New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-01
BUDDY JONES'S DUEL.
frank Norris in the San Francisco Wave.

NNuiu Always look Tor nne ngntnR al
soi'Ahs OF Monday morning. because at that
"me the model was posed for the week. and we
Sscked out the places from which to work. OF
course the first ten of the esauisse men had first
snoice- So. no matter how early you got up and
how resolutely you held to your first row tabou-
Tex chaps like Roubault, Marioton. or the
nftle Russian, whom we nicknamed Choubersky.
q Haushaulder. or the big Amercan-"This
Animal Of Buddy Jones"-all strong esquisse
men. could always chuck you out when they
came, which they did about 10 o'clock, when
everything had quieted down. When two par
oeularly big, quick-tempered. obstinate ana
combative men try to occupy space twelve
inches square simultaneously, 1t gives rise 10
complications. We used to watch and walt Tor
these fights (after had been chucked out our
selves), and make things worse, and hasten the
crisis by getting upon the outskirts OF the
crowd that thronged about the dsputants and
showing with all our might. Then one or the
disputants would be jostled rudely against the
other, who would hit him in the face and then
there would be a wild hooroosh and clatter OF
overturned easels and the flashing of whitened
knuckles and glimpses Of two fierce RED races
over the shoulders of the crowd, and everything
would be pleasant Then perhaps you see an
aTusion in the Paris edition of the next morn
ings Herald" to the brutal and lawless stu
dents"
7 remember particularly one hght-1uite the
best I ever saw at Julians. or elsewhere. for
the matter Of that 1t was between Haushaui-
der and Giet Haushauder was Dane, ana
six feet four. Gilet French. and had
waist like Virginie's. But Giet had just come
back from his three years army service anu
knew all about the savate. They squared OIL d.
each other. Gilet splitting like cat ana haus-
hauder grommeant under his mustache. Ihis
Animal Of Buddy Jones'" the big American
believed TO separate them for 1t really looked
Hike a massacre. And then, all at once, Ghet
spun around bent over till mis- hnger-ups
touched the floor. and. balancing on the toe
hshed out backward with his leg at haus-
handler like any cayuse The heel of his boot
caught the Dane on the point Of the chin. An
hour and forty minutes later, when Haushaulder
recovered consciousness and tried 10 speak, we
found that the tip Of his tongue had been sliced
off between his teeth II by a pair or SCISSORS
It was really unfortunate affair. and the gov
eminent very nearly closed the atelier because
of it. But This Animal Of a Buddy Jones saNr
m ALL his opinion Of the savate, and announced
that the next man who savated from any cause
vbatever 'aurait affaire avec lui. oui avec luI'
ere nom!
Heavens! No one aurait voulut affaire aVec
eette animal de Buddy Jones' He was from
Chicago Out Of course he couldn't heip lha'1
and was taller than even Haushauioel' ""0
much broader The desire Tor art nao @oiii'
upon him all Of sudden while ne was s'uo'ihs
law at Columbia For This Animal OF buioS
Iones" had gone into law after leaving 1ale
u.ra we touch This Animal OF Buddy Joness
,reat weakness. He was Yale man why ne
was prouder of that fact than he was OF oeins
an American. or even a Chicagoan-and that Is
saving much. Why, he couldn't talk OF faie
vttbont his face flushing. Why. Yale was al
most more to him than his mother. remem-
her at the students ball at Buffers, ne got lhs
Americans together and with infinite troupie
taught us all the Yale YELL" which ne s"ore
VAS a transcript from Aristophanes, ana Tor
three hours he gravey headed a procession that
wont the rounds Of the hall bawling breK!
Kek, Kek, Cock Co-exr and all the rest OF It
More than that This Animal Of Buddy
Jones" had pitched on his Varsity baseball nine
In his studio-quite the SWEETEST in the quarter
by the wayne had collection OF balls that ne
had pitched in match games at dh1erent clnfs'
and he used TO show them to us reVerenty' ano
n we were especial friends, would allow us 10
handle them They were all written over with
names and dates He would explain them to us
one by one:
This one" he would say, ct pitched In the
Princeton game, and here's two pitched In the
Harvard game-hard game that-our catcher
~.yA out-guess he couldn't hold ewfth a
min of pride), and Harvard made it interesting