The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-29
CHALLENGED BY A GIANT.
Abhaliah, the Arab, Coming From
CCnstantinOple to Tackle Sharkey

Abbaliah, the Arab, Coming From
Ccnstantin0ple to Tackle Sharkey.
Abballah, the Arab, is on his way
from Constantinopie to whip Tom
| Sharkey, the pugilist, says the New
York Journal. His manager. Sheen
HadJl Tahar, says he is on the Cunard
steamer due here next Saturday, that
ne is seven feet high, as ferocious look
Ing as an ogre. and that one of his
easiest featS is to lift sixteen fat men
up at once and wave them in the air.
Mr.. Tahar asserts that as soon as
Sharkey sees Abballah he will start off
In hurry for the nearest tall timber
and keep out of the way until the Arab
has returned to Turkey
This is how Tahar worded his chal-
lenge:
To the Public-I will match Abballah. the
Arab, to fight Tom Sharksy limited round
| battle or a finish fight Cor any amount of
Arabian or American money. Allah will
| help Abballah sure winner
-SHEEH HADJI TAHaR.
Arab Emporium, No. 1GS Eighth avenue.
When Sharkey's friends read the re-
mark Allah viii help they did not
know that Allah means the. Lord.
haps a trainer. Bob Armstrong,
Sharkey's big colored sparring partner,
who is in Boston with the Marine s
outfit, was quoted by wire as saying:
Allah will help, will he? Well, that
takes me. Those Arabs think they can
sick a, couple of themselves on to Shar-
key at once. Not by Marquis of
Queensberry rules they can't. That
man Allah Of theirs will have to keep
out of the ring. Abballah must do the
licking himself, and if he tries any
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Mr.. Tahar is an Arab importer, who
has the contract for supplying Arab
acrobats to music halls and to Buffalo
Bills Wild West show. He talked in
cessantly yesterday about his new
champion. His office rs fitted UP in
Oriental style, and swarthy men sat
around it in crimson trousers. with taS-
sells on them. and looked as if they
had just popped out Of the Arabian
Nights
My man is a peach" said Mr.. Tahar.
''He is the terror of the whole Fourth
ward in Constantinople. He's seven feet
high and still growing. He's twenty
six years old and weighs 200 pounds.
He's whipped every one he's ever met.
Who's he ever met? Well he's met
some good 'uns, and he hasen't done a
thing to them.
HE had been performing in the music
halls of London. fairly paralyzing the
audiences by his feats of strength. He'll
take the sixteen latest men in the
house, make them into an adipose
pyramid and lift them in the air.
i've had four letters from him, writ
ten in Arabic, and each of them said
something worse about Sharkey than
the one before. Say, these fighters have
been making a record Of talking.
wonder how they'll like to meet man
who tells them what towards they are
in eight dialects of Arabic. The Ian
guage has about 200 letters, and when
you talk it it sounds like grindstone
sharpening a buzz saw.
But this is no joke. I'll put up Slo.-
900 to bind the match in any kind OF
money Sharkey prefers. Sharkey fights
with the aid of his strength, and Well
put him in the ring with man three
times as strong as he is and twice as
quick. Poor Sharkey! I wonder II he
can get back into the navy!
Some wise men say that Abdallah is
mountebank who is trying to ad-
vertise hard-boiled egg eating act or
whatever else he does on the variety
stage at the expense of Sharkey. rms
Tahar Indignantly denies.
Pugilists say that the easiest man TO
whip in the ring is a professional giant
or professional strong man. two
punches finishing the giant and one
,llnch the strong man.