Show THEY SAID RATS 4 I 0 II oro i I Omaha Objectsto Chivalry Being ° UeY red Nl i i WITH HISSES AND GROAXS 1 A Horse That Was Bllcd la One IT jo and a Manager 1 hat IuIUed I OMAHA June 29The UttaU of Sunday Sun-day has the following account of a sword fight in which Duncan C loss participated For several Jays all the store windows in Omaha have been embellished with pictures of mounted swortucn Chivalry revived has been flaunted to every breeze and people with sporting j proclivities have been on the gui vive People were also on the qui vive last night but were actuated by an entirely different princinlc They formerly had wanted to see sport Last night they saw the sport and were looking or the money expended on their tickets The occasion was the sword contest sclyer tied to take place in the Exposition building nt 8 oclock between Duncan C Ross and Sergeant Walsh The attractive at-tractive posters representing two men in armor drew out about 400 people Ross stood at the door and watched them pass through the turnstiles J CO OPT l > D nlSTu There are not enough said hello Manager Ferguson Go out and rustle Ferguson rustled The audience shouted Rats and expressed tLeir feelings by derisive cheers At 9 oclock Ferguson was still rustling and the cries of the audience floated out upon the air with renewed vigor Finally after Ferguson had hired the men bn the street corners to put in an appearance appear-ance he stepped to the middle of the clear space in the centre of the hall and announced that the first contest would be between Duncan C Ross and W Berryman A boy then came out and blew a note from a bugle Bring forth the noble warriors shouted Ferguson Fer-guson in stentorian tones THE SPECTATORS SAID KVT8 Rats ejaculated the spectators with great unanimity Two doors then opened and the neigh of a horse was heard Let me introduce intro-duce you to Duncan C Ross the celebrated cele-brated athlete said the urbane manager man-ager A sorrel horse blind in one eye walked slowly into tho arena and its rider Ross made a bow Berryman I came out from his dressing room and did likewise The bugler blew his horn and the two horses walked to ha middle mid-dle of the resincovered floor Berry mans horse slipped and the swordsman tookan ignominious fal over the steeds tail He picked himself up however and retired to his corner The next minute there was it feeble clashing of swords and the referee Professor P J Fallon decided that Ross had won a point Interpolated with hisses hoots and cries of rats from the audincc the contest went on STBE5GTH WAS ALL IIE HAD Berryman acted on the defensive and kept an excellent guard Ross depended de-pended upon his superior strength and except in one or two instances got his points by breaking downhis opponents guard In the twenty first attack aloud a-loud crash was heard and Rosss sword fell to the floor in two pieces This under the rules was counted a point for Berryman who was considered con-sidered to have disarmed his adversary There was another tedious wait and finely another sword was produced The next attack was the final one and gave Ross the contest by a score of 15 points to 711 point being counted each time a blow was struck Another intermission was then declared when a man whom they said was Sergeant Ser-geant C Walsh of the Seventh cavalry but understood to be Captain McGuire came into the rinl + The rubber shoe which covered tile right hind foot of his horse was found to be mutilated BOSS HAD HIS SEBVE I See no way said Referee FaUont but postpone the fight I claim the contest shouted Ross riding violently to the front The audience au-dience hissed Give us back our money or go oa with the business was the cry Neither of the contestants however was willing to do so Under the rules Prof Fallens decision was considered correct cor-rect but the spectators wanted the price of admission An angry throng gathered iu the lobby and deadheads and all clamored for 75 cents each Bring out the sword men and well do em up shouted an angry voice The cry was taken up and it was apparent ap-parent that the crowd was in an ugly mo d The managers of the entertaInment entertaIn-ment were afraid to leave the dressing rooms Finally the patrol wagon was summoned and the police forced their way through the mob and took Ross and his backer to the Millard They had tfiTmohey wire them Itfai safe to sky then the contest between be-tween the alleget Walsh and IU > ss will never take place In Omaha The medal is now in the hands of Prof ration who deejay that unless Rossma consult con-sult to another contest he will reward it to Walfth Tba mea warn ably seconded by Capt OMalley and Ed Rothery The latter wanted Ross to give the boys satisfaction by appearing again bnrthernsn who carries a medal for everything except hipprodrom iBg although deserving this most declined He wanted to lewd Quick i today Eertila ° J t 3 4 I |