Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-20
NICE BIG JOLLY"
Given WaterviIIe and Fairfield
Officers and Reporters.
Smooth Chap Tells Of a Fierce
Priza Fight Near Fairfield.
Also Stolen Team-Gives Several Names,
Tells Other Fairy Tales and Ships.

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for a man. The Journal hopes he will
find him. This man called at the Jour-
nal office, this morning, and wanted to
know if we cared to know anything
about prize fight that came off out in
the vicinity Of Benton Falls, last night.
We told him that we> wanted to know
all about 1t and pulled our pencil for
business. Here is the story that he
told, the names of the principals, time
keeper. seconds, hackers and referee
being omitted for humanity's sake.
THE fight came off in a barn. over
near Benton Falls. owned by Bank. 1t
was between Blank of Greenville, and
Blank of Augusta, and by gee whiz.
that Augusta boy Is a cyclone. They
fought for SO rounds and it was a
brutal affair from start to finish. The
Greenville man weighed in at 213
pounds and the fellow from Augusta at
1856"
1T was a case of a weller weight go
ing up against a heavy weight wasn't
it?" was asked.
That's just what it was, but the Au-
gusta boy won it out in the finish. The
fight was arranged in Greenville, last
Monday. by Blank of Newport, and it
was also arranged that the fight should
come off at the races at Fairfield, yes
terday. There were nearly 700 people,
l should say at the fight. They entered
the ring at just 4 o'clock, yesterday
afternoon, and the fight continued until
2.30 this morning.
THE purse was for $500. When the
Augusta boy came into the ring he said
he was sick and not in condition to
fight but that if his hackers insisted
why he would go on and he. did. In the
first round the Greenville man started
in with a rush and quickly had his man
going, landing on the right eye and
sending his man to the ropes. They
We're sparring for wind when the gong
struck"
Our informant went on to state that
the man from Greenville kept the Au-
gusta boy on the move all the time for
the first nine rounds and then the Au-
gusta man made a break and smashed
the other fellow numerically right and
left, landing wherever and whenever
he had a mind to. Then the Kennebec
man contented himself by sparring
| easily and taking considerably punish
ment for about 60 rounds.
When time was called for the 72d
round, the sick man from Augusta
| rallied and went at his opponent like
a whirlwind on roller skates He found
his man and knocked him about, land
ing on jaw and heart at will, and al
though bleeding from the damage done
his mouth he grew stronger and fresher
and faster with each round. Perhaps
if they had kept on fighting until this
time the man from the Capital City
might have been able to have licked a
regiment.
Well, anyway, the I'D round was the
Greenville boys Waterloo, and, al
though he stood up and took his medi-
cine for another 10 rounds he went
down before the fearful onslaught Of
the master science ard staying qualities
of the little fellow from down river, the
Knockout blow being one under the
heart. The people had come there by
buckbOards and all sorts of convey
ances and as soon as the fight was
over they departed the way they had
come, leaving the defeated gladiator III
the hands of his friends and surgeon
who was obliged to take several
stitches in wound over the right eye.
OF course this is only a condensed
account of the mill as it took place and
was told to us. Our informant went
into the details of the affair like an ex-
pert and he left nothing unsaid that
would color and embellish the story.
a Hcniv =, =,
told it brought the fight before our
eyes and we could see it all as well as
though we had been there.
After the fight the man who tells the
story went out to find that his horse
had been stolen by some kind friend.
He reported the case at once to Officer
Mutt of Fairfield. who began to work
on the case. Brother Mutt put in all
the nighth in the search and was out,
early this morning, to the wonderment
of everybody who believed he should be
in bed, as he is the night officer of the
town. About the middle of the fore
noon. just before the sporting man
CALLED on the Journal. he met Mutt and
told him that he had found his team,
that 1t had been taken by man who
was several oceans under the cup and
it would be all right. Then he called
on us.
1t has cost the Journal 20 cents in
car fares to investigate this matter
and we naturally. feel somewhat in
censed over it, for the man is evidently
travelling with wheels. He told Officer
Mutt that his name was Fred Nolan. a
livery stable keeper from Pittsfield; he
told the Journal that his name was
Joseph Horatio Smith and that he had
a horse in the races at Fairfield; and
he told another newspaper man that
his name was Percy s. Little of Pitts
field.
Who, which or whatever he is he has
worked the biggest kind of jolly on
police and newspaper men alike. We
can not fail to admire his nerve and
style of telling things just as, they
do not happen to be. This story would
have been good one if there had been
any truth in the stroy of the fight
Arthur F. Belcher of Portland, has
been admitted to practice in the United
States court.