Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-27

UcllcE SAAoA ~ AAA"he iue DoCI0r Ludu
Jeffries ever was. | made this move
Of getting Ryan at the suggestion of
Jeffries."
"Matty" Matthews, former welter
weight champion OF the world, Is fiat
broke. The $1OO,OOO he earned dur.
ing his ring career has been eaten up
by fast living and now "Matty" is
earning SIS a week riding one of the
plunging horses at the New Hippo
drome. In his boyhood days he had
Won some fame as jockey and in
applying for Job last week at the
big theater he said he believed he
had the courage and ability to take
the dive into the big Hippodrome
tank. He was given a position, and
at his first performance went through
the work without hitch. Matthews
lost the championship to "Rube"
Ferns in Toronto three years ago, af-
ter losing and winning from him in
Detroit, and since that time has been
on the down path.
1t was the privilege of Mrs. Nelson,
mother of Battling, to see the Nelson
Britt fight pictures in Chicago last
week. To say that she was agitated
while the films rolled by is putting it
mildly. The mother of the Battler
presented a picture that was little
less wonderful than those thrown ON
the canvas. Her facial expressions
ran the gamut of emotions, from ex-
IRENE sadness, when her son was be-
ing thumped, to unrestrained joy,
when Nelson was in the lead. Express
sions of encouragement often broke
from her lips, and she was once or
twice heard to exclam, Pound NIT
him." meaning to lick Britt When
the films showed the knockout she
was almost overcome with joy and
just the suspicion of tears could be
noticed in her eyes as in a husky
voice she declared: Battling was
always such good boy, and he did
just right when he beat that saucy
Britt who punched him so many
times
Battling Nelson saw a football game
for the first time at ansas City the
other day. He was one Of the specta-
tors of the game between Kansas
City Athletic club and the College of
Emporia. Nelson enjoyed the game,
but declared it was too brutal an affair
for him to mix up in.
IT'S great sport" remarked the con-
Querer Of Jimmy Britt, as he watched
the game from the side lines, But
EXCUSE Bat from mixing up with
that buch of murderers. Those fel.
lows seem to be enjoying themselves.
but mine with the padded mitts and
referee that wont let 'em kick when
I'm down. See that bunch pile OH
that poor guy; ke'll be killed sure.
Mono football for your own friend,
Bat.
whats that? Scrimmage? Well,
| it looks worse than that to me. I'd
rather fight Jeffries and Sharkey in
the same ring than take chance with
that bunch. You can't tell me they're
| allowed to catch guy by the legs
| and throw him on his head without
being disqualified for fouling Well,
guess you're right, they're letting
him go, but that referee is worse than
| Bill ROache."
THE games over. What! And no
one killed? Say, wouldn't Tom Shar.
key be peach in this game?"
George Peterson, who Is to box 20
rounds with Billy (Honey) Melody,
of Boston, before the Spokane ANA
teur Athletic club tonight, is but 20
years of age, and has had only three
| professional contests.
AS to the superiority of Mathew
son among all the pitchers of both
big leagues there is no qeustion. In
Irs~y Il r. ~, Cell
against the best that the American
league has to offer, team acknOwl-
edged to be much superior at the bat
to the White Sox, who finished Sec
ond in the race. In q innings only
one man got to third base off his de-
livery and but four others reached
second. He gave but one base on
balls in the three games and allowed
IA hits, an average of less than five
to the game. All the Athletics. from
Captain Lave Cross down. admitted
that he was a better man than they
had faced this season. Cross went
so far as to say that he never, in his
20 years experience on the ball field,
batted against pitcher so speedy, so
steady and so resourceful as the big
college lad.
John L. Sullivan expresses his opin.
ion of the gentle game of football in
this wise:
This is the time of year when the
polite and nice people who think box.
ing ought to be Jail offense, go nutty
on football. Irish hurley is gentle
compared with football, but every old
nanny of a man who puts boxers and
murderers in the same class stands
for football because it is part of a
college education.
Bare-knuckle fighting, spine-span
ming and all the other brutal things
l helped to put out of the ring now &c
to make up the game of football and
before the season is over lot of nice
young fellows will be on their backs
for keeps owing to this game. | don
make any yell against the game il
any number of folks want that sort
of game, as this is a free country
but l raise my basso profundo for a
fair shake from these people for the
tanner sport of boxing.
IF anybody will keep tab on the
harm done to the young fellows OF
the American republic and match il
up with the damage done with soft
: gloves, you'll find that boxing is sc
harmless that it isn't worth while fol
any hayseed legislature to get rec
ord putting sparring on the hog. Any
town that stands for football ought
to let it's sports see boxing, and you
can put this along as the straight