New-York tribune., 1891-02-06
THE FIGHTERS RUN AWAY
DIXON AND MCCARTHY FLEE FROM THE
POLICE.
THE PURITAN CLUB KEEPS THREE THOUSAND
gents" sHIvERING IN THE STREET
FOR NEARLY THREE HOURS.

The Dixon Mccarthy fight with soft gloves, TO
finish was billed for the $1,000 barn Of the Puritan
Athletic Club last night but owing TO slight nav In
tbc law il failed to appear at the appointed time and
hour. Away among the gas tanks and petro-
leum refuse the stinks and smells Of Long Island
City about a mile and quarter from the railroad
station stands the barn, orlorn, hatsided, weather
boarded structure The gang" that was 10 see the
fight began to arrive at O'Clock and kept on arriving
fill O. The doors were to be opened at O'Clock, two
hours before the fight, that the gents might get
warmed up on whiskey and enthusiasm and get theli
money on. Dixon the favorite at 100 to 20.
There appeared to be a hitch in the doors They
wouldn't open and the crowd packed the street, stop
ming the horse-cars. At o'clock 1900 gents
warmed their feet on the cobblestones. At their
number was 1000. Captain Woods and squad Of
twenty-five men marched up, and entering the barn
took possession closing the door behind them sheriff
Godner followed with warrants for the arrest OF Dixon
and Mccarthy.
At ; 80 Dixon drove up in carriage. AT 5:35
Mccarthy drove up in carriage Both started to
all cht but somebody gave them the tip and they were
driven hastily up the road to " Kearneys'' where
cockight was in progress jimmy WakeIy shouting
from the box:
BE patient, gents, be patient. Wen be oacK'
Inst going for drive to kill time. Sect"
At 40 gents" treading on each others toes'
Tho street was TANNED with 5000 of them There
WAS a delegation Of forty from Troy, among them city
officials sporting men and millOnarcs. Washington
d. c. had sent over twenty five gents headed by
Joseph McCann PhiladephiaS contingent hunbeTei
forty. Thirty-fve came from Albany, ana t~ehS-ona
from rivec towns along the banks Of the Hudson.
There were gents from the Union Club, the Knieker
booker Club and the New-York Yacht Club There
were gentsp from Gutenberg, gents h0m
Clifton. gents from Gloucester. The betting-nngs
and saddlng paddocks Of the three great carounces
OF the turf seemed have empted themselves OF their
gents" in honor Of the occasion. onaloo was Ae'o
with all his crew. Deadun arrived early, hankea oy
friends Of various and all degrees. Roper was
there and the Doctor. and Bocer, and Pulem, ana
Kidder. and Dothetrck and TiGhtrein. and Hodemout
and Buyeasy. oh, my brethren. it was motley crew.
a motley crew!
The Engemans were among the gents' on the cob
bic stones, the Clifton gents and from Hudson county
came the county clerk Dennis Mclaughlin Johnny
Campbell was there, leading by the hand his three
Jockeys, Taral, Decker and Stevenson. and tIudgine
along behind was the wicked Penny. And thero
were some eminently respectable but sadly misguided
men on the cobbestones who will be grateful If their
names are left out -, ...
toyed with the Odorous wind and blocked street cars
Al g;45 :" Dick9 Roche showed his face AZ window
Then the doors we're opened and the gents drove
ard fru and piled in each with his ticket ready
sn i'occ Hut there we're no doorkeepers no ticket
aer, and the gents" folded up the pa teboards for
redemption. At that moment they realized tha' "
wa, all over. o,., .--. -, -..<
Themselves in ties on all s!d's OF as me
twcnty-four-foOt ring as ever was seen. HoTey
liod-kns got between the ropes and & called s1 t9'
pcarcd Captain Woods and his squad held me
ring while the sheriff stood OF at little distance
and shook his warrants by and by Tommy Ander
~nn entered the ring. aud, the gents beellg
o entered the ring and, the gents being sh-sh sh-
sh d 10 silence, declamed: 81. -,
take mace th, evening owing to some legal difficulty
want To >ay that + through no fault OF Mr. Nakey
that the fight il OF, see -
'"'' When viii il come OF - cried the 4" gents
What about the money ?" cried the gents
All money will be returned said Tommy ,
"Thrce cheers for Mayor Geason!H cried the gents
- these hypocIites.1 cried the gents.
Thcn CAPTAIN Woods said he going To turn the
ugnts out, and all gents' went mournfully home
The warrants were issued by Judge Garretson at tse
instance of samuel Ii. llansell, James Thery ana
Joseph Mckenna.