Show BEARS fiE Wl L IN N THE Ti New Sew York Fork World 1 black bear and a Jap Jap- An American I bear fought for forty five minn minutes min- min I utes utes' utes i in n the Bronx zoo yesterday One thousand persons looked on ou Pale faced laced women shrieked This is awful Sep Sep- I aruto them Open mouthed staring Ismall ismall I Ismall small bl boys 8 hug hugged e themselves in ill shivering shivering shiv shiv- t erin ering delight I It would have bare been een a tight light to tho the I death but that a general alarm brought Director Hornaday and nil all the tho j I I when the combatants combatants combat t keepers to tb the den ants were vere locked in fierce embrace i iThen Then torn bleeding and antI t the I hears bear were driven en apart Both were wrt se severely severely se- se e. e K E. Blair who attends attends at at- erl verely hurt Dr W. W i- i tends the Ilu zoo folks folk does doCs not know how liow badly bacHy vet i g There never was such a n bear fi fight ht outside the jungle said Director Hornaday Hor Hor- I confidently Crazy Mike Was Vas an Intruder j The Yankee cc bear hear which is is called ailed Fit Fitz bc because use its it's a fighter had good cause H a to attack the Japanese which is jg called I Crazy Mike Miko h because sometimes it seems f to bo ho a i candidate for far an ursine ursine lunatic asylum Mr Ir and Mrs 15 Crazy rn I I Mike live in a fine den en and right next I door live Mt 1 and Mrs Irs Fitz in in a pit just justas as goo good Between the dens under the l rocks beneath which th tho hears bears sleep is isa isa a gate atc Somehow or other Cra Crazy y Mike opened this gate cate and wandering from I his own fireside shuffled int into Intel the black blackbear's blackbear's b bears bear's nr s 's den and aurl engagingly 1 said ai How Hon How I Id d dye yo do do to Mrs Irs fritz litz HZ The hc American hear bear smaller but older oWer I an and more wiry than tho Japanese c I nr M Crazy Mike and the spectators spectators tors sa said haid gave him a cull cuff en on the thc heal head that Bob Boh would woul ha have admired ad ad- mired Theu Then growling sa a the tho bears went at nt it Xe Neither tried to sidestep side side- sidestep I it step nor shirk birk Tho Tiro Ion long duel dUll was fou fought ht in a space of of ot t twenty five went thC feet t between the tho rear gate tc and antI the swing swim miri pool in the cent center r of oC the den Now rearing on their haunches U 11 h c the bears struck truck round ronn arm blows tearing each others other's hides until their sha shaggy g. coats wore were ensanguined a again ai on all fours tours an and circling wearily th bill hitland and drove roin ro in their sharp claws crimsoned froth dripped from their panting mouths hs now n thc they grappled air and l rollo 1 over r and over o ln trying to crush in In each others other's ribs Tried to Drown Fitz The Japanese bear knocked Fitz into tIll the pool a and 1111 tried mi mightily to drown him lust Just t then a n woman ran to Keeper Spicer crying The Tho bears are kill killing n each other Oh it its it's dreadful Spicer did dill not hurry hurr ho IH t thought hl some bears were ere at play pIny But nut when ho hI reached the den he lie knew a death struggle tru lc was going going go go- o s ing on Spicer cr grabbed six stout heavy het clubs which are used as bear persuaders ers ers on onn occasion and bravely entered the flew den lie did not wait to get too close oso to the fighters for fey a rI chance blow would have o I 1 smashed his skull or broken his arm so sofrom sofrom o from a fe few fcc feet hI he the thC clubs at atthe time till combatants Five hit either cither Crazy Craz Mike or Fit Fitz The clubs luhe might ha have I been n straws for foi all th the bears cared lint hut the sixth club hit tho Japanese on the snout and low down O Ol l 11 he went dazed FiU seized him bv In the throat Bears nell cost money mone so Spicer sent ent the general alarm which h ts s u used ed when a at t tiger er escapes escale front its cage or an cl elephant elephant ele ele- goes on the rampage e or sonic some such pleas pleasing ug incident occurs Dirt Dir Director dor Hornaday William F Ferguson chief keeper of t the he hc beats Js J's Keeper r Thuman anti and and a l dozen others armed with prongs and ami clubs answered the alarm a n running Just as they reached the den the bears in a des des- desperate ru hug bug fell pool B Bv Br this time tim all nil the animals around the pit lit it knew oll was wrong nn and filled filler the tho air with their fright cries the bur bur- buffaloes fakes on their range next the bear pits were raising the mischief Tried to Renew the Battle Eattle Finally l the keepers s 's beat and prodded till the bears away from each cach other and drove e into hi his own pit the Japanese streaming with ith blood and limping Hk like his antagonist Both Doth bears were so ex cx- h Busted b that breathing laboriously the they fell at nt full len length th But after resting resting rest rest- in ing a few minutes as 35 if bv by common impulse impulse im im- pulse they the jumped lumped up rushed to tho the dividing bars and clawed and bit each j I other Then Mr Jr tol told Keeper Ferguson Feruson to take the Japanese to a I cage WO feet aw a K Keepers arranged benches in a 1 lino to restrain the crowd and Crazy Mike 80 so weary wean he could scarcely lift a Ie leg was forced foree along llon the public path to the cage one onn minute beil being WU whipped the next tempted b by bya a piece tHere 11 rf JUICY iuie meat |