The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-04
The Prize FiEhters..-Jones' Condition

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| CIRCINNATI, Sept. 2.-AAron Jones,
the loser OF the fight with McCOole, is
now at his training place at Shady
| Grove, near this city. With the exceP-
lion of two broken ribs, he is in good
| condition. The cut he received in the
| face was only hesh wound, and Will
neal rapidly. He is in good spirits, and
! In speakin4 of the fight he attributes
his defeat 10 the accident that fractured
! his ribs in the twenty-ninth round. Up
! TO that time he was fresh and IN good
wind. Af.er that he fought i've rounds
with broken ribs, and would have con-
tinued had not the broken ribs entered
his lung aud rendered him completely
| inssnsible. Had il cot been for this
| injury, he could have fought for an
hour and half lenger McCoole Is
still in this city. He has not yet ac-
cepted Jim Eiliot's challenge.
THE NEWS OF M'CooLE's VICTORY IN ST.
LOUIS.
FFom The ST. LotftI Republican Of SUNDAY.
All day many of the saloons and pub
lie houses were thronged with sports"
and others, who did nothing but talk
OF the light. To them Il was board,
Iod,iny and washing. The cares of
this world departed before visions OF
bloody noses, swollen cheeks and brO-
ken RIBS. Many u dollar WIS won on
the fight, and, AS natural conse-
Quence, many dollar was lost. As
another natural consequence, many u
dollar was spent. Saloons did a
thriving business, and whisky flowed
II Is stated that between the hours of
/ and o'clock, P. NJ, the receipts at
the saloon owned by Mike McCoole
amounted to several hundreds of dol
lars: The style of the custom may be
easily illustrated:
Customer-Give me drink, Throw
lug down dollar nOte.)
Observation-Disclosures is your change, sir.
Customer-O, go to h-ll with your
change; that's for McConle.
And so the money poured in.
1t is pity that we must chronicle the
tact that some of the gambling frater-
nifty of st. Louis have lost heavily on
this fight. It is on the principle that a
prophet is never without honor, save in
his own country. You meet a United
States Senator every day in the year,
and. although he may possess all the
ability required by Il man in such po-
sition, you conceive the idea that he Is
not so confoundedly smart after all.
You see him drink whisky, eat cheese,
chew tobacco, and do all sorts OF COM
mon things, and you begin to regard
him as nobody. You marry a woman.
You think her the most beautiful crea-
ture the sun ever shone upon. You
awake several mornings before she
does; find her asleep with her mouth
open, and at once you are seized with
| the belief that there are several women
in the world great deal "beautifuller"
than she is. On the same principle,
when you have seen prize-fgbter day
by day for whole year, ana become
perfectly familiar with him, you are apt
| 10 think that he is not such an eStraor-
binary man as you supposed. This, no
doubt, is key to the circumstance that
so many st. Louisians bet their money
against McCoole.
There is nothing startling in the
name OF Jones. In fact, the name OF
Aaron Jones is not extraordinary.
There is man by the name of Jones
prize-fig in his life, and who, in all
human probability, never will; but
Aaron Jones lives in Cincinnati. But
| few in st. Louis ever saw him. Yet there
was something terrible in his name,
and they concluded he must be the vic
tor. ETituS actG prObGt.
| Said an old gentleman who had won
few hundreds, to u juvenile who had
| lost few, in discussing the fight yes
| terday -.-e- Ha-
Lick him, of course he did. You
might have known 1t. L don't know
McCoole, and don't know as i want
to, but l saw him fight Davis, and 1
tell you he don't need any science to
get along in this world. a man that
| can strike a blow hard enough to knock
down an elephant, can fight the world
sir He gets in good one on the tirst
round, makes his man sick, and then
sir, McCoole never will be whipped
until he is destroyed by age, and ifyou
had ever seen him fight you would have
| known it."