Show Kid Dar Dares s Felt W arId's Most Vicious Knockout In Ancient Grudge Fight Figh Ringside Account by Rounds of the Greatest Prize Fight of Antiquity ity by Worlds World's First Sport port Writer T all you Salt Sait Lake meat eating fight fans fan listen to the account HERE HERE all of a regular scrap I i 1 A three three round round Willard Dempsey Dempsey go or a forty second three three second K 0 O. of England's champ by handsome Georges is a a pink tea party compared compared com corn I pared to an old Greek or Roman heavyweight championship as reported by byI I Publius Virgil Virgilius ius' ius Maro familiarly known as Virgil Virgl to the ringside of his day and first sport writer known to the tho profession I Virgil who did some of the best sellers in his day was at his best when I covering a grudge fight as witness his account in the Aeneid of one of the I goriest battles in ringside annals the annals the finish affair between Entellus the I Roman champ and Dares the young challenger I It took place at a celebration on the island of Sicily on on the death deat I anniversary of the father of the Trojan hero Aeneas Each battler packed I something worse than a horseshoe on on his mit and had a wallop like like the kick kick kickI of a I mute mule There here has never been even a whisper of in an connection with this historic match about which Virgil wrote the first story of cf a prize tight fight I Here it is and is-and and we take off our eur hat to Virgil f SPORTING EDITOR u I By Virgil Famous Sports Writer of Antiquity Forthwith each combatant on tiptoe stood ere erect t and undaunted raised his arms aloft into the air Far from the blow blow they backward drew towering heads Now hand they Join in fierce encounter and z provoke the fight the one having the advantage in a agility of ot foot and relying on his youth the theother theother theother ii other surpassing in 11 limb m b ban and d b bulk u I k though his his feeble knees sink under his huge body and his difficult breathing breathings s shakes h a k e s h his is vast frame From their breasts the thumps resound aloud and around their ears and j 1 pIea lea les trick strokes at random fly Their Jaws crackle under the heavy leavy blows FAST FOOT WORK Entellus s stands tan d s I stiff and unmoved Inthe in Ih inthe the same firm posture posture pos- pos ture only with his body and watchful eye he evades the strokes The other as one a lofty city with batteries or under arms besets a mountain fortress explores now these now those approaches approach approach- es es and artfully traverses the whole ground and pursues his attack with va various various various va- va rious assaults still baffled Entellus rising on tiptoe extends his right arm and lifts it on high The other nimbI nimbly foresees the blow descending from above and with agility of ot body shiftIng shift shift- Ing slips from under it HITS THE MAT Entellus spends hl hIs i strength h upon the wind and both by the force of ot his own natural weight and the violence of ot the motion falls to 10 the ground of ot himself with his heavy bulk as sometimes on Mount Ida a hollow pine torn tom from the roots tumbles down at once When Entellus falls the crowd goes wild But the old warrior is far from be being being being be- be I ing out At the count of ot eight hes he's on his feet again staging a come The hero not disabled nor daunted by bythe bythe bythe the fall faU r returns turns to the combat more fierce and Indignation rouses his spirit THE KNOCKOUT Then Then shame and conscious worth set all aU the Ule fires Ires of ot his soul ablaze and Inflamed in inflamed inflamed in- in flamed he drives headlong over the whole plain redoubling blows on blows sometimes sometimes some some- times with the right hand sometimes with the left leU No stop no stay As thick as showers of ot hail come down on housetops so with thick repeated plows blows lows the tIle hero thumps Dares with each hand and tosses him hither and thither Entellus wins and listen to what happ hap hap- p pens to ns to Dares Dares' His trusty companions conduct him to the ships hips dragging his feeble limbs and tossing his head from side to side disgorging disgorging dis dia- dis- dis gorging from his throat clotted gore and teeth mingled with his blood The Roman pugs Virgil says scorned big purses fighting for sheer glory and the wasn't even thought of By way of df f giving the fans their full moneys money's worth they reinforced ther their horny hands hands' with of Iron and plum pets of lead this persuasive device being known as the cestus It took a bear for punishment pun to withstand a a cestus wallop wal wal- lop to the jaw It was probably because be cause of this nifty fist flat garnishment herewith Illustrated Illustrate t that at the Romans Ro Ho mans mana couldn't get anyone to referee their fights I ti t J k- k Y Yr r |