The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-27
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wild Bill Hanrahan. who knocked
out the pride of Kentucky, Marvin Hart,
at Louisville, recently, will be given
match with Sailor Tom Sharkey. The
latter has accepted the challenge of the
wild New Yorker and will sign articles
for go" just as soon as his fight with
Maher Is over with.
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No definite word has been received
from President Critchlow of the Inter-
Mountain league as to whether the rail-
roads have agreed to reconsider the rate
concessions offered the different league
teams. Great Falls and POcatello are
still holding out for better rates, and
unless an agreement is reached by jan
uary l, it Is likely that the Butte and
Helena teams will be withdrawn from
the league and application made to the
Pacific Northwest league.
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Tommy White and Joe Bernstein have
been matched to fight Is rounds January
I, in st. Louis. The forfeits have been
posted and it is given out that the st.
Louis police commission and Chief of
Police Kelly have been fixed" White
and Yanger We're to have fought in St.
Louis last month but police commission
ers. influenced by local sports who did not
relish the idea of Chicago fight man.
ayers breaking into the game, gave or
ders to suppress the affair. The fight
was called off and Yanger fought Bern
stein In Chicago instead, gaining a ques-
tionable decision from Referee George
Siler.
The row kicked up over the Siler de-
cision, given after Bernstein had done
all of the fighting for five out of six
rounds, has resulted in a new agreement
being reached.
Under the terms of the Bernstein-White
fight. the winner will be matched against
Yanger for a 1P-round go in St. Louis
two weeks later. In each fight the
pugs are to weigh in at 126 pounds
ringside.
The three-cOrnered match is the re-
suit of the batch Of challenges hurled
at Yanger after his fight with Bern
stein. AS stated, White had been
matched to- fight Yanger but the au-
thorities interfered and in consequence
Tommy claimed the right to a first
chance with the italian. Then came the
kick over Siler's decision, which made it
look as If Bernstein was entitled to
return match for a better distance. The
question was settled by matching White
and Bernstein with the understanding
that the italian would fight the winner.
- In consequence the White Bernstein
match will take on more than ordinary
interest. as it will give a line on the
merits of all three little fellows who
have been the storm centers of bitter
disputes.
Comparatively few noted sires without
DO hox, llol Sod
happenings are not closely reported by
owners. 1t interests the general public,
however, as not a few keep a list of
deaths of famous horses for ready ref
erence. It has been said that Death
loves shining mark" and somehow,
when one recalls the brilliant Sir AL
cantra. jamie T. and Janice, he cannot
but say it comes ever true.
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Everitt Smithing, the famous author
ity on harness stock and who writes
over the signature of Percy" has COM
piled a list of the great racers who died
during the year just c losing. In his
equine obituary "Percy" says:
How many of our fastest performers
have died during 1901! A telegram at
hand from friend in Frisco tells of
the sudden death of handsome Janice,
2:08 Ia, at Santa Rosa Farm, the prop
erty of Pierce brothers OF Montgomery
street, San Francisco.
Janice was bay mare, foaled in 1896,
and by William Harold, 2:13 1-2, from
Fanella by Falls, 1928. Willard San
ders raced her through the Grand cir
cult; then at Memphis, in a heat at
mile and an eighth. she took her record
under the rules whereby the first mile