Show Bare Fist Days IMY MY LIFE STORY I Jack l Jacl 21 1 I nearly died laughing when Dilly Billy Madden and I landed at North Judson Ind for tor my fam fam- famous ou fam-ou ous fight tl ht with Dill Bill Myers the Streator r Cyclone A gang gaug of ot m my friends ware wre wor Along alone with mo me an and the Cyclone had a gang Bang of oC friends along alone long with him too and everywhere we wo went walking up and down t th s streets of ot the city the tho th people slammed doors doot hurriedly In In our faces tac s an and 1 guns out ot window In owe and ordered us Ul to move on They thought wo we were chicago bandits raid raid- raidIng log Ing tho the town The fight was held Fob Feb 13 1889 It was staged above a I a- a aloon loon M-loon loon and as I 1 stood at the th bar watching the attend attend- attendance ance troop upstairs I noticed a suspicious bulge bulf over o every ninn's man hp They were all packing guns You can Ino how I felt corn corn- corning coni ing from the tha east enst hearing all the stories about how v tough touch tM the Chicago gang men were werl and then facing A p dangerous erous man like tte t Cyclone Just before the thin fight I n ats nt-isome nt some jelly that had bad been AOn l lIn In sherry The effect of the al- al alcohol cohol cohol made me mo dizzy lIzzy so when when I 1 clambered Into nto the rho ring I saw four limes times as many ninny fists coming at me There Then has lies been boen stories circulated that I was doped They are I not true Myers was ms wa a 0 dangerous punch punch- puncher puncher er and nJ fought up to 10 his nick nickname name lame by tearing in and and- fighting and fighting at a 0 fast and furious pace pact I stood back and stabbed hiss hiM with my left loft He Ito lacked ring technique and I soon cut hips him to tl ribbons In the tho fourth round I popped him on the jaw and he went down In the thc yelling and excitement the tho gang sane swarmed swarmed toward ord the tho ringside leaning over o and Strain Strain- Straining ing lug the ropes My little gang can gan was nas M hopelessly outnumbered They w were re led by Dick Roche Hoche the famous rambler gambler Jimmy Colville Col- Col Colville Col ville Ed Snapper Garrison the great jockey Jimmy McLoughlin lin another jockey Billy Dilly Donohue pono- pono hue Dono-hue hue h e who rode the first Suburban ban winner and Ike Flout Plout PI out Th They y and moved over And m made de a II wall lit hl back of ot me as I sat sai down he- he between b tween rounds Myers l- l had recovered from the blow and arose in time to avoid a knockout In tho the fifth round I began to stab him again and he ho kept up his relentless rushing and wild swinging lIe II had a punch I thought It If It ever y head will go sailing ln eal cle clefts u out the th window In the eighth round h he awkwardly I 1 swung r a a hard ht right I groaned Inwardly not daring letting him hint know w that wha happened I had broken my right arm Editors Editor's K Note Tn Note In lime 11 Ibe chapter McAuliffe telly how h he stood strati oft off the tho mu Cyclone one ham hand nud nu l how two tO bandits 1 him hint 11 rubbing the lie gat gale |