The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-06-04

perfiuouS pompoSity.
"Tals was our plan: Some years ago
there came to the gym little fellow
i named Spider McGann. Spider was q
coming lightweight, which truth didn't
strike Hefty until Hefty struck the
floor. But the affair blew over, and
now he is growing again. So we hunt
\ ed up McGann, who is lightweight
champion now, and offered him $500
to go up against Burke. The mill
comes off tonight at the Macedonian
club, and poor old Hefty thinks he's
I'D against the Macedonian clubs train
er. 1t I'll be rare to see his face when
he finds it's Spider Mccain. Spider
will lay down in the ninth, and Hefty
will simply swell. He'll continue to
swell until~the Annual comes out. This
will be in it,
He handed Hall slip of paper. In a
scrawling hand was written:
| 2 This is to certify that /, Spider Nc
Gam, laid down in my fight with Hefty
! Burke. I could have punched him full of
| holes as sieve if I'd had mind to,
SPIDER MGANN, b
Lightweight Champion of the World.
"Now, the point is. Spiders gone
back on us"
''That's il" said Burns. We've got
to pull it off somehow. We've sold
over 1000 tickets at anywhere from
So up. All the old grads Hefty has
foored will be there ready to back
him-you see, no one knows it's fixed
but Dix and and the board of editors
Of the Annual"
"And you're the image of Spider
| McGann," said Dix. Our proposition
is to give you the $500 to meet Heftr
tonight. II we couldn't tell you fr> -
| Spider Mccain, he couldn't. Yoy re
due to go out anyway, so it v at
! make very much difference when Jou
do, only we'd want you to ST. as
many rounds as you could for tht lake
| Of Appearances
Hall was thinking deeply. "For the
church! For the church, ran through
his head.
Gentlemen" said he, Spider Nc
Gam pro tenn. is at your service"
you're a brickv' said Dix, wringing
Halls hand. Meet us here at 5, and
we can talk it over at dinner. And
fishing in his pocket-"here's fifty to
clinch it. Well give you the rest after
the MILL"
At 5 Hall was pacing the corridor,
when Burns and Dix came in. After
dinner, at which Hall was given many
valuable points as to Hefty's style of
boxing, the three entered a cab and
were driven rapidly to the Macedonian
club
1t was precisely o'clock when the
Rev. Charles Aloysius Hall, clad in
green trunks, faced Hefty Burke. That
gentleman's face was study. Beyond
a doubt he was suffering from the
SIC. ~ "
Not quite so easy as last time"
Burke muttered between clinched
teeth, and Hall could not restrain a
chuckle.
"Timew The referees voice sounded
in almost absolute stiffness. Then at
it they went. Hefty was nervous and
Hall was cool. He could imagine him.
self back at the gym in his university
days. He side stepped Hefty's sledge-
hammer blows: he lodged and ducked
in manner that brought the crowd
to its feet. He would do his utmost to
stay those nine rounds.
IN one of the boxes Burns and Dix
were hugging each other.
ITS great, greatv' sssa Blk. "Hefty
will surely think it was Spider
And there was evaa more cause for
Hefty to think SO when, the end came
rather suddenly .sxsly /. IN the eighth
Hall ducked visieus .jsb and at the
same time swung wfsk'his right. The
blow landed with tssrtae force on
Hefty's neck, and he went down blow
ing like gramAus. Then the referee
counted off ten seconds. The crowd
howled. 1t WAS some minutes before
Hall realized what had happened. and
when he did he vaaats4 tae ropes and
broke for his dressing Esstn, while be-
hind him the ehsestaS.rsSsubfed.
At CedarvfHs tvs dsFs later Hall re-
ceived the.fohewias 4etter:
Rev. Charles Alsyzius HAN:
Dear sir-Yeu will prs6ssly wonder how
we know your name ara address,. card
fell from Your pesaAf in your dressing
room, and we have Eszrded it jealousy.
1t was. because we ~, the card that
we let you depart that night without
saying more about the. money after you
had refused It kseasssbyou claimed you
had broken your contract by flooring
Hefty. You earned It; We gods. you
richly earned 1T. ma dEst thing .Hefty
said when thsv gst hita. to his corner
was. well I Iainct 80 s1aeb Fam I?''
Inclesed please Hna exs6k. On Third Ma
tional fer $780, 4 ass,..
We have secured fran &pidrr sworn
statements that he ID not fight Hefty
Burke on the evening" sf, April 7. This
will appear In the Kknsal. With poem
on Hefty's fall before the great unknown.
Great uni:rswn! Yea saa1lremain such,
but permit us to ezersss sSt gratitude to
you. Sincerely yours. ROBERT DIX.
JOHN BURNS.
This Deg Gam SReA.
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