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Show rifiHTS.iAn 1 idiTOts. A Brnial Encounter In AewT.rlf. A riielll.t-Jleld lp." New 1 omr. May S One of the most brutal fights that has ever taken place in Newark occurred yesterday auernoon.The combatants v. ere Mlchfil Horner and Theodore Itucholz, each about 30 years eld and weighing ubout 200 pounds. A buxom dame, who is only known by the name of "Big Mary," with whom both men ore desperxtely in love, was the cause of the trouble. trou-ble. The men met in n noxious dive. Both men stripped to the waist and for an hour hammered and kicked each other in a terrible manner. Once Horner knocked Itucholz down and the latter fell on a dog. The animal turned upon the prostrate pro-strate man and, seizing him by the neck, would not relinquish his hold until clioktvi off. Horucr was afterward after-ward kicked in the stomach and could not come to time for several minutes, w hen Itucholz seized him bj, the throat and was slowly but surely choking him to death. The l cctators rushed in and separata! the combatants. The, were carried off almost exhausted and terribl bruised and battered, but swearing to meet again and fight to a finish. The fight was witnessed by a crowd of Italian's negroes and factory inn Is, numbering nculy 00 person. per-son. KOOM.V AD 3IITCIII.LX. Pat Itooney received a letter from Charles Mitchell jetenlay, and hi it Mitchell stated that iu a few weeks he would issue a challenge 1 fight any man In the world for Xl(W0a-ide. I)UCV c. BUSS, the champion athlete, was recently attacked by foot'ods or buslimen in Australia. Tlity knocked him duwn, but he got up and whipped all three, knocking one of the bush-men's bush-men's t yes out Willi a liorn-Iiaudled stick. BEAU VK AJ.D JI'COV. Billy lived, Johnny Reagan's Inckir, sajs ho in c till convinced that Johuuy Reagan can defeat Peta McC'03 and if the Puritan Club u ill putupa liurseofSIOOOho will match Rigau for $300. JAKUKILK.Ur has written a letter to Frank Ete-euson, Ete-euson, stating tliat he will meet Joe McAuUfleinatwcnty.rouud glove contest at the Puritan Club. CARDIFS AD GODFREY. Pbovioence, May 8. Twelve-hundred Twelve-hundred cople at the Gladstone Club tonight saw Patsy Cardiff of Minneapolis fall down before Geo. Godfrey, ithe colored heavy-weight champion of Boston, in sixteen ronnds. The opinion generally expressed ex-pressed by those who claimed to be conversant with tho Western man's peculiar tactics was that ho voluntarily volun-tarily surrendered the contest. A $12lW trophy was awarded to Godfrey. God-frey. Cardiff was remarkably clever In dodging. Ills left cj e became completely com-pletely closed during the struggle. Tlie men fought mostly at close qu-irte.-s. The Boston man's left t ye was discolored and his face cut by the ponerful left-handed blowsof his advetiry. Neither received ani body punishment. In tho sixteenth round the men clinched near tiin rojHS, when suddenly sud-denly Cardiff Till to tlie floor upon his face. He was seized witli nausea, nau-sea, it was said, and was suffering from exhaustion. Tills closed the fight. |