The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-18

winner. Ed posted his friends and the
sporting fraternity that follow Kelley
! lead backed Turner heavily.
| Martin Lannan pianked down several
hundred dollars on Turner, Jim Gillespie
1900, Joe Lapsley $500 aud John WOODBURY.
! $500.
But this money was picked up by the
sheep herders of Utah, who have always
bet their last dollar on the Utah shepherd.
1t was as conglomerate crowd as one
ever witnessed. sheep men came from a
hundred miles to put up the few dollars
they had saved from their summers earn
/ ings Oh vhe Utah boy. They wore white
SLOUGH hats and coarse clothes and were
put down by the slick sports as suckers. "
The sporting genteel were taking their
money just as If they were picking 1t oil
the trees 1t was the softest snap That
had ever come their way. But the woolly
men from The sageDrush country were not
TO be scared of. and by the time the nrst
bulletin arrived they were Offering $40 to
IS, with few takers.
] BY 9 O'Clock the Tunnel was filled to the
walls by a seething mass of humanity, and
Wilson Il Busby's place was packed like
/ box of behring's.
/ Wilson & Busby, being the managers OF
Jim Williams in his fight. all the truly
| loyal congregated here. and they tore the
air with their shouts for his success. At
the Tunnel. kid-gloved betters were
plentiful, and the coIored men who al
ways back their race were profuse with
their bsts and their predictions.
/ II was 1890 O'CLOCK when the first bulle-
tin was read announcing that the men
were weighed and both showed up in
/ fine condition. When the bulletin man
read dispatch that Williams weighed in
at l57 big cheer went up for the Utah
champion.
( The first round was received with in
difference and the spirits of the hackers of
the Utah man dropped as the returns OF
the second round told that Turner was
quick while Williams was slow. The next
two rounds were Doth in Turner'S favor,
and odds were offered against the U tab
boy The fifth round was a damper as
Turner, after repeatedly iaootng Williams
wind in the previous rounds,
( followed this IN with repeated
blows on Williams Jaw, sending him to the
ropes. There was death-like stiffness as
the bulletin closed by saying. civilians is
groggy and can't stand on his feet.n
II told you sou exclaimed Ed. Kelly, and
Martin Lannan was heard to calculate
~ guess we'll drink champagne tonight.n
The betting was now $40 to So on Turner
ana no takers.
round" shouted q man who had his money
on Turner.
.sBut on, what a difference in the morn
ing" sang out planuve Villains man.
| eTurner came up clipper as chipmunl
and was dancing with delight over the way
ne was playing with this Titan boy, whS
had as yet scarcely touched him. Bu
Williams Of Wales, with Celtic blood, go
in hot counter on Turner's jaw and
fought him to the floor with both hands or
the black mans jaw.
There were no cheers; they were yells.
The sheep men went wild and psndemo-
mum broke loose The confusion was sc
bewildering that it was some time before
the bulletin could be read. There were
sageorush whoops whirlwinds anC
cyclones. Never in the history of the
prize ring was there such transformation
scene. IL beggered description. There
was confusion douby COMPOUNDED. Aftel
repeated efforts to quiet the crowd tht
bulletin was finished in these words
Turner had to be helped TO his corner"
Then there was another riot of noises.
Through the intervening rounds until tht
eleventh there was feeling Of suspense
and uncertainty, ana it was not until the
bulletin was finished, telling the result o.
the fight, that the crowd lost all control o.
itself.
The scene in Wilson s. Busby's cannot
be conceived. Men jumped on the counter
threw their hats and overcoats in the air
walked over show cases and hung on eact
others necks in ecstacies of delight.
Tom Busby had his hands shaken unit
his arms were core.
The largest winners on the fight ar.
Wilson & Busby. who must have cleared
SO, 500 or 81 900.
jim Williams made 81 500 besides tht
81 500 he won as stake money.
jim Lynch is several hundred ahead anS
Jack Smith counts his gains by the hua
dreds, and Amsy Gleason is $500 ricne
than he was yesterday.
Naylor Bros. were heavy hackers of III,
Utah boy. and Andrew Smith has 500
smile.
Fred Heffner has anywhere from $500 Il
81 500 in his aIlet, and hundred sheer
men doubled their summers earnings.
Williams will be met on his return witt
q brass band, and HE reputation has nov
spread from the Pacific to the Atlantic.