The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-11
SPORT Is DISTURBED
THE POLICE INTERFERE WITH a
PRIZE FIGHT.
THEY GET ON TO THE TIP TOO.
They Appear on the Scene at Two Differ
emit Places Just in Time to Stop
the Punching Process-Half
a Round Fought.

| take place. LII was lnJerIereu with DY
the police just as matters were getting
to focus in the first place. Then the
scene of combat was transferred to an
other place and got as far along as to
get half round pulled off when the
halt was called again.
The prize fight between " Deacono
Dodge and Al Moss had long been an
event the sports were looking forward
to with high anticipations. The prin-
cipals in the affair got together some
weeks ago and signed articles. Then
tickets were pushed out for sale and
about eighty or ninety of them were
sold. The articles called for battle
royal and the gate receipts were
the stake But there was no battle
and no one got the stake. The police
got " Deacon" Dodge, but All Moss got
away in his trunks with a pair of shoes
on and an overcoat hastily thrown
around him.
Tips were frequent ali day Sunday.
| They were given out first that the fight
would be pulled off at Ideal park
Whether that was thrown out simply to
get the police off their guard is not
| known, but if it was it did not work.
Along towards evening the tip came
very quietly and slyly that the mill
wonld be pulled off in Congress hall on
the north side. And by s o'clock the
sports and principals were there to the
number Of about eighty. A sixteen
foot ring was arranged and the princi
pals were ordered to their corners when
Officer Joseph Newhouse showed up
and remarked: Boys, you'll have to
stop it right here" 1t was stopped
right there, but no arrests were made
since no one had done anything as yet
The sports all filed out of that hall
and among themselves arranged for a
committee of three to go elsewhere and
find some other place. About twenty
of the sports got lost out of the crowd,
but fully sixty of them staid within
reach of such tips as might be thrown
out. After an hour or so the tips
came They said the fight would be
pulled off il the Jaeger barn near the
depot SO by numerous and circuitous
routes the sports soon found their way
to that barn.
Here another sixteen foot ring was
erected. Lamps and lanterns had
been borrowed from various sources so
that a very presentable light was pro-
vided. But the police had evidently
been spying upon the movements of
the crowd, for they were there within
a very few moments.
The principals had been rubbed
down and put into the ring. Each had
on big pair of boxing gloves and had
begun to pummel the other. The men
seemed very we'll matched and the
sports were settling down to the enjoy
ment of one Of the liveliest bouts they
had experienced in Kenosha for years
Punk punk went the gloves. A
heavy right swing from the negro
landed heavily on the neck of the pale
face The sports were delighted. One
more such blow and the pale face
would fall asleep. But he didn't get
time to sleep. The first round got just
half way through when Chief Stemm's
head came up through the hay chute.
Stop this, boys" he shouted. The |
words hardly got out of his mouth be- |
fore there was no one within earshot to
hear his voice. The way that crowd
scattered would give lessons to a
dynamite explosion. Boards came off
the barn in every direction and the
sports came pouring out like water
from bursted tank. The barn had
suddenly become a plague spot and
everybody wanted to get away from it.
They piled out in the direction of every |
point of the compass.
Down on the ground two officers
were at the street entrance to the barn.
The men avoided that place mostly.
There was no one at the garden en-
trance, so many of them ran out that
way. One fellow, in jumping down,
landed in the arms of officer |
The officer pulled his gun and
fred it in the air, probably to brighten
the man. but he glided swiftly away
Just the same.
One of the "spotes" landed in a
blackberry patch with barbed wire
fence around it. His bowls and laugh |
ter soon attracted what he thought
was copper in his direction and the
manner in which he cleared that berry
patch and seven foot tight board
fence was caution.
The police caught the Deacon"
He did not try to get away, but Moss
departed in scanty clothing as detailed
above. The police took charge OF
Moss clothing and Dodge and made
off for the police station.