The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-03
MOOSER'S FIGHTING STYLE.
IYsS NOT AT 4LL PRETTY, BUT
 WINS EVERY TIME.


 A Disciple of the Mighty wes.erner
 Gives n Practical Illustration Then
 Of the system and Tells About Moos-
 CT.
 Somewhere out on the Pacific coast there is an interesting young person named Mooser, who teaches people to fight He doesn't teach them to box, to spar or to stand under the lime light and talk. He just teaches them to fight and when a man has served q term under Mooser he uses fists, teeth, feet, bottles, clubs, anything he can get his hands on that will subdue the enemy.
 Mooser teaches men to fight after the fashion the late Steve Brodie of the Bowery advocated. Whenever a friend of MT. Brodie got into misunder- standing with any one and seemed to be getting the worst of it, the sage of the Bowery would stand by and yell;
 Bite him, dash it, bite him"
 
 personal entrance Of MT. Brodie into the encounter but suggestions from the side lines were perfectly proper, and it was a prerogative appreciated and used on many occasions by MT, Brodie,
 When Chollymike, of Brooklyn, wiped up the hallway of his modest flat with minister whom he mistook for q bur glar, and then pitched him down the stairs into the street, he owed his sue cess in a large measure to Mooser, be- cause the minister was an athletic young person who could not have been licked so easily if he hadn't been taken by surprise with the added disadvan- tage of encountering a pupil of the re- nowned westerner. Later on, when the minister came around bearing the pro- per credentials, Chollymike found that he was petty good fellow, and, when he asked where Cholymike got his pe- culiar style, Chollymike told him about Mooser.
 You see," said Chollymike,' when a man learns how to fight from Mooser he | never forgets it, and while the style in stiled into him isn't very elegant, it is exceedingly effective
 Tt is," said the minister.
 T first met Mooser under peculiar | circumstances" continued Chollymike. | q was walking through the streets of | San Francisco one night when l saw three men attacking one. I had on plug hat and my calling clothes, but the situation was one which appealed strongly to me. If I had waited mo- ment I would undoubtedly have seen that the proper thing for me to do was to go in and help the three men. But 1 was just conventional enough to believe that my duty laid with the one man, and so after I had divested myself of my hat and coat I sailed in, and with a punch on the end of the jaw laid one of the three low. t'The two men left came for me like wildcats. and to my intense indignation the man I had plunged in to help, stepped back and let me tackle them both alone. It was big job for man in high collar, and would have been badly off but for the fact that every i once i'll while when I was getting very much t,.e worst of it the lone man would step up and calmly beat my op- ponent back As soon as I got my wind he would step aside again and let the fight go on. "I guess we fought this way for about twenty minutes when suddenly the man I had started in to help stepped 1 forward and kicked one of my oppo- Z nents in the stomach. The man fell over and 1 thought he was dead. The 6 other man my ally punched twice in S the nose in the most deliberate manner q and he ran down the street T without waiting for more. The man 0 who had been kicked in the stomach got il up in moment, and still gasping for k breath followed him. " ''I turned around to tell the man to q whose assistance I had come that he W was cur to leave me to fight the two men alone, and also to say that that kick in the stomach was the foulest u hing I had ever seen in my life in a Ii fight, but instead of being behind me I le was over against a fence talking to s he first of the fellows I had put out of k business with my first blow. a '' You won't do at all, I heard him W aying to the man, who looked pretty h ick. That fellow who butter in there se an lick whole basketful of men like D. ,ou. All he needs is to learn to use his o1 eet as well as he uses his hands. He ii meant well, but I wish he'd kept out of his. I meant to fight this thing out ii lone. Then seeing me standing there SC e said; You fight well, my friend but tv 1hat you need is a little of my train ey