Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-08-24

contract for it's erection calls for COM
pletiOn by September L. Each days
delay after entails $500 forfeit for
the contractors.
Aurelio Herrera, known to all Lewis .
town followers OF the fighting game,
and who has many admirers in this
city, made miserable showing against |
Neary at Milwaukee last week. throw
ing up the sponge in the seventh round
to save himself from being knocked
out. When a fighter of Herrera's
Furnishing ability in days gone by is
knocked about by man like Nea,y
it is clear that he has gone back so
far that he is no longer in the top
notch class.
A special dispatch from Chicago TO
the Butte Miner says: Without say
ing a word about it to anybody on
this side or the other side of the ocean,
Jack O'Brien, of Philadelphia, match
ed himself with Bill Squires, heavy
weight champion of Australia, closing
for the fight by cable and sneaked
away to England. ostensibly for va
cation, but in reality to continue on
his way to Melbourne, where the bat
tie will be decided November 6.
Z,
ing his plans pretty much to himself,
O'Brien has made little mention of
the possibility of his fighting Squires.
There was some talk of it about two
months ago, and Jack said he might
make the match. He has said moth
: ing about it since then. 1t was report
ed that the Melbourne club wanted
Marvin Hart to take the match, but
he declined. AS there is purse of
$4,000 in this fight, O'Brien wished
: to have nobody beat him to it, and in
: consequence laid his plans well. Sec
reilly closing the deal with Jack Wren,
: the biggest bookmaker in Australia,
and using the English vacation idea
merely as a subterfuge to throw off
: other American pugilists who might
> be tempted to see the wisdom and
financial gain of such trip only af-
J. ter O'Brien had started on it.
/ O'Brien's scheme is disclosed in a
letter from Fred E. Diamond, of Mel
e bourne, one of the best known sport
:, ing men on the sportive island. Dia-
II mond speaks glowingly of the pros
t poets of the O'Brien-Squires match.
u His letter in part as follows: "You
}, must know by this time that Jack
Y, O'Brien is coming over here some time
q in September to fight Squires. The
a match is cinched, O'Brien having &C
cepted $500 for his expenses, the
money being forwarded to him by ca
& BILE. He cabled at once that he would
Is start by way of England and take an
'e easy trip by as short stages as posi-
g BILE.
IS This match will create great ex
"a citment here and plans for it already
NJ have been definitely closed. The purse
NJ will be $4,000 sterling, twenty rounds
er at catch weights, for the champion
IN ship Of the world, the date being No
n vember G.. This is the day the Mel
IT. bourne cup will be run and the figh
s. will take place in the open on thu
ce race course between 10 and II Oclocl
We in the morning. This will give every
body chance to see it and attend tn
~ cup races as we'll.
~, Racine, Wis, Aug. 24-RepOrts hav
~ 49,. been sent out and published in news
-, papers that Jay-Eye-See, the once ia
Nv, ~ nous selding, would be taken out q
NC ~. retirement and trotted at fairs in tn
49, state of Indiana. This is denied O
~ the Pleasant View Stock farm, ives
Ia Ia of this city, where the little horse
~ out to pasture.
ne ~ fore the animal could be got into shap
49, to even appear for exhibition. The Ii
~, ~. tie fellow is 80 years Old his teeth al
''' all gone, he cannot eat solid foods {
~ all and grain is always ground for hin
No dentist has ever been able to o
.bn crate on the teeth of the gelding, Il
az, he always fought and kicked vicious
~ when it was attempted While he
~ in fairly good health, it has been Nv
Wv, NV years since harness was placed {
IN his back.
a., Just how fast ne could go a quartz
aa half, or mile, is problematical al
WI his keepers do not believe he wOu
stand up under the strain of trottin
.sss That he will be allowed to remain
| retirement as long as he lives, the
I is no doubt The estate of j. |. Ca
& still owns him and will never part wi
n the beast under any circumstances.
500 There is to be an invasion in tn
two country of number of English boXe
ton Spike Robson. who has had succe:
ent full career in this country during t
eek. past few months. is 10 bring over I
OF English "pugs. Before leaving
by Liverpool, Robson said: There a
ain a number of clever, hard-hitting pu
oOt- in England who were never heard
ney in this country. They are sure to 81
sal the American boys hard battles. |
TO tend TO return here next fall and bri
lort with me at least three bbOXers. O
will be a bantam weight another
o,, light weight and the third midt
weight"
por- II is stated that Jack Clifford, I
thls blacksmith pugilist, who formerly liv
luch lived in Butte, and who fought sol
eV- good fights in this state, now residi
Ia in Grass Valley, California, may
more matched with Eddie Hanlon as one
Ians. the preliminary bouts to the Nels
that Cans fight in Goldfeld Labor Day.
here
with Cans weighed 13412 pounds p
tnat vious to beginning his training. n
own son weighed two pounds more the d
gers he took his first run. The negro "
pear do but little hard work before I
adlly fight, and says he will be at weis
'e az with ease. His measurements last
me urday, We're: Weight 1341a, height
oth- feet GA. reach feet 101a, neck IA
hlnS chest normal 35$4. expanded 3S
d OF waist 291s, biceps relaXedl2 diste
on ed Is rs, forearm ia, wrist 6
Mel thigh, 2012, calf 1872, ankle sig.