St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-20
prize ErGEE,r INDICATIONS.

On the boat that took the party down
river to the scene Of the prize fight yester-
day. were not less than fifteen or twenty
specimens of young America, whose ages
were probably from ten to fourteen years.
They were given. or rather took, front
seats on the grass, almost under the
very rope in which none but the SluggerS
and referee were allowed. OF course they
shouted the loudest when there was Occa-
sion to applaud. They made bets of a Gig
arctic or ''Snipe' as the fight went on,
and by their talk they were as well posted
on Marquis of Queensbury rules as any Of
The old sports present. After the fight
they looked in admiration on the victorious
sIuGger, and crowded around him when he
boarded the boat for the home trip. When
not watching the sluggers they formed the
front row around red, green and blue"
gambling device in one end of the boat,
J whereby well-lnown sport was taking
occasion to make few dollars of a Sunday
afternoon. They were the first to announce
the result of the mill to the crowd on the
wharf when the boat reached the city.
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81 have two boys at home just abou
their ages" said st. Paul gentleman, on
BOARD the boat, to GLOBE reporter, land
1T would make me shake if 1 thought
they would ever put in the Sunday as those
boys have. l don't know as they ever viii,
and if I ever know anything about it they
wont, but all boys are about alike, and L
don't suppose l can expect mine to be diff
ferent from the rest. But though l go to a
prize fight myself, l would warm the jacket
of a youngster of mine if l learned that he
did the same. Whatever people may say Of
. The men who get up such exhibitions, they
would denounce them all the harder if they
thought possibly the same men were allow
ing a ten-year-old boy of their own to ride
free. to the scene of the MILL"
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When the boat got nearly back to st
Paul. another crowd of boys, who had not
been able to get on board, were on the bank
of the river, and, eager to learn the news,
shouted: ''YVho won?" did Thompson
lick?" etc, and when those on board an
severed back the result, some cheered as Wig
orously as did the full-grown toughs when
the referees decision was given within the
ring.
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Numerous st. Paul sports, who did not
want to put up the necessary SO, drove
down the Hastings road to where the last
mill was had. They lost their expected
pleasure, however, for the steamer landed
on the other side Of the river, and some
hundreds OF 1eet OF MISSISSIPPI water and q
thick grove efectually obstructed their view
OF the mill.
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It would have done old John Browns
heart good to have seen three white men
with sponges, glasses of water and bottles
Of forty-rod whisky, bend lovingly over
the somewhat battered and bleeding form
of a perspiring colOTed man and minister
tenderly to his wants. But that is what
occurred in Hadley's corner Of the ring yes
terday. ...........
And it would have brought tears to the
eyes of John l.. Sullivan and other artists
to have seen the amount of brute strength
wasted when two sluggers' heads were in
side the ring and fight to the finish had
been advertised.
So
The principals and their hackers did not
come with the rest of the party to the foot
of Jackson street, but the boat was stopped
q convenient distance down river, and the
aforesaid walked in from that point. They
wanted some exercise they said.