| Show LOST it it W IS I rW NO I Story of If n a S Who hio veil In III u a Bout BOlli Jt is 18 often otten the unexpected In hi n a hriZe fight said 1 a ve veteran sPort In lag titan tile tho other day The Tho chance blow nail the lilt hit me now proposition ate ale frequent occurrence hut but the tho most I termination ot of n a prize light I over oer SIW sa or even eren heard of at was right li heO 0 In New Nel Orleans It WI was n a fight 1 a pair ot of lightweight z and each hind a considerable n a city tighter was alays 8 favorite over 01 Jenkins Jenkin with whom he heIS heas IS as matched I will never neer forget the tho meeting It vas lOS In n a weird tumid dOI don old rith rough wooden bEnches In shok shaky tiers about II a 21 20 foot ring The po posts ts or of the ring 10 heavy cedar affairs not even strIpped d or of their bark and with several ugly looking stubby I knots nots adorning ery Ir surface The sas lighted with smoky lamps and os reeking with tobacco smoke and per perspiring or of the pugs PUgH l Fran the tho first sound It was all 1111 lIc II smothered J Jenkins In ever evers and ond nt at the tho end ot of the tho first round hll backers were vere shrieking four Cour to OM OMon on In his chances with Cow fes takers ors Jen Jeli king however managed to stay on his r fut lt for tor three rounds round In the tho third ho he was Oil on the ground when the tho gong nn nii the of thin tho round III was tarried to Ills hili corner hy by his dusky see and up in III his chair his eyes Cos closed and both items urma atU h livi H were limp and useless ny fly dint ot of h heroic treatment and co copioUS copious pioUS dose or of whisky that would cn eat ore off nil an Iron fence lie ho was 1111 restored to shian lint permitted his standing H Ah i H Ah up UI the goig sounded n a lion ot of hostilities In the meantime 1011 had hilI disdained 1111 any or of the tho atton tons tOIlS of oC his hili and had even evell lI lighted n a cl cigar ar during the Au 11 the gong lie he saunter II to the tho middle or of tilt and gasn rl l 1 nl Very exhibition ot of buck tind wing willII dancing Peer Jenkins Jenkin was vas about with hits to his hili des ana his hili eyes closed lie was wall out except pl for tor th the fact that h was as I still upright ht Brawn up his In I with ii 11 cake walk anti th thOu n settled down to In th the soria serious liS business 81 of oC tie tlE to his shouting fol foi lowers he took a 0 position about three thre Ilacas from coin He bounded r Into till the air like n a beast with 1 a rush ht he swung his tor or hili Jill Unfortunately for Brown hI he lUcked ducked his head II as asU Ite U delivered what whal was to be tM hO last bow in III the TIlt The ta fates teR were kiwi to Jenkins lust Just ns as Blown edt through the air the beat unconsciously sta orell out tf t Rr a plunged across 1 tho tIm ring past paRt Jenkins on and his hili lou louVI VI bite tl hit foil tull on on one ot of t lie he cedar posts With II a force oree hint well nigh wrecked th the ring lie He over oti on hi his hack and hing after arrer the Count of oC iO 10 tie he waR as stIll out alit lit lie hat knocked out hut but Jenkins was the Ihl last Int one In the building to learn lint ho hail hOll won san Jenkins has hns never 1011 since pinel ns as far ns as I 1 knos kno Im had any ony pugilIstic aspirations although In his hh light lie he was n victor The Tho lIon citory rf of the tho ot of In this battle hattle Is another chapter anti I have hac no 11 doubt the police pole could tell on an interest interesting ing sequel or of how the place 1 sas raided l anti head was not the tho only ale Orleans Times I |
