Show I RIVAL AGENTS SETTLE DISPUTE Sewing Machine Salesmen Meet in Prize Ring Rind and Fight It I Hurt My Hand DE YEn f Sept 10 10 Hiring Hiring a back room ream In a building on Champa street and s-nd In ln- Sting about two score of their business associates t Karl Earl T. T Mcl tJ er a R f salesman In tho employ of oC tho the Singer Sowing Machine Ma Mn chine company compan- null mind J. J J. J II H. rep rep- resettling tint the White hUe ct comP com coin P any ny settled differences growIng out of or orthe the sale of or a son sowing I UK machine machine- in 11 tho tIme arona oremia last nl nIght ht With regulation fU nn ounce gloves glo tho the two salesmen m n ham- ham mored each euch oUter other around a sixteen foot ring for two t rounds Th The Tho tap of or the Oll gong had sounded for or the third rOHne lound and McKeever er was Vita wod Ing lug into hut his man when t to the guM of or those who had holl hollVa Va their oln Thomas quit lull cold excusing himself bj by b I declaring p that ho he lied hurt hi his hand This ended tho timo fight there h being noth for Herer ChArles Sullivan to do 10 I but blU declare cr the Iho winner The rile I battle was IU the culmination of or n a grudge ruC of or long standing Tor months tho the two salesmen sales sales- tUtU men have III limit had It Il In for eRch other and andon andon on one occasion not long ago they corne corneto to blows In a 1 downtown nile alloy alley Tho The light nt III that tIme would hll have havn be been n settled then and there re but for or tho interference of or friends It Ii wan vaa 1 after this thi setto that frIends of 0 th the thC principals decided to brIng brine their men inert together and lot let them II settle their affairs for or all nil time Accordingly List nl nights match was 8 1 arranged The rh promoters of or the tue affair In anxiety to pull off th the n light fight ht on th the quiet overlooked o a 1 number of or detailS detail that ti k-ti to tonic sonic wrangling before roro the tho men 11 finally n I 1 got together The Tho question of ot tho the weight or of the gloves caused the th first t wrangle l r Insisted on regulation weight gloves glove l' l and nd 1101 wh when n a 1 pair of or ommie 11 e mitts which h were rf bv by Weeks and ond Carsey y In their 11 fight ten days n ago ngo were ro tossed Into tho ring the thC Singer Sowing Sewing Machine company man lIIn declared ho lie to was wasa satt a tinned fled Not 1 so In o with Thomas Thorn however hoc lI Ho lie i the the- light fight to In h be he short and find eCI and Insisted eu on lighter gloves Very well declared le d R Referee Sulli Sulli- van tan 1 1 kno know where 1 I can get Iet a lighter pair Suiting I the hI action to time the word ord th the th referee ref ref ref- tree left th the ring and appeared J a n few rw ow moments later with hh tour lour tight skin gloves glo lh lbs lb's kind kin I 1 want declared Thomas o l picking n nu u up one of tIme the mitts mills t If I I once land on n McKeever's s 's head hell holl er net sell lIell another machine o While hilt bilo TI held lot out for th the skintight skin skin- tight mitt mitts er McKeever was wall equally determined deter deter- mined to tn have I regulation size gloves es In In- In slating that If the gloves gloven were Rn any smaller small small- er or them thra would N hf no lIght fight the matter r was WAR finally settled d by a aoto veto onto among those pr present ent those In favor of or the tho regulation on size Ilz glo gloves being decided decidedly I In Ih the tho tho- tho major major- size Ilz glo gloves being decided decidedly I In Ih the tho tho- tho major major- It ity No sooner In r wee was 81 this question settled than that of ot th the length of nC the tho fight came ml up Thomas Thomas Thomas-of of tight skin glove tam fame fame- Insisted Insist insist- ed td on n R. finish fight If Ir it took rounds round McKeever McI er wanted anted fifteen rounds It looked d like another wrangle when hn Referee Sullivan n Interposed You wont won't need ned fir tp teen n rounds round to settle this battle Each of or you will have hR enough before it goes ou halt haIr that distance Th The referee was tl right ht McKeever tr who was wall short and built weighing about JH pounds waded Into lila his adversary adver nd sary at Rt tho the sound of ot tho the Jon gong In the tho first round Thomas who weighed sonic some ten pounds round more and was built on the style of or lighting rn machine chIne kne knew as little of or the art of or self defense a as RS his opponent lie II trl tried to block but finding this impossible ho he began rushing his hili m man n. n swinging his arms aries wild wildly This I sem seemed d to lo daze due lcK e cr completely lie started on a foot toot race rac which ended e at atthe atthe the sound lound of ot the gong by which time lime McK McKeever McKever e was eo very groggy O The Tho second round was as a 0 repetition of nt tho the first with tho the exception that Mr- Mr had the tho best befit of or IL it The Tho latter learned that Thomas h had d a wind and he ho began playing on it with repeated blows on tInt the chest cheat This seemed d to take all aU the wind out of t Thomas Thomas' h sails ails n for he de defended de- de li fended himself I as a. welt well n as he could until 1 the gong o at the end ond of ot the tho round came to hI his hi rescue c I Tho The third round was of ot the Squires Burns ord order eo r. r There Thero rn rn-as less fighting in lit this round that It takes take time timo to tell ten At Atthe Atthe Atthe the sound nf of th the gong song Thomas Thoma rose from his chair Ho lie never loft left his hili corner how how- ever McKeever cr on the tho other hand rushed over o to his hi adversary ad and dealing dealing deal deal- ing him a IL vicious right hand swing to the tho h head stepped back as ns though to draw on Thomas The Tho latter Jatter however hOlYe had no d desire to rough it Crying Quit quit Ive I've hurt m my hand rushed over 11 overto overto to his corner an and sank unk on his chair n a helpless mass mus while Referee Sullivan nn declared de do- r elated McKeever er the tho winner is b about 25 years old while his opponent Is it about live years his senior Neither of ot the tho men knew w th the tho rudiments of or the tho boxing game and each was glad gla when the roughing was over |