Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-10-12
RLuFrrNe Ice scRAPPERs.
Now a Slim Young Man IutImIsiated the
Sports

AANNAAAAaaNNNNA
Sports.
Il saw q funny thing I'm Cheyenne
few weeks ago." said O DetrOlter
VINO returned from a Western trip
bhe other day. II was wandering
around town TO see the elephant and
chance led me into d blgsaloon where
all the scrappers made their head
quarters Back Of the saloon was
building where professor OF the
manly art gave instructions, and
where the 'pugs' thumpedi each other
NJ exhibitions They we're trying
OUT new arrival that day and /
should say there We're forty or fifty
tough'looklng chaps in the place.
soon after / entered a. young man
VINO mad come through from Denver
In my car dropped in. He couldn't
have been over "a years, Of age; while
ne was over six feet tall and his
weight only about l20 pounds. He
was long'faced, thin and long.legged
ana reminded you Of nothing so much
as a. boy on stills. Two men were
getting ready to go on when, long
legs peeled off his coat vest, tie and
collar, put them in my charge, and
climbed upon the platform.
THAT was a def to the crowd?"
EXACTLY, and in about a, minute
Chey put a man up to,punch his head
OIL. They gave lOng-legs a second
and. the first thing he did waste. take
the glasses of the young man's nose.
The latter reached for them and said:
" Excuse me, but ! always fight
with my glasses on.
But they'll get knocked Off on
jammed into your face
Don't you believe it! It's neven
happened yet, and don't think it
will now.
"The scrapper over in the other
corner couldn't make it out Here
was a 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 aknocker-Out from
Knockersville, and it was better to
retreat than to carry arounda broken
jaw. He therefore reiterated. 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 incglasses, as
Pm a little near-sighted. | will,
however, remove my glass eye and
false teeth if deemed best Will your
best man step'up here for a couple of
rounds?'
"But no one stepped. He waited "a
minute or two and then pulled of
the gloves with a look of disappoint-
ment and got into his clothes and we
went out together He didn't look
TO me at al like Il scrappeU, and as
we walked down the street | said:
"'What sort of a deal were you
giving that crowd?'
"a gigantic bluff, he answered
with laugh.
Are you a tighteI2'
Il never struck q blow in my life,
not even in fun.
%'But suppose one Of these scrap
pers had tackled you2'
al should have backed down and
asked em all up to drink But there
was no danger. I've tried it half a
dozen times before, and the glasses
always settles 'em.F
allow about the glass eye and the
false teeth%
al simply Tung em in to help on
the bluff. Haven't got a false tooth
in my head, and both eyes are per.
feet It's a bluff Of my own inven-
ton and works like charm. Please
don't give it 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.
legl off, and I'm duffer If they
didn't present him with "a bottle OF
wine and give him three cheers and
a tiger!"- Press.