The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-13
FIFTY FIGHT FANS
ARE "PINCHED. "
Continued from page one,

%oAA JOAACO the 0OuOdy SCHOOL S41S6s
The answer to this strange question
goes back to the days when John
Thulin, above whose saloon the battle
royal should have taken place, and
Johhy Patton were friends. The more
recent motive for the reform, according
to Thulin, is a motive to revenge on
part of Patton, who, he says, wants to
drive Thulin out of business. Accord
ing to Patton. the battle royal was too
tough even for Burnham, the kibosh
having been put on it in Peoria, Gary
and one or two Wisconsin cities. Pat
ton told TIMEss reporter this morning
that he had given the promoters suf-
ficient warning not to come to Burn
ham to pull off the fight, as it would
mean arrest by wholesale. Cal Harris
knows now that 1t did.
The villagers are praising Mayor Pat
ton for his good work.
He said that he had conferred with
Tommy Mowatt. the stockyard fighter,
who is one of the hackers of the Port
able Athletic club, but that the orders
had been violated and that the sports
would have to take their medicine.
Were Inclined To Be Lenient.
Patton and Judge Hunter, both were
inclined to be lenient with the fans, but
they insisted that they must go through
a regular trial before they could be re-
leased.
Thulin. the one time friend, tells a
story. Several months ago he worked
tooth and nail for the boy Mayor" and
his influence was largely responsible
in landing Patton the village presi-
dency. Since then. according to Thu
lin. Patton has changed his mind-Pat-
| ton wants the saloon that Thulin has
and Thulin unwilling to give it up.
there has come up a coldness between
the one time friends, with the result
that Patton, thinking 1t was Thulin's
game last night, querered 1t.
The whole village is in hubbub. Peo-
pie who we're sitting on their porches
| last night, between 10 and IL o'clock,
hearing the shots ring out in the air
and feeling the bullets whiz by their
ears, took refuge in their houses, fear
ing to come out again for the rest of
the night.
| This morning they were UP bright
and early to learn what it was all
about and wonder why, when dozens
of fights have been pulled off in the
village. this one should have been
stopped.
All VIII Stand Trial.
Among those who gave their names
to the constables last night and who
will have to stand trial today are Wal
ter Phillip, Walter Riley, Charles Mi
chael, Joseph Michael, Joseph Olson,
Josehn Johnson, B. Bodie, Dan Myers,
James B. Dank, T. Murphy, F. NJ.
Smith, Luke Rover, G. Herman. Charles
Herman, T. Bodie, H. Bodie. Webster
| Osborn, Charles Smith, p. Davis, Har-
ry Williams, Peter Van Horne, NJ.
| Brown. Harry Parks, L. J. Emmerson,
Ed Craig, w. Smith, James Johnson,
Harvey Steinway. John Keifer, Paul
Rowen, w. Stein, r. Johnson and Fred
Haggardy.
The, admission charged was $3.50.
There were no Burnham or Hammond
men among those arrested.
I'VE only had nine men to make the
! arrests with" said President Patton
this morning, and naturally many OF
them got away from US. One of the
fighters, 1 understand, jumped out OF
the window"
People were on their way to work
this morning, going to Hegewisch OF
coming to Hammond, met young mer
who asked their way to Hammond OF
the nearest way across the state line
They were as wet as though they ha6
been out in the rain the having spent
the night in the marshes to escape ar
rest.
The Portable Athletic club is the
J migratory organization. put into beine
J by Cal Harris, an Ohio promoter who
drifted this way because things were
a bit dull in his particular line o.
endeavor on his native heath.
Club Has Many Homes"
The happy selection of the name
Portable, tells it's own story. The clul
members have been chased from pilla
; to post by lusty deputy sheriffs anC
making it necessary for the club t,
: have more than one rendezvous Har
ris saw the possibilities and necessi
ties of the occasion. He secured a
least a dozen different locations for .
. clubhouse" and now the Portable i
practically immune from legal inter
, ference, inasmuch as 1T can transplan
it's arena from spot to spot, dashin,
hither and thfther in such a ewiIder
ing manner that only Sherlocl
Holmes or a thoroughly up-to-dat
. Thinking Machine could expect to fol
: low the digressions
. And the Portable has quite a mem
: bership list, too. Some of the bes
, people among the fight fans are regu
! lars at the Portable fights and watcl
' some interesting battles.