Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-24


 feet set myself sud go; q clean right handed swing ou his jaw, This put him out for good. aud we had q hard time bringing him 10 conscious ness
 Iill. last word l heard as 1 started to jump out of the ring was, "Au' dey dink dey can ieek my boy, vot!' fol- lowed by familiar chnckits, The old man was still on the job.
 I was handed fifty mcclellan bills for my victory, and won that much more in bets that l had made with the Pullman employees.
 My success in saving the t;gh5iny Z honor cf Eesewisch appeared to take all the talk out of the o!t! gnun about makiDg ,1e quit the game" From this time on be was dyed in 'he wool fight ..,>. To thlS d:..; hs. thinks there is r,.h:.s! i:t thc word N ho '',:;,u leels hi; hn.% "@t..' and between you and mo '.@: ,';: Battling has got some. what ;1 "a same notion
 His Terrible Experience in Ring. Anyway. the change ill my dear old father Was enough to warrant rue in starting cut agai:l Having had good luck in Wisconsin, l journeycd that way again. and it was at + ond du Lac l two weeks later that l met Charley Berry fer he third and last time. I had lest. as stated, a close decision to Berry t:.s December previous. and l3e challenged nc ayain. This time we had eight r&u.:d&, tbough l held out ! for twelve er fifteen rounds. Like our ! pretiCt2s Eatt!e the affair wenl the full eight rounds. He fon&iit a pretty stiff sort cf battle 59,roughout; but. aithaarl ;t no timn did he have fhe best of tho figh,itg Referee Tom Ryal, awarded the plnui to him al t!le fni$t. . In the final rounds [ forced Berry through the ropes in my anxiety to put : him out. Fearing lie would be Killed as the drop to the floor was about eight feet, tried to catch him as he was falling. l did tilt. because fig. ured had won big lead and thought that I had the bnttle wrapped up Therefore I grabbed him to check the fall in order to give his fat manager. Paddy Dorrell, chance to protect his man. Paddy during the excitement
 made misstep in his corner and fell. and Berry tumbled over him. thus saw ing himself from a hard tumble
 was in the wreck and tumbled head
 long over a chair, my head striking q post, almost knocking me out as we'll
 The gong sounded, and Referee Ryan
 held up Berry's hand as the winner.
 received $75 for my end. though lost | out.
 Finally Beat Joe Percentc. 1 Joe Percente and I met for 'he
 fourth and last time at Oshkosh Wis,
 on March 13, 1902 l had caught a Lad
 cold after the Berry affair, and when I ], weighed in, clothes and all mind you,
 the beam scarcely tipped 13O pounds. i was game. however. and went in to
 hand Sir Joseph a good heating car i ricd ,Ae fight to him and won the bout ! in handy fashion.
 i ! returned to the Windy City after
 my win over Percente and was match
 ed with Kid Ryan in the feature bout on lovely St. Patrick's day evening.
 March IT., of course.
 Strange to relate, had previously
 fought on each Irish day of celebra-
 ton and had managed to win each
 time with a Knockout The Ryan bout
 according to the announcer. was to go
 six rounds. It didn't, as in the first
 round I sailed in and hooked him on
 the jaw several times, also using my
 left half scissors hook on the liver
 and down he went for the fatal ten
 seconds. I was handed 475 for the finished job.