The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-12
uF LOST THE MATCH.
:, MAS GREAT, BUT THE OTHER
tNo. TRICK THAT BEAT HIM.

81 uppose," said the OLD circus man,
-. the greatest bass horn player that
''D"' ,;red was Enos Stulkinton. He
ever ,he bass horn in our band. There
pa nay been men with better knowledge
nav ~usic perhaps, and some with
Oh snisbed style, but none that could
hlUi DS him in producing thunder. His
'OuOH came 10 be one of the features
p = the show. He was star attraction
u uhore he was known, but to most people
VIZ oame as surprise, something more
~ thew had expected, and they en-
.u"na him all the more on that account.
~; instance. at every performance,
t'sore tbe actual beginning OF the show,
~. D rsed to give band concert, and MIR.
S.u,Iinton would begin to get in his
s0o work there. AS the people listened
=. I'M S;s first thunderous 'oomphahsP they
~o 70 amazed. But when they heard the
Vas Vas Of the great tent flap in unison
";th tbe blasts of his horn they all
,'"rhod and thereafter throughout the
rorformance they all paid close atten-
ron when Enos raised the instrument.
ave tried, of course, always to make
route for the show that wouldn't con-
sict with anybody else, for there were
nlortv If towns that wouldn't stand but
pno Show at q time Two would lose
money in them, however good they
mobt he But sometimes we ran against
some stubborn man that wouldn't give
wov and then there was nothing TO do
hnt n show and beat him if we could.
"Once. when we struck "a town with
another show, we learned somehow that
thew had great bass horn player i'll
their hand. and of course we challenged
,em for q contest. And they took up the
challenge very promptly. There wasn't
much time to prepare for it, but we
hlled the town in an hour and got per-
mission to put up stand on the public
Nuare, because it was to be a free eX-
bibtion, and that attracted attention.
1.-THE contest was at noon, and of
course the two bands played as accom-
panists of the horn players. And that
made big band concert, and the crowd
was something enormous. The terms
were that each man was TO play once,
and then a vote of the people was to be
taken The man defeated in that round
had right to call for another. If the
man defeated in the first round won the
second, the man who won the first
round had q right to call for third
round But the winner of two rounds
by the vote of the people was to be de-
Clared the winner of the contest.
well, the men in our show bet
every dollar they could rake and scrape
on Enos, and some of the more gentle
hearted of them thought they were Just
robbing the men in the other show. Our
old man not only bet all his money, but
he bet the idol of his heart, the famous
old giraffe of our show, against the
other show moth eaten buffalo, and he
was so dead sure that he threw in a Gin
namOn bear to boot.
"0ur side had the first inning, and
our band showed 'em how to play, and
then Enos stood up for his solo. And
how he did make the thunder! 1t was
complain, complain, complain as it
had never been heard before, and he
fairly carried the people off their feet.
Then the other band played a tune,
and their man got up. And there's no
use talking, he raised more thunder
than Enos did and set the people
shouting
Then the mayor got up TO take the
vote, as he'd agreed to do, and he was
Interested now as much as anybody.
And the people voted for the other man,
as we expected they would. But we
hadn' { any doubt about the final result,
iOr we thought that Enos would I'M
snackle now and break away and make
the blow of his life. And he did. We,
VINO had been hearing him for years,
1ad never heard him approach what he
uio now 1t was wonderful. He set the
people wild, and we thought we had
'em sure
But the other mans very first 'oom-
pnah! made us tremble, and as he went
VI we knew we were lost, money, gil
'ane, everything We'd never heard
anytning like this before. 1t WASH t just
smple peals of thunder-it was thun-
uer factory in full blast and working
WIN adouble force Of men. There could
% only one verdict.
mat afternoon the whole town
went 10 the other show and left our big
,ou. empty The other people came over
~ 'ne animals they'd won before show
'.u,e' They wanted to take 'em over
a aua walk EN- around in their ring. The
~. .u man had 'em brought out. When
o slralfe realized what had happened,
40 wound his neck around the center
r and wouldn't bulge. But the old
. nnally persuaded him, and over he
circus 20 - VIZ
Lnos Stulkinton never blew a bass
~ Si ~ again. He'd had the opportunity
~ MS iife' had missed it and he hadn I
baritone ' "o always o'o" p"
h0. Tor my own part, I always thought
ho.O was trick in it. Don't you know,
s noie are things that look fair and
Os. saie on the face of them that you feel
'n all the same, are off, in some
Wy Wy Well, knew there was something
in. ABOUT that man s bass horn play
IS ana years afterward | heard what