Show OAWTHOENE AS A GAMBLER I Comedian Wont Against a Game in Butte Joe Cawthorne the comedian la not a gambler At least Joe says ho Isnt and ho knows If anyono does It la not because be-cause ho wouldnt like to be but because ho cant mukc anything nt It I tried to break Into tho gctrlchcnay business once Cawlhorno declared to a Chicago Inter Ocean reporter and I can tell you that for a time I vms a high roller roll-er all rlshLI didnt think anything of running one dollar up to five before I quit It was oul In Montana where everybody gambles a little bit and most cvcrybodyjv good big bit Ono nIght 1 happened Into the swell est gamblinghouse In Butte i didnt know much about the games but I wad alone and thought I ought to play a lllllc ao I tried faro With my two or three silver bucks clasped lightly In my lilywhite I advanced to the lair of the tiger got a scat and began throwing thoso dollars around that reckloag thai sometimes the attendant had to pick them I Mp und nk mo where to put thorn After a couple of hour I counted up and discovered hat I was about uevcn to the good Thats where I plunged I took the whole seven and reached knowingly across the whole table to place thom on the eight open Aa 1 did so my contaleevo caught the copper on a bet of the man wio tint next to mo and knocked It off Ho was making oO nnd 575 bets and was down to lila last stuck The denier turned the cord and my companion com-panion scowled Then he glanced II this bet auw that tho copper wasnt there and laughed loudly when the dealer began to pay him I didnt understand Just what Id done but I felt pretty big when that fellow turned round to me shook me by the hand and told mo I was a lucky I guy that If Id utand by his chair tho rent of tho night hod give me a percentage of what ho won I couldnt shake that fellow and I guess wo went to every gamblingroom In town When we turned In at daylight he wan several thousand dollars to the good and 11311 It docant matter what I had Tim Hurst on Big FIght Tho advance guard of the sporting fra ternity Is already arriving to await the chumplonahlp contest between Young Corbott and Terry McGovcrn hefon the Southern Athletic club September I I2ru Tim llurnt who has been conducting a fair and bicycle track hi PUtuhurf dar ing the season tai the first to put Jn an appearance Tim has had A snccosa ful Qcuaon and ns ho has nothing on he decided to run down to the Falls City and spend tho Intervening time with bib friends Hurst Is tho official referee of the 0 Southern AthletIc club und atone time It looked ua If ho would bd the Jiulgo of thin featherweight argument now on but Corbett objected Sam Harris mimed Jumcs J Corbett and the formor hnm plon wno dcccptcd by his namesake Hnrat i Is ono of the most capable roicro a nnd umpires In the country and this sporting world knows thai when ho cxprcswn nil opinion It IB worth of consideration This la what he says o the content I expect tho f O lo1c fast from lie tap of the bell I saw the championship won Thanksgiving Day from McUovirn and It Wail one of the most Hcnxnikmul performances I hnvo witnessed III the ring Corbett and Terry urn unquestionably unquestion-ably topnotchoro nnd 1 know or nobody nt this stage able to defeat clihtr if them They are nothing holt of mar velous boxers full of action and dctrr mlnntlon McGovorn lo certain he la going to win By rcclnlmlng the title he will agaIn be tho greatest ot his kind gonirallons have seen He la training hard and you can depend upon It ho will ntcp Into the ring no fit as It Is possible to be Victory for him mcnnn a fortune Nearly ovcrv body knows whnt kind of a boxer tlils whirlwind from Brooklyn Is He known no four thor In but ono thing In view victory and ho will put In hli limo as never before Corbett la brainy und therefore n splen did general lie Is a lightning calculator and 1C McGovcrn duplicates his old trick of raining a fusillade of body punches ho will find this lIttle bull tiger from the West tearing In at a furious clip 1 know Corbett In lit and Just no good as Terry In every reaped It In going to be hard to pick a winner on paper 1hc bon will have to ohow me The opposition during the last weak attracted at-tracted no ununual comment It had been anticipated by Mnnngcr Gray on account of having been prevented In Connecticut Manager Gray la paying no allcntlon to the protests of the ministers who nre proceeding pro-ceeding on familiar lines In the beginning begin-ning they are imncqunlnicd with the legal rights under which the Souther Athletic club opcrntca Mayor Charles F Grainger Grain-ger hImself a devotoe of the game knows the conditions of the conical na he has given bin unqualified approval The Mayor May-or will be nt the ringside wllh Mayor Flclachmnnn of Cincinnati nhd several other guests and ho will tco that ever hung IB to the liking of the rank nnd file fileThe sulo of seats now amount to close upon J15000 ant the demand continues without nlmlcraurit MoQowrn nnd Cor belt will reach the scone of the contest on the morning of September 22nd Tho champion will stop ut the Loulsvlllo hotel ho-tel Tho McGovcrn party will be quartered quar-tered at ScelbtichB hotel half a block away |