Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08


that holds more important place in the
heart of the healthy young lady of the
period than athletics. When it was
| learned that all the leading prize-nghters
In the country were giving exhibitions of
| the manly art at various theaters, the
| girls called up their men friends and
declared that they must be taken down
to see them. Accordingly carriages
| we're ordered, boxes secured and the
| very smartest of our eotillion fairies
watched Prof. John L. Sullivan tap the
| head of Mr. Joe Lanuon. The girls went
| into raptures, and on the following night
| they had boxes at another theater to see
Mr.. Billy Madden, Mr.. Jack McAulitfe f,
| Mr.. Joe McAuliffe and Dominick Nc
| Caffrey exercise their graceful art in q
| series of friendly bouts. will not give
the young lady's name, but one of the
| society group fell a slave to the very
superior beauty of Mr.. Billy Madden.
There are few men, it is fairly well
known, who can boast of a purer COM
plexion, brighter eyes, more regular and
classical features, and q glossier or
shaplier black moustaohe than this &C
complished boxer and trainer of prize
lighters. He would make an ideal
Claude Melnotte, and if he ever entered
a swell ballroom the lights of the cotil-
lion that have been made famous in the
society columns of the newspapers would
at once sink into obscurity. 1t Is not to
be marveled ct, then, that the prettiest
and most impressionRble girl of the fash,
ionsble Summing party should experit
ence thrill in gazing upon his perfeeE
figure, arrayed as it was IN fighting togs.
Mr.. Madden, just previous to offerisg
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blows, CHANGED to glance into the box
where the startled and excited young
lady sat, and his dark piercing eye msl
her tender blue ones fairly AMI sympa-i
thetically. The look that he saw there
evideB thy deprived him somewhat of his
skill as pugilist, for Mr.. MeAuliffe not
only jabbed him quite successfully and
with discouraging repetition in the face,
but once he landed a punch in the 1T
part of Mr.. Madden's stomach that
caused the handsome gladiator to double
up and gasp IN rather an awkward man
ner. This aroused every bit of pity that
the fair and wOrshiping maid in
the box could feel, and with
quivering lip, and eyes that
looked in the glare of footlights as
though suffused with tears, she tore
bunch of pansies from the bosom of her
dress and, leaning forward, threw it
boldly straight at Mr.. Madden. 1t
struck him in the face, and he lunged
out to meet his antagonist, who he
thought was attacking him.
Upon realizing what had happened the
gallant Mr.. Madden, STOPPING for the
flowers, cast a radiant look of gratitude
at the blushing girl who threw them, aud
then, after lifting them to his lips,
fastened them into his belt. From that
time on the contest was his. In the two
following rounds he knocked Mr.. Nc
Auliffe about as though new Inspiration
of strength and skill had taken possess
sion of him. Upon finishing the bout he
unfastened the flowers from his belt,
pressed his lips once more upon them,
and with respectful though tender bow
towards his lady, vanished TO the strains
of victory from the band. Now the up
town girls are all crazy about boxing,
and [ am positive that if Mr.. MADDEN
will open a school on Murray Hill he will
have the choicest beauties in town for
pupils.
A great deal of humor can be- extracted
from the small incidents of the street II
they are viewed with q genial eye.
L
episode that 1 witnessed on Fifth avenue,
and yet 1t provided a large amount OF
healthful amusement for quite an extern j
sive sssemblage that paused in its on
ward rush to observe it. There is a ro-
bust and fair-faoed girl who possesses I
two very excellent dogs, one OF them I
fine and famished looking white bulldog !
aud the other a sleek and elegant black |
poodle, shaved after the most approved |
designs and braceletted in silver. There |
is one peculiar feature about these two |
dogs, and it consists of the relation |
borne by one to the other. The bulldog |
suffers the ignominy of wearing q |
stout leather strap attached to his
brass-studded collar, and instead of |
being led by his young mis-
tress, whom he adores, he must submit
to following the poodle, which holds the
end of the strap in his mouth and hauls
the bulldog about wherever, or at what
ever place, he wishes. There is some
thing humorous in this alone if only
looked at correctly, but its natural drol-
ery had higher effect added to it when
the the bulldog discovered a large New
dog following a child on the
opposite side of the street. He attracted
the attention of the poodle to the New
conveying to his guide by |
what looked almost like sad smile and
1 wink that he desired to cross the street
and make the New Foundland do tricks.
But the poodle was a sage AID peaceable
and he refused to allow the bull
log TO depart. At first the latter obeyed
he mandate, but he suddenly grew re-
oellious and stopped short, pulling the
poodle clear about and indicating that
le intended to interview the New Found
and. For ar instant the poodle endeav-
,red to hypnotize the bulldog by the
superior concentration of his dietatorial
,ye, but to no avail. The other was
urly, and that he contemplated an open
nutiny was presently noticeable to the
,nlookers. He dragged the poodle
across the street toward the New Found |;
and, and despite the fact that the falth= 81
ul dog sat squarely down and bore thsd
,hafng OF the pavement with heroic
1t was plainly apparent that
he bull would sooner or later reach the
New Foundland, unless something inter-
cred to prevent.
That something presented itself in this
shape of the handsome young owner Of
# the dogs, who happened to glance (