Arizona republican., 1902-12-12
A GENUINE BULL FIGHT
Bare Knuckle Contest Lasting an Hour
 and Half.

Yesterday afternoon. with hear knuckles: single handed and alone, Earl Ream fought a mad bull for one hour and thirty-five minutes. in a pasture lot on the Stanford ranch north Of the asylum. There was no grand stand attendance, no admission fee and for the first hour there was no referee. Both were fighting for their lives and the bull was getting the best of It when help arrived, the brute was beat en off with clubs and the contest de- clared a draw. It was plain what the end would have been had there been no interference. for when rescued Mir. Ream was helpless and his collar bone and two ribs were broken on the left side.
 MT. Ream is one of two brothers en- gagged in the nursery business near the Stanford ranch. At five minutes past o'clock yesterday he started across the Stanford pasture loaded down with Q coil of wire. an ax and other properties. The bull was a de- horned Jersey and it is well that he had been robbed of a portion of his natural defense or the result would have been fatal to MT. Ream. The dllillIl tg tu lllill SlASllNlOdSlg llbiii Siil time he entered the field and followeI him along in a threatening manner. MT. Ream. however. did not expect an attack and shortly approached a barb wire gate. By this time the bull had got himself thoroughly worked up and charged the man before he could get the aX into commission. MT. Reap was knocked through the barb wir" ,I hr h hfc al vantage went after him through the breach. Beyond the gate MT. Ream landed on a wooden headgate in an irrigating ditch and either then or dur ing the battle that followed the head gate was smashed to pieces. The in- furiated beast tried to gore him but discovered that his gore hooks were gone. This play gave Mir. Ream q chance to grab the ring in the bulls nose but it was only a temporary ad- vantage. He was not strong enough to throw the beast and make his es- cape and he darded not let go the only good hold he had on his antagonist. The details of the fight cannot be given for there were no witnesses except Mir. Ream and he had no time to take notes. For the next three-quarters of an hour it was a battle royal. Neither contestant overlooked a single advant- age he might have taken though there is no doubt that if MT. Ream could have got gun he would have risked any criticism that might have followed his shooting below the belt
 Finally an Indian boy came along and sizing up the situation decided that if he were to mix there would be two of them getting the worst of it instead of one, so he went as fast as possible for help. He met a son of R. H Woolf and another man and the three returned armed with big clubs By a simultaneous assault they managed to turn the tide of battle against tne bull and eventually beat him off and drove him into an adjoining lot.
 A messenger was immediately dis patched for a physician but had not gone far in the direction of the city when he met Dr. J. M. Swetnarn who chanced to be in that neighborhood. The doctor drove as near to the field as he could and hitchng his horse. started cross lots, toward the injured man. His guide yelled at him to be- ware of the bull and he then noticed that he was himself walking Into the deathtrap. But he was near division fence and as it was muddy on the other side he took chances on the bull who was by this time getting tired anyhow. But the doctor took good care to xeep close to the fence. Arriving at the scene of the fight he found the man completely exhausted and badly. though it is thought not dangerously. hurt. He was taken home and an examination showed that the left clavi- cle and two ribs on the left side were broken. They will heal rapidly no doubt as the injured man is only 21 or 22 years old. The most alarming feature of the case is that ne was spitting little blood, showing some in- ternal injury. but it is believed Ii wiz not prove serious. He was resting quite comfortably last evening It was fifteen minutes to when he was res cued so his fight lasted on hour and forty minutes less the time taken m going to the pasture