The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01

was all day for him, and he knew it.
He'd fourfiushed about long enough.
and while l wanted TO show him just
how much of a ringer he was, didn't
want the thing TO get too short, for l
believe IN giving a crowd a run for
its money any time that's possible. I
set IL pretty stiff for Jim and long be-
: fore the first round was over I knew
l had him on Queer street.
When the fourth round came in Jim
was a cinch, and | just handed him his
and began 10 count up that big bit of
change in my mind. It's a good thing
| l counted it there. fir it was the only
counting / did. While / was putting
nice artistic finish on Jim the good
president of the club was out. I'll give
you five guesses, and you'll never hit
it, unless you've heard the story. The
president was down the street putting
up the purse on Jim Hall. AS | am
| living man, that's just what came Off
There we We're in the ring, getting
warm and bruisy and the good presi-
| dent was hiking from one place to an
other putting up the $4,000 on a dead
( one. That's where l fought myself out
of a good bunch of ready stuff. If Id
/ have been beaten, sd have taken down
/ the short end and that would have been
/ something. but l had 70 go and whip
! Jim into a plug hat, and just because
, l did, and the presidents Judgment had
a hole in it, l got financial slap that
! hurt.
Then | thought of that fancy little
! speech I'd made about sticking TO my
/ old friends in New Orleans. and
| could have sat down and hOWled an
[ Indian war song. / thought of the
| $50. coo we'd been offered in New York
| and l could have hit some one with an
AK, but l had to stand and take the
! medicine. though I'll never forget how
! mean [ felt when they came i'll and
told me that it was all ".
] Where's the COIN" 1 asked.
There isn't any coin. said they. 1T
went up on Hail.
"All of it," | wanted TO know.
Every red, said they, and then
kept quiet.
That was my good friend from New
/ Orleans. Say, but there are lot of
things they can hand you in this sport
/ ing game. and it's d new one every
! minute. Think of me standing up there
10 batter Jim Hall up and down the
! ring for nothing. OF course il was
! some satisfaction to have handed
James his. and TO shut his trap down
about what he WAS going 10 do TO me.
but that money Was a bitter wallOp.
/ I've got many a worse one in the ring,
but they never hurt like that did. And
me all but broke. Wow.
However, It's d good saying that it'll
! all come out i'm the wash, and it did.
| got along somehow, but that lesson
taught me lot of things.
In the newspapers sometimes you've
/ read something like this: Some delay
was caused at the ringside by Fitzsim-
mons. He wanted the money put up in
plain sight, and said he wouldn't go on
/ unless some reputable man held the
/ stakes"
Maybe you've thought it mighty
! queer for a man to act that way, and
! perhaps you've felt a little bit sore,
and had a whole lot of contempt for a
man that couldn't trust anybody with
the change he was going TO fight for.
| Well, now, do you blame Fitzsim-
lmops? Do you think he did that for
/ a joke, or because he didn't want any
, one to get the hooks into him again !
It's the old story. once bit. twice shy
and it's a burnt child that breads tn,
! French ball.
I'm going to know where ! get my
hands on that purse, moi matter how
things go, and If any more presidents
| want TO gamble, they can do il With
some other lads money, However
that's where ] have a laugh now and
then. when ] think of me working like
a mule and the other fellow running
down the street with that satchel put
| ting it up on Hall
Il is to laugh-now.
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/ CCouVriohf 1915 nv Jogpph T. Pou-Ioc