Salt Lake Times | 1890-07-14 | Page 4 | A Plucky Girl

A PLUCKY GIKL. She Thrashes a Pri.e-Flghter Who Uad Abused Her .Hot her. South Norwalk, Conn., July 14. Clara Sturgess has the distinction of knocking out a middle-weight pugilist, Tommy Cook, who claims tho championship cham-pionship of the state. Miss Sturgess is a tall, slender miss about 18 years of age. For some days past Cook has been working for Farmer Sturgess, Clara's father, haying. The farmer allows al-lows his men to drink all the hard eider they cau stow away. Tommy is a heavy drinker. He became intoxicated and fu the afternoon went to sleep on the farmer's front door step. Mrs. Sturgess undertook to drive him off, aud lie sailed into her with a rush. Shu screamed and her cries for help were heard by Clara, who quickly ran to her mother's assistance. She picked up a chair and belabored the prize fighter over the head until the chair was reduced re-duced to kindling wood. Cook then turned his attention to the girl and started to thrash her, but she grabbed him around the neck and gave him a pummelling. Then the girl's father arrived on the soeno aud Cook was thrown into a wagon aud taken to the lock-up. He has won several battles in the ring lately, the last one when he defeated de-feated Jimmy Reynolds, of New Haven.