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Show A GREAT BATTLE. The Meeting- Between Choynski and "Old Chocolate" TO COME OFF MONDAY NIGHT. AlthonsrhOrten defeated, "Brave Joe"' Has Xeier Lost His Popularity -Old Chocolate" Will Make a (Splendid Fight Prospects for the Formation of an Inter-llonntain Base Ball League Latest Sporting Sews. Montana city. The Butte cranks will fight for Missoula to the end, but they hate Helena with an undying enmity and say that they will never be in a league with that city again. Butte, Missoula, Salt Lake and Og-den Og-den will make a strong league, and it will be organized on a tirro and lasting basis. Each city will be required to put up a bond of $1000 as a guarantee tha't its club will finish the season, and to be forfeited in case this is not done, and a salary limit of about $T200 or $1500 a month will probably be agreed upon. Next year's league is about os good as a sure thing. Manager Muth of Helena states that he will have a team next year, whether it is in any league or not, and that he will star it through the East as an advertisement for Helena. Mr. Muth is very rabid in the assertion as-sertion just now, but he will very probably change his tune about the 9th of November. After election day Helena will be so dead that an electric battery with a capacity of 400 volts would not phase it. Spurting: Splinters. The next great fistic event will be the Choynski-Godfrey tight, which comes off I before the Coney Island Athletic club next Monday night. Eastern sports are about i equally divided as to the merits of the pugilists, pu-gilists, but Choynski has been the favorite iu Salt Lake ever since the match was made. He is taller than "Old Choeolate," and has the advantage of a lonerer reach, but he is weak in the legs. The short order in which Joe Goddard twice knocked him 6illy is taken by the Easterners to mean that he cau not survive the puuishment Godfrey is known to be able to inflict. "Parson" Dav-ies, Dav-ies, backer of Choynski, has this to say of the tight: "Well, of course, I 'wouldn't be backing Choynski if I didn't think he would win. It will probably be a hard fight, but if Choynski is in good 6hape when he puts on i the gloves he will, in my judgment, come Flying Jib has a splint. Mascot, 2:04, has pneumonia. Tommy Warren, the feather-weight pugilist, pugil-ist, has been indicted by a Waco (Tex.) grand jury for killing Clem Stovall, a saloon porter. Major P. P. Johnson, who has been presi-ident presi-ident of the Kentucky Horse Breeders' association asso-ciation for the last ten years, will decline a re-election at the next meeting of the stockholders. stock-holders. The Tale college football people are sending send-ing out lots of bad luck stones, and it is thought that the object is to influence the betting in some of the coming matches. However, Yale scores are pretty low. The New York Jockey club meeting lasted thirteen days, during which seventy-eight race9 were run. in which 219 horses took part. The amount of added money to stakes and purses aggregated $11:2,400, while the total value of races run was $1!7,472.."0, which was distributed among fifty-seven winning owners, the largest of whom is F. A. Ehret, with $55,b30 to his credit. Marcus Daly comes next with $ 10,!."0, closely pressed by J. J. MaCaflerty, who is third on the list, with ? 17,232. On Friday, October 2S, a benefit for the veteran driver, Isaac Woodruff, will be held at Belmont track. There will be a number of races, iucluding a wagon race for four old-timers to drive, viz: "Uncle" Billy Dob'e, aged 77 ypars; Isaac Woodruff, 73 years; "Majah" J. K. Leavitt, 68 years, and David Wallace, 72 years. Another feature will be the double-team race, with five teams to contend. A full band of music will be on hand to play popular airs, and, with Dan Strouse as master of ceremonies, a good afternoon can be looked for. out ahead. He is a much younger man than Godfrey, and though Godfrey is well preserved, pre-served, other things being equal, youth counts a good deal. If it is a long fight it is more than likely to terminate in Choynski's favor. As to his condition, it is all that could be desired. He takes a short bicycle ride before breakfast, and the remainder re-mainder of his daily routine is divided between be-tween walking, basr punching, swimming and sparring. As a worker, he is faithful, thorough and determined, and it now looks as though he would go into the ring in the pink of condition. 1 am perfectly satisfied with the outlook; it couldn't be better. Godfrey ought to be the favorite in the bettiug, if records count for anything." Choynski is one of the few pugilists in this couutry who, though decisively beaten several times, retains a place in the public mind as a man thoroughly deserving of any honor which may be put upon him, for his courage and stamina have many times been severely tried and have yet to be found wanting. This country, up to date, has produced but one man who has squelched Joe, and that one is now basking in his recently won championship honors. Jim Corbett was twice alile to do the trick, away back before the days that either young man heard the de- lusive championship bee buzzingjin his headgear, head-gear, and in those days Joe was always giv-iug giv-iug away a lot of weight to get on a match. But what terrific tights Joe has always put up! He was a perfect revelation to the Australians, Aus-tralians, experienced as they undoubtedly are in the fighting game. They belieye that there is more of the stuff champions are made of in Choynski's anatomy than a cart load of the balance of the heavy weights. True it is that Joe has not licked any of the top-notchers, but he has been trotting along evenly, making but few skips or breaks and is now in a fair way to put himself lastingly to the front by whipping one of the hardest men that ever donned a glove. Should he get the verdict over Godfrey in a clean, killing kill-ing tight, as this is sure to be, he will be lifted, not only one rung, but a dozen, toward to-ward the top of the fighters' slippery ladder. George Godfrey, as has been said, is one of the hardest men to whip in this country today, without exception, and is regarded as putting up a better article of fighting than many who occupy a more exalted position before the people than he. He has been defeated de-feated but twice, once by Peter Jackson, it being the latter's second fight in tnis country, coun-try, and once, several years later, by Jake Kilrain. Both fights took place before the California Athletic club. Godfrey acknowledges acknowl-edges to have been fairly and squarely whipped by his brother black, although he was not knocked out, but surrendered like a good general when he saw nothing ahead but crushing defeat. It has never been even hinted that Godfrey showed a lack of courage in thus layingdown before Jackson; on the contrary, he was lauded for bis good sense in thus avoiding useless aod brutal punishment At any rate Godfrey, with all of his 40 years of age, is a tighter from crown to heel, and can even now whip all the Lannons, Ashtons and Cardiff's that were ever thought of as championship possibilities. Such men never ranked with "Old Chocolate," and it did not take them lonr to find it out once they stood in front of him. No man likes the same less than he docs, however, but he has won a pot out of it and by judicious and highly commendable investment of his earnings earn-ings has placed himself and a larg-e family of little Godfreys beyond the possible want should anything happen to "papa." Inter-Slountnin Baseball League. It looks as Ihouirh an inter-mountain baseball base-ball league would be formed next season with Salt Lake as one of the links. The Anaconda Standard says: The prospects for an inter-mountain baseball base-ball league next season are very bright. In a letter writte.r written from Denver to the sporting editor of the Standard, Manager Powell of the Butte team says: "I talked with the Salt Lake and Ogden people about a league for next season and they are all very much in favor of it, and will both send representatives to a meeting to organize it. Ogden is especially enthusiastic, and Salt Lake will make a rattling good ball town, but it requires a man there to get out among the people and talk it up. Thev have asked me to write them occasionally and keep them posted on what is being done, and 1 have promised to do so. If it is properly looked after, the league will be a sure go." This encouraging letter from Mr. Powell will give new impetus to a movement which is now pretty well along. It is practically prac-tically certain that a meeting will be held in Butte during the winter to" take the' pre liminary steps toward organizing such a league as has been suggested, and Salt Lake, Ogden and Missoula will be invited to send representatives, with which request they will no doubt comply. On account of the dirty trick played by Helena this year there is a general disposition to leave that city out in the cold. .As soon as Missoula got a decent de-cent team it proved itself a far better ball town than Helena, and there is no doubt that the Missoulas would have played the string' out if they had won the second series instead of the cowardly Helenas. The Salt Lake and Ogden people are all acquainted with the dirty action of the Helenas and they unanimously favor Missoula as the second |
