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Show KUENE'8 "HICIIAItD." Aeloe-s Hfbi rh. l,r Th.t Cepretrtinl th. llmwnrth 1.1,1. "Tkoaias W. Keen wa tho only JJHiird who ever finished a fight on Uoiworth Field to the eatlsfacllon ot the gilirry .aid a Western man In spelling f i he tragedian, whoso death on fcaten Hand haa occurred re-cUy. re-cUy. in his later yeara Mr. Keens quit tbla. but when be first went out as s tragedian under tbe management or Mr. W. It. llayden. bo got down on the Boor of the stage In his encounter nd fairly dragged himself , ,h,, MK: knorklng thlnga right and left, while tbe gallery caused the roof ot tho house to sag. When Keene aecured Hiiaen for hi msruger It ws understood under-stood that Ilaydeu waa to hill the ahow and manage It as he pleased. There vu never anything In the line cl KOfieou lithographing that eurpaastd Hirden'a pnetere during the ffrst two )s in the WeL The Iloaworth Flsld wene look up ntae-trnlha of the s'g sheet, and If there was any color imrloake I never heard of It, 1 was Is a town where llayden had hilled hi traction along with Ike llarnum-llslley llarnum-llslley show, and I derlareon my honor tail the stand put up by i lly llayden driw the crowd. I have been told that IM rolling around on the floor business la the llosworth Field scene waa llay-sen's llay-sen's conception of the fight and that poor Keene waa forced to soil hi king-If king-If attire every night under protest At tb expiration of the contract It was Wiewed with the proviso that there u to be no fighting on the floor," Ex. j. |
