Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-31

how 10 protect the runner in wardinC
off tacklers in the open field is a diff.
ficult question 10 solve, but means
will have to be devised to do so. II
any real diminution of the number
and seriousness of injuries is to be
accomplished.
The talk about the brutality of foot
ball in the sense of the deliberate at.
tempts to cripple player and put
him out of the play is ill-founded.
There have been isolated instances of
this recently, but for some years
coachers have not instructed the prac-
tice of such tactics. as they once un.
doubtedly did.
Battling Nelson has turned down
the proposition made by the sports of
GOldfield who offered a purse of $25,.
900 for fight there between he and
Gardner. The Battler says now that
he will fight Terry McGovern, although
he really thinks Britt has the first
call. McGovern's victory over Tom
my Murphy in Philadelphia is what
has turned the tide in his favor. and is
the only reason that Nelson considers
him at all. McGovern's victory has
been the sole topic of conversation
among the sporting fraternity for the
past week.
Dominick O'Malley, Of New Orleans,
executed one of the cleanest cut and
most extensive betting coups of the
racing year at Jamaica track recent
ly. O'Malley won $4,000 on his fl
ly Gold Rose. Bookmaker Maxey
Blumenthal placed over $4,000 for
o Malley in the ring here, forcing the
price against the filly from to 1 to
6 to at the close, while his bet at
Hot Springs, Ark, ran up to $4,000.
Approximately, the winnings totaled
the above colossal amount.
Battling Nelson may go to England.
Manager Billy Nolan has received an
offer of $4,000 a week for the Battler
to do boxing stunt in London, but
he turned the offer down, as the con-
tract offered was only for four weeks.
However, he says Nelson will make
the trip, not as an actor, but as a
fighter. Jem Bowker. the bantam
weight champion, is outgrowing that
class, and he says he is anxious to
meet Nelson. AS it is not thought
that Bowker would draw in this coun-
try, Nelson may make the trip abroad
to annex the easy currency.
Every now and then the fight crit
les take up the subject of colored box.
ers and invariably figure out where
nearly all the good ones have passed
into oblivion. They bob up again
sometimes, but it looks now as though
the passing of the negro scrapers is
an actual fact. Joe Walcott is out of
the game, CRIPPLED for life; George Dix
on was knocked out in a couple Of
rounds by Tommy Murphy the other
night and Joe Cans had all he could
do with Mike Twin Sullivan in a Is
round bout only a short time ago.
Dixon is all in, so is Walcott, and if
Cans fight against Sullivan can be TAX
en- as criterion the lightweight cham.
pion has also joined the ranks of the
has been.
Cans may come again, but the other
two will never be what they were only
a few years ago. Incidentally, it might
be in line to remark that these three
darkies in their day were about as
near perfection in their profession as
any white boys that ever aspired for
honOrs in the game of give and take.
An old-timer who loves to recall the
good days of boxing in New York said
the other night: II was never in fav-
or of matching men of different colors,
but as long as the public demanded it
and the fight managers made no pro-
test of putting negro against white
man it was only natural for me to take
an interest in the outcome, and, laying
aside all prejudice, I think Walcott,
Cans and Dixon were head and Shout
ders over anything in their respective
classes when all three men were in
their prime. Dixon, I think, was the
best of them all, then Walcott and
next Joe Cans. Dixon had the clean
est record, because he was never mix
ed up in any alleged fakes. Both Wal
colt and Cans have at different times
been implicated in alleged shady
matches. and this fact hurt them a
great deal with the public, but TAX
ing them all as fighters do not believe
that there were ever three greater box
ers in the world. I am sorry to see
them down and out, but l know the
fault lies with the men themselves.
so they Travelled the pace that killed
so many of their white brethren in the
| pugilistic game"