am willing to sta,
and make the matches, and the. people
will then see all the best men in the
country battle in Butte.
Hoping you will find space in YOU
Valuable paper for this article, remain
Respectfully yours,
FREDDIE BEGAN,
Featherweight champion of the Pacifi
coast.
There is talk that Tom O'Rourke 1
thinking seriously of taking Joe Walcot
to England. II he does the BLACK De
mon" Ia sure to make sensation Eve
, since his-easy defeat of Joe Choynsk
Walcott has been sidestepped by on
fistic stars as ''bad medicine" Nearl
. ! all of them have drawn the color lin