The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-14

with you, joe" to which Joe responded
And I'll take drink with you, Jem.''
Then followed a rapid firing of abuse,
Mace accusing Coburn of cowardice
and Joe asking him to prove 1t by in
wiling him to his corner. After they
had faced each other over an hour the
cry was raised that the police were
coming, which caused considerable ex-
element and almost q stampede At
the end Of an hour and seventeen min
utes two men entered the ring, Judge
Wilson and the high sheriff of the
county, Edmund Deeds, who command
ed that hOstilities cease at once, and
as they were backed up by the militia
the order was obeyed and the crowd
dispersed, but not before one of the
light fingered gentry relieved the high
sheriff of his timepiece
proposition to renew the ffasco at
Long Point, Canada, was made by Co
burns umpire, Both men agreed to be
governed by the referee. Hollywood
then notified the men to meet him at
1O a. m. the newt day and after con-
sultation he ordered them to fight at
Kansas City, Mo-, on June 2. AS this
was carrying the fight over the time
limit, according to the rules, Coburn
refused to obey the officials order, but
offered to fight within twenty-four or
fOrty-eight hours.
Mace, however, proceeded to the
fighting grounds named and as Coburn
failed to put in an appearance the ref
cree decided Mace was entitled to the
stakes. Stakeholder Harry Hill re-
fused to give them up under the cir
cumstances, as the referee had over
stepped his bounds, acting in direct
opposition to the rules by ordering the
men TO fight with a Sunday interven-
ing between their first and the re-
quested second meeting
A new match for $500 a side was
then arranged and set for Nov. go
Their first match was for s., 900 a side
only, quite a small sum for the worlds
heavyweight championship battle as
compared with what the fighters of the
present day receive to whale away at
each other with five-ounce gloves.
Their second meeting took place at
Bay st. Louis, Miss. This time Mace
had his old opponent, Ton. Allen, and
Jim Cusick for seconds, while Coburn
was was chaperoned by Tom Kelly, who is
still living and in the grog business
at st. Louis. and Tim McAlpine. Jim
Coburn, JOe's brother, and Al Smith
acted as umpires and Rufus Hunt Off
ciated as referee.
There was considera Bile action in this
battle, that is during the first eleven
rounds. but the twelfth was a repeti-
ton OF their Canadian affair, with the
exception that Mace declined to leave
his corner instead Of Coburn. They
stood looking at each other for nearly
an hour, Mace only going to the scratch
when ordered by the referee Coburn
mad the same ugly gang with him and
Jem, fearing bodily harm, would not
take chance TO step across the mag
mary line Coburn, ifsanything, had a
shade the better of the milling, but he
also, for reasons best known to him
self and his seconds, refused to fight
in Mace's backyard
After considerable bantering and
JOShlng the referee, finding that Mace
would not leave his corner and that
Coburn did not intend to drive him out
or do the fighting there, stepped in
side Of the ropes lin those days, on
under London prize ring rules, the ref
cree officiated outside of the ring) and
declared the fight draw, adding that
zone was afraid and the other
daresn't."
This was the last actual ring fight
Mace took part in and also Coburn
Mace went to England, but returned to
this country several years later and
from here went to Australia, where he
taught the "Kangeroosi" how to hit,
stop, and get away. After touring
Australia he returned to America,
bringing with him as a champion pos
sibility, Herbert Slade, who will be re-
membered as the "Maora'' Slade was
big, husky fellow. but knew little of
the game, as was attested when he met
John L. Sullivan at the Madison Square
garden and was beaten In a jiffy. His
size and bulk made him an excellent