Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-14
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A FIGHT usrwEEN BROraEks.

4 FlGHT nETWEEN BROTaEkS.
A Desperate .PusiIistso Enoounssr Between
George and clarence Haldemsn.
The people of Gibraltar, a village on the
railroad, few miles from Reading. are in
a high state of excitement over q fight
between brothers living there in comforta-
bic circumstances. For q long time there
has been a grudge between Clarence and
George Haldeman. The handsome resi-
dence of the former, near the station
always attracts the attention of travellers.
The enlargement between them was
caused by trivial dispute about the
quality OF stock, but no one thought it
would result in more than suspension of
conversation. The other day Clearance
met George at the hotel and accused him
of having boasted Of his fighting powers,
and Of having threatened to whip him
Clarence. The brother denied the charge,
but at the same time intimated that he
might be prevailed on to fight.
You're afraid to fight me in the ring, "
said Clarence. putting his brawny fist
under his brothers nose. elf yer amt,
we'h settle it right here"
The brusque challenge was promptly
accepted and several Reading fishermen.
who had been attracted by the noise,
volunteered to act as seconds. One of
them took the small end of his fishing rod
and traced a circle in the hard ground
near the hotel, and just as the sun disap.
peared behind a bank of clouds the
impromptu pugilistic encounter began.
The men had stripped to the waist and
both we're good specimens of physical
power. Clarence is five feet seven inches
10 height and weighs in the neighborhood
of one hundred and seventy pounds. His
brother George is one inch shorter and
tips the beam at Que hundred apd sixty
pounds. The men could scarcely wait
until time was called, and when that mo.
ment did come Clarence made vicious
plunge at his brothers face, but it only
split the air, as the latter lodged 1t was
quickly followed by another that took
George under the chin and staggered him.
This made him fierce and with an oath
he rushed at his larger brother, striking
right and left, and finally knocking him
down with blow on tho mouth that
brought blood and receiving a closed eye
himself.
In the second round the brothers rushed
at one another with the ferocity Of tigers,
aud several of the spectators wanted to
separate them, but were prevented. The
men in the ring fought all over it. George
got in three stinging blows on Clarencs's s
face and was in turn pummeled so badly
about the neck and head that his friends
feared for the result of the fight. He SO
cured another knock down, however, by a
round blow on the side of Clarence S head,
knocking him clear off his feet and ending
the round.
The third round was almost repitition
of the second and both men were terribly
punished, but still in dead earnest.
In the fourth and last round the men
clutched and fell with the heavier man on
top. He was quickly rolled of, and as
the two brothers lay upon the hard ground
locked in deadly embrace they engaged in
fierce struggle for supremacy. In the
midst of it a furious thunder storm which
had been gathering broke. The rain
came down in torrents, bnt the men fought
on, and it was with the greatest difficulty
that they could be separated. Both were
fearfully punished, their faces being
knocked out of shape, and both were
bleeding copiously. The Reading men
who acted as seconds hastily departed fol
home to avoid arrest.