Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1909, Page 9

. ,both vessel .selected the biggest greaser as Roes' op- OURFICATING AMERICAN TARS | NWavy Produces Many Very Proficient Glove Wielders, SHARKEY WAS BEST OF ALL Ring Conmtests Have Reen Held for | Years on Uncle Sam's Warships and Once Jimmy Ross Also Won Englisk Title, “The Yankee sallors are noted all over the world for their game fighting qual | Ity sald the old New York sporting man to M8 friends the other night d fanning about incidents of t ring. "I remember away back years ago when I shipped aboard the U/ Btates Steamship Pawnee as a boatswaln and sailed for South America “1 wanted to see the world and talnly 414 see it ton with a great deal of satidfbction from the deck of a man-o'- war. When we got to Montevideo in Sep- temier, 167, we had the [nited States | Steamship Guerriere with us. On board there was a bunch of lads willing and anxious for a lttle sport. | Finally Jack Mitchell and Billy Turner, two sturdy young tars, agreed to fight it out under the old London prize ring rules. They both belonged to the Pawnee and put up a slashing battle of twenty.two reunds, | ecach taking severe punishment for more than an hour, when we decided that they had gone far enough and the fight was | called a draw. | “The next month we had a couple more | hard mills, the first being between Pete Keeland and Joe McAvoy of the Pawnec They fought at Rio and McAvoy had enousgh in five rounds, lasting Just fourteen minutes. In the same ring John O'Connell sltas Blunt, met Jimmy Ross, the champion of the mavy at that time. After a good battle for nine rounds Ross was declared | the winner and proceeded to issue a chul- lenge to any man-o-wars man in the world. Ross Had a Wallop. ““Ross was only a middleweight, but he had a terrible wallop and was also as game as a pebble. One evening a lot of the boys went ashort at Rio for a lark. They ran up against a crowd of greasers who were very insulting and swore that they could clean up the Yankees with ease. There were five greasers who were par- ticularly offensive in their tirade against Uncle Sam. After some hot challenges Ross stepped forward and declared he would fight each of the five greasers, one at & time, with ten minutes rest between battles. They. laughed at the offer at first, but finally agreed to have one fight and g a priz forty-tws | 1 cer ponent. The men stripped quietly, and sang thought they had a cinch. go-as-yay-please scrap, a regular rough and tumble affair. The big greaser made | a desperate grab at Ross' throat, but tthe sallor ducked and responded with an upper- cut that put his antagonist on the fioor. In a second Ross was on top of the greéaser, butting his face into a pulp. The Rio gang was amazed at Ross' quickness and the flerce punishment he handed out and soon agreed to buy drinks for the crowd in order to save thelr man from further harm. Ross' three-minute victory settled the whole shooting match, and after that the Yankee tars commanded much mote respect in Rio, Betford-Taylor Battle. “In the early part of 18 Harry Betford of the Pawnee and Mike Traynor of New York met in the ring at Montevideo and fought one of the hardest battle 1 ever saw. It lasted for thirty-seven rounds, one | hour and ten/minutes, Traynor winning atter recelving a terrible punching. On the big dock at Rio not long after I saw the flercest yough and tumble battle of my lite | between Tom McGrath and Barney Farrell of the Guerriers. After & terrible strugsle which lasted more than two hours the men fell from exhaustion and the mill was de- clared & draw. They were so fearfully punished that they were kept in a hospital for nearly & month. Farreil, by the way, said Be was a cousin of the noted Joo Coburn, then the heavyweight champion of America. “Shortly after this scrap Jos Garron and Dan Demgesy fought in a coal' bunker aboard the Querriere. Dempsey won by | closing both of Garron's eyes in the four- teenth found, the battle losting one hour and nineteen minutes. After this affair the Pawnee and the Guerriere were ordered home and the United States Steamphip Lancaster was sent to Rio in 180. Big Bill Davie, an Englishman, was one of the Lan- caster's erew and he challenged any man in the fleet to a combat. Mike Landy ac- cepted and the battle took place aboard the cruiser. It took tweive rounds for game | Mike to put a stop to Big Bill. ‘At this time Big Ted Driscoll was aboard the Unite States steamship Call- fornia {n the Pacific ocean. He defied | every tar in the navy. One fine day Ted | was ashore at Valparaiso when he ran into Tommy Roundhead, who a short time be- fore had a hot go with the well known pugilist, Tommy Chandler. Roundhead disputed Driscoll's claim to pugilistic honors ATURDA the Rio It was a THE BEE: OMAHA e i SRR D As announced in the daily papers, we purch 1009 Never in the History of the Piano Business Were so Many Pianos Sold in so Short aTime. The Reason Why. We are selling strictly High-Grade Pianos at 'z the regular price line of musical instruments, as well as high grade pianos, a high grade piano at the Omaha’s best musicians have secured pianos that will last them a examined, and when you buy one o fe s been st carefully ! offer has been most ¢ sslact the piano you want you greater inducement, and you are at liberty to of the World Renowned Pianos That are Offered in This Sale—Knabe, Chickering Bros.’ ohmer, Schaeffer, Wegman, Milton, Bush & Gert, Price & Teeple, Estey, Here Are a Few Fisher, S We are taking,so many pianos in exchange dyr'mg th $40.00 up. And remember these are all upright pianos an One Kimball, ebony One Ome One One S. Dobson, ebony .... Sohmer, ebony .... Ivers & Pond, ebony Hallet & Davis, R. W. Bush & Gerts, ebony One One Catalogues Who Cannot Call. price of a cheap unknown make. ased the entire stock of the Holmes Piano Co. This well known piano house was located at Mankato, Minn. They carried the very finest and their stock was valued at $69,000. We made them a spot cash offer; they accepted it, and that is why we can offer you Are you going to buy a piano in the near future? If you are, don’t miss this opportunity of a lifetime. During this sale some of Angelus Pianos, Voghe, and 25 Other Makes. .$80 Horace Waters, ebony A e ...$150 Sent “t.o One Wheelock, walnut . One Crown, oak One Baldwin, mahogany" ... One Price & Teeple, mahogany, slightly used .$100 $125 .$380 $255 One Smith & Barhes, mahogany, slightly used ......$260 One Ebersole, mahogany, slightly used ...... One Steger & Sons, mahogan ...$260 y, slightly used........$160 = HAYDEN One One One One One One One One Royal, mahogany, slightl Knight-Brinkerhoff .... Schauffer Mission .. Milton Mission ........ Estey —smallest size ... Haines Bros. . Wegman sy A Smith & Barnes .. life time. Every one is satisfied that this is the greatest money-saving piano sale ever held. Every piano which we f these instruments you get an absolute guarantee of perfect satisfaction or your money refunded. We could not offer during this great sale and pay for it on your own easy terms. is sale that we are obliged to sell them at whatever price we can get. There are 68 second-hand pianos at prices ranging from d will be sold regardless of the actual value, We give below a partial list of these second-hand pianos: y used $175 Mail Orders ffdfixptly Attended to. in the n: like until there ringside y and they fought was no decision. British Terror Tamed. “In 1871 the United States Plymouth was one of the Aboard of her was ing Englishman, who had been the terror | the | of the same ran, fleet for several vessel was Billy who had years. On Colter, altas Cock no ring record, but on French thirteen rounds, the winner. soil. They slashed away Colter afte: dleweight champlon of America. “When the American fleet kinds of fighters. They on day end night, and boxing and slugging matches remember how The Terror from New Orle; had the galore. s, in the fleet After out in seventeen rounds, rested, pald a ' fine and Baldy was oh t the deck. On. the United: steamship Colorado 1874 were Tim Mahoney and Dave They fought twice along the co SPEC Cusey st betwee 15¢ Sad Iron Holders, nickel plated, Satur- 5 day only, each......... 50 c Quartered Sawed Oak plate racks, finished ered Oak, 36 inches long, 19 inches ‘high, Saturday only, each . . Weathered Oak Plate Rack, 38 inches long, 24 inches high, double shelf, Saturday ecial, cach .ilc it ofieianeeoneenaey Lace illustration, wood, Easel frame, value $2.25, Saturday special, each.......... Weath- $1.75 31,65 Curtain Stretcher, like made of bass regular Best quality Cocoa Door Mat, size 14x24, regular $1.00 size, Saturday only, We offera good quality Window Shades, mounted on good spring roller, size 36x6, all staple colors, Saturday only, 20c each .. Miller, Stewart & Beaton 41315-17 S. 16th STREET. tigers wag a riot in progress at the| sach man claimed a victory, but it was such a mixed up affair that there steamship who volunteered to tackle the aggressive Briton for when Colter was declared ward married the widow of Dan Kerrigan, at one time mid- | was at Key West in 1873 Billy Boyle of the United | Btates steamship Dictator kept a sporung | hotel there which was the hangout for-all gloves there were both 1 Baldy Sours knocked out who came over to Key West to wipe out all the tars walloping The Terror was ar- job bright and early the next morning washing in Key West and Norfolk, but neither had a declded advantage, although most of us considered Mahoney the better man. About the same time the United States steam- ship Swatara was out in New Zealand. A burley Englishman ashore boasted that he could lick any man on the Yankee warship | As soon as Jack Flannigan heard of it he asked to go ashore, where he met Thomp- | son, the Briton, and they fought for more than an hour on the turf until darkness stopped the mill. The next day they met again, and after battling for forty-three rounds the Yankee sailor was declared the winner. “In 1877 the United States steamship Trenton was in European waters when Big | Johnny Edwards and Dan Fab had a rough, unfalr go, for when Edwards was getting the better of it in the fifth round the Fab gang broke into the ring, and al- though Edwards tried to fight them ail at once, he could not get & square deal and was overpowered. Ross Again to the Fore. “While the United States steamship Hart- ford was in South America in 1879 Jimmy Ross was abroad, and one of his puplls, Harry Esterbrook, challenged him to fight to & finish with hard gloves. They fought on shipboard In February and Esterbrook managed to stay through ten hard rounds, & pretty good showing for a novice. The iariford had another man on board look- ing for fistic honors named Mickey Welsh He challenged Ross to fight for the mid- | dleweight championship of the navy and a velt. They met aboard the Hartford on March 20, 1879, before a big crowd of sali- ors from the other ships in port. Welsh Put up a game battle, but he was com- pelled to surrender in the nineteenth round. Two weeks later a fine boxing exhibl- ton was given on the Hartford and the | beli. was presented to Ross. A large num- | ber of Englishmen were present and two days afterward Tom Evans of the Brllh‘ni warship Gurnet, who claimed to be the| champlon of the queen's navy, challenged any man in the Yankee fleet, but none of | the heavywelghts on the Hartford stepped | to the front. Jimmy Ross, though a mid- | dlewelght, sent word, however, that he would meet John Bull's champion. When | | they faced each other at Mount David on | {May 6 Evans looked like a giant along- | side of Koss. 1t was a swift, hard fight of seven rounds, when the Englishman went down with two broken ribs and other in- Juries, whereupon Ross was hatled as the | champlon of the American and Enghsh navies and held the belt for three years against all comcrs, when it became his | personal property “The United States steamer Trenton had & new crew sent over in 181. Among them were Mike Carroll and Jim McClellan, a brother of Prof. Billy MeClellan, who twice defeated by Prof. Mike Donovan. Carroll and MeClellan agreed to (ight on shore in France and the former won in eleven rounds, as MeClellan sprained his | le§ and could not do himself justice, | Otficers Stopped This Mill | ““There was a great giove fight on hoard | the United Btates Bteamship Minnesota on Washington's birthday 1881, between | George Milier and Jimmy Ross, the cham- plon. It was an exciting affalr, for after lasting seven rounds in (hirty-four minutes | the officers of the ship were obliged to | stop the mill to prevent a free-for-all scrap among the outsiders who had come to see the go from other vessels. Shortly this match Miiler met Walter Welsey of the United Btates Steamship New Hamp shire anG knocked him out in six rounds The winner recelved & challenge from celved his discharge, he handed the fight over to Pat Logan, whom Leonard de- teated. *“Along about 1383 there loomed up in the | navy a freak fighter called Saflor Brown. He was a game fellow and could fight, too, but was very erratic. One night he went aboard an English man-o'-war at Sydney, Austraiia, and offered to fight any- body. They were going to throw Brown overboard for his daring challenge, but finally one of the crew offered to box him ten rounds for $0, thinking the Yankee was either half daffy or didn’t have the coln “‘All ‘right,’ satd Brown, producing his half century. ‘But who'll hold the money and referee the bout” A number of Britishers offersd to be both referee and stakeholder, but Brown wouldn't have them. * ‘Haven't you got an Irishman aboard? I'll trust a good Mick any ‘time!' roared Brown. Then half a dozen sons of Erin came forward and Brown selected one named Rafferty as stakeholder and another named Murphy as the referee. They were both stokers, big, husky fellows. *‘Now I know I'll get fair play,’ sald the Yankee, putting up his coin and stripping for action. ‘All T want 18 a sauare deal, boys. I'm an American! A New York Bowery boy, at that!' Brown Made Good. “The officers and crew laoked upon the whole affair as a joke, but when Brown shot out his left and brought the claret from the English tar's nose it looked dit- ferent. They say it was a redhot mill, with both men soon covered with blood The Yankee went down several times, but he was up in a Jiffy and at it again like a wildeat. Finally in the eighth round Brown got home a wallop on the jaw and | the Britisher went down and out “‘I win, Give me the dough, Rafferty,’ cried the freak, jumping from the ring like an Indian. He got the money and left the English warship amid much confusion and amagzement. Sallor Brown fought some long, hard battles in the navy, some of which he won, but he was always dead game and he had to be knocked out cold before he'd quit “Tom Sharkey, when a sallor, put Brown Elvae$ Senna ocks gently rompl onfi\g:bow%%‘s?c\eox\sg \he system effectuolly QSSIStE 0N W OVeXsomWNg habinal constipaXion mently. To get W3 beneficiol always buy the ne, MANUFACTURED BY TWE CALIFORNIA Henry Leonard of the United States Steam- ship Constitution, but as Miller bad re- Fia Syrup Co. SOLD BY LEADING DRUGGISTS S0°ABOTTLE away in a couple of rounds, but Bhark was @ heavyweight, while Brown at that time was only a welter. Sharkey was one of the best big men the American navy ever produced. He knocked out Rough Thompson twice, Nick Burley in eight rounds, George Washington In twa and Bily Tate in four. Up to 18% Sharkey claimed the championship of the navy and | then obtained his discharge that year to become a professional pugilist. His first battle after leaving the navy was with Joe Choyneki, whom he defeated in eight rounds. Then he mixed up roughly with Jim Corpett in a four-round bout, with no deciston, at 'Frisco, and shortly afterward he won on a foul from Fitzsimmons in clght rounds under a questionable decision rendered by Wyatt Barp, a gun fighter who went into the ring with two revolvers stuck in his belt. ‘Sharkey gave Jeffries two great battles. one of twenty rounds and the other of twenty-five. Although the decisions went against Sharkey in both contests, he made a wonderful showing Burke Succeeded Sharkey. “Another noted pugilist produced by the navy is Sailor Burke, formerly of the mon- itor Florida, who was recently mentioned as a possible opponent of Stanley Ketchel. Burke spent four and a half years in Uncle S8am's service, enlisting when he was 16 years old. During that time he gained much fame by defeating every tar he went up against. Just before Burke's dlscharge about two years ago he was selected to meet three of the best men in the nav lat the Grand Opera house, Rockland, Me. They were Sallor Byrnes, welterwelght champlon of the Atlanta; A. J. Pauline, | middlewelght champion of the Texas, and | B4 Cunningham, heavywelght champion of the Texas. Burke says he weighed or v 138 pounds at the time, yet these three fighting salors all in one night with & rest of fifteen minutes between the bouts. It was & great night for Sailos Burke, you can bet | “American sailors are famous the world over for their fighting and they are the champions of the deep sea. Bome of th young tars spin interesting yarns abost trimming all comers In far away countries. They love to fight with their gloved fists | and glory in their triumphs.” | [MARATHON RACES BANEFUL Medieal Authority Points Out gers and Urges Frompt Suppreasion. he | [ Dan- The dangerous Marathon races should be suupressed, and the medical profession must do its share in making known the reasons why such strains may cause per- manent damage. One of the ancient con- testants died at the moment of victory, and the modern races have been signalized by many serlous cases of heart straln or scute dflation pot fatal, particularly in un- developed boys. 1t has been stated that youths will hereafter be excluded, but it is @ strain to which no human being should be subjected. Indlan runners make longer journeys, but it is generally at low pres- sure, and it is & matter of training from infancy; but even in them we cannot safely | say It has proved harmless. Many s white | boy now training fof Marathon races is causing permanent Injury to heart and arteries, which is sure to wreck him twenty or thirty years hence, when he loses his abllity to “compensate Let all parents be warned to forbid a athletic exercises which cause undue and prolonged heart strain The nervous exhaustion of athletes Is another cause for condemnation of great efforts. The “stale” athiete is not the only deteated | one exhausted, and there I8 & beginning apprehension that all “training” is dan- gerous business. It s regrettable that such excesses exist, for it is of the utmost im- portance that the young should be given ample opportunities for much activity Muscular fatigue 1s not to be dreaded; in- deed, Dr. Rowland 8. Freeman (American Journal of the Medical Boclety, November, 1%8) denies that it occurs in New York schoo! children, though Dr. W. 8 Chris- topher of Chicago has reported that it shows itself within an hour of the opening of the morning session and progressively increases until the noon recess, the after- noon showing similar conditions. The nec- essary repression of the school room s the harmful factor which wise teachers fre. quently relax to avold a nervous fatigue different in no respect from that of ath letes. Without this outlet the children seem to explode as soon as school s over. and ocwrlously: enough this muscular exer- tion can be made even wnen mental fa tig 1s 80 great that attention is prac- tically in abeyance. While, therefore, the modern smovement for playgrounds and #chool sports must be supported as a ne- cessity of urban life, we should sternly re- press the all too common tendency to per- mit or even encourage children to “train’ for any great effort, for they will surely be Injured by the twin evils of strain and nervous exhaustion. The famlily physiclan here has a serious advisory duty.—Ameri. can Medicine. Mere Than One Way. The caller, A man whon: he had known in the old town back in Pennsylvania, had dropped in to talk old times with the busy lawyer, ana the lawyer had endured patiently for an hour and a half. Then unseen by the caller, he pushed a small knob at the end of his desk and a boll rang In the adjoining room. “Excuse me a moment, Mr. Hockenspiut- ter,” he sald. stepping into the other fooin sceeding to bold this cne-sided ~of- versatlon over an imaginary telephorie: Yes." “No, Bertha; I'll not have tima to come home for dinner. It's alrendy 430, and I have several hours' work yet o do. 1 am very busy, and have been detained.’ “Yes; good-by Then he went back to his desk—but Mr Hockensplutter had already risen to go.— Chicago Tribune. An Auto Collixton means many bad bruises, which Bucklen's Arnica Salve heals quickiy, as it does soré: and burns. Z%c. For sale by Beaton Drug Ce. A Bachelor's Reflections, The only foolish thing about being ex- travagant is when it's somebody else. The only kind of fiunm policy that ean interest & man is when it affects his pri- vate pocket A man likes to have work out right so he practical for that sort of thing The reason & woman knows her husband is brave is he isn't afraid to swear over the telephone when it's against the rules, The thing that can make a woman' talk about her country estate in the surest tone of voice is for it to be a suburban cott { she rents by the month.—New York Pre theories that never can say he is too Picture an d Art Sale Begins Saturday, May 29 Rose’s Art Store, 152 Dodge St. The entire stock must be closed out at once. Thousands of dollars worth of framed and unframed pictures and art goods at— HALF PRICE All goods marked in plain figures. 0il Paintings, landscapes and Water Colors, landscapes and figures. . .$500 down to $5.00 figures. .$10.00 down to $1.00 Carbons and Photos, landscapes and figures, $5 down to 50c Colored Photogravures, etchings and engravings . . An endless variet; and Small Pictures, at...... $12.00 down to $1.00 5e, 10¢, 15¢, 20¢, 25¢ and $1.00 PIANOS Every piano on the floor must be closed out during this sale. A few of the bargains: O UDCIRIIEATI o5t vosssdcinrsecsssadesiiast One Upright Piano ......... One Upright Piano One Upright Steinway—used ................ -$200.00 Players and Player Pianos—everything goes. One $900.00 Baby Grand .. Rose’s Art Store SMITH & KENNEDY, Proprietors. 1521 Dodge Street.