The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-27
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Two Society BlOods and a
Bloody Mill.
TIE POLITICAL POSSIBILITIES
Bewitching BsivR A Remarkable
PoliticIan--Faiien Greatness
MAshed On Jockey, Etc.
wAsHNGroN SOCIETY BLooDs.

WAsHINGToN, May 22.-lSpeclal 10
TIE HERALD. w ashington social cir
cles are very much exercised just now,
at the conduct of two of their pets
Barry Adams and Jos Won Lindgreen.
About a month ago, the two young
men. who are representative members
of. respectively, the Columbia Athletic
Club and the Potomac Boat Club, took
part in a sparring exhibition given IN
this city in connection with a club
social evening. The exhibition was for
three rounds, and science alone was to
count. Adams, however, pitched into
his opponent as though it was slug
ging match, and, for time, Won Lind
green had all he could do to prevent
himself from being knocked entirely
out. When the contest was ended, the
referee declared himself unable 10 de-
eide between them, and from that point
there was trouble. Adams, however,
claimed a pronounced victory, and pro-
ceeded to inform all of his friends and
anyone else who questioned him, that
he had, meraphorically and literally,
strewn the floor with Won Lindgreen.
He also professsd 10 be able to do up"
Won Lindgreen with the utmost
celebrity in any manner, at any time and
in any place. These boasts naturally
irrated Won Lindgreen, and he too ex-
pressed himself in terms that were the
reverse OF tquiYocal. The natural re-
suit of this was the generation of bad
blood, and it was finally decided by
mutual friends of each young man
that there was but one way to settle
the trouble, and that was TO fight it out.
To this the principals readily agreed
and at once. went into training, but
the agreement and the arrangements
were kept as quiet as possible. A local
professor of the manly art was master
of ceremonies and until the day of the
fight, which was las: Sunday, neither
, the pugilists nor their friends knew
where the struggle was to take place.
Sunday downed bright and clear, and
when the 1910 express went out on the
Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore
&, Ohio Road, it had attached to it car
in which were the candidates for fistic
honors, their trainers and seconds, and
thirty-eight good, solid business men
who were to witness thu contest for
the championship of the District of
Columbia. The tickets had all been pur-
chased by one man, and it was not
until after the train had started that
anyone, save the manager, knew where
their destination was. When the train
arrived at Waring, some thirty miles
out, the party disembarked and was
met by pilot and escorted over hills
and down dales to a bright, gurgling
brook which they were obliged to crosse
a true sport never is dismayed by
ight obstacles, and one of them-a
cashier in leading bank-(who, by the
way, was exquisitely attired) procured
q plank aud with it bridged the
stream. Then he started to walk
TIE narrow board and for more
than half the distance across succeeded
admirably, but before the other side
was reached, his foot slipped, the plank
turned, and five seconds later a very
moist cashier scrambled out of the
stream with a ruined suit of clothes and
a very much ruffied disposition. The
remainder of the party crossed without
accident and shortly after the entire
As1rowd found themselves on the scene.
intakes had already been driven, and,
while the principals rested themselves,
ropes were stretched to make a 24-foot
ring. When that was ready, the ref
cree, who was also professional pugil-
list, made known the fact that the fight
Was to be to a finish with five-ounce
gloves, Marquis of Queensberry rules,
for the championship of the District Of
Columbia. Speedily the gloves were
donned and when the two ambitious
voung men stood in their respective
corners, stripped down to the reg6la-
ton condition of undTess, the referee
called "time" and at it they went
Both were determined and both were
mad. 1t was no friendly set-to just to
prove who was the better man; it was
a fight for vindlcation and revenge
For twenty-nine rounds the battle
ragged, the advantage seeming to be
mostly with Lindgreen. He was ap-
parently as strong as ever, while Adams,
who had received the bulk of the
nuuishment, did not look as though he
could stand it much longer. Adams
was gritty, though, and when he stood
mn for the thiTtieth round let out a
couple of vicious blows at his antagon-
ist that would probably have settled
the fight Immediately had they struck
where Lindgreen was. but as he was
,agile he did not suffer from their effects
iThen the Swede thought it time to
close the fight and he went in vigor-
ously and just as he was about
to force Adams to the ground
with a second blow-the hrst