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Show I Sporting Life. So fur as chicken lighting is concerned in this city it's a poor business, according to Tommy Mc- j Keever and "Kid" Heusen. The two doubled up with Mac and the pair endeavored to pull off a cocking main in the cellar of the Harmonie sa- i loon last Wednesday night. t Biros from Bingham were fetched here to compete with Salt Lake "gaffers," but owing td the solf-assertiveness of a couple of sergeants of police, po-lice, the "gaff" was thrown into the sports. One . .. reason for the "bulls" getting wise to the game I was the freeness with which the affair was ped- ! died about the city. No one but a deaf and dumb , man, without pad or pencil, could have over- jt looked the fact that a cock fight was being '1 framed up. r The pit was fixed up in regulation style. The S1 birds were in fine fettle. The "Knights of the Ijl ( . Star" blew in five strong. Three of them got in a BE draught and were blown out. Two, however, ' S stuck and refused to. let anything as strong as flip even an "Oyster Joe Cocktail" drive them to the jifj.S: tall shadow of the pines. 11 1 f Sergeant Eddington and an assistant stuck, and jljlgf absolutely refused to move. "Oyster Joe" got red MM I ln the face, frothed at the mouth, and spit out all g liK'F I kinds ot denials that there were any "roosters" I j' I in the house outside of the policemen and tried MiP to close up the joint, until the fowls themselves II , 1 f gave him the lie by starting up the "crowing H ! i " chorus" from the "Egg-nog" opera. Hi',.' Tne vibrant strains were heavenly music to B ; ' the gents in blue clothes and, after seeing a few j perspiring sports emerge from the lower regions H ! i ' of the resort, they followed "their hand and H ' j I butted in on a bunch of Salt Lake sporting ele-H ele-H ; JE ment So soon as the cops" presented their fronts R j ,1 to the mob there was a sudden collapse in the 1 chesty demeanor of the latter, but there was no Hi; 1 chance to duck out through a back door, or side H Iji , entrance. li l'M ' A number of "the best" in the city were in i m attendance and were simply caught in the act. H ?' ' Before a main had been started the officers "aril "ar-il , j j rove on the scene" and there was nothin to it but K h the big ride to the station for the two promoters H jgj of the fight. Endeavors were made to obtain a H UbS couple of flat cars to corral the entire bunch, but H I ll w there was something loose in the railway service I i! I and the play failed to come off. li jm Some say two, while others say five, bags of 111 j fighting chickens, were mopped up by the officers Hffj jj&j and as they moved out of the joint they re-Hyj re-Hyj m j ceived cs fine a bawl-out as their worst enemies Hi H could wish for. HKj M "Wow! Zowey! You bad actors! You'll get the Hff ffi ,,Jg eed now for once in your llves ' etc-t were the H; J8 cries that greeted the "bulls" as they packed the HE j w bags of chickens out of the place and after the in- BE; I . stigators of the battle had rested a few hours in Hfff i ' the bastile, they were released also the chick- HK I I; ens. Tne birds flew also the men. |