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Show ISotes From My Journal Grlnity at tho Fight. San Fkancisco, March 8. '93. I Arrived at ilm coIIhohih a bout, 8 pm. Tno sidewalk In front of the bulldlns wis crowded- with people. Tliey were dlscmslni? tho merits and qualities of tliu various contest .mt, and flghtlnn ureut buttles Ip ilK-Ir mniH. Tlii'y-hud all of tho gUiIliiliirs kuockrd out suvurnl limes tiymilar-plexus blows, ilg'iu nnd lufth on tho j iw, upper cuts, under cuts), ovr cuts and down cuts, etc. It was pletared out so brutal '.hat my blood fairly curdled. Hut I had made up my julml to witness a j?lovo contest, atid trltncts It I would cvtm tlioiuli It proved so shocking that I would havo to turn my head to keep from beeom-Jufi beeom-Jufi sick at tho slant of so blo'ody a fcenu. So I bought mo a ticket and perched myself upou a board roost near tho arena. 1 Wiis quite aloim fur' iiwiille, tutasnun g thu ''wind battles" out-ililu out-ililu worn over tho spectators began to flle In to pre-empt Bpaee on all sides of tae, until I was sandwiched in between h couple of big fat men. ouch of whom hail an elbow bathed In my heuvlug 1)011111, Presuntly the master of ceremonies Duom.ced thu first mill' which should be a six-round go between a couple of lads, who evidently couldn't lull a set of boxing gliives from apple dump-H dump-H lings. In tact would have felt more H at home with the apple dumplings. H A.ur f ur .six mund buttle hud been H fought, and no blond (lowed, I thought H that perhaps they wore too small to H hurt eiiolj uther, but my blood would H tnko a Klondike chill every lime I'd H think of the main event when two H uioderi) c I a ins would face, eaeli other H to (tn biiltiu. H About io o'clock a sort of croupy voice rung out on the air and an-H an-H nounced Unit the baby uleptuut bump-H bump-H crs wero coming, Fred Jarrett, the ruoitoru Hercules, camu sauntering in H followed by u string of utteudantt. lie nus a fine specimen of physical man-H man-H hood, but his features looked as blank H as iv Louisiana Lottery ticket, Ho was H 0 feot Si Inches In his bare feet, and welehed over 200 putiuds, lie whs closely followed by Ins opponent, Jno B Jeilonls, with "his bppodruuio. Ho was ul o about the size of a reduced B brludli ox. Had his hair can bed B porupidour, and looked llicu a wurnoui B Author duster, long nose, and was so B batchet-fuccd that ho could blto a B (iiush to the hollow through a picket M fence. B -Mr. Jurrett was introduced to the B audience, When lie arose to make his B bow, he shook like a flug-polu in a galo B of wind. I held my breath for fear his B legs would break oil and suag Ids bod-. B Mr, Jeffords was then introduced. B He arose and bowed, at tho samo tune B mustered up a sort of Kangaroo grin. B Hut his features weru.tto pile that wo B would think ha hart' been rtl'ufini vfih tallow candles or cathartic pills during B h's training. B They donned tholr glnvos, and time B wa-, culled. Jellord started biit to Pinverize his man at once. His big B 'and, which looked like flro shovels ki mull bags, flew around like thu fans B o' a windmill. Ho scrawed his face B 'nto excruciatingly comic shapes, nnd s'aihed all the air within six feet of Ills opponent's head all luto smithereens B Ut his 200 pound opponout was quite B 8iie for a man of his ballast.nnd when ois vicious antajtontst mad an aimless dive at him, going through tho air at tae rate of shooting star speed, which pve him such a go-ahead pitch that e found himself sprawlod out on tho floor, lighting squarely on his victual- log department, the big lump of 200 . Pounds half baked uVoidtipoIa In bis I xoUojHont though, haJutl.,8eori!tl a koock dovn, Td at once wcut tt his R -nu vrlfch ferocity and speed, blttlnit ho ""!' Jnt1 nowhere in pnr'ileullit'. I It was plainly to W ven llmtl.ehHtl ronnm to rent In the grru p.rtuf hi lingular rm.H. The l,K stioek-landed tnai. gaihered l.lmseir up i,y w,elnirt and struck another nuitiM,.. They now flew iirotinil like h dog show on a rampage; their eyes hud a wild mure nnd they puffed and wheezed lk ih0y had beiiti running a qti'incr race over n muildy traek. They would hit each other in the waist-bund renton-, then miss each i-ther, oto. Finally the big feiitlierwelght In tin, upper story ncol denilygotabllf on the mouth Unit made it look like a hole in u mSy cm. I hod. Ho then hml u fiir off look In bis fare, i. p.. hu looked lit ben. Hu stood there howildoreil until n, ;hock-hu.l c iiiie uiMttid planted nno mi his faee, and he toi pled over on the mat like a boer-keg, and lonk"d sicker thnu h fortir hospital. Ho got up, however, and placed himself as u target for an otixr onslaught Ills shaok-licaded antyigowHt stepped up, let out his musole to about live mule power, and Sent the big raw gawky to iln mat again, This i hue ho contorted Ins face, cooked, gurdled and acted !lko ho was In the last agony of a good square-shouldered square-shouldered forty Intra power III. He lay there HkM a big turtle working Its lllppors until tlio refereo counted to, after which they gathered hlui up nnd ho mov.-d olt toward the dressing room, like a one-nioiirner-power funeral fun-eral procession In a snowstorm. No blood was spilled, and us a result some morbid appetites wore disappointed. disap-pointed. GlUNNV. |