Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-27

even "a nvelicr mill than the Allen-Hogan
affair, ns long as it lasted.
'The fight was gotten up and engineered
by a gang Of sports who used to hang out
down about Twelfth and Farnam. They
raised a purse of $500, whica the two pugs
agreed to fight for, $3.50 TO 20 to the winner
and $50 to the loser. Fell trained at Ruscr's
park and Hanlev al old sam Gardner's road
house, ana on the day of the fight were both
in tip-top shape. Tickets to the fight sold at
BIO each, and at , o'clock on the morning OF
the 18th, a special train of two coaches and
caboose pulled out of the Union Pacific
depot, crOwdcd with about as tough a gang
as could have been gotten togethe between
the two oceans. or course there were a lot
Of good people aboard, too. Fell and Hanley,
with their handlers, were taken on at Valley,
and the fight took place just a mile or so III
Saunders county.
''The rug being pitched, the same old
trouble over the referee took place, and the
rays of the morning sun were pouring over
the scene before an agreement was reached,
and this provided for two judges, in
stead OF n referee, and the papers the
next morning named these as james Miller
aud Tom Johnson, but those weren't their
names uy u long shot. Jack Woods was one
of them, and Major Williams the other.
Prof. Ed Miller ana o. ii. Smith were in
Hanley's corner and Mike Haley and Pat
Doherty in Fells. Hanley won the choice
and selected the southeast corner, with the
sun to his back. They fought twenty-five
rounds III one hour ana eight minutes under
the London rules, when the fight was
awarded to Fell on a foul.
SIN the first few rounds Fell got decidedly
the worst of 1t, although he scored the first
blood in the third round by a blow over
Jacks left eye. In the next round Hanlcy
knocked the Lancashire lad down, repeating
the trick in the sixth, seventh, ninth and
thirteenth rounds. The knock down in the
seventh was a honeycoolcr, a body blow that
lifted Fell clear off his feet. Fell was the
cleaverest boxer, but in the wrcs Ting he
wasn't in 1t, aud Hanley threw MIN in nearly
every clinch, and when down, Jack would
always wait to be lifted of his opponent.
This led to repeated claims Of foul, and the
referees warned Hanley to oesist in this
practice, or they would give the fight 70
Fell. In the twenty-third round he grabbed
Fell after a few in-punches, and throwing
him heavily, fell on top OF him and refused
to get up. The claim OF foul at this j%uncture
was allowed, and the battle given to Fell.
'Ot course this decision caused Il great
row, but there was no open outbreak until
the train was under way on tho return trip.
On reaching Waterloo the stakeholder pro-
ceeded TO turn over the purse. He gave
Fell $3.50, and offered the losor's share, $50, TO
%Elanley, but Hanley fatty refused to
aCceptit. Then the fun began. A petty thief
known as Marks begun a fight with
ono OF Fells friends, and the
first thing anyone knew, the
whole car was at 1t. Guns
were pulled, and for n few minutes 1t was
crack, crack, crack, and people began to jump
from the lying train like frightened sheep.
Many walked IN from Waterloo, being afraid
to again BOARD the train, and in fact when it
did pull in at the depot there We're but nine
men outside the crew aboard. Fell had
jumped Off at Valley, and Hanley and his
followers AT the stock yards and Sixteenth
street. Considering, however, the number
OF shots fired, and the knives drawn, the
casualties were few. Marks, the crook, was
shot in the jaw, Jack McCle!land, a bartcn.
der, in the arm, and an unknown man in the
back OF the head, but none of them danger
ously. 1t was a most dlSgraceful affair, and
lengthy reports of it were published in every
daily In the country.
But poor Hanley got the worst of it all
through, he not only lost the fight, but was
afterward arrested. tried and sent to the pen
for one year. Fell was also indicted, but es-
COPIED the clutches of the law.
what has become OF theml Well, Han
ley quit the ring after his release and went
TO ANDERSON, Ind. where he was elected city
marshal and served two terms, but is now on
the police force in INDIANAPOLIS. Fell is in
the mines in Montana. Mike Haley is in
business at Norfolk. Va, and is the hacker
and manager of Tommy Warren; Pat Do
herty is dead. OF the other pugs who used to
figure here-well, there was John T. Glow; he
was a good man, but as anomalous as it
sounds, Il devilish bad one. too. He lounged
around here for a long time, ran a so-called
boxing academy, abetted scraps and scrapped
himself, tlourishng like a ced ar of Lebanon
until he ran foul the newspapers. Then they
Jumped on to nim with both feet and roasted
him out OF the country. He took offense at
Iomething Pom wrOte-Pomcroy YOU re-
member him, he was on THE BEE when you
came here-and threatened to do him, and
that was tbs beginning of ms fall. Well,
john has gone over the divide, killed in a
saloon row at Denver n year or two ago.
babe Barnes YES hn'S Ipn1 tOO Hn yynS
called the Nebraska Giant, and III never
forget the fight he had with Jack Nugent at
the ialr grounds in 'S2. Poor Babe, he wasn't
a lighter, Just Il great big hulk of EentlenesS
and good nature, whom TO know was TO like.
Nugent, he's got some kind Of q joint out at
spokane. George La Blanche, the Marine,
was here quite a " hile long in 'S3 and 'S+. He
fought 4 five-round draw with Jack Hauley
over IN the old Exposition annex, got mad
over the referees decision and oozed. He
was just licked a few days ago by Greggans
gu in Frisco. His day has waned; the rest
OF the journey can only be ono long fake for
George. Paddy Norton was "A relic of the
olu school pugilists, and the boys 'held him
up here for years. | think he is in st.
LoulS-that haven of broken down sports
and prize fighters. Johnny La Mountain
was n feather weight, but after Tommy
Tier licked him he pulled out, went south
and | don't. know whatever be
came Of him. Tommy Miller Is
lending bar in indianapolis, He's been
w ulDlIh AAllNo INV hb NiA thl
and, by the way, won a battle or two. John
Killett, who forfeited 500 to Lindsay on ac-
count of rheumatism, is n policeman in New
ark, N. j. He was the young fellow Arthur
Rothery unearthed for the purpose OF curb
ing Jimmy Lindsay's soaring ambition. No,
he couldn't have whipped him IN a hundred
years. Dune Mcdonald, another old timer,
Is in Montreal, and Al Marks, who had his
Jaw broken by John Mccormick over at the
Annex, is histen tho old stuff at I'll Paso,
Tex, and Mike Fitzgerald is IN the same
biz at Salt Lake. Mccormick Is a soldier in
the regular army. Billy Hennessy, the big
bloke who succumbed TO Lindsay in Boyd's
opera house, is at Great Fails, Wyo. He be-
came quite a tighter, but, ! sec by the papers,
got licked up at Helena a couple OF months
ago. Billy Murray, the fellow who essayed
to stand up before Pat Killen for four rounds
over at the Grand three years ago and had
all the filings iolted out OF his teeth by a rap
from Pats right, is bouncer in Dooley's dance
house AT Lead City. killen, you know, died
several weeks since at his place in Chicago.
Pat Allen, who Jack Davis knocked out
down at about a year ago, Is in
New Orleans aud assisted in the training OF
Carroll for has fight with Billy Meyer. Say,
that Allen was "a character, He has Circum-
navigated the globe, before the mast, no less
than four times, and can talk French, Span
ssh, Portuguese and Italian rs huently as he
San his " language, He's an English
man. Scotty Gordon Is in a Den
Fer rolling mill, and Patsy F'allon