Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-12
nE LOST Az EAR.
The biting Accomplishment Of Two
Fighting Desperadoes-AC Combat In North
~. Louis that lasted an Hour.

According TO accounts received by q
/ GJoJe- Democrat reporter, there was a
! lively time az Fourteenth aud sails
bury street about 4 O'Clock sunday
4 morning. There had been ball at
Turner Hall ON that corner, and q few
dancers were still tripping the lght
fantastic even at that early hour.
I In an adjoining building n hiia-
! rious crowd was making Rome
howl with ribaldry and song. a mid.
night supper had been despatched ana
massive bowls of 81 whisky had been
| inhibited until the eye of every ban
/ aueter was i'm fine frenzy rolling.
| Among those present were: Tom
! Welsh. Dick King, Johnnie Smith,
! Charlie o. Brien, Pat Leary, Jack Me-
carly. Shamus O'Donaid, Jimmie
! Gleason. Mickie McMaher, Johnny
! O'Donald, and "A score Of other aro-
/ matte blooms Of metropolitan civiliza-
ton. II would be natural TO suppose
! that such an assemblage could not adj
I iourn without Kilkenny finale Of the
most approved rolgh-and-tumble sort,
\ but in this instance the crowd con-
tented itself with being quiet spec,a-
tors of desperate scrimmage between
/ two OF the athletic gentlemen present.
The dogs of war were let loose by
Johnny ODonald, who declared that
he could
! WHIP ANY MAN IN THE ROOM"
| The gauntlet was Immediately taken
/ up By Charlie O'Brien, short but
/ hard hitter from Carondelet. The
terms were quickly arranged. The
\ conflict was to be q go-as-you-please,
| knock-down-and-drag-out affair, and
/ to continue till one or the other cried
Enough or Take him off" Both
! O'Donald and Ol5ricn shed their
coats and vests, tied their suspenders
around their waists, and went at il
with an energy that would have
I shamed Gen. J. B. Henderson and
Col. Don Morrison. Both drew first
blood, for both struck simultaneously,
but O'Donald keeled over n chair, and
O. Brien was credited with the first
knock down. He rose quickly,
however, tackled his antagonist feroci-
ously, delivering blow under
the ribs that lifted him from his pins.
But O'Brien was made of good stun,
and returned with left-bander on the
lower Jaw that doubled his opponent
against the wall. O'Donald was up
in II wink, however, and planted his
right duke where it would do the
most good on O'Brien's head
Here cnsued n rather brilliant box
ing match that lasted nearly twenty
minutes, during which both contes-
tants, with noted contempt for the
Marquis Of Queensbury rules, struck
out above the belt, below the belt be-
hind the belt, and In fact at any
point which presented itselfas good
spot to be hit. Both were badly win
ded. 0Donald's left eye was almost
closed, and signals of distress in the
, si"s-" Of streaks ofblood ran down the
BLoW. his face. O'Brien
; at a summer balf,xI. a FAT MAN
) ate effort To readjust his" n desper-
. which had fallen from his waist M
, We're flying around like whip-eords
, behind him and between his legs,
ODonald had evidently exhausted
, ms tactics as n boxer by this time. for
, he suddenly delivered kick in his
antagonists abdomen that mada
, O'Brien 4 face assume an expression
akin to the agonized look of colored
youth ut watermelon feast. Some
body in the crowd cried "foul,u but
j O'Brien silenced all such protests by
suddenly closing IN on O'Donald and
throwing him to the floor. Over and
over they rolled, blowing, striking,
scratching and biting. O'Donaid
nnaily planted his teeth
In oBrien's shoulder, and
, " brien grippcd his foe by the neck
leaving thereon the marks of as good n
set OF teeth as was ever manufactured
~ a dentist. O'Donald's next tooth-
hold was ON o. Brien's left side, whore
ne captured mouthful of soft flesh
put OBrien, by the luck of war, man
aged 10 close his bread.mashers over
the left ear of the unfortunate O'Don-
aid. The ear-hold marked the doom
OF O'DonaId At the first savage bite
- Brien tore away the lower half OF
that member, aud had already set
his FATAL tNcIsoRs
ON the remaining half when O'Donald
cried out Take him orr The tjrbt
lasted exactly one hour, and both con
testants were badly used up, though
oBrien's injuries were comparatively
slight.
| subsequently To this bloody encount-
CT there was "A little side show in the
shape of soap between Jimmie
Hlesson and Shamus ODonald, which
/ was brief though not brilliant, Shamus
oDonald proved to he a weak-kneed
warrior, and beloved like n calf for
by-standers to take him orr before
Gleason had fairly warmed to his
work.
As far as could be ascertained The no.
gice were not appraised OF what was
/ III.