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Show "2 I"" F PTTT tt-o''- n-r- -?-n-T o- " ! Patsy I.Iariey, Who FcugUt I Forty-Five Rounds With I . Dare Knuckles, How ! dives Near Salt Lake. The death of "Dooney" Harris, ) an . -old-time ' prizefighter. In New York- Vr yesterday, : developed the j fact . that'. Patsy Marley, from j, whom Harris won the light-weight J championship of the world In that fa- l J mous bloody bare-knuckle fight in Phil- . . , ' adelphia on May 4, 1864, lives near Salt ' Lake Cltjv t . Marley owns a mint near Farmlngton, . in Davis county, where he has lived for t the past four years. I (Marley is one of the old-time prospectors prospect-ors of Utah, having been here for many years. . He was seen at his mine yesterday afternoon af-ternoon by a reporter for The Telegram, who told him of the death of his old antagonist. an-tagonist. ' Marley was surprised to hear of Harris' Har-ris' death and said that he had not heard of him for many years. . Old Fighter Is Still Bugged. Marley himself, a rugged man of 64 years, is hale, hearty and sound as a dollar, though he bears numberless scars which are mementoes of his former for-mer ring days. When asked for an account of the battle bat-tle in which Harris wrested the laurel from him, Marley said: T had been sick during training, as I had a bad eye which the doctors treated with nitrate of stiver. That knocked me out of training for ten days in the middle mid-dle of my work. We were matched to fight at 136 pounds, which was six pounds below my fighting Weight: The loss of that amount of flesh reduced my strength. - Battle Was Forty Years Ago. "Wre fought on Monday morning at 9 o'clock. May 5. 1863, in a field about sixteen six-teen miles from Philadelphia. When it came time to weigh liV my weight was so close to the limit that I had a pair of pumps made of brown paper. These I carried in my hand when I got on the scales. ' That deception was all that ' saved me, for we were within half an ounce of each other. ' "The fight was in an open field, with the ring roped off and we had it out on the turf. The fight lasted forty or forty-five forty-five rounds. I don't remember which. -" i got the first blood and the first knock-down In the third. No "Pillows" Were Used, i '-'In those days we fought with bare rifists we didn't use pillows, and the l Vounds lasted as long, sometimes, as five or six minutes, with only thirty seconds' rest between them. I had been trained so close that I was weak, and got my finish In either the fortieth or fofty-flfth round. "My seconds were 'Kid Burns and The Belfast Barber. Harris' seconds were Barney Ehrin and another fighter whom I can't remember. "Eight thousand persons saw the fight and they said it was a good one. Among other sports who saw it were Harry Hill. Clove Coburn, Dan Corrlgan, Dom-inlck Dom-inlck Bradley, the light-weight champion cham-pion of America, and all the big sports of the day. The purse was 22000 and the . championship belt. Marley Had Been Starved. "I was particularly weak, as they wouldn't let me eat from Saturday night until Just before the fight. I wasn't knocked out, but fell exhausted. The fight was a give and take, hammer and tongs affair from the start to the finish. ''They don't fight now like they did In the good old bare knuckle days, you can bet.".. - , . ; No Color Una In '63. When asked as to the relative merits of Jimmy Britt, Joe Gans and Jack O'Keefe, Marley said: "I don't know much about these modern mod-ern fighters, as I haven't seen them. Gans and Britt both claim the belt. They won't fight because Gans is black. In such a case the belt should go to the one who challenges the other, or to the one who challenges the holder, if he doesn't fight. In my days a man who wouldn't fight regardless of color difference would be hooted out of the business." |