The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-27

on as being one of the brightest young
women in Maine in her early life.
Murray Hail seems to have made her
mark in the sporting world She at
tended the baseball games on the old
polo grounds, visited the local race
tracks and saw many of the big prize
fights Her faVorite amusements were
cardplaying. pool and billiards. But
she was particularly fond of prize
fights and was in the habit of telling
her fellow members of the west side
political clubs that she would have
enough OF course the persons to whom
she said this believed her to be a man.
John g. Haclsett of the Tammany
Hall general committee. one of the
lieutenants of Peter +. DOOling. the
Tammany leader Of the Thirteenth as
sembly district, said yesterday that he
had known Murray Hall many years
Hall" he said, won considerable
money betting on himself in billiards
and pool games I consider myself as
good pool player as there is on the
upper west side, but Hall frequently
beat me- But he was an awful kicker.
tie grOWled every time he made a poor
shot, and swore like a trooper I re-
member the last time I played pool
with him we had a row. It was in
Jack Lyman's pool p6rlOr in Eighth
avenue. Hall had been losing every
game. As ne continued to make poor
shots he became ugly and QuarrelsOme.
finally threw down my cue and said.
See here, Hall, if you were not a little
TUHt I'd punch you He said I wasn't
big enough to do it and that made me
angry We swOTe at each other and
fiEally friends interfered, and we re-
sumed the game, Han saying, III play
you one more foF SO side Pretty
soon he picked up a billiard cue and
cue from him.
Then I refused to play the game to
a finish. Ne went out and had a drink
and parted friends It's hardly posi-
bic to believe he was a woman. Why
he went to the Dixon-Lyman fight in
Boston with a crowd Of the boys and
bet his money on Lyman Jack Ly-
man lost the hgnt- Ali the way home
Hall gTCwled over his loss Of the bet
he had made. But he spent money
freely and kept busy buying drinks
for the crowd until they got back to
New York. The crowd stayed in Bos-
ton two days Come to think of il, Hall
left the crowd one night up there and
did not tell them where he had been.
When he got back they jOllied him and
asked HIM if he had been of to see
his best girl. L net him at the Coney
Island Athletic club when Gus Rubin
fought Tom ShaTkey, and I also saw
a number of occasions. He was at the
WolcOtt-West fight in March, 1897. I
think he lost S200 on the Corbett-Fit
simmons fight in Carson City. I don't
know whether he went there to see the
fight but l think he did. one thing
is certain: he described il as well as
anyone who did see il. But ne was at
almost all Of the fights that occurred
at the Coney Island Athletic club. and
he was at the bike races at Madison
Square garden a few years ago, for
went there with him.
From another source it was learned
that Murray Hail got tipsy with a
crowd who attended the Sharkey- RUN
lin fight at Coney island in June, 1898.
when the fight was over the crowd
paid visits TO the concert halls and
| finally some one suggested that all
hands take a midnight hath in the
surf Murray Hall refused TO go. He
said he had a horror OF being drowned,
and was too old man to learn how to
4 swim.