The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-24
Admirers Of the Bakersfield Lad Will
Lavish Substantial Presents and
Cash Upon Him If He Wins
The Aspirant for Light
weight Championship
Confident of Victory.
Especial to Inter Mountain. J

CO0uOenC OF victory.
Especial to Inter Mountain)
San Francisco, Calf, May 24-They
say confidence is everything in a
prize ring. SO if Aurelio Herrera is as
steadfast in his determination to win
when he meets Terry McGovern within
the roped arena next Wednesday night as
he was when he finished his training yes
terday, then the story Of a new champion
may have to be recorded in fistic circles
on the day after the fight.
Though he does not say it in boastful
way, Herrera is just as certain that he
will beat McGovern as he is that the sun
will rise tomorrow. The Bakersfield boy
realizes that if he wins the fight his
fortune is made.
More than that his manager, F. NJ.
Garlic, has already wagered between
1000 and 5000 in addition to the side
bet posted with the Bulletin. and his.
partner, Walter Madison, who is conduct.
ing the Standard Theater down in Bak-)
ersfield in the absence of Mr.. Garlic,
has just written up to know if he shall
sell the "show shop" as he calls it, and
bet that, too.
To many the fight may look like soft
thing for McGovern, but there is no
plausible reasoning upon which to base
such an assumption. The records show
that Herrera has fought something like
forty battles, and he has never lost one
Of them. Besides, he has never been
knocked down in the ring.
Unlike NANNY fighters who are liter
ally beaten the minute they enter the
ing, Herrera does not know the mean
ing of fear, and he intends to mix 1t up
with Terry from the start. He has seen
ha oh 6ph
STYLE Though the match with Gardner,
which was the one he witnessed, is not
to be taken as criterion Of Terry's style
yet it gave the Bakersfield lad an oppor-
tunity to see what tactics he would have
to adopt when he went up against the
TERRIBLE.
Herrera is at least thirtytwo pounds
lighter than his trainer, Harry Slater,
and the younger brother Of the pugiltst
has him beaten by fully twenty
pounds for weight. Yet the little feath-
erweight goes at each of his opponents
in his bouts each afternoon and slams
them about his training quarters as If he
We're fighting for thousands.
He had half hundred or more admir-
ers out to see him yesterday, and they
were not disappointed, for he boxed four
whirlvil.d rounds with each of his train
ers, besides punching the bag and
skipping the rope for half an hour or
more. In the morning he goes on the
road with Slater, staying out from I'M
til 1890 o'clock. About 3 o'clock he be-
gins his work in the Terminal gymnas-
ium and is never through before 4:30
o'clock.
Among the visitors Of the week was
the past Grand President and Grano
Worthy Lecturer of the Eagles, H. H.
THOMPSON of Seattle who became so en-
thusiastic over the dark-skinned lad that
he promised to turn over to him pool
and billiard parlor in Seattle in the event
Of his winning. McGovern happens to be
an Eagle. Mr. Thompson was aware OF
this fact Yet he said he hadn't seen
Terry but he was satisfied that Herrera
was a conner and was certain that he
would make fortune if he defeated the
champion.
Another admirer of the Bakersfield
boy is Mark Malavos, well known
rancher near San Jose, who said he
would give Herrara $1,000 in cash if. he
won. So the aspirant for McGovern's
honors has really much more at stake
than the mere losers end of the receipts,
as some might contend he was fighting
for. He is out to win Sam Harris $4,000.
as we'll as the long end of the purse of
80 per cent offered by the National Sport
Ing club to the winner. His manager,
Mr.. Garlic, who is stopping at down.
town hotel, goes out every morning to
see his protege, and is seeing to 1t that
Herrera does not lack for anything. He
has placed bets on the fight In San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles and Bakersfield, and
few days ago bet $500 against $1,000
IN Los Angeles that his man would win.
Walter Madison is placing all the bets
down in Bakersfield. and Garlic is get
ling his cash down on what he con-
siders the good things just as fast as
they come up.
After finishing his training yesterday
Herrera weighed but 1914 pounds, whic
is considerably under the weight agreed
apon for o'clock on the night of the
light, l26 pounds. Slater says Herrera
will go into the ring after eating a
nearly meal weighing under 1875 poun IS.
and Herrera himself says he could fight
at 12O pounds easily if it became neces-
sary for him to get down to that mark.
Win or lose. Herrera says he is to
meet Joe Bernstein three weeks after the
go with McGovern. Slater insists, how
ever, that Herrera should have much
longer rest in any event. After the figh.
Slater will go to Victoria, B. c., wher,
ae says his wife resides. This is the
record of Herrera as far is it has been
obtainable:
hnocKed out Elmer Reada, 3 rounds,
Ransberg; Kid Ryan in rounds, Ba-
kersfield; Dave Hatch, I rounds, Bakers