Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-03-17 | Page 26 | Was the Greatest Prize Fighter

i n WAS THE GREATEST PRIZE FIGHTER 1 I We c shed in at Tons and It Took a Landslide to Knock Him Out L it tj tjI I t a aJ ra 0 J hl L 0 y PiO GL p i i Chicago Tribune Trl b une 1 t The Ibe n of the greatest heavy heavyweight t weight fighter the world ever has seen seeni ls i prepared repart d for mounting upon a steel In the Field Columbian mu t um In Ja Jarkon kon park ark l feet fett full fU length and fig lt If l r co in i rou hing posture after the th thern l ern hing school of ot ring tac tactics taci i f tics c rt this giant boxer Stood In to the f oot ring it 34 31 feet 8 Inches weighing r at t 1 3 Pounds HP He 1111 n comers the only condi condl r nus bin boin to in that they should be vegetal l 1 m ln to du di dill t and not strike more than thans s I Ight or OT r feet f ft below the bolt belt Ring I r n vs 15 m jn hi hir time called led for bare knuck I Iq and hitting hitlin in the clinches rounds I were wre unlimited the count was three r tour four hour h differential weights were plowed ow d at t 1 IO 1000 WO to 1500 pounds Do Dorp at th tip rp iside side Purses and ringside betting r are r barred in the interests of a true truet sport t This great te t artist of 01 his time times KIS Kas s the originator of or the solar plexus i ow Built with an unusually long I neck and small mall headpiece he rd 1 that he h was most vulnerable in the I f hd minal Jl region In crouching pos posture ture ure with a combined arm and body bod reach ach of about twentysix feet Ceet he se lIe seared lIeI I ared ure I the greatest protection for the f n and found for himself i ti hi he maximum swing in delivery Few patrons of the modern ring read readily lit ily ran can conceive of the possibilities ol of this great master of ot ring tactics With his feet well under him and his hit hitI I Ht bit ft bUnd guird extended he could duck e a aright Tight right fir fr the tho jaw with an easy margIn marsh eight tight foot fet f t In a side step stop seventeen Net was easy fasy of accomplishment In a e inch he h could swing his heavy Ja jaw onward inward without fear tear of 01 y r the me referee In Tn those days dus the niceties of 01 ring i tics were Hot got observed as they are an r pew w Even kicking In tn the clinches rent gent Perhaps the sturdier constitutions constitutions constitutions of the ring fighter of his time accounts for the of the rules r fouling In the sport snort s ort This will ap an appeal apT real peal T eal to the Ule followers of the modern ring when It Is remembered that this cham lOr tf of f tho the Colorado River valley with tn an upper cut might have crushed chin chinI i I aw lW and the bony structure of the tho nos nose e if d the composite Sullivan I contestant without S so i as skinning a bare knuckle Goliath of Gath standing before this j e of the Occident might ex exe ext e t to go SO down for far the count from an ar ant t left hook to the neck perhaps I the first five seconds of th the first Thorp There re Is some doubt at the Field mu teun Feu n regarding this champion champl n of th the ther r lorado river country rn tn that not all Ms l is s osseous remains are intact for That he was all there however In the ring bouts In the year B C Is iso o conceded needed by Curator Oliver C Farring fin tn and Ei E i p Ribs II s who the skeleton of the great eat bruiser brul lying ona on ona ona a hillside id above the Colorado river i about live five miles down stream from Grand Grard Junction Herb Dinosaur was the name of this great pugilist and while white his skull neck vertebrae and the bones of If his arms and hands are miss miBs lg LS Herbivorous distended chest and his sturdy under underpinning nning pinning are sufficient evidence tit df f his hi hit ft t prowess Five TIe million years ears ago In the opinion f r Professor FarrIngton this fellow tellow Herbivorous Dinosaur was whipping a socks off any and till nil comers omers In the unity of Grand Junction Colo It tight might have been as much as pars ars ago In Jn fact but Professor ProCessor Far FarT Farr r T after consulting with Mr Rim Diggs who Is framing up u this famous tr raiser ier bv by means of Federal Steel pro prots prot t ts and md blue print sheets said It right ht be safer to make It He Heg g Fernando Fernanda Jones might dispute 1 t date at the higher hl her figure That Herb make his record in Is born borna out out by several of his slats on cn the off ort side and by a fracture o of a small bone connected with his un underpinning underpinning One of these ribs on the theoff theoff theoff off side about seven feet long and five fie Inches in diameter shows a clean break two feet from Its connection with the vertebrae Evidently It had healed readily and knitted solidly an osseous enlargement mt nt seven seen inches In to diameter the fracture George Slier Siler has reported to Director Skiff of the mu sr rn that the slat was waR Injured In a at t inch with an antagonist in the sev se seventeenth round Just before the bell Herb had missed with a right swing Ewing for tor the jaw and the unknown vad hd ad countered with his left lett but with without out cut steam They clinched and In the the unknown sent a right hook h t the slats though In the opinion of ot Sir Jr Slier Miler Herbs nerve nene served him for fora a 11 walkover In the round Five Fire years ago while Mr tIr RIggs of the division of the Field museum was out In Colorado he dis discovered covered col veri a spot under a hillside which looked to him a likely place for a Ju Jurassic Jurassic scrapping place lace It was on the theether ether ther side sd of the Colorado river from rand ran Junction and the day hotels but air RIggs continued c to toss ss eare for tor old Herbivorous finally late i 1 the autumn three coming across or four nr of the old bruisers slats sticking oat nt of a Mil lull full of clayey sandstone r Riggs scattered some dirt I g and ates over 01 the points of ot the ribs for tC he winter and with two men went fk k there the next spring for the re J of the champion heavyweight el cf tie fie B Herb b had been b en burled buried to stay ata The jaees ces are that some some som avalanche av la finally fl zad Knocked him out after which clay claya dd a sand had washed down and tI p d over his remains to a depth of l or eighteen feet Later the Col river went went Into the torrent bust busl i ISs 8 near neu by b and after or 2000 years so ro tf tro re Into the that th t washed trashed away about thirty feet teet of o old r u Upper structure CHIi StUl still enough of Huge Herbs bony w f re was waa left to keep two men wasting lasting and tunneling for three months n a getting it out after which more than thann a year rear Was necessary for the cutting n away J Y of the sandstones sandstone clinging to the fled skeleton Incidentally there are e about fifteen fit en feet f et more of Herbs w vertebrae urae rae lying back In m the same sarae hill hin t u the t e Tonopah Nevada ring sports carp care to go after them as an exhibit A or Df of tho the Jurassic age But scientific feinting at the remains OB OS rt old Herb Is no childs occupation and andt ft t costs money A modern modem heavy I weight fight at Tonopah can be b pulled i f t a 1 I I off eft ef easier and more cheaply than a bruiser ot of o the dinosaur family can be scraped off oft a side hill bill in the Colorado country Dynamite In quantity must be used Inthe in inthe the dinosaur negotiations after which more dynamite is necessary before the exploring party sends back east cast for more dynamite This for the sand sandstone sandstone sandstone stone only When a tempered steel drill reaches a vertebrae rib or femur its all off with the tho drill point The bones that were buried burled are at this time of chalce chalcedony dony Gony or agate harder than glass and heavier than pig iron For example the thigh bone of old Herb is ts just six feet long about six sixteen sixteen sixteen teen inches through the ball joint and I weighs pounds It connected with witha a R pelvic structure which weighs about pounds and a section of vertebra which weighs less than pounds In Its state is among the smaller fragments of this great lizard which used to do the kangaroo walk over the route of the Santa Fe trail millions of years before the first prairie schooner started for the California gold fields It Is one of cf the anomalies of this world that the steel trust A D 1907 should be depended upon for the mount mounting mountIng mounting ing of this mighty skeleton of a crea creature creature I ture which roamed the western con continent continent continent Unmeasured ages before primi primitive primitive tive the man made a track upon the earths crust cruet In this mechanical age of prosperity however the pressure upon the steel mills products will compel a waiting on the part of the Chicago public before this huge skeleton is exposed to view The mounting will require a steel base eight by b thirty feet Ceet From this base steel uprights will rise at intervals Interval to which will b be riveted a steel plate keel curving to t suit the outlines of the vertebrae as they were in life This keel will underlie the spinal column I with a metallic cable strung through the core once occupied by b the spinal I cord With the vertebrae in place and steel II support for tor the pelvis the legs will be beset beget beset set get under and the ribs attached by b steel bands on the under side so placed at every point as as to leave no portion of the steel bindings exposed expos d In the placing placing placing ing of the steel framework only onh make makeshift makeshift makeshift shift plans can be adopted to fit the conditions of ot the skeleton There are large bones In this little more than half hall of the skeleton but some SOfTIe of these bones represented are such as never before have been uncovered by bythe bythe the fossil hunter Perhaps the most striking feature of II this huge skeleton will lie in the fact that while the upper portions are gone and several vertebrae behind the fore legs every ever portion of the spinal column olumn for its thirty five feet of length has been uncovered in intact Intact intact tact leaving not a single vertebrae to tobe tobe tobe be restored This portion of ot the skeleton unco uncovered uncovered ered will indicate a reptile feet long standing fifteen feet to the top of the backbone in the highest place Irrespective of th steel teel sup supports supports supports ports the skeleton will iw weigh pounds ng a ii a living living creature estimated to weigh 2000 pounds p when i alive alle This species of Is I t known to have been herbivorous and not confined to marsh land but moving over r the hill country as a land crea creature creature creature ture Considering the nutritive values of vegetation as low In proportion to the quantity consumed the possibilities ties of the creatures feeding and its necessities for moving In search of food may be Imagined At the point where Mr Ir Riggs made madeth th the discovery of the remains the Colorado Colo Colorado Colorado rado river Is a 1 wide turbulent stream The bank on which the find was made madela Is la least Inhabited and Grand Junction as the source of supplies and the ship shipping shipping shipping ping point necessitated the Construction tion of a ferry ferr Blasting cutting and nd tunneling had to be conducted with great care as few tew of the fossil remains of the creature could be taken out In whole sections Some of these were In Innumerable shattered pieces held In place by the sandstone When the they I sandstone mold was approached great care was used in taking out the mold after which the great of sand sandstone sandstone sandstone stone was WaR Incased in burlap soaked in ina ina lI lIa a solution of strong plaster dried and to Chicago o Here the pneumatic tool came Into admirable service With th a steel chip chipping chipping ping point port the workman held the tool to the sandstone block and ard at the rate of or 2000 strokes a minute the sandstone was whittled away to the flinty chal chalcedony chalcedony chalcedony Into which the bones of the creature cr ture had turned turne When the structural steel arrives for mounting this t ts ls skeleton It will require about three months for tor the mounting One of the central wings of the mu museum museum seum scum on the south front will be va vacated vacated vacated and partitioned p off of as the work workroom workroom workroom room and later as the exhibition wing for the great fossil At the th present time men are busy husy bus with th the tho great leg bones of the crea creature creature creature ture Of or the two legs only one Is com coni complete complete ese to tho five he toes the two bones of one one leg below the knee being g missing g nough Is there however to give Rive ac accurately accurately accurately the height of ot the creature as asIt asIt asit It was In life when It moved along with shortened forelegs on the ground Its long neck serving to balance the tail tall which trailed feet be behind behind behind hind the hind bind legs It n Is certain that the reptile could rise upon Its hind legs and balanced by the tall resting on the ground that It could support Itself against n trunks of f great trees tres t s while feeding upon the tillage foliage m in their tops top In contests of extermination one against another It ItIs ItI Is to I within bounds of supposition that they rose TOse upon their hind legs striking strikIng striking ing with their fore legs and with their great creat t tails great The largest of all these fossil fOR re remains remains remains mains that have been bee n discovered have hac h been In the western portion Po of cf the United States Some of or these creatures are arc known to have b been carnivorous s others marshes only The The largest number of or specimens discovered dIscovered ered have been b en In this country