Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-23
IMPROVEMENT IN ARIZONA.
a Cowboy and q Gambler Settle a
Dispute According TO Queensberry
Rules without Knives or Pistols
How It was Done.
Salt Lake Tribune.


Night before last an Arizona cowboy
and q sport got into a dispute at a
gambling table. and in the alteration
which followed, the gambler pulled a
six-shooter and placed it against the
others breast. The cowboy, looking at
the revolver, laughed. and remarked, ri
haven't any weapons" 'Then go and
heel yourself" was the reply, "and come
back and have deal
The cowboy went away and solicited
several people for the loan of six-shoot-
er, but, he being q stranger, no one
would accommodate HIM. He returned,
however, and stated to the gambler that
he had "boned dozen men for a whis-
tier" but couldn't get one. He ex-
pressed willingness, however, to settle
the row according to the usages and GUS
toms of the P. R., and mentioned the
Queensberry rules as the schedule by
which he would like to run his train.
The gambler said he was ready to settle
the row in any way that was satisfacto-
~, and if anybody had a copy of the
Queensberry rules he would like to look
them over. A man was at once dis
patched to a bookstore, and copy of
the rules was secured.
The gambler then sat down on a stool
and gave the rules critical inspection.
He finally remarked that the absence of
kicking, gouging and face hitting ac-
corded with his ideas of a square fight.
He was ready to make the game right
there.
81 tell you, boys, the man who drew
up those rules had heap of good horse
al - h
win"
At this point the cowboy wanted to be
allowed to take look at the rules him
self, with view to refresh his memory
on few points. This being allowed,
everything was settled, and the two ad-
journed to the rear of a saloon. where
an extensive back yard. surrounded by a
high board fence, gave the contestants
every opportunity to have square fight,
and was a sufficient protection from the
police. An impromptu ring was pitched
by stretching a clothes line scross the
corner of the yard, thus giving the men
triangle to fight in. BY mutual con-
sent seconds were dispensed with, and
extra bottle holders appointed to restore
the equilibrium of the occasion.
When the two toed the scratch the COW.
boy sent a heavy highlander, but failed
to land his pocket, and got a counter in
the jaw that sent him to grass. In the
next round the cowboy was badly pun
ished about the face but, closing on the
gambler, threw him heavily, falling
upon him with considerable vim, and
knocking the wind out of him, the select
audience cheering loudly. In the third
round the sport did some clever
work of a decorative character on
the others face, but the cowboy closed
again, and by his superior strength
dOwned the other in his corner as before.
In the wind up the gambler reached the
others nose with a we'll planted left
handler, and was again thrown and badly
punished about the head. The repeated
falls used him up, and his bellows were
in such bad condition that he elevated
the sponge and asked for recess. The
cowboy, although the winner of the
fight, was much the worst punished of
the two. 1t was fairly fought, quite sat
isfactory to all hands, and there is no
danger of a resort to six shooters.