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Show DA.LY UTAH STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY. MAY 7SC PAGE THREE t'.ild SOI SILER HAS 1 IMU.d. tut ly rt; .air. irovt-rra- f thf riiu an vi".le:i s Ilict -- I it..; tj;- - k.i . r ..!lj won with u kr.,.v;, i;. nf;: ilj life aS l!.: .Ut'lmi t rl-duriug the riit1.:. ! OLIIlllf. mil 1! t t j.v. j ! roi.vlir.nk r j rieked my lu k with .i j ;!i !i,F would i fl.ir through ni :t -- I win. A dozen or of FifsiU!. out throat, with h.nen and gut.T.-ud"r aurrour.d d me after l l.ad Ki!'n tt.- onu.rr. ai.,i t ,r a moment or two my i:?e hung i. u1 balance. 1 turned to Hugh E. K. ough. a (Wt. a clear. lng writer, with a: And v hen ho hinnied nio one. I deliberately yanked a lisinod cigrof out the mouth of the toughest one ; the bunch of uu'.d-b- e murderer, lighted IT,F cigar and coolly pushed my uay through the dumbfounded crowd, mai-.-- . , ' FIRST EXPERIENCE AS REFEREE A NEXCITINQ ONE. - - Jei-lun:.- ui.-i- Chicago Tough Stuck a Knife in Hi Lag and Said Ha Would Push it Clear Through Him If Ha Didn't G va that every Baker wants i we nlllL K Fwi have any u ju, kind about it Juat try It S. ;t ia ue Riverdale Flour ITS THE BEST. . ; Grand Opera House Monday Nig'ht Only Hugli-CHICAG- a bvtilr.g of the fol- proposition that nine-ten:lowers of pugilism. if tney uere In- formed that I have been mixed up In the game a a boxer, a boxing instruct- -j or and a writer of fistic affair for nearly forty yeara. would place a small jbet on the proposition that I have been ja ring official long liefore they heard of John L. Sullivan. Hut It probably will surprise them If 1 decided their bets away by declaring that my first appearance In the ring a a referee was at the Pat Killen-Bo- b Ferguson fight, which took place In the open In Indiana In l&tol. only fifteen years ago still long enough for me to be thoroughly acquainted with all the angles pertaining to the position. The younger generation of fight fana probably will wonder at that, but the the sort, who sat or stood at ringside to see the old fighters go through their fistic stunts, will not, as they remember that in the days of London prize ring rule fighting there were no official referees and that official generally was picked from the crowd. This style of milling died a natural death In this country after the John L Sullivan-Jak- e Kllraln fight, which took place at Rlchburg, Mias., on July 8, 1881, and which Sullivan won In seventy-fiv- e rounds. I broke away from what I Intended to write some of the fights I have refereed but I thought a few lines regarding the Incoming of regularly paid 665 688 ring officials would be appreciated. Aa 8 I also, I hope, will the statement that Totals 667 681 for yeara before regularly organised fight clubs and their paid referees beCity League. came a part of the game, or during Sat ell tea the days of London prise ring rule Flygzre jai 218 187 603 fighting, fighters and boxers generally T reseder 178 170 178 528 exhibition !!!!. its 185 158 608 engaged In three-roubefore tendered FretwelV bouts to fighters and I!.!!!!.! 160 168 171 888 after their ring engagements The urlggs ..!"!!!!!!! 206 165 158 550 third man In the ring on these occa- ions waa known aa the master of cere897 8522658 monies, whose duty It was to Bend the boxers to their corners when. In his 158 186 851 opinion, they had been at It long-.132 157 118 807 Herrick !!!!!!! !l87 161 187 871 enough to require a breathing spell, 'luiuj and to call them to the center when Thotnaa ""!!!!!!!" 189 178 161 888 their bellowa were full of wind. No idom !!!!!!!! !!!l81 188 158 518 decisions, however, were rendered, but the man having the better of the bout 786 838 7312351 Totals received full credit from the spectators, aa they, aa a rule, consisted of men HOW'S THIS? thoroughly posted on the fine points of offer We One Hundred Dollars Rethe game. It will he well to state that scores of ward for any case of Catarrh that canfights for. aide beta ranging from 150 to not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. aa much aa 8500 were arranged through F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. these exhibition bouts, as every boxer had hosts of admirers ready and will- J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and ing to furniah the money just for the believe him perfectly honorable in all pleasure of seeing the scrap. It was business transaction and financially Billy Edwards' fine showing In several able to carry out any obligations made cured him the F hla firm. sparring bouts that W AIDING, KINNAN A MARVIN, necessary backing to fight and beat Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. lp Bam Collyer for the lightweight Hall's Catarrh Cura la taken Interof America. In fact, four-fift- hs of the bare knuckle nally, acting directly upon the blood the sparring and mucous surfaces of the system. from fighters graduated platform to the squared circle to battle Testimonials sent. free. Price 75c. tier bottle. Sold by all Druggists. on the sod with the raw una." Take Hall's Family Pills for Siler's Initial Experience. May .laana " , HENRY B. HARRIS PiVMT.ts ihe Most Intensely ivtini; 11 ay in Years full-fledg- Ogden Milling 8 Elevator Company old-time- rs, and ol bare-knuck- Emigrants ema pouring in, and then ia Our trade yunty of room for more. wa but not too are increasing, btp to attend to your Laundry Work. io4 hi that you get satisfaction. atm TRY US. Steam Laundry Ogden 7 TWENTY-FIFT- ST. H 'PHONES 171 le By CHARLES KLEIN ' (Autlior of Tlie Music Master) nd cham-plonah- old-tim- e" My first stunt In the refereeing line was at the fight, and If I had not been up against all kinds of gun and knife plays and on slugging PILES CURED terms with the toughest of the tough before I stepped Into that ring I honestly believe I would have dodged the QUICKLY AT. HOME Job, as the mob that surrounded the ring waa about as bad aa ever turned out to see a scrap In the open. Fergusons adherents came from the Chicago Why Suffer Agony Any Longer Whan stockyards district and aa the majority You Can Gat a Quick, Sure Cure for of them dabbled in blood for a liveliYour Piles By Simply Sanding Your hood (sticking hogs and slaughtering catte) they were determined to comName and Address! bine business with pleasure by sticking their butcher knives Into the becks and legs of all the spectators who obstructed their vlewe of the fighters. Some of Trial Package ia Sant Absoluts y Free, in Plain Wrapper to Everyone Who Killena admirers .hailed from the asms neighborhood and were heeled for blood Writes. and anxious to see It flow. Those who Burgeons themselves consider a pergave their working tools a holiday came armed with guns, but none over- manent cure of piles by a surgical op looked the stuff that makes a crowd eration as very doubtful, and resort to it only when the patient has become hilarious. The reader can Imagine a crowd of desperate from long continued pain and Itself la about 500 men, loaded with whisky and I agony. But the operation murderous weapons and ready to whip j every bit aa excruciating and nerve- out and cut loose juat for the fun of racking aa the disease, and rarely Buffer the thing. No one cared to officiate for rackin aa the disease. Besides, It la such a mob and after a two-hodelay, humiliating and expensive, and rarely during which every man who knew a success. The wonderful Pyramid Pile Cure anything about fighting refused to act as referee, 1 volunteered my services makes an operation unnecessary. You rather than disappoint my brother cor- cure yourself with perfect ease, In your own home, and for little expense. respondents. There was nothing doing in the rough Pyramid Pile Cure gives you Instant house line during the first round, .but relief. It Immediately heals all sores near the close of the second session, and ulcers, reduces congestion and and takes away all pain. when Ferguson was getting the worst of the milling, one of hie adherents Itching and Irritation. Juat a little of called "Time." Malacy Hogan held the the treatment la usually sufficient to watch, and as I did not recognise hla give a permanent cure. voice aa the caller of "time,'' 1 told the Pyramid Pile Cura la prepared In the men to continue fighting. Ferguson, form of suppositories ao that they can however, thought the call was official, be applied directly to the parts withand walked to hla corner, and Jut as out inconvenience, or interrupting your ha turned to alt in hla chair Klllen work in any way. We are sending a trial treatment rushed toward him and struck him a on the Jaw. His free of charge, to every one who ends terrific right-smasecond and friends naturally yelled name and address. We do thla to prove Foul, which I did not allow, and be- what we aay about this wonderful fore one could say Jack Robinson, the remedy la true. After you hve tried the sample friends of both fighters broke Into the fight. treatment, and you are satisfied, you ring and engaged in a free-for-a- ll treatment One of Bobs seconds,' Henry Baker, can get a full regular-size- d at drug- one 'of Cure Pile and your men Pyramid club, with two a dropped send 50 centshe for hasn't If It, then Wa pa of hla other handlers, Frank ' gist's will send you the ua and the made money Illinois, of champion lightweight a race across the ring toward me, evi- treatment at once, by mall. In plain dently to land me a wallop, but he ! sealed package. Bend your name and address at once topped short when I placed myself In a trial of this marvelous quick, :for fistic argument. a him to give position Co., ll The scrap still was going sure cure. 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