The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-09-14
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uow . Slim Young Man Intimidated the
Sports.


Sports.
Il saw funny thing In Cheyenne
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 q 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 new arrival that day and L
should say there we're forty or fifty
tough looking chaps In the place,
Soon after / 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 l20 pounds. lie
was long.faced. thin and long-legged
and reminded you OF nothing so much
as boy on stills Two men were
getting ready TO 90 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 n 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:
Excuse me, but | always fight
with my glasses on.
but they'll get knocked OF or
jammed into your face
Don't you believe II. It's never
happened yet, and | don't think it
will now.
"Tne scrappcr over in the other
corner couldn't make II out. Here
was a man so sure OF himself that he
was going TO put up his dukes with q
pair OF eyeglasses on his nose. lIo
must, perforce, be knockcr-out from
knockersyille, and IL was bctter u
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 pp
and said:
Gentlemen, there is no limit q
weight. always fight in glasses, a.
I'm a little near-sighted. ! will
however remove my glass eye anc
false teeth IL deemed best. Will youi
best man step up here for a couple OF
rounds!'
But no one stepped. lie waited &
minute or two and then pulled OF,
the gloves with look OF disappolDt
ment and got into his clothes and we
went out together. He didn't lool
20 me at al like a scrapper, and
we walked down the street / said:
"'What sort OF deal were y
giving that crowd?'
"a gigantic bluff, he answer
with laugh.
"'Arc you a tighter:' b,
IL never struck blow in my
not even in fun
"'But suppose one OF those scrap
pers had tackled you?'
q" i should have backed down and
asked 'em all up to drink But there
was no danger. I've tried it half
dozen times before, and the glasses
always settles 'em.'
How about the glass eye and the
false teeth?'
IL simply rung 'em in to help on
the blul. llaven'tg got Il false tooth
in my head, and both eyes are per-
feet. It's bluff of my own invenI
tion and works like charm. Please
don't give IL away
"And that afternoon, said the De.
troiter in conclusion, when we took
the train east there were a hundred
sports down at the depot TO see long.
leg' of, and I'm dufIer If they
didn't present him with Il bottle OF
wine and give him three cheers and
u tiger."--Frce Press.