The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24

City and the other on the Sharkey
matter out in Frisco. ! have bsen Iii
receipt OF numerous letters which hint
that 1 have been keeping back some
thing about both of these mills.
That's right. / have, and I'm going
to say right here that thsre are lots Of
matters connected with those two
fights that win never be told by me.
The tone Of three of the letters 1 ref-r
10 is such that some righteous indigna-
ton has got me, and I'm going TO hand
out a few WallopS where they belong.
I let several people down light in those
two articles. and if they hurry up and
claim they were not fairly treated it's
up 10 them 10 get some more OF the
same medicine.
As / think I've said before. I'm a
pretty easy going old chap until they
get my dander up. Even then L don't
get mad, but there's one thing no
white man ever said to me yet and got
away with. and that IS that don't
hnoW myself or what I've been talking
about
There are a lot of so-called sports
who owe their present position Go the
fact that I've kept my mouth clos d
concerning some propositions they've
made 10 me- aud if YOU should happen
on one of those crooked pikefs you
might find out that they went away
with "a flea I'm their car that they have
no difficulty in remembering.
I'm not sitting up on a tin pedestal |
looking down on the sporting crowd
and telling them how good ! am, or
how honest 1 am, either, but I'm Will
ing To let my record and my patience
sDsak for itself, aud / don't want any
haif-baked Hear-spOrts running up 10
the ropes trying to make a feeble bluff,
because Ina going To call it every time.
With that warning I'll go ahead and
hand out those things l spoke OF. prin-
cipally because of what the wise man
can read between the lines above, if he
Vhas a mind To.
When / told the story of the Sharley
fight ] omitted "A lot of things because
couldn't see any useful purpose in
telling them. Since then. as I've said,
I've had few letters and I'm going TO
answer those by opening the subject
again. I'm going to take the Sharkey
fight first. because ii came first, and
some of the things that occurred there
had a bearing on the Carson City BUSH
ness.
! tried to let Wyatt carp down easy
but IL doesn@t seem To be appreciated,
so III say he acted like "a yellow cur,
in spite of his record. / knocked Tom
SharkCy out fair and square, and carp
knew it, but when it came to annOunc-
ing the decision he never made it, In
fact no decision was ever rendered out
side of the one l made myself. When
I droppsd Sharkey and he lay there
like a log until his seconds picked him
up, carp merely walked over TO his
corner. put the creek for $4,000 in the
hands Of Toms seconds and walked
out of the ring and out of the build
in@.
He didn't have the nerve to stay
there and face the music. in spite of
the fact that he wore gun. / knew
then for absolutely certain that I'd
been trimmed, and it was myself who
called for order and shouted 10 the
crowd;
The referee says I've lost on a foul.
gentlemen
All this time Tom lay like a dead
man. until a certain man we'll known
in San Francisco came down from his
seat i'm the balcony and stopped over
him. possibly five minutes after carp
had left the building. AS 1 say, he
stopped over him and his words are as
plain 10 me now as they were then. He
said.
Put your hands on your abdomen
and groan rs if YOU were an great
pain
can't give them here. but they are close
enough for all practical use. In the
fog that was hanging over him
Sharkey heard them. anyway, and did
as he was told He threw up his legs
and his grOans could be heard all over
the ring. l said before that I didn't
think he was in on the original play.
/ can say that still, but he was in on
the finish TO il, and did just what he
NJ nH i'm
court that the doctor the Sharkey
crowd had got to inject something into
him, 70 make him swell up before they
bandagcd him, had a job doing it, for
Tom howled like a stuck pig and put
up a hot battle TO keep them from do
ing il. Then they bandaged him and
when the regular doctors showed up TO
examine Tom his crowd wouldn't stand
20 have the bandages disturbed. It
looks funny now. but it was no joke
then. l tOOk-that case into court and
proved by Toms own seconds that he
was taking. / proved be others that
the whole thing was a job, but I was
up against tie political gang there and
the judge. after telling me he would
give a decision in my favor If 1 proved
my case. WEIGHED on his word and
handed IL against me I'm just telling
this 10 show that while I was going TO
let things go as 1 told them / can tell
some things now. As for Wyatt carp,
he Wilted. and didn't have the nerve TO
. stay and face The music.
I've got a whole lot more of that
same kind OF talk tucked away i'm my
head. and it's at auybody's disposal
that wants 20 drag it out I'm not
looking for trouble, but I am looking
for a square deal, and / think I know
how 70 get H.
Now. about some OF those things that
happened at Carson City When I'd
got Jim where I wanted him. and had
put him down. I was back toward my
corner. There were twenty men hang
ing on to my hands, congratulating me,
and then CoTbett rushed over. While /
had my hands locked he punched me
twice i'm the face. / couldn't have got
away IL ia wanted TO- In desperation
] showed my face out and said 10 him.
Go on and punch. You can't hurt
me, anyway
Then Jim's seconds got him away and
the crowd commenced to push up.
There wasn't a policeman or Pinker-
ton man anywhere in sight. They
been put there TO keep off anything
that looked like trouble. but they care
fully kept out Of il. There had been a
lot OF blum about ii being death 20 the
first man over the ropes, but / didn't
see any one try 10 make good. As soon
as the crowd started forward again, /
felt something cold against my left
cheek and a voice said
"AH right Fitz. Don't one Of YOU
bows move or I'll drill you. Back
there
looked down. and there was the
blue barrel OF 81 resting on my Shout
der. Behind il was Wyatt carp, and
" hen be met my eye he said: