The Butte inter mountain., 1903-12-29
.SPORTGOSSIP

Butte he PAID VISIT TO the Inter Mountain
Office. About the same time as Jack ar
rived Billy Bush, the stercotyper. came
into the editorial rooms. Bush is goo
FOUNDER and will stack up well in any
bunch OF athletes and has an arm like a
shoulder OF meat.
Munroe began sizing up the man who
makes the mats for the daily Inter Noun
tain and asked who he was
This is the unknown" said the assist
ant foreman of the composing room.
Munroc took good look at the sicrco-
typcr and announced that he had dropped
in TO let the sporting editor know that he
could not appear against the man selected
by some OF the local sports for the exhibi-
ton Christmas night.
On the other hand Billy thought he
was up against hot game Tor keeps and
hurried 10 announce that he was not in
the scrapping business. Munroc drew a
sigh OF relief and said he would call again
when the sporting man was III.
"That fellow looked like the side Of
| house and as vicious as bulldog" said
! Jack that night at the Broadway. ]
| though, If | had to put him away il would
take an axe to do it, OF course, did not
| know who they had picked out for me.
| and as | had been informed that they had
| u
| ss soon as we faced each other III a
| friendly bout. thought the big fellow
| could come about as near doing it as any
| one IL he got a chance.
| All the boys about town are having a
I good laugh over the incident
| Ianky Bob Fitzsmmons is having hard
| time rehearsing for his appearance III
Peck and His Motherin-Law." Bob has
| three songs 10 sing-"A Pipe Dream "lf
| ! Only Had the Dough Like Mr.. Morgan
and "Bedela" While rchearsing the
other day Bob heard a rap on the door
| and on opening it was confronted by
negro who announced that an octoroon
troupe was rchearsing for a minstrel show
| in the next room and could not proceed
| until the noise in Bob's room ceased. fiiz
| took the count on the song and adjourned
1 to next day, when he tried il on the roof
oil his fiat, where the police could not inter
| fcre. Iitz is said 10 be star at managing
mo,her-in-law, but when il comes 10
punching holes in song Fiiz has TO pull
down his forfeit money before it is COW
cred.
Jim Jenrcs will not fight a negro, but
he docs not draw the color line in referee
| work and his latest stunt is refreshing "A
champion cakewalk at Madison Square
| Garden Christmas night. There was some
objection to the champion, owing to the
fact that he drew the color line on Jack
Johnson. but the Washingtons and Jack
sons were in the majority and jeff won.
II left took along a formidable battery in the
shape OF Tom Sharkcy, Terry McGovcrn,
lin Corbett and Frank Erne so there was
no one with a razcr who cared to dispute
the decisions Of the champion.
The proposed match between Harry
Foley and Jim Seaman which was to have
taken place before the Reliance club, Oak.
land, January S, has been called OFF. Foley
wanted Seaman to make los pounds, and
the latter claims all he can do is I7o.
There is probability that Joe Millet, a
Conner, will meet Seaman before the Colma
club in the near future.
One Of the features Of the All-Cali-
fornia football game was the playing Of
Nickofer Shouchuk the Eskimo, center
for the Carlisle Indians. Nickofer is one
OF the best naturcd fellows imaginable,
ard takes to football like a duck takes
| t. water.
II there is anything an Indian likes it is
the test OF skill between men. He in
herts this spirit from his ancestors, who
sought the most strenuous sports that
could be imagined while in the savage
: state. This taste for thrilling experiences,
wherein the muscle and endurance is up
pcrmost, extends to the remotest tribes Of
the United States, and no sooner does an
Indian enter school than he wants TO
show his prowcss, and as football is more
| 10 his liking than anything else, he natur-
! allv pllu1ppS into the game with such zeal
as was never manifested by his white
brother.
"I could not, to save my life, say
whether the sulky Lou Dillon pulled in
2:os over the Cleveland track to beat
Maud SIS record had ball bearing hubs
or not" says Millard Sanders, the driver
OF the noted Billings mare, when asked
| concerning the report that the heirs Of the
Bonner estate intended to protest the
record claimed by Lou Dillon.
81 do know no wind shield was used and
that | am willing to bet $4,000 that Lot
Dillon can pull that same sulky, which, by
the way, weighed IS pounds-I2 more than
Maud SIS sulky--in less than 2 .os.
"Membcrs of the Bonner estate have
for years offered $4,000 for any driver that
would break Maud SIS record. broke it.
and broke it fairly, with Lou Dillon, but
have never seen the color Of theii