The record-union., 1891-09-28
A SATURDAY NIGHT SCRAP.
Happy Joe" Defeats Gus Mueller in a
Glove Fight.
The Defeated Pug Gets Hard Punish
ment from a Chair-Haiey will
Fight the Winner.

Gus. Mueller. lightweight San Fran
cisco pug, and ''Happy Joe," an ebony
skinned production of the southern citrus
belt, fought upward of thirty hard rounds
at Browns Comique on Saturday night,
with gloves.
| The white lad was severely handicapped
! from the start. His attendants did not
understand their business, and one of
them was constantly nagging the youth
in way that would have early discour-
aged less stout-hearted and plucky lad.
They never removed his chair from the
inside of the ring, and early in the fight
| Mueller was thrown in his corner and
struck the corner of the chair with his
face, lntlicting big cash near his right
eye, the blood from which kept him in a
sufficiently CORY condition throughout the
contest to please the most fastidious adj
mlrer OF prize fight.
1t also seemed to give his black adver-
sary more confidence, as if it had been
the result OF his cleverneSS, instead Of that
| of the chair
1t was in-one sense an unequal contest,
and yet neither was able to severely pun
lsh the other. Had not Mueller fallen
| upon the chair, there would not have
been drop of blood spilled, nor hardly q
lump TO show for a spirited battle Of two
hours. Mueller is of the chunky
build, shOrt-armed, and rather slow. He
stood stitfly up to his work, and received
the black lads thumps on his stomach as
unliinchingly as if hewere made of wood.
"JOe," OH the other hand, was 1.-the and
shitty, always bobbing about and avoid
ing punishment. He has arms on him
like those Of a gorilla, and it was almost
impossible for the little fellow TO reach
/ INF gluI- Il
things became mixed. Then it was diff
ferent, and the pale-face was quite at
home.
The darky handles himself very much
after the style of Charley Turner, the col
ored middleweight. He cannot easily
be whipped by fighters Of the Mueller or
| Haley style, but it is doubtful if he would
stand up long with one of his own style
OF lighting who is capable of giving him
an occasional good punch. Whenever
Mueller did force things the darlly
would try to run away, and generally
succeeded. He has an awful left for one
Of his class, and his favOrite tactics is to
dash it against his adyersary's stomach
and at the same time clinch with his
right, SO as to avoid receiving a return.
! lie practiced this trick on Mueller sew
! eral times in nearly every round, and the
! latter did not seem to be clever enough to
avoid the bread-basket punches. Neither
J dld Ac SSClli " llllu Lntlu very IluCN.
| Frequently Joe's left went higher than
/ the waistband, and on these occasions it
would collide with Mueller's face,
The latter injured his hands early in
the fight by humping the hard-skulled
man from the sunny south on the back
Of the head when the latter would turn to
run, and toward the last he seemed afraid
to hit hard blow.
FinallYst became evident that Mueller
could not hope to win, pIucky and game
as he was, so he complained of the
referees unfairness in not allowing a
claim Of foul made against the coIored
! fighter, and refused to fight any more
! Undoubtedly the latter did resort to
wrestling, showing Mueller down by a
neck hold, but the referee would not al
low the claim. He therefore gave the
victory to Happy Joe," but declared all
bets of.
Jerry Haley then went upon the stage
and challenged the victor, who accepted
the def, and these two will soon engage
in one of the modern apologies for prize
fight. Haley is quicker than Mueller,
but it looks as though he will be greatly
outclassed in hight and reach.