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not the regular navy prizehghts like the
johnson Cohen affair. They're just bile
evaporating battles between fellows who,
for the time, hate each other
Nearly all Of these Crouch fights are
pulled of down below in one Of the fire
>yooms or in an empty bunker, for the off,
GERS are not supposed to know anything
about them. The empty bunker IL pre-
ferred on account Of its isolation.
when one Of these scraps is to come
of between two buejackets below all hands
or'ard know all about it in advance, but
very few of the men. unless they're init
mates Of the fellows scheduled to scrap,
expect invitations to the mix-up. There
isn't room in a. bunker for more than two
or three friends Of each man.
with one second each, and a referee
agreed upon, the enemies, naked to the
waist. go at it. The men are not allowed
to fight rough-and-tumble. They've got
to observe the rules Of the game, and their
shipmates are present to zee that they do
obev the rules.
Il saw one Of these fights between enemies
in which the two went forty -eight rounds,
and they we're bunged-up looking pair
of sailormen when they both consented to
quit and patch UP their quarrel. As q
general thing, though. one Of the men In
these bunker fights is licked before the
tenth round
III the men are unequally matched, and
one of them il getting sorely the worst Of It
in the early stages, all hands in the bunker
take hand in pulling the two apart II the
two men are about of sort az TO ability,
they're allowed to 60 on until one Of them
is well thrashed. At the wind-up Of one Of
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Of twenty years or so ago, and never saw
one Of them reach any greater point OF
what's called brutality than the average
prizefight ashore. The dead bad fights
aboard men-o'-war are the impromptu,
bare knuckle affairs, generally pulled on
down below in the bunkers, between men
who have got it in for each other
1.-THE Pacific and China stations have
always been the prizeaghting stations for
men-o'-warsmen. On the Pacific station,
particularly. there's . lot Of main deck
boxing between the men for'ard, and all
hands become interested in the walloping
art. Good men are developed In the prog
ress of the bouts, and when the ships get
to cruising together the crack men of each
ship are put UP against each other, nearly
always by arrangement and subscription
Of the officers.
Moreover, q lot OF professional fighters,
good second rate men as often as not,
are shipped out at the Mare Island Yard.
San Francisco's the leading fight town
in the country now. and San Francisco
scrappers who are not quite good enough
to get the money in the fighting game out
there ship for a cruise or 80 in the navy
when they find themselves up against 1t
! ashore. .,.s
-That's the way II wss. with Sharkey.
He was clumsy fellow, with nothing
but strength and the ability to stand any
amount of grueling, before he found him
self on the fritz in San Francisco, and
shipped in tho navy up at the Mare Island
yard. He had chance to develop himself
In the navy, so that when he quit the service
he wasn't bad sort Of man although
none Of us in tbs navy ever counted him
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anywhere near first class.
Twas serving on board the Philadelphia
when Sharkey was sent to her from the
old Independence guardo at Mare Island.
Nobody on board knew anything about
his being a fighter. although he looked
chunky and able to take care Of himself.
"Sharkey had the mitts on In the open
space between the gangways not long
after he Joined the Philadelphia, but there
were several big men on board who had no
great trouble in putting 1t on Sharkey.
He was vicious in these just for fun bouts.
however, especially after having to stand
for a few taps from the other fellow that
stung him bit, and several times he bulled
in as il for blood and laid his man out.
After that they gradually began to be
afraid OF him on account Of his temper and
his strength, and passed him along in the
gangway bouts after knock-off in the after
noon. Sharkey became unpopular among
the men of the Philadelphia on account
of his craggy temper, which he seemed
to make no effort to overcome: 40 number
of them began to snoop around on board
the other ships trying to find man capable
OF licking him.
They put man after man up against
Sharkey in the gangway bouts but the
Irishman was coming 30 fast, with steady
practise on board ship, that he put them
all away easily,
when the Philadelphia got down to
Honolulu for long stay in Hawaiian waters
the men on board the ship who had it in for
Sharkey did something that had been done
only two or three times previously in the
history Of navy scrapping; they put Sharkey
up against ringer.
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4The ringer was a gigantic Portuguese
Kanaka. half and half Of each OF those
bloods, and the champion slugger OF the
Hawaiian Islands. This giant was rugged
ITO in a bluejacket uniform. and 1t was
given out that he was the star fighter OF
another American man-o'-war then IN
Honolulu harbor.
THE fight took place on board the Phila-
delphia. 1t lasted only two minutes OF the
first round. and then Sharkey landed on
the Hawaiian giants Jaw. and the ringer
went down like typhoon uprooted date
palm and never came to until he was
sneaked ashore in the steam cutter.
That was the last OF Sharkey's fights
in the navy. They didn't try after that to
get him licked. His time was up soon
after. and he quickly took rank as one OF
the good heavyweights Of the country.
1t was the incessant practise that Sharkey
got in the navy with men pretty nigh his
equal in strength, and plenty OF them his
superiors in boxing, that sent him along so
fast when he shed his bluejacket uniform.
He says so himself, and he ought to know.
"Tbe bare knuckle scraps on board ship
between men who are sore on each other
are Just as common nowadays az they
ever we're, and there's no way Of stopping
them. There's regulation against this
sort Of tightins &, Of course, but it's the
deadest Of all naval regulations.
IF they'd try to enforce it to the letter Of
the regulation a LOT of the best sailor men
on board a man o'-war would be in the
ships brig from one end OF the year to the
other. Fighting between men whove got
a Crouch against each other is what you'd
call necessary evil In the navy, and that's
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6A7N7Vo ~ PEZf7AM BAY PARK.

playground for girls will soon he COM
pleted.
The work of teaching the children how
to use the gymnasium apparatus properly
and how to play the various games IN all
these parks is under the supervision OF
David l. Kelly, director Of city Fairgrounds,
who in the three years that he has been IN
charge has accomplished a remarkable
work among the poor children, OF the lower
East Side especially. Mr.. Kelly said 10
THE Sun reporter:
in each of the playground parks there
ha We been organized baseball teams, basket =
ball teams, tennis teams and track teams,
and among them there is keen competi.
ton. Schedules are arranged and carried
out regularly.
Competition games ire held every Satur-
day and Wednesday afternoon Throughout
the summer. and the last Saturday OF eacn
month is given to athletics. The basket-
ball play has been divided into three SEC
ions-seniors juniors and midgets. These
teams in one park challenge those OF the
other parks and the school and settlement
house teams. Baseball, basketball and
tennis are the most popular games among
the boys of all the parks.
The boys have organized clubs OF their
own, and the pride they take in them Is
surprising. They buy their own uniforms
and they take good care of the park prop
erty, too, realizing that it is their property
and that If it Is stolen or damaged they
are jlred just that much.
Each club or team has a separate hour
for practise, and the boys themselves help
to enforce the regulations. The junior
clubs are made up of boys from to IA years
old: the senior clubs Of boys from IA to IL
years.
Basketball teams. of course. have to be
arranged by weight. The midgets take
in the youngsters averaging from 20 to ~
pounds: the juniors weigh so to 90 pounds
and the seniors 90 to 40 pounds. In the
last year w have developed many good
basketball players, The boys like it, and
1t ia good exercise, keeping them in the
omen air and allowing small chance for
cheating or crooked work In their play
aVolley ball and gymnastic and athletic
games are also enjoyed by our boys Three
deem. circle ball, catch ball, medicine ball
tag ball. bounce ball, mount ball, hustle
ball. Indian club races, club hustles, march
ing evolutions dumbbell drills, wand drills
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THAT cot scrap between Johnson. the
black from the Olympia, and Cohen, the
Yankee buejacket, that wound up in the
death Of Cohen, will probably crab the
regularly arranged prizeights on board
United States warships for while at any
rate" said chief petty officer in the navy.
sAll hands will therefore be missing lot
OF sport.
THE set battles in which the men fight
for purse made up by the ships officers.
as In the case Of the johnson. Cohen fight,
haven't been 80 frequent in the navy of late
years as they used to be, but thera's been
more class In the arranged fights during the
last ten years or so than there was when the
mi1.ups were more common. During the
last decade I've seen some fights between
big fellows on men-o'-war that wouldn't
. TO, ei ring ashore
In the old days the frequently arranged
fights were between plugs with no boxing
skill, but just swinging Differs, as often as
not. and the mix -ups would occasionally
develop into rough and tumble affairs be.
tween the principals, with their partizans
taking wallops at each other on the side.
There's been a good deal Of pains taken
in the man-o'-war fights Of recent years
TO have the men in tirst-rate trim when they
got together, and to have them as evenly
matched as possible. That's why I can't
quite understand the fight between the
man from the Olympia and the man from
the Yankee that cashed in the Yankee
man.
"I've seen a good many Of these regu-
larry arranged fights on board ship since l
nrst began to sleep In canvas bag, a matter
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pavilion with $50 free baths half Of them
for men and half for women. East River
Park, at the East River from Eighty-fourth
to Eighty ninth street, contains a small
playground for girls and small children, pro-
vjded with kindergarten and large swings
or soups as the children call them. and other
devices appreciated by the smallest children.
John Jay Park, at the East River and
Seventy-sixth street, contains an outdoor
gymnasium for the boys, two tennis courts,
baseball diamond, basketball court
and kindergarten equipment with sand
houses and swings.
In Tompkins Square is, according to the
director, the best park playground in the
world. 1t is situated in the heart Of the
park, with the shade of the trees on the
playground, and consists OF an open air
for girls.
The gymnasium contains horizontal
bars, two parallel bars, two horses (the
German side horses), two bucks, inclined
and horizontal ladders, flying and travelling
rings. running track, jumping ground
in short, complete athletic field, together
with tennis and basketball courts.
small park at Seventeenth street and
the East River has been equipped with
kindergarten playground for small chill
ddren.
Hamilton Fish Park, at Houston and Will
lett streets, has double open air gym
naslum. with running track, athletic field,
tennis courts, playground for girls. sand
houses, swings, shelter sheds, &C., for kim
dergarten children. and two indoor gymna-
Sums, one for boys and one for girls, which
are used all through the winter.
At Corlears Hook Park there is play
ground with an open air gymnasium, base
ball field, tennis courts and basketball
courts. And Hudson Park contains a small
playground for the children Of the, lower
West Side.
The new Fairgrounds now in course OF
construction are in Thomas Jefferson Park,
between 1llth and Hath streets. First ave.
nue. and the Harlem RIVER, where one Of the
largest outdoor gymnasiums In the world
is building; De Witt Clinton Park, Fifty
second to Fifty fourth street and the North
River, where a fine outdoor gymnasium
and complete athletic field will be ready
for use by Sept. /, and st. Gabriel's Park be-
tween Thirty fifth and Thirty sixth streets,
First and Second avenues, where a double
gymnasium, athletic field and separate
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Central Park is skating the lake and ponds
being crowded whenever the ice is in good
condition.
Good grounds for baseball are provided
in st. Nicholas Park, and at Jasper Oval
the grown up adherents Of the national
game have the same rights and privileges
granted to the youngsters in Central Park
In recent years the Park Board has been
petitioned repeatedly to build golf course
in Central Park, but such petitions can never
succeed because there Is not room for golf
links without spelling large part OF the
park for other purposes. The golf players
must be content 10 60 to the parks in the
remoter parts Of the city.
Far more remarkable than this growth
Of popular interest In sports in the larger
parks has been the development in the last
four or Ave years OF scientifically arranged
and conducted Fairgrounds for the poor
children Of the tenement house neighbor-
hoods In certain Of the smaller parks Of the
city. Here the city fosters games and
sports Of various kinds by providing not
only the grounds, with suitable fixtures
and equipment, but also the individual
implements necessary such as balls of all
kinds, bats, dumbbells, Indian clubs. and
even tennis rackets; and furthermore
1t employs a corps Of instructors to teach
the children how to play the various games
and how to get the most good out OF their
exercise.
There are eight Of these specially equipped
Fairgrounds now In operation In Man
haitian borough, and three others in course
Of construction which will DO opened to
the children before the present summer
is ended That they are doing q splendid
work in giving these poor children good
physical constitutions and training. in
retaining them from evil street influences,
in breaking up the fighting gang idea and
in starting them on the road to good Ameri-
can.citizenshipi is asserted by those interested
in the work.
The first playground OF the sort was opened
about ten years ago in William H. Seward
Park, at Canal and Jefferson streets, by the
Outdoor Recreation League. This soon
demonstrated its usefulness and success
and led to the adoption Of the idea by the
city.
The first municipal playground was in
stituted in 1902; also in William H. Seward
Park This playground contains double
outdoor gymnasium for boys and large
playground for girls. There is also q
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The of cials Of the Department Of Parks
assert that no other city In the world does
40 much as New York to see that its public
parks are enjoyed by its people, 80 much
to make it's breathing spots attractive and
inviting. Especially noteworthy in this
direction have been the efforts of the munich
pal government in recent years to foster
in the parks outdoor sports and recreation
OF practically all kinds.
The old idea Of a city park as simply an
enclosed tree and shrllbbery garden. with
handsome lawns protected by plenty OF
Keep of the Grass" signs, has given place
to the new idea that a great and crowded
oity's parks should be the Fairgrounds Of
ite children of all ages; that to be enjoyed
by the people the parks should be used by
the people. And the city is constantly
at work preparing new Fairgrounds, i'm
proving those already in use, installing new
equipment and providing additional facili-
ties for sports and games.
The utilization OF New Yorks parks FOR
sports and games began about 1850, when
schoolboys were first permitted to play base
ball in Central Park. A baseball diamond
was laid out in the southwestern corner
OF the park, and the rule was established
that only boys under 10 should be permitted
TO play.
This rule still holds good in Central Park,
hut there are plenty OF baseball diamonds
In other parks where older players can be
accommodated. To-day the old diamond
Is not used for baseball. but there are half
a dozen new diamonds to the north OF the
old one on the green, and these are In use
from nom till night every Wednesday and
Saturday throughout the warm season.
About twenty years ago lawn tennis
began to be played in Central Park, and
since that time various other sports have
been admitted and other parks have been
made available for games. until to-day
there is scarcely any outdoor sport in
dulRed in by Americans that is not en-
couraRed in the parks Of New York city.
There are now 200 tennis courts In Central
Park, and they are kept in constant use
while the weather permits, more than 1000
permits having been issued this year by
the Park Board for tennis in Central Park.
These permits are issued to ali applying
for them, no discrimination or favoritism
being shown.
The old baseball diamond in Central Park
ia now used for croquet. This quiet game
ia also played in Mount Morris Park, and
that it is still enjoyed by some New Workers
is shown by the fact that there have been
issued this year 500 croquet permits.
Cricket. is played on Wednesdays and
Saturdays on part Of the meadow. Central
Park, a soore Of teams holding permits
for using the grounds. Nearly half OF the
payers are dark skinned men, coming
largely from the West Indies.
Lacrosse has been played from time to
time on special permits, which are issued
for that game whenever demanded. but
public interest in it here does not seem to
be large.
Occasionally permits are granted to
practise archery in Central Park, though
there is not much call for that either. In
the autumn football is permitted to the
schoolboys, and in winter the greatest
sport enjoyed by the greatest numbers in
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From The Jun cfion 'NV T7"T' Nm.
Frank Parker came in la~ week 'I"n I Is.
ranch In the Coast Range, some ,n'U' tev
wes, or hare He informed Ms that y Jew
nights before he left they hoard considetan'.
Of a racket about the place aud n">' mofn,nS
found their house cat dead and also NH s v1h A
The animal iesped an eight rail ''n'' WV"
goat without disturbing a ran, ,,,, and his
With the assistance OF a' ~ he a cougar
dog the animal, which proved W wv
was freed and killed.
The border vidette., 1905-01-28
Notice of Forfeiture.

ro Chas. J. Kleeman, L.. Mclean. Thomas
 Starr and John Sapunar,
 You, and each of you are hereby notified that I, the undersigned, co-owner with you in the Haciampo mining claims. Nos l, ?, 3, the location notices of which claims recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Cruz County. Arizona, in Book of Mining Locations, at pages 46s, 469, I7O and 47l, said mining claims being situated in the Palmetto Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Territory of Arizona, have expended on each of said mining claims co-owner therein. the sum of One Hundred Dollars in labor and i'm provements for the year ending December 31. 1901, for the purpose of complying with the provisions of Section 2S24 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. the same being the amount required to hold said claims for the year ending December 3I. 1.O3. and if at the expiration of ninety days after the eublica- ton of this notice. you, either of you. fail refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure, your interest in said claims will become the property of the undersigned
 CHAS. R. HOOD. Dated Nogales, Arizona. Jan 6 IaGl-
 First pub- Jan :. I9O'-
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Notice for Posting of Settlement of
 Account

In the Probate Court of the County of Santa Cruz, Territory of Arizona.
 In the matter of the guardianship of Anna Amsden, incompetent.
 Notice is hereby given that J. B. Bristol the guardian of tke estate of Anna Amsden, incompetent, has ren- dered and presented for settlement, and filed in said court, his partial account of his administration of said estate; and that Monday, the Both day of January 1905, at 10 o'clock al m., at the courtroom of, said court, at the court house in Nogales in sad Santa Cruz County, has been duly appointed by the said court, for the settlement of said account, at which time and place any person interested in, said estate may appear and file his excep- tions in writing to the sad account and contest the same
 Dated January 18th. 1905. i2t ..- W. A. .OCONNOR,
 Clerk First publication, Jan. 21, 1905.
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Office of the Board of Supervisors of
 Santa Cruz County. Arizona, No
 gales, January ?. 1905.
 Sealed proposals will be received at this office mp to 10 o'clock A. NJ. Mon- day. February 9th, 1905. for county supplies and for burial of indigents for the ensuing year commencing Feb ru- ary l, 1905.
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ORDINANCE NO. AT.

ORDINANCE NO. AT.
 Number 45, Relating to Public
 Licences.
 Be it ordained by the Mayor and the Common Council of the town of Nogales:
 Section l. That section One oi Ordinance Number Forty-fve be, and the same is hereby amended to read: ''Section F. That Section Four teen of Ordinance Number sixteen be, and the same is hereby amend ed to read:
 Every person who, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, shall op- crate, keep maintain, rent, use or conduct, within the limits of the Town of Nogales, any percentage game which is played, conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice or other device, for money, checks, chips, credit or other representa- tive of value; or any machine, contrivance, appliance or mechan- ical device, upon the result of the action of which money or other valuable thing is staked or haz- arded, or by means of the action of which any merchandise, money, article or representative of value, check, or token redeemable in or exchangeable for money, or any thing of value, is won or lost; shall pay a license for each and every such game, machine, contrivance, appliance or device, of Three Hun dred and Sixty Dollars per year, or Ninety Dollars per Quarter, and no license shall issue for a shorter period than three months"
 Section II. This ordinance shall be in force from and after it's pass age and posting according to law Passed and adopted this 27th day of January, A. D. 1905. Attest:
 P. J. MUNICH,
 Town Clerk.
 F. F. CRANz, At. Mayor First publication, Jan. 2S, 1905.