Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-16
sLvFFlNo THE scRAPPERs.

How q Slim Young Man 1ntlmidated tho
sports.
Il saw funny thing in Cheyenne
a few weeks ago." said a DetrOiter
who returned from Western trip
the other day. Il was wandering
around town to see the elephant and
chance led me into a big saloon where
all the scrappers made their head
quarters. Back Of the saloon was a
building where professor of the
manly art gave instructions, and
where the 'pugs' thumped each other
at exhibitions. They were trying
out a new arrival that day and l
should say there were forty or fifty
tough looking chaps in the place.
Soon after l entered a young man
who had come through from Denver
in my car dropped in. He couldn't
have been over "a years of age, while
he was over six feet tall and his
weight only about 120 pounds. He
was long-faced, thin and lOng-legged
and reminded you of nothing so much
as boy on stills. Two men were
getting ready to 60 on when long
legs peeled off his coat, vest, tie and
collar, put them in my charge. and
climbed upon the platform"
THAT was def to the crOwd?"
Exactly, and in about minute
they put man up to punch his head
of. They gave long-legs second
and the first thing he did was to take
the glasses off the young mans nose.
The latter reached for them and said:
6 Excuse me, but l always fight
with my glasses on.
but they'll get knocked off or
jammed into your face
Don't you believe it. It's never
happened yet, and 1 don't think it
will now
"The scrapper over in the other
corner couldn't make it out. Here
was man so sure of himself that he
was going to put up his dukes with
pair Of eyeglasses on his nose. He
must, perforce, be knocker-out from
Knockersville, and it was better to-
retreat than to carry around broken
jaw. He therefore retreated. Sew
eral Others came forward, but when
they saw long-legs seated cross-legged
in his corner with those glasses
poised so jauntily they didn't want
anything of him. Then he got up
and said:
Gentlemen, there is no limit to
weight. l always fight in glasses, as
Pm a little near-sighted. l will,
however, remove my glass eye and
false teeth If deemed best. Will your
best man step up here for couple OF
rOunds?'
"But no one stepped. He waited a
minute or two and then pulled of
the gloves with look of disappoint-
ment and got into his clothes and we
went out together. He didn't look
to me at all like a scrapper, and as
we walked down the street ! said:
"'What sort of deal were you
giving that crowd?'
"a gigantic bluff, he answered
with laugh.
care you flghter?'
L never struck blow in my life,
1ot even in fun
"'But suppose one of those scrap
pers had tackled you?'
" i should have backed down and
asked em allsup to drink. But there
was no danger. I've tried it half a
dozen times before, and the glasses
always settles 'em.'
How about the glass eye and the
false teeth?'
i simply rung EN- in to help on
The bluff. Haven't got false tooth
in my head, and both eyes are per-
.ect. It's bluff of my own inven-
zion and works like charm. Please
don't give it away
"And that afternoon, said the De-
Iroiter in conclusion, "when we took
The train east there were a hundred
sports down at the depot to see long,
eg' of, and I'm a duffer if thew
lidn't present him with a bottle of
vine and give him three cheers and
tiger!"--Free Press.
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