The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1902, Page 7

| Tra BABIES . . | “ Pugilists Hooted and Hissed Be-, . ’ e i} cause They Didn't Furnish | Slugging Match. . | (Scecta! t> The Pyening World) lowed in ace room of hall-bedroom PHILAL PHIA, Jan. 18. — | dimensions be: a magistrate named | most pitiably, yet laughably wretch-] ‘The men released in $5,000 bal ed fiasco in the history of the prize hebleid +e eee teat if eno | ring occurred at the Industrial Ath} oy, t 4 forieally letic Club building at Philadelphia |°®’reed at 10 AM. today In ven a knock t they were last night, when, in the presence of | nod for a higher court. Each was also : —_ - | . “at oS Referee Charlie White. the bald- headed Quaker. Charlie has only two hairs on the top of his head; he calls them “the babies.” ‘ First Round—The men shake hands, It was their most violent act of the whole fight. Second Round-The action grew so hot at one time that ere was danger that some one might get slapped more than 4,000 disgusted spectators, to give hin word thers would the “fight” between Sharkey and Peter Maher was adjudged in th third round “no contest.” It was to have been a six-round ‘Tom filed and sur vus mob that affair, virtually to decide which of on. iws men kept their promise Soth the owo Irish pugilists was the more) in spirit « etter For a mil igible to a match with Jeffries. at ay bout never place » kindergarten Philadelphia posters also heralded tt | was red of four r * ag the fight for the Irish champion-| dreary and uns reliminart } 1038, ‘Then can fa wold hour ship. Whatever it was originally intend- ed to be, it turned out a fizzle that will probably kill boxing in Phila- delphia. There is but one possible ex- cuse for such a hideous failure Late in the afternoon the Law Order Society made a move to stop pro- ceedings by causing the arrest of the two fighters, A comic-opera seance fol- and a quarter be the two pugilists for whose battle hundreds of men nad red from New York, » and n from as far San Francisco, eigned to appear Crowd Der! The crowd g) tively il-humored. A we them, but wae silenced | rder. and THE WORLD: SATURDAY EV William Penn—Yea, could not have happened in my day Hey, boy, who was the biggest fakir? were not fighters verily Rocap. RORERCSAS duced “Reuben, Reuben, I've been think ing, that these fighters are awful this fakirs.” Reuben—Vertly, Jonathan, they mane PY pov ) -? ‘ Waltz to una in ke = her enters, wh ‘ ler, Then Hlsses. gle om that fettles heir t ing of an img nar was broken in a few seconds| or w intro > of wonder that sp rm JAMES J. JEFFR PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1& (Wiltten) hie seconds push his gloves on. Maher tocp looks nervous. See how he shifts his} o de). —This ought to prove a bik Hamel’ ter So- fet And wriggles hin fingers. And he | great fight If the Law and Order So-| 4) 0 TOON satiny bees clety's action doesn't hamoer the men. people naeetiit halornwa | de are letting bim ot his gloves. 1 t: ite good for a and they car It's hard re both hard hitte: ake ne isn't a lot of pun’ to pick a winner at this «tage of the , something to game ! They're waiting long ¢ Rocap je talking. He's | ; P crow! to help make the + enough. tx some on row! t ‘ orderly. A lot they'll help, in the about the A cornesiat , minalineyiare liven us Naying “The Wear le men are leaving thelr corners ing of th I suppose that was | Wait tll the end of the round in hopes of hurrying up Irish pug Well! I've geen ‘longshoremen fight lst. at row! didn't give Mim on the *Friseo wharves, and I've seen much # 1 if ever mus hampion boxers all over America, but smothered in rnetiat’s w I never thought Id live to mee such a ( Vaiversity ¢ jum fought Ask me something easy. Jents sang, and that went wae wink a second | goes for a try at it tater on ey's wearing 4 long brown! ‘The men ahook hands and the crowd sovert comt Mater haw on a blue l held ite breath, Then, while they were Bxestes venla bank: Lhavents Over Fis | six. tee art, Sharkey began feintin fighting clothes. and dancing around staher kept his Sharkey Seems Unconcern: ay Ard At al ato ive. | Bull the crowd kept | 8o| We! ing for the sudd ang of blows Did tt e¢ fter dancing around fo: thi bout the result vous. He's pale erdrawn, I can our spines ns r Dawns ina their condition |@wconds Bharkey led with hin left and when they atrip. inte each other's arms. Now thelr seconds are helping them way T can de e that out of their outer clothes. They both war on vy for a ok fo the pink of tion, 1 never 1 could # But they | v elther of them look better. ‘Hinehed. Sharkey has on those famous) And at just that second the whole n silk tights of his, belted with | crowd got wine all together. 1 neve %. the Amerizan fi Maher's tights are rd such a racket since I was born dark blue, and he's wearing a green | It was like a dog fight tn egaphone, sash About a quarter of the people got up and a lot of them began to make for the st Fame therk! saat vie hon Maher Avalinre te Be Nervons, rowd. But we didn’t me deserved. Ly ae t it in the volley of howls] meat last te shaking the house, Well, here| nothing doing 1 do: men ach other Oh, it was of them sidestepped toward home and! 4 pir und! Sharkey «r ry mother, he as sm " od Re Then the fighters broke away and. carne lind) round Sha began sparring. And such sparring o#| Maher looked grave ered was. Each of them boxed the way a! flow they kept their fa ny oo boxing master does with hin newes:. | ing the burlesque Ave wus tte midest, most awkward pupi r Exchange of Love Taps. Nierouna . swoand the ¥ c n-handed. 4 v7 L Why. they actuat ed each othe Fighting at Leng Kange J It was a burlesque KB wKN eho unk Sharkey would lead with * ft ef ‘ Maher would run in and they'd r Mui make- . nh And rowd broke out flercer| F Onn " i than ever Tansee mony ny Not Kuough to gentle w ‘ Sharkey took tle igeress bd the round. But neltter of them nided ‘ w sad a blow heavy enough to break a | pe Ww i 3 There goex the gong agglt tel words w : ' if they nf ake t art ‘ " { round, —Perh vd insisted ; Just to Jolly the * 1 aevera) thous rr M ple. pre they alten 2 No. The second round was worse than| “box woul . the firat. There were the same slaps the Magistrate's hear at Maher’y body, the same fisti Ghaclatlaisant> | Ms mnahi onic! t wonder so many Pugilist.) nk te ING, JANUARY 1%, 1902 | MAGISTRATE DISCHARGED 3] room was crowded at 1 o'clock, there) # Ty Ma snvince that ER FIGHT WAS A fPITIABLE IES'S STORY OF THE FLUKE. (Wr.teen Exclusively tor The Ey ning World by the Champion 7 FIASCO. ote |Law and Order Society Goi In Its Work and Fighters Agreed to Shed No Blood. S$ attached to every package OF IMOINS luher Ashamed: Sharkey Amused ‘YOUR TAGS wooo AT For Premiums tee teen Beauty Ss Blood Deep, Deep! How many women of ain to get a pure com- ° | “ k urest, only way to beauty is a | Sharkey Dries to Harangue os | Shark i . # been taking ples an *| ‘ hit 0 rs ; ala i jal to your valuable x end | Jlivrd “ | jie | N | r s . | | t - Reet | ig 4 wy t 5 f x t pte 1% Ca tio ie m ne to do it, KOCt cr sold Ia MAHER AND SHARKEY TO-DAY avon no such ure OF 4 o¢