Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-14 | Page 27 | Ring Turns "Jolly" into Real Fight

fil THIS "JOLLY" nUJHL FIGHT i Man Whose Nose Is Scratched j Knocks Out Opponent and Loses Kis Job. Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEN, Sept. 33. All of the troubles trou-bles which conic to some men in a lifetime befell John Statlur, a very recent employe of the railroad shops, when he knocked o"t John Sharp, :i follow employee, with a blow in the eve yesterday. As related in Judge v. II. Keeder's court this moruinir, Statlcr not only lost his job and was arrested but will be for.-cd to postpone his contemplated marriage to an Al-toona, Al-toona, Pa., girl because ho is short or funds. In view of all those unfor tunate results of his rash act, .Judge Itcodcr ordered a suspended sentence. According to tho stories told in court this morning, the tight was the result ot good-natured "kidding" between the two shopmen. Sharp receives A'l cents per hour for his worlc while btatler received only 25 cents per hour. Tho l2-:cnl man was wearing a diamond dia-mond ring while at work yesterday and wjicn ho made a pass n't the 2.1-cent 2.1-cent man tho stone scratched Stallur's noso. TJiis so angered the prospective bridegroom that he sniole tho high priced man on the eye. Sharp denied that ho had requested Statler's arrest, declaring that the man's discharge. was sullicient punishment.