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Show y leu Self! to Be e Four-flusher "Bat" Masterson So Dubbed by a Man Who Has Long Known Him. DENVER, Colo.. Feb. 12.-Captaln James L. Smith, a "sun tighter" who has spent sixty-seven years on the plains and enn pick off pennies at fifty yards even now with his well-notched six-shooter, save that "Bat" Master-son, Master-son, who has been appointed a Deputy United States Marshal for the Southern South-ern District of New York, is a four-llusher. four-llusher. Here arc some things Capt. Smith says: Capt. Smith's View. 'T want to go on record as saying that Masterson Is a four-Ilusher and romancer. He makes his living by relating re-lating yarn which have no foundation In fact. Ho likes to leave the Impression Impres-sion that h has killed a score of men. I know of only one man who foil a vlc-tlme vlc-tlme to his shooting ability, and 'Bat' potted him from behind a woodpile. I told him to leave Denver because ho was circulating false stories about me and he went I did not Intend to shoot him only kick him out of town. 'Bat' is such an opera bouffe hero that I can't refrain from exposing him. "Why. ho doesn't even know how lo handle- a revolver. Whenever he manipulates firearms fire-arms ho Is a poaltlvo menace to the Innocent In-nocent bystanders. Record in Tombstone. "When 'Bat' was In Tombstone, Ariz., the boys had much fun with him," CapL Smith continued. "It was a pretty wild town and 'Bat' was Indiscreet enough lo tell a few stories about what he had done In Dodge City Tho boys decided to try him out and one night they made him Jump out of tho window of a gam-bllnp-house. He dldn t come back for revenge re-venge cither " Pugilist Made Him Weep. Local sports tell of an encounter between be-tween "Bat" Masterson nnd "Roddy" Gallagher, athletic Instructor of the Denver Den-ver Athletic club. "Reddy" ls not strong with a "gun." but he can handlo his lists, and ho undertook to punch "Bat's" head off. Tho latter Is Gald to have wept before be-fore the Irate pugilist could be appeased. It Is claimed to be a fact thut Masterson Mas-terson loft Denver after spending an entire en-tire day dodging Smith. Capt Smith Is engaged In running down tattle thlecs for big cattle companies. |