The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-07
BAT NASTERSON is A.COMING
IN BE ( DEPUTY 4. y. MARSHAL
TNDER HERR HENKEL.
natl, Wan VINO Doesn't Have to shoot I'm
Lands where He Is Known counter
fciinE Coon and Black Hand Coon
Via, ~ Wen Practise Coming Down.

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s,b,cr scout and buffalo hunter is coming
90 News York az q United States Deputy
usr.bd After lifetime passed in track
inc fine huhalo to his lair and tanning the
trigger of -ngle-action Colt a. Mt drunken
cow runchers and tin horns. Bat Is going to
can a strenuous life by running down coun-
,.rfeitcr- and wiping out the Malta. He's
r., his way from Hot Springs post haste to
to.vo-n in To-day Marshal Henkel will
,,,hdlv induct him into Office and pin on
,to oeiotI badge Window insurance will
,n N por cent in the Italian quarter, for
suboirh Bat shoots straight his gun Is so
ou-ere5 powerful that the bullet may go
Straight through the chief of the Black Hand
and do a lot Of damage.
n You're counterfeiter. you want TO be
GOOD after to-day Bat Masterson, the
pIoodstained Avenger of Butte, is on your
trail Not that Bat comes from Butte.
He fame is tied up with the fame Of Dead
xood one Of the go Western towns known
a. ,be Toughest town on earth" But
Ru,to il the right word in this place. 1t
sounds a. If II belonged there. sort Of rhymes
inside and that's the essence OF real litera-
ture
What Bat Masterson didn't do in the old
Wes, wasn't worth doing. He began IA n
ranger A buffalo hunter. dead shot with
Mic rife and his side arm. The late 7Os
and early sos found him in Deadwood "a
United states Deputy Marshal. 1t IL a
matter Of record that he cleaned up the
camp jig time.
Faro goes, poker goes. studhorse goes,
even Monte goes though it's damned
Gresser game. But it goes on the level
Brane games stop. Savvy?' These were
the historic words OF Bats inaugural. 1t
IL reoorded in Deadwood history that brace
games did stop. SO did several hearts,
puldng with warm, bright Western blood.
The great point about Bat Masterson was
that be didn't look "a though he could
fight. Like Slade. the plains terror whom
Mark Twain immortalized. he was meek !
and mild in all his ways. Even his manner !
Of Tutoring his left palm over the hammer
Of triggeress A had something OF gentle
manly refinement about 1t.
After the gambling Of Deadwood was
made pure "a the driven snow. Bat did
many things He turned up in Denver as
proprietor of a prosperous dance hall.
The old love claimed him for time and
he became a deputy marshal in Colorado.
His footsteps led him TO Leadville another
toughest camp on earth" There he fell
in with Bat Moriarity. another Trojan
Of the unwritten epic Of the West. History
pauses to make mention of Bat Morarity.
This Bat was long on diamonds, fur over
coats and IS carat gold watch chains, and
short on early education. He struck it
immensely rich and used to run his mines on
a system Of his own, When he wanted to
find the time on one Of his gold watches
be d stroll into a saloon and say:
Its that coold an the SHOWS that bright
| can't ayther git out me watch or see it.
Wud We mind takin' it out an tellin me
the timef'
Once he shouted down the shaft OF his
mine
Hello there How many OF yez is below2'
Five T. came up the answer. I
well, the half OF yez come up +
Well. Bat Masterson met Bat Moriarity. !
and the two Bats fitted forth into the night
A, wyman's dance hall, Wyman himself,
he called himself the worst man on earth.
this Wyman-introduced these two leading
citizens to John l.. Sullivan. John L.,
then at the very apex of his greatness,
wa in town on a sparring tour. The
10000 foot altitude Of Leadville had already /
affected John l.. Even in those days the {
champ was susceptible 10 altitude Even ,
The sea level Of New York had been known
10 go 10 his head.
John l. said something unpleasant and E
almost profane about the climate of Col J
1rado. Every one was charmed 10 hear I
ne champion even notice the climate
all but Bat Masterson In his tanta- a
ling. courteous way he asked John l.. a
o repeat the remark 3
John l.. said something which. being ;
'tpurgated, was TO the effect that he didn't i
'haw his cabbage twict To emphasize a
lis remark, and show that he was really
ohn L.. he swung at Bat Masterson the b
elebrated sullivan swing.
But Bat wasn't there. He had ducked. p
md as John l.. came back to his fighting x
'ose Bat countered in the solar plexus t
nth the nozzle Of his "A. Clicking the ham
ler suggestvely with his thumb, Bat in I
uired II
How about the climate Of Colorado?'
Fine said John i.
And Bat Morarity was moved TO buy
u the altitude IN Wymans place. -
Inc old West rather drifted past Bat
iasterson. He got the prizefghting
nch and managed fighters a little he
Iayed faro "A good deal, he made book >.
wrote sporting items for a newspaper. =,
long IN 1902 a man from Utah charged 81
I'M with swindle in a brace faro game, "
mch hurt Bat. who declared that he had I +
ever played foul in his life. The charge b
I'd not stick "
Ana now he's bonnd for New York to
can u up IA he cleaned up Deadwood. L
ell, times have changed The West has h.
ol 70 quiet and respectable that Bat I,
ssteIson isn't needed any more and the 50
leie last sends a hurry call for HIM u
since Inspector Byrnes got into the papers Il
iot there hasn't been such a chance for n
in dune novel writer's or course Bat I
q ueen IN the magazines a good deal, lie
'ahks 10 Alfred Henry Lewis and others
y mere the chance of the real thriller III
Az Mdsterson in New York; or, Marshal II
thheI Last stand Against the Malta IT
imagination runs forward about three 81
~ . ahd lights on page Of Bat Master
'uled
quickly sprnging into the room, he rr
loN down Vito Leciuca with one blow de
rs powerful arm. stranRled the guard INF
~ tad aimed a swift blow at the solar Tn
e1l' 81 the covering Bull when the ov
a'Inan OF the Malta was upon him. Hurl- ou
: me shneking Bull into the passage.
u o'o apple man swiftly drew "A revolver IA,
w. pressed II against the breast Of the IN,
VINO are your cried the astonished G G9
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