The evening world., 1888-12-21
LAST edition.
.PUCS AND POLICE.
Prize-Eight Spectators Become Cross
Country Runners,
AjPromising Contest in Brooklyn
Stopped in the Second Round.
rho, Police Attack Well Planned, but
the Windows Too Plenty.

A round and q half of prize-fight had been
hotly fought IN o small hall adjoining O
saloon located In the outskirts of Brooklyn
last night, when spectator yelled" Blank
ETY. blank The coppers have got us!" and
thereby hangs a ludicrous tale.
Monte Lewis, the Conay Island bantam,
with several notches on his stick, and Sammy
Collins Brooklyn lad of feather-weight as
pifations were the principals. A bitter feel
ing of animosity had existed between them
Tor several months, and they had at last been
brought together by willing friends to hght
1t out in the fistio arena with hard gloves.
They were after gore, and, incidentally, were
not unmindful of the purse which was raised
for them at the ringslde.
Lewis is seventeen years old. stands feet
7inches in his fighting shoes, and weighs 112
pounds when bereft of his clothing.
Collins is year older, is of the same height
and weighs 1S0 pounds in his underclothes,
which he appears in.
Last night was bright with moonlight, and
the air inside the little hall was crisp and
freezing. There wns no fire to make the
place comfortable, SO the twenty-odd men
who had gone there to SEQ the fun cheered
themselves rs best they could while waiting
for the proceedings to commence.
They whistled and sang, they danced and
shouted, and all the while the little proprie-
tor OF the place was warning them and plead
ing with them to keep still; but he did so in
vain.
Hilarity held its sway, and not being con-
tent with such narrow domains, it hung
around the outside tor time, and then went
roil'cking off half mile and woke up a
stalwars cop who was under the lee of build
Dig taking m 'dnight snooze.
Meanwhile, the fight started off in grand
>$tyle.
4 jack .Fallon, Brooklyn's strong boy,
amounted platform which was inclosed BY
ropes in frodt, and after announcing that the
ba; tie was to be according to Queensberry's
fnles, he told the spectators to keep quiet,
md called time.
The two lads responded with will aud
made the stage chaos of flying gloves and
arms. They just sailed in and pounded each
epco in the art of self defense. They didu't
care about defending themselves to any great
extent, but both were bent on slugging, aud
so they slugged.
round it was discovered that one of Colins's
peppers was closed. Lewis was as sound as a
dollar.
A rest Of few minutes and Jack sent them
nj IT again, and II was when they had pun
ished each other for about minute that a.
lively scene was enacted, and at its end the
hall was vacant its windows. about ten feet
from the ground, were nothing but holes
were hustllng the pugilists into their street
garb and several more were poking half
dozen luckless spectators" in the ribs.
Just how II all was done is rather difficult
and trihe embarrassing for the writer to ex-
plain.
The copper to whose ears the sounds of
hilarity had been waited was not slow in
going TO the Eighteenth Precinct Police Sta
ion and organizing an eleven which would
in size 60 away ahead of Yale's big football
players.
They, marched down Third avenue tickled
70 death, and then when they branched off
10 Nex-tV ,l.s snIx
distance was the battle ground, they fixed
Their positions.
One acted as full back at the junction of
roads, two played as half-backs between him
and the point OF attack, quarter back stood
at the front entrance to the saloon and the
rush line entered,
sleeve with two brass buttons attached
was seen by the man guarding the door as it
stampede
Part Of the crowd met and forced back the
coppers rush line, jumped clean over the
head of the bewildered quarter back, and
howleu with delight as they sped down the
road. only to be deftly tackled by the two
half-backs, who were trying to force their
stomachs into the frozen ground in their et-
forts to conceal themselves.
Others smashed the windows, and jump
ing to the ground, scattered like q bevy of
quail when flushed Several members of the
press enjoyed q delightful cross country run
by the light of the moon.
The policemen worked their racket in q
most approved fashion, doing credit to their
kind. Their surprise was complete, but they
were SO struck with the ridiculous scene
which followed their appearance that they
apparently forgot many OF the little details
which had probably been planned.
II the boys had not been so badly fright
ened they would have invited the policemen
% to stay and See the fun; but, although the
IN court, and such is allowed in Palace Hall,
the fellows thought that the free, clear air
was more to their liking Just at that time.
% Inc prisoners were arraigned in the Butler
Street Police Court this morning and held
for examination,