The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-22
THE BADGER AND THE BULL DOG
Amusing Conclusion OF a stag ON
the Heights.

the Heights.
The Catholic Young Mems Lyceum Asso-
citation of the Church of st. Paul OF the
evening at the clubhouse, No. 172 South
street. There was no regular programme,
but nearly everybody present took part, and
the evening. passed very quickly and pleas
antly. During the evening refreshments
were served. At quarter to twelve o'clock
I. j. Cagney, who had the stag in charge,
announced that the chief feature of the
evening would be a fight between a bull dog
and a badger. The dog, he said, was the
property of William Shelter, and had won
for itself a good reputation in the pit.
The badger was sent on from Kansas
City, said Cagney, and was the property
of the club. Mr.. Cagney assured the audi
ence that the amusement las he styled the
fight was very dangerous sport to witness,
as the badger was a very vicious animal
and liable to bite. He also said the club
would not be responsible for any bites the
badger inflicted, and warned the audience
risk. No one seemed to be afraid, and,
headed by Mr.. Cagney, the crowd marched
down stairs to the cellar where the contest
ants were kept and the fun was to be seen.
All hands lined up against the wall. The
badger was in the middle of the room
ulldpt q DnII6A, WAuA ,C4Sub iOPCo biOh w
him. The dog was in another
room, and was not to be let in until every
thing was in readiness. When everyone had
secured a place as far away from the barrel
as possible, Mr.. Cagney picked out eight
men to hold the ropes, and a referee n
timekeeper, and once more warned the spec
tators the danger they were i'll of being Bit
ten by the badger. That kind of frightened
some of the boys and all who could climbed
up on the mantelpiece, chairs n a long
narrow table that was in the room. The
rope holders-Messrs. Steve Stout, c. Nc
Neill. Thomas Webberley, Thomas Cassidy,
Ed Hackett, Stephen Meehan, Frank Cul-
lum and William Buehle-were told to hold
tight and wind the rope which was thin
around their wrists, N pull hard, as the
badger was very strong and if one string
was loose he could jerk the whole lot away
in a twinkling. The boys took the advice
and held fast. The dog was then
brought in and aggravated and made as
mad as a hornet, md then its owner, Mr..
Shelter made a $50 to $40 bet with Mr.. Gag
ney that his pride would knock the life out
of the Kansas City wonder in one round. The
bet was snapped up Immediately, and a few
more were made with the odds on the dog.
When the bets had been made, and Referee
Ben Adams, who, by the way, was almost
out Of sight and entirely out of danger On
top of the m~antelpiece, called order, and
John Hogan, the timekeeper, yelled Let
her CO." great excitement prevailed and
everybody Grained their necks to see what
what promised to be one of tho most excit-
ing fights that some of them would ever wit
ness in their lives. .Cagney sat on the barrel,
and when Hogan had said "Let her CO." re-
quested the boys nearest the door to make
room SO that he could get out of the way with
the barrel.
''Now, are you all ready 2" he asked.
Eyes" came from every one.
"Now remember what I told you about the
biting OF the badger; the club will not be
responsible"
With that he lifted the barrel. and Shelter
let his dog loose and whew! behold a Gus
pidor, a dog, a sold crowd and a fellow run
ming up stairs yelling:
''Look out for the badger biting you. He's
vicious. Hal hal
Among those present were:-T. Cassidy,
G. J. Mcneil, j. Hackett, William Hackett,
M. McGivern, T. Cagney, D.. Allen,
hill, DR.. j. Lindsay, R. Cullum,
Frank Cullum, S. Meehan, L.. Burkhard, e.
Nugent, Thos. Wibsley, F. Mulhearn, M.
Moran, A ). Moran, J. Hopkins, P.
DR.. George S. Stout, DR.. James S. Stout,
Dr.. P. McGuinness, DR.. J. Lindsey, DR.. P.
Ehrgott, DIR. w. Schleiming, DR..
Charles Mcneil, DR.. Oscar Eorenzy,
James Brakey, Albert Si1nonson and
Robert Simonson, the Progressive Club;
Robert johnson, +. P~ettigrew, Fl. A. Van
Voorhis. P. A. Adams, the City
Guard Quartette L. Bach, F. A.
Jameson, Benjamin Adams, W.
Lewis Albright, James Butler, c. Hogan, J.
Walsh, G, Balmes; Fl. J. Jones and J. Fl.
McCaffery, of New York; G. Esterbrook
and Thomas Allen.