The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-29

humor, and moved for the Twenty
fourth street entrance. There he stood
in the doorway minute or two and
threw around handfulls of silver.
One evening in the Art Gallery"
saw handsome six-footer pointing
his cane at the great Bouguereaul
painting Of the Satyr and the Nymphs.
There was a card in the corner of the
frame requesting spectators not to
use canes or umbrellas-the glass over
the painting stood out so as to deceive
the eye and might easily have been
broken. So went up to the big man
and said, please don't use your cane"
"Ah, you're too fresh" he cried,
turning on me like a flash, and when I
demonstrated with him he grabbed me
by the coat collar and punched me
right in the eye. I at once swung my
left and hit him on the eyebrow, as he
jumped back, instead Of on the point
Of the jaw. He was knocked out but
I broke bone in my hand.
After Is years experience as a pr1
vate officer in the Hoffman house, I
thought l ought to be ready to retire.
I'm no longer a young man. 1 was
born in Birmingham. England, Dec q,
1874, and by the time / was IL years old
could spar any boy of my weight who
came along. I never took boxing les
just learn. as 1 did, by practice.
There was young man working
near Birmingham who had a great rep
utation as fighter. My chums said
ought to go up against Regain, and /
agreed, That was my first fight. We
hands and fought about half an hour
Soon after i beat him I went to Lon
don. I was then In my 18th year. There
I began putting on the gloves with all
Corners. I'd already had lots of expe-
rience at the county fairs. where In
with a uniformed pug" at the door.
crying something like this: Here you,
I'll give art a crown to q man who
bests Bill Boggs." The novice who
went In to earn that half crown was
bound to learn something about fight
in my 21st year. didn't look for sport
However. / went right to work In iron
works. / soon began to fight, though.
/ first beat Sol Aaron, Barney's broth
er. and then Mickey Colburn, who was
one of the best men living in 1866. Next
/ fought Sam Collyer for the light
weight championship OF America The
stakes were 900 a side and the cham.
pionship. and / knocked Collyer out In
AZ rounds, lasting one hour and IA min
utes. Collyer was one Of the best
fighters ] ever met; I fought him again
on March =, loiV at Mystic Island,
Conn, through 40 rounds which lasted
AZ minutes. He claimed that his jaw
was broken. but he talked on, so they
gave me the fight.
my fifth battle was with Tim Col
Inns. i broke my left hand in the sec
ond round, and my seconds seemed
very anxious for me TO quit; but I
didn't. / fought IS rounds TO a draw.
1T was on Squirrel Island in Cana
da. that i met Arthur Chambers, in
1872. j had the best of IL in 30 rounds;
the fight was given to him. however,
on a foul. which consisted in one OF
Chambers own seconds biting Cham
bers on the breast. as he sat in his
corner, and then blaming II on me.
'Soon afterwards. in Liverpool, I
fought Kenny. the shoe-black. light
weight champion OF England. with the
gloves. and defeated him Later / beat
william Kitchen. alias Fawcett. in a
finish fight. Queensberry rules at Man
chester. After returning home / beat
Pete Croker IN the Casino. Then / met
Sam Collyer again This time I broke
my right hand at the, first punch. but
I won the fight Not long after this 1
beat Fiddler Neary' in four rounds:
and In 1876 beat Steve Taylor. 1 won
a hard battle that time. on points. by
the Marquis OF Quesrsberry rules