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Show Si! Sporting Life. f jj f fc i ;The traces at Agricultural JPark. during the K Uf - week drew largo crowds and the sport was about H I the best In that line that has been witnessed Hf I hero for several years. It seems unfortunate that K' ! the fair committee does not devote more time to K i j t wracihg'-matters,' as iiher form ahatti action Which H( j; fereatly increases the attendance at the fair K '1 ' j fgrounds. A fair without horse races .would be El , l I n ' bi i J tjmore sterile than an Irish wake without .rye, and Kjj ,1 for this reason it is strange that the" fair com- JImI i 'Imittee does not expend some ,3fuhds in-the im- mlv f i improvement of the racing couise. The tiack isfar Lj. jGinerior to the couise at the sfair grounds at Bfl j vf Boise, and the fair committee, as soon, as the sup- K I j ' ply of funds will justify it, would find it a lucrative jj ' "3 investment to make some improvements A bet- EJf !1 ter class of horses would be brought hefeapd the 1 n i .4 result would be better sport and a greatly in- Hi ,1 j j creased patronage for the fair. ' - - KU , j! j Gossip in the pugilistjc world at piesent indl- B j ;' ij rfcates that Aurelia Heirera will, be the?riext op- Bi j $j Opponent of Eddie JEf anion, who was given the de- Kjj i.fjj! 'jcision over Benny Yanger in their recent twenty Hii'jl) jj v round fight." llep'eated efforts have-been nade HH , " since that mill to bring Young Coibett and Han- j.ji) , .Ion together, but the champion does not appear Hy! I ., to be at all anxious for an early argument vith H!M tYanger's cbnquerer. In the meantime, Tom 11 j y Cohen, who is acting for our esteemed fueml, H ' j J Biddy Bishop, has posted a forfeit of $250 for a Hfjj f ' match between Heirera and Hanlon, at 130 ring- Hjj id J i side, and it looks now, as if the details of the fight HJItJsi i would-be arranged in the near future. A .few Hfl! Jf t days ago, Corbett wiied that he would meet Han- K 1 1 1 J f Ion in December, but he made a proposal for such HRlI an extravagant propoition of the receipts that his H if proposition has not leceived serious consideration. H p f j l Local lovers of fighting will be giad to hear ,of a V ' j I -I match between Herrera and Hanlon, and thereare m i'j " many local sports and still moie in Butte who H. jjJ ' believe the hard hitting .Mexican will bo the vic- BK H If tor --. k I- - -v H 'jfii ,.v "The 'recent victQi;y of the Stanford team over HL ill ' the -Reliance athletes has greatly Increased con- i i 3 t fidence in the prowess of the Varsity men and showecLfthat the Stanford lads had greatly Improved Im-proved since their former contest with Reliance The backs are particularly speedy, and their chief weakness is in the fact that they have not yet been able to install behind the line a man with the adriot and nimble foot for punting purposes. The Denver News, commenting on the lecent game between the University of Utah team and the Boulder aggregation, says that the locals played an excellent game, in view of the fact that they were weailed from the long journey and were forced to go on the gridiron two hours after their arrival in the city. Wade, who played quarter, says the News, was their best man. He was in eveiy play and stopped the local team fiom making many large gains after the runner had broken through the line Burmeister at half and Benyon at end both put up a strong ganie. & x The awarding of the decision to Hanlon in his fight with Benny' Yanger, which went the limit lim-it of twenty rounds, is greatly criticised by sporting sport-ing authorities of the East, who are inclined to believe that the native son leceived a shade the best of it in the refeee's adjudication Yanger had clearly the best of the fight during the first fourteen rounds, and the sports believe that this should have boen taken into consideration by the refeee, notwithstanding the fact that the Italian was badly punished in the closing lounds of the contest. If Hanlon was entitled to the decision in the last bout, Yanger was assuredly the victor in the former fight, as he had the better of it in almost every round of that strenuous battle. It has now been proposed that in twenty-round contests, con-tests, all fights be declared a draw if both men are on their feet and fighting at the close of the last round. This kind of a ruling would probably prob-ably be far more satisfactory. The general impression im-pression appears to be that such a decision should have been made in th'e Hanlon-Yanger conibat. fcx fcy George Gardner is training industriously for his fight next month with FItzsimmons While Gardner does not under rate Bob's hitting powers, he looks forward to the contest with a great deal of confidence. "Youth and speed aie in my fa- vor," says the light heavyweight champion, "and if I can keep Bob at a safe distance, say for at least ten rounds, he will not have enough steam In" his blows to upset a lightweight:" WhenT have him in that condition, plucking the long end of the purse will be easy." t3 t3 Word was received from Boulder, says the Miner, to the effect that Jack Clifford, who is to fight Kid Fredericks at Helena next week, is training faithfully, and is in better condition than at any previous time His hands, which at different dif-ferent times have given him considerable trouble, trou-ble, are in excellent shape. Jack is working hard, does eight miles of road woik and weighs 134 pounds In company with Mose Lafontise, who has been spending some time at the springs, Clif-fod Clif-fod yesterday killed eighteen ducks. tV fcy cfr "Abe Attell, the San Francisco featherweight, who has been challenged by Young Corbett for a match, has accepted all the terms laid down by the champion with a single exception. He insists in-sists that the side bet shall be at odds of 2 to 1. Attell will take the champion at his own weight for any club that will give them a purse and bet his $2,500 against $5,000 that he will win. Attell claims Corbett will be a 2 to 1 shot in the betting when they enter the ring, and that he should get the market odds for his money. |