The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-22
HE THREW THE BULL,
Colonel McLaughlin's Desperate
Wrestling Match.
HIS OWN LIFE WAS THE STAKE.
"
Retired Champion Wrestler OF the
world Vanouishes an Infatuated
Bovine by Strength and Skill.

Colonel ]. II. Mclaughlin, of this city,
VINO for many years was the champion
collar and elbow wrestler of the world and
only lost the championship by retiring
from athletics, had the hardest contest of
his life the other day and came nearer
being vanquished than he ever was by
Muldoon, Whistler or any of the other big
fellows he laid on their backs ten years
ago. 1t was big red wild bull that gave
Colonel Mclaughlin such tussle, the
arena was ten-acre lot filled with brush,
stumps and fallen timber. and the stakes
were the life and limbs of the gallant
wrestler.
Colonel Mclaughlin owns a beautiful
home on Beacon hill south of the city and
devotes most of his time to its improve
ment. Last Tuesday he had occasion to
cross the ten-acre tract mentioned above,
which adjoins his place. He was in the
center of the lot when he saw his neigh
bor's bull coming toward him. Surprising
his bovine lordship to be of peaceful dis
position, Colonel Mclaughlin walked
leisurely along until, warned by an angry
believing, he turned and saw the bull
within ten feet of him. There was no
mistaking the bulls intentions. His head
was down, his tail erect and his
feet paved the earth. This was for
but an instant. Colonel Mclaughlin knew
he was in for it; but before he could move
from his tracks the Infatuated beast was
upon him and had him on his horns. The
wrestIer's nerve did not desert him. Quick
as fash he literally .seized the bull by
the horns" After the '.toss up" an in
slant later he found himself on the bulls
back, still hanging on by the horns. The
next instant he picked himself out of a
brush heap twenty feet ahead, just in time
to receive fresh onslaught. 1t must be
'catch-as-catch-can" and First down to
lose" for the horns and hoofs of the bull
would make short work of the wrestler
when thrown. By dexterous feint Colo
mel Mclaughlin avoided the rush and
seized the bull by the left horn with his
right hand and nose ring with the other
hand. Then it became contest of rage
and brute strength against human skill
and intelligence, combined with unusual
strength and endurance. For a time it
looked as though the bull would win the
bout and the battle. He would toss his
head in the air hurting the wrestler aloft
and bringing him to the earth among the
bushes and brambles with q crash.
The athlete held his grip, how
ever, and avoided falling under
the feet of his adversary With
his clothes torn from his body and
bleeding from many scratches and bruises
Colonel Mclaughlin had about come to the
conclusion that the championship belt of
the world for collar and elbow wrestling,
which hangs up in his house, must 60 to
the bull. when he thought of an exped-
lent. Springing to one side, but not let
ting go his hold. he placed his hip against
the bulls side and exerting all his
strength, succeeded in ross-buttocking"
HIM. The bull went down with a crash,
his head bent under him and one of his
horns driven deep into the earth. The
colonel had won the bout and the match.
But then he was in the same situation
that the man was when he got the bear by
the tail. He had the bull foul and could
hold him as long as he wanted to, but he
couldn't let go. He sat on the animals
head and rested. Then he pulled his
knife out and was opening it with his
teeth with the intention of putting the
coup de grace to his triumph, when some
men who had seen the combat from a
neighboring field and had been fastening
to the rescue, came up with clubs and re-
lieved Colonel Mclaughlin from his pre-
dicament.
He was badly bruised and scratched and
his clothing hung in tatters and shreds
from his person, but he still held the
championship belt.