The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-09
Mooser's Style of Fighting.
IFS Not at All Pretty, But Wins Out Every
Time.

tive. and let me remind you that I
mean TO be obeyed. When I tell you
to kick man in the stomach I want
you to do IT, Don't wait TO ask cues
tiCns. but Just obey I'll teach you now
to kick a man in the stomach. and, II
he happens to be down, in the mead
without p=rmauently injuring him, but
1 can't do anything Tor you il you don't
obey. / stopped that tight before
wanted TO. because I saw that some one
had gone for the police, and / oldn' Z
want you TO be arrested. It's lnconFen-
ient. 4 kick in the stomach IS the
quickest way to stop the fight ana Sun
win, that's why 1 suggested d.
we were walking down quiet
street as Wooser talked. and pretty
soon we came TO corner where a h2I
dozen men were grouped, saying good
night to one another. Without a Wofd
of warning M0oser gave me a shove
( into the center of this party. / knocked
/ three men almost over and the Whole
| six jumped ON me at once. ] dld4 I
/ know where NOoser went, but ne
I wasn't in sight when the field cleared.
/ 7 was alone. fighting six men.
/ Il knew Mooser had his eye on me,
/ though, and although I regarded II as
/ a little rough to give me job ike TINS,
! / was beginning to understand MOoSer-
| So i went in and fought the best j
/ knew how. I handed cut punches right
and LETT and they counted because i
/ was a pretty strong fellow, ana. men,
/ I had confidence. L knew MOoser was
/ somewhere nearby and that az the
proper time he would boo UP and heip
me out and my faith in Mooser apll-
/ itv to lick an army was absolute
/ Pretty soon two of the three men re
I tired from the fight and two others were
! scarcely fighting at all But the other
! two gave me fierce battle ana my eyes
i We're ali puffed out when MoOser came on
| the scene with his usual weird sudden
ness and sent one Of my opponents INTO
! dreamland
.. Kick him in the stomach WHISPERED
! Mooser sofJly to me. 1 didn't DO IT, KICK
him in the stomach repeated MoQSer, q
| trifIe more firmly. Again / could not
| bring myself 20 do it, At seemed such a
dirty thing to do when I hac only one
man against me Suddenly I was at
| tackled from the rear by one OF the men
who had quit, and as I turned 70 peat MN
off. the man ia front up and kicked me
I'm the stomach, and that all 1 IeIneh-
| bered until I came to ana heard MoOSer
! telling a policeman how he had seen me
attacked by band of highwaymen and
I had come up just as they were ABOUT =.
/ so through me Ihe policeman 1ooh !,
/ all down, and The next DAY IL was IN al
the papers, and detectives were assigned
| to find the band of thieves
When NOOseT got me alone he merelS
1 said The value Of obedience must bs
[ obvious to you now. Il is unnecessary
1 for me 10 say any more 'MoOSer,
{ said. YOU are a great man, but your game
/ is a little too swift for me. Good night.
or firmly resolved that I was through
/ with MoOScr, but two nights later i was
I out with him again, and Tor weeks dtte'
that he and I Travelled around together
and he put me into fights Just as long a
| I was able TO stand them ana he though
| 1 was i'm need of the training. / got L
/ love them. and If he didn give me ont
every block 1 didn't like it at ali. Oh, bu
ne was a genius at the thing He AWAY
planned IL out in advance never lost nj
head. and in two months OF his compan,
, I never got arrested once. got hcke'
many. many times. but lt was geRefttl
/ because 7 didn't follow MOcser aQElce
Toward the end ] got so j would klcl
/ a man I'm the stomach without Jne snght
, I est. hesitation. 1 learned that on man,
occasions it was case Of kicking or get
, I ting kicked. and I always found ina
/ MOOSer only advised this sort of thin
| when there was good reason for briugin
] the fight to a close and there was n
. { other way to terminate it.
"N0oser didn't teach lot of people I
! ! fight. but when he took q man i'm han
/ Bixbv-he learned him or he killed him
, I don't know where moCser IS now, bu
e / guess he's teaching men to fight Ee
D Without b0asting. 1 can say tnat Whe
[ ! Looser finished with me [ could lick an
? ] three men iu the country in 70 rOuSh-ano
, I tumble fight, Mooscr, Of course, q
81 can readily believe it, said the mir
o lister. as he babe Chollynike Eood-nish