The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-16
SP''|:0| ] 0R'|T|S.
THE DOUBLE U CROSS
Paretic No. ~ Tells How 'The Ma
rine" Used to Throw His
I Backers Down.
Hippodrome Develops Into a First
Glass Rough and Tumble Match
Better Than Real Thing.

| LHS NldIlllC, IdQ pScll 6lF0I 'L"C- SCdl
sentence In the penitentiary," said Paretic
| No. y, as the Paresis club assembled for
| its weekly meeting. II was not surprised,
| for if there ever was a crooked stick 1T
/ was that same marine, as the experience
I am about to relate will testify.
| Some ten years ago I was in jackson,
Mich, tied up with prize fighting, running
| races and similar easy money schemes,
and among other things I acted as trainer
| for the Marine during his preparation for
a bout. NJ. ]. Dwyer, the wrestler, who
gave President Roosevelt wrestling les
sons a year or. two ago, was In Michigan
at that time, but he travelled under the
name of Manning. Dwyer, or Manning.
was pretty handy with his mftts and a
| match was arranged between him and the
Marine, the latter undertaking to put out
Manning III ten rounds or forfeit the
big end Of the purse ~
"As say. trained the Marine and we
made great stir about our work. al
| though the thing had all been arranged
beforehand, the Marine agreeing TO let
Manning stay. It was a pipe that ne
would put Dwyer out fifth e fight was ~
the square. SO we had no trouble In get
ting lot of bets down. .. ~
la Blanche trained pretty faithfully,
that is, he didn't; drink much for some
time before the bout, but the afternoon
of the fight he asked ME for drink, and
I handed him bottle had with me- He
took two or tl..se good ones. and, although
didn't know it. he had had a few during
the day. Well, the men hadn't more than
shaken hands before the Marine handed
Manning an awful soak in the jaw. Man
ming had long, bushy hair. and you could
see it stick straight up like a trick wig
when he stopped the punch. We supposed
it was an accident, but in a minute La
Blanche handed him another soak. The
,4..H 4. 0/r,ox
he won the niddleweight championship
with one blow when Dempsey had him
all in--and it was clnch Manning would
not last anywhere near ten rounds II he
took many more such wallops..
1--WE cautioned La Blanche at the end Of
the round to go more easy with Dwyer,
but he simply answered.. .'Aw, dat don't t
hurt him. and Of course, I couldn't go
over to Manning's corner to find out il
the punches were really as. hard as they
looked from the ringside. The second
round hadn't fairly started when the Ma
rine handed Manning a soak in; the ribs
that took all his breath away. and fairly
made his Stats rattle. For heaven s
sake, George; let up gasped Manning.
scarcely able to speak. Jaw, dat don't
| hurt you, see,' said the Marine, and he
| sent in another stiff one.
'When heard that knew In a minute
what was up. The Marine had a cinch on
| his share of the purse, for he had a
guarantee from the house, and he had got
| up $35 or $40 on the bout, and was trying
| to give us the double cross. In a straight
| boxing match, of course, Manning stood
no chance with the marine, but as a
! wrestler and rough-and-tu tumble fighter
| he was all there. After that he went to
a, clinch at every opportunity, and
| wrestled the marine to a standstill. He
would simply pick him up, and slam him
to the floor.
"Both men were trying to get their
gloves off. but the mitts were too firmly
tied on; We in the corners, knew by this
/ time that the scrap was on the square,
and say, it had any regulation prize fight
| lashed to the mast for fair. Both men
were streaming blood, from their noses
| and mouths, the referee got soaked three
| times trying to part them, and altogether
! it was a real joyous party The police
finally stopped the affair, in the fourth
round, and, of course, all bets. were, off.
'That ought to have been enough ex-
perience with the marine to satisfy me,
| but La Blanche swore that. the booze I
gave. him before the fight had affected him
! so that he didn't know how hard he was
| hitting Manning. He wanted me to go up
| to Grand Rapids with him a couple of
| weeks later for another match. There
| was a. big slob by the name of O'Donnell,
who claimed to be the heavyweight cham
pion of Michigan at that time, and sup
! pose he was champion, because Michi-
gan had no decent fighters in anything
over the lightweight class. The scheme
= was to bill O'Donnell to fight an unknown,
and as he had a pretty good rep In that
/ section, we knew the suckers would rush
to get their money. down on him. The
/ MARINE of course, was. to- be the un-
known, and we were to clean up a bunch
\ of rube money, because in a square fight
ODonnell didn't stand one, two, twenty
| three with La Blanche. ,..' -. - .-.5
| .'I know now that the marine was lying
| when he tried to square himself with me
for his fight with Manning, but I was a
kid at the time, and he made me believe
that he was handing. out the straight
goods when he said the booze wasSrespon-
sible. So went up to Grand Rapids, but
fortunately I tied up my money, OH an.
other proposition, and had nothing lef
to get down on the match I say fortu
nately. for may be hanged, drawn anc
quartered if that perjured pup of a marine
didn t let ODonnell put him out in {
Il couple of rounds. He never could have
4 done it in ten years if the go had been or
the square. If I had got any money up
I'd have killed the marine. But that jus
j shows how far you can trust some fight
ers." = -- .ass.< ~: - -
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