Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-26
GALLERY SEATERS
HAVE FUN WITH
BIG ANNOUNCER

Up in the gallery the boys who paid
their little old IS to witness the COM
bat were not at all slow in expressing
their disapprobation of the proceedings.
When Leather Lunged Cook, the
shouting kid got up and started to
make announcements they handed
him a very saucy line of conversation.
Back to the phrenologists for you,
Cook" shouted one wag.
Then, again, when he was making
the announcement for Nelson as fol-
lows: "Genalemen, l am requested by
Battling Neson champion lightweight
of America, to announce that he
rs afraid to fight Herrera" broke
out some indignant fan in the top row
of the top section. Then the rest of
the crowd admonished the refractory
person, "Bunkiedoodle for you,
kiddo. Your domes rusty. Give the
announcer chance
So Cook went on with his explana-
ton. Before the night was over he
had learned all the tricks in the ex-
planning business and was an expert.
But the bunch up in the big top didn't
take kindly to the explanation stunt.
What they wanted was a good, scrap
py fight to go about fifteen rounds.
Crowd at First Good Natured
"Nitzky on. the talk, you Cook!" they
yelled 1.-Two, four, six, eight and add
three for you" Then he tried to tell
them that it was because Herrera was
overweight that the fight was slow
in coming off, and when Nelson de-
claimed the fact that he would fight
the dusky one if the latter tipped the
scales at less than 140 pounds they
just went wild about him. You're the
goods, Bat" they yelled. And then
To !, bof
is there like duck with bells on.
He's there, pail he's there!" To which
the wise pal agreed.
They could not see it at all when
Announcer Cook asked them to cease
| smoking. "Aw, back to the home fol
| lungers, for you!' and they all lit an
other cigarette, just to show their in
| dependence But they were philo-
sophie about it. It's a cinch l don't
| lose my little old fifteen bones put on
Herrera" said one stole.
"Well," butted in another, "even at
| that you lose. Herrera couldn't lose
with all those horseshoes. Why, it's
| like putting money on q horse to run
second in a two-nag race. There's only
one way you could lose and that would
be for Herrera to drop dead"
Sports We're Strong
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| and everyone played his hunch. When
the fight was declared off they said in
| a disgusted manner. II tink l have a
bum hunch. see? 1 play Nelson to win
i'm ten rounds and now my bet is up in
a balloon, boys"
They were not as scrappily inclined
as one might think. "Well, I'm in
just five of those horrid dollars, and
I'm not so sore at that" was how they
told of their troubles to the generally
unsympathetic.
Most of the strong knocking was
done in the cars going down town. 81
came 150 miles to see this fight and
I'm so glad / came. Far be it from
me to knock, but there are two par
ties whose initials are Bat Nelson and
Aurelio Herrera who don't get the
chance to burn any of my good money
again. l may be easy, but l amt no
fool and the old man don't get in bad
| twice
The most expressive opinion heard
was simply "Stung!" which was
| calculated by some poor sport who
had come across with $40 for a ring
side seat and then torn up his check
Ut was a pretty sore aggregation, and
that they took it as quietly as they did
| is to be wondered at.