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Show The fight between Jack Bates and Joe Daley at Danfoury, Conn., must have been a rare spectacle. During the greater part of the time the 200 ppectators were "pushing, shoving, jostling and bellowing at the tops of their voices." The principals, "who had their teeth fastened in each other like two bull dogs," had to bo pulled apart. Next one of the sluggers "got his thumb into the other's mouth and managed to increase its (the mouth's, we suppose,) size." In the next round when time was called one of the men followed the other to his corner and bit a piece out of his shoulder," but the light went right on; the spectators vented to see it out "no matter if the iigliters killed each other." "Choking, 'iicking. biting, gouging." followed and tvhen one of the men tried to escape from the ring he was "thrown back" by bis friends aud told to "take his medicine." medi-cine." It finally ended by one of the men, "when all the lighting had been Diuiched nut of him" making a mad break for liberty and "smashing the el'crce in the mouth." And this is civilized civi-lized America. |