Show I Bristling Battle s Bare Fist Days I MY MV II LI LIFE FE STORY I Jack McAuliffe CHAPTER TWISTY SEVEN Copyright 1927 NEA Service Inc I When I escaped a 0 near murder at the hands of Jim Gibbons gun fighting brother of Gibbons by pointing out tho the fact that If 11 he shot me ma his brother would lose a 0 chance of snaking malting fighting me I got down downto downto downto to serious training I knew Aus AUs- AUstin Aus- Aus Austin tin Un Gibbons was as a good fighter We e met Sept 11 1891 and when I walked Into the ring I knew I was j jobbed They rhey gave mo me a pair of ot gloves that seemed as big as bed pillows I looked across the ring and saw GIbbons surrounded by his lila gan gang of fight fight- fighters fighters ers era pulling on a 0 tight light pair that Ill I'll bet did not weigh four ounces The o odds which fa- fa favored favored fa favored me the champion switched to 2 to 1 and 3 to 1 against me Jerry Dunn was the referee When the fight started I couldn't get got Gibbons to 10 lead We feinted back and forth and then I h heard ard a II police officer r say to Dunn It if we stop the fight tight will you call it a draw draw I tried to get the answer hut cou couldn't t I knew mw all sorts of underhand underhand- underhanded underhanded ed things were waro going on but I Iwas Iwas was helpless The house louse was worth and I did not want ant the police to stop the tho show or I would lose loso my cut I went after Gibbons and started to slaughter him I 1 cut him to ribbons and hD hail d his face ace a mss moss I wanted to drop him without waking making him bleed because I knew the police would jump lump In the ring He lie was tough tough and I could not sink him In the sixth round after arter a 0 flur flur- flurry fiur- fiur flurry ry 7 of gloves on m my part with Gib Cub Gibbons bons rolling roilIng dizzily along the ropes the police busted It up When I went vent down to the tho Police Gazette to collect my nty purse and side bet I was waa tob toll told by Richard Fox there was some question about the tho win win- winner ncr ner an and then there followed a lot lotof lotof of Ic legal 1 action and I was cheated out of every penny I II I later got even with Gibbons h by masquerading my namIre name nam H lie Ire signed to fight a Joe Joe Wolcott at Coney Island When he ho got there he found me mc in the ring I him around for 12 U rounds and then knocked him out Editors Editor's Note Note-In Note In the next chapter McAuliffe tells how bow sImmons beat Dempsey in their memorable bat battle l ho wItnessed |