Show JL HERE l 4 WAS WAS' VV J r A 1 J. JL Officers officers ers Crossed Grossed Them Alit Aul All BUT PROVED REAL MILL By J. J JE J.E. L' L E. E CONRAD Usually a Q ng match that has been framed is an un uninteresting eating esting exhibition to witness but butan butan butan an an affair ff ir in which the fight fighters r thought they thoy had everything fixed once turned out to to be bo a battle worth while It happened at Las Vegas Nov in 1907 Indi Joe Gregg Greggi blew into th the e Nevada town and issued a a ch challenge to to fight any any map man in the state THe very next da day a a fellow calling caling himself Peterson th the Terrible Sw Swede de accepted the challenge and Dan Part Hickey arranged to stage the the bo bout Jt A day or two before the tho night of the fight Sam ho is now now sheriff of tho the county b but t wac waG at that time tim city marshal of Las Vegas egas discovered that T The e Ter 1 ible Swede was none nono oth other r than Barn Barney Mullin an an old time pal paI of ortho tho Indian Its lt's Ils A a cinch these dUlSe birds have this fight all all' fixed a said id Gay to but I I think I r can ci an mako make them fight as as' as they ne never neer er fought before Just g go ahead with the thing say nothing to either on one about what wo wo we know and leavo leav the tho rest to to Just before the fighters entered the ring on tho the night of the scrap Gay took the ono one side and said aid Joe I just had a wire wiro from tho officers in ri in Seattle advising m me l to be beon on the tho lookout for or you Now I I. I dont doYit want to be mean or anything like liko that that so Im I'm going to give you a chance chanco a Q good sized sired b beton ton you to win fight and if you win Im I'm m going to forget forget about about this wire but if if you lose lose mo me mom my bet back to Seattle you go Ed Ross the night w watchman t hman was 5 s t telling B Barney M Mullin lIin the same kind kindo o of n ti yarn yar about a wire from the police In Omaha and he he too agre agreed make J hi his hI's departure In fn in peace jace provided j d' d dhe he won the fight fight and and incidentally incidental ly Iy Iya a a good sized bet for Ross Hick Mickey y- y who had been put wise to the situation by d. d tho fighters t to the ring before they thoy had time to get together and re- re frame framo things v The Tho battle was waa on on with e each ch fight It was waso was wasn n o case case of win the fight or go goto to jail Hickey Hickoy was referee and and as CI long as things were verO breaking ovon he lie would let them thom fight J I f r. one one eric would g get t. t the better bettor bettar bet bet- tar tor of the other he would nod to the timekeeper t to ring tho the bell In this way he kept Gregg and Mullin Mullin neIther neither of f whom h had d trained fort tho the bout mauling bout mauling away for dear life for eleven cleven ro rounds There never novar had hOld been such luch a slugging match m in the history of Nevada boxing and probably will be again The finish came camo in the tho twelfth when th the l Indian landed o a wild swing or on Barney's Barneys kidneys Barney Barnoy was so anxious anxious' to avoid Ross Ross and a a term in j jail that jail that iI-that that he Jie slipped a pair of overalls o over e hue hill fighting fighting tr trunks and hiked over to the freight yards and hid in a box car He didn didn't wait to get got fi his share of the purse but beat it to California on the first freight Gregg Grogg and M Mullin llin never nover knew know the Ga Gay and Ross p put t I over till two yeara yean later when they happened to meet in San Bernardino Salt and Ogden fight fans will recall Mullin as tho disgraceful disgraceful dis dis- graceful opponent of Rufe Turner Tur Tur- ner ncr in a scrap at Ogden several years ago when Mullin expectorated expectorated cx- cx ex ex- In the negros negro's face and received the l lacing cing of his life in return I It t |