The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-13
HSTIIlltA STAGES
REVIVAL TUESDAY.
Three Fast Bouts to Be
Staged at Fort Gymna-
sium January Is.
FOR THE MESS FUND
Comeback Of Game for
Which MissOula Was
Once the Mecca.

will be the scene Of a. revival Of the
glove game IN, Missoula Tuesday eve
ming, when "a sextet Of clever boxers
will mcct in three bppts over total
route Of IA rounds fAf the benefit of
I the soldiers mess fund.s
II will be the, first attempt TO stage
= fistic carnival in thu Garden city
since July, 1916, when Jimmy Piquett
made his final bow as atpromoter, the
Bitter Root Kid otherwise Paul
!, Cantway, meeting JohnnyfTillman in a
10 round no decision bout
In the exhibition to be staged Tues
day evening, under the direction of Ser
geant Spier OF Fort Missoila and Pat
Connolly, the well known Hibernian
wrestler from Butte, the following
men will participate;
Ike Hayes vs.. Chris bowling, 1856
pounds. six pounds.
Frank Hayes. vs.. Bud Jackson, $50
pounds, four rounds.
!, Charles White Vs.. Louis Smith, 15S
pounds. four rounds
Most Of the. boxers are well known
to Missoula fans. though none Of them
have appeared in a local ring, at least
not during the last decade.
Have Boxed Ia Butte.
All Of them have participated In
bouts staged IN Rutte for the benefit
Of the mess. funds of the coast artil-
lery corps stationed there, and have
pleased the critical mining city fans,
who have asked for more Of the same
brand of sport.
1t ID nearly six years since the box
ing game was revived lin Missoula,l in
the same ring in which Tuesday eve
ning's bouts will take place. At that
time Willie Sullivan was the shining
light Of the init contests. until Maur-
ice Thompson, later to become the re-
cipient OF Garden City ring fans at
fections drove a couple of terrific lefts
to Soldier Willie's solar plexus, after
which the referee counted 10 over Sui
livan. The last fight of importance
staged at the fort was the battle be-
tween Maurice Thompson and Jimmie
Cannon of Seattle, which, took place
on the evening Of July 3, 1912, Thomp-
son slowing away the speedy Cannon
kid in the fifth round.
Late that same fall Jimmy opened
up the Rochester Athletic club In Il lit
tie cubby- hole beneath the old Roches-
ter pool rooms adjacent to the Shap-
ard hotel, with a bout between Maur-
ice Thompson and Jack Collins. the
first of four fights in which the Butte
pug and the husky navy lad engaged
Jimmy staged several fights in that
ring. the Bitter Root Kid making his
first appearance in Missoula In a battle
against soldier boy from the fort
there.
MissouIa Fight Mecca.
After a year or so Piuuett moved his
club across the way to the vacant
building underneath the Belmont hotel
He equipped an ideal fighting ring, and
prepared accommodations for 200 peo-
pie, none of whom were 80 feet away
from the ring. In that ring the best
fights staged in Montana during the
last four years took place, a number
Of topnotchers coming lut here to fight
the best in the west
In that ring Leo Benz of Butte and
Frank Barrieau OF Vancouver fought
a sensational 10-round battle, sensa :
tional because none of the things which
the Stampede visitors, who packed
the place, expected to happen, took
place. The fight was y draw. a good
exhibition of boxing, but not a real
knock down and drag-out battle of the
kind that the Nissoula fans most ap-
pfeciatea curing the days that the game
was good in this city.
in that ring Frank Barrlcnu, crafty.
~ily, speedy champion Of the north
west, repealed the cool attack of Jack
'nc 'icle MeAlcan the only
'n"n "nn ever forced FRANK to cover
, ~ ~ nlsSoo'a o5r,'' 1hc battle be
LIN ~. an" hai''ea" - IN" thai
fans for sca,,s =, "'e',s0'S W N''77'"'a
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Tii|man Boxed Here.
There Johnny TNman boxed a C,!f-
GUS 10-round draw with Barliaa9 fa,.
battle being an Excellent exhibition tlnt
brought many laurcIs to the r,nrno,r,
as well as TO both fighters. II tia,
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