The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-12
.GLADIATORs WERE
IN THE ARENA
Police Take a Hand in Bingfest
in Union Temple
Ring.

The police and the sports locked horns at
Union Temple last night and the village con-
stabulary won. First come three hundred sports
A bearing coin. Comes one doorkeeper who assessed
the sports $3.50 FER. Come seconds bearing
bottles towels and smelling salts. Come two
{ burly fighters, one white, one black. Comes the
referee. who makes public the fact that there
will be biting kicking Or gougtnG. Comes
the bell with swatss and swings and prods, and
punches. Comes the third round and the arrival
I of tie noIice- Comes luil In the battle and
the crowd out of the hall Comes the pro-
,noter to the bank-and afterward looks at fur
lined overcoats and diamond pins. Comes the
cold gray dawn of the morning after and some
OF the fsht followers still standing cold
corners and telling why Ben Did Not Knock the
! Head off the Igorrote.
4 Such in brief Is the story of the battle at
Z Union Temple last night. Fer week the wise
i followers of the fv ounce game have been talk
ing in whispers of the big battle of the heavy
I weights that was to be. Ben Tremble, st.
], Paul gladiator, was to so fifteen rounds with
one Whitehead, and it was expected to be the
finest thing in the way of physical culture dem
onstration since Gilbert Hubbard showed the pop
I: uace how to grow hair.
Gathered by Stealth.
Last night the distinguished patrons of art
gathered by twos and threes and marched up the
3 stairs at Union Temple and sat down in the
( high priced seats. It to be smoke social
i bur there air of suppressed excitement
which does not mark the social where only rlsque
stories are to be the entertainment Brawny
men with arms like piano legs moved about In
dressing rooms and the gentlemen with short
q hair and red sweaters chewed the cud Of com.
8 placency and waited for the slaughter to begin.
The Preliminary.
In @ preliminary argument James Bartos
3 of st. Paul and kid Hoppe Of San Francisco
e (Anoka county, Minnesota), fought five rounds.
They were pennyweights, but went at each other
Silike pair of fshwives battling pot Of
& stale ale. When it was all over Referee Barton
N.
nounced that it draw. There were soma
remarks about flow BRIDGE but the crowd
was out to the big battle it did not com
plain.
Then came the big event Tremble is "a burly
specimen Of the reformed hodcarrier and looked
ut to knock the head off a bronze monument.
His antagonist is descended from Hottentot
prince of long ago and looked as tho he might
be formidable. The men Were heavy enough for
safety-valve weights on lower-river steamboat,
and after the usual formalities they shook hands
and then further demonstrated this friendship
by attempting alterations in the architecture of
their countenances
Battle Was Slow.
too heavy to be fast, but each showed a con-
scientious yearning to put the other out of the
hitherwhere into the sleepy land of yon. Mr..
Tremble biffed the chocolate-drop until his hands
ached, and the gentleman of color retaliated
by allowing the bang of his glove to find a
sounding board on the broad jaw of his rival.
Oue TOuuu pdSSeu Win Exchanges Oh COmpll-
ments, and the stockholders were wriggling with
delight. The second round graded up to sam
qple and Tremble was beginning to- pound the
head of his rival out Of oval into rect
angle. Once in swinging for the dark head the
st. Paul cyclones fist hit electric light
globe and great was the crash thereof In the
third round, when Mr.. Tremble was demonstrate
ing that the swing is mighter than the punch
and Mr.. Whitehead was attempting to evade
duty as reception committee for the wallops
the police appeared at the door, headed by
be abated. The referee said that the honorable
governor had Quilted i'm and that it was ne
use to struggle against fate. ~ 8. .... !
~ 1t was all orer-except counting up the gate
receipts.