The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-26

\ - Hid Aot Know me, out seeing l was q
well-built man who would add one more
To the list Of his victims. proceeded 10
plck quarrel and fight me then and there.
Before round had passed. I discovered
ehat ne was lar stronger than myself, that
ne was an expert boxer and wrestler and
that In rough and tumble fighting | was
out an infant in his hands. At the begin
nlng OF the second round. a man who knew
US both said to him: Great heavens. Tom.
co you want to be killed. Do you know
who you're fightingg That's Jack Dempsey,
tue champion. If you keep on. you're
dead man.
The fellow was game and kept up the
light, but the announcement had fallen
upon him like wet blanket, and so taken
away his energy and force that 1 had no
trouble in soundly thrashing him in the
next three minutes.
And yet l candidy believe that if he
hadn't learned who [ was, he would either
nave whipped me or given me the hardest
tussle of my life.n
Jack Hopper, the middle weight prize
| hghter, Is not very handsome man. While
ne IS quick, clever, plucky and industrious,
MS lace Is devoid of expression, or, if it has
one, 1t Is that of a middle-aged farmer, who
| thinks of nothing but his cows and crops.
In speaking of odd incidents in his career
ne said: Last summer [ was managing
a sporting house up town, when hulk
| ing fellow entered one afternoon, whose
face and manner said, I'm bold, bad
man and don't yer forgot it, There was
only one other person in the room, the bar
tender. young and slender German The
| stranger looked around and said: L hear
| there is fighter around here named Jack
Hopper. Where can l see himp
II looked up and said: I'm Jack Hopper.
| What do you want?
HE looked at me and said, contemptu-
ously: Are you Jack Hopper, the fghterp
L gave him quiet affirmative. He re-
! sponded: 4 think you're a fraud and know
l can lick you said: For how muchP
''He said: For twenty dollars
"'Make it thirty and it's co. He re-
| piled: Pm your man. and Immediately
| put up the money. We went into the
| reading room of the place where there were
number of customers sitting, and made
ready for the match. He " as game fell
| low, but he could not have fought a small
| boy. He never struck me once, but [
struck him as often and as hard as pleased.
| be was so innocent that it almost seemed
| cruelty to animals to hit him. On the TWEEN
| tieth blow he la id down and took a short
nap. When be me to, he got up and with
the remark: I guess Z n pretty we'll licked,
gentlemen he left the place. We all
laughed and gave the man no further
thought. About three months af;erward
| the door opened and there he was again.
Good morning, Mr.. Hopper
"Good morning.
GIVE been training for three months.
can lick you now
81 again got off the time-honored query,
| For how much!
"'For fifty this time, and I've brought
few friends to put up the stake
1--WE again repaired to the reading room
and had our second bout. He had improved
fba int but
| blood up and to have me give him worse
| thrashing than he got the first time. When
| the fight was over and he was ready to go,
he smiled as far as his mouth would let
him, and said:
"'Gentlemen, I'm satisfied I'm licked. Mr.
! Hopper, good morning.
! GA month after he came in a third time.
l took time by the forelock and said: For
| how muchP
HE grinned from ear to ear as he an
swered: For nothing at all, Mr.. Hopper,
but if at any time you can get some smart
| rooster such as | used to be to fight you |
| would like to back you for coupe of hun
dred.'n
| William Edwards, better known as
BILLY Edwards" has two claims to fame
He has been the light weight champion of
the world for twenty years, and he is also
| the general man-at-armS and superinteDd-
eat of the Hoffman House Art Gallery. He
| is of medium hight, slender, ana without
| one ounce of spare flesh. He is almost a
| dude in his dress and has face so finely
cut, so pale and refined as to suggest poet
or theologian rather than a master of
| the fistc art. He never drinks, seldom
| smokes, and devotes most of his time t.
conversation and reading. The Hoffman
house is open every morning to lady Wis
| ltorS. One morning last month party of
| Vassar girls, chaper0ned by New York
| society woman, entered the cafe to see the
| famous paintings, tapestries and statuary
| which are contained there At the same
| time Edwards, who had just come in, was
| approached by a prominent western clergy
man who was stopping at the Hoffman on
| his first visit to New York. AS the party
| Of ladies approached the two men the
chaperone said: Look over there. That
| is one of the greatest prize-fghters in the
world. That is Billy Edwards" Billy is
| 50 used to such remarks t at he paid no at
tention to it. His feelings were changed,
| however, when he heard the Or attiest girl of
the party speak up and say: "What a nasty,
big, fat, bl0ated, red-faced brute he is. He
| looks his trade in every line. 1t is dis
| grace for any decent hotel to employ such
beast, and just look at him, he is just trying
to ge5 that handsome young man in a
qua rel and to lick him here and now. The
minister evidently heard the remark
| aau ulSplayeu, every sign OF her-
vousness and wrath. Billy, to save any
further trouble, bowed to the ladies and
said 81 beg your pardon, ladies'. l am Mr..
Edwards and this is the Rev. DIR. -
clergyman from Chicago" There was an
awful silence, suppressed giggle, and the
ladies faced right about and went out into
the street in a hurry. Strange to say, the
clergyman left in an opposite direction a
half minute afterwards and was never seen
| apa in hv the radOuhta hla cha m rjOD
WILLIAM Z. s. FALES.
Fossil Evidence of a Terrible Fight.
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