The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-01
carrig, Globe Trotter.
 Some Real Romancer

Detroit, March IT think I have been everywhere upon this habitable slobe-that is everywhere worth vis- iting,'' says Jack Carrig, the globe trotting lightweight to a Detroit (Nich.) newspaperman. VI have fought in every place where the glove game Is permitted and have helped put it on the map in many spots where it was never known before. During my travels, have fought in Alaska, lower California Mexico. Honduras, Panama. Colombia, Peru, Argentina, England. France, Germany, Russia, Egypt India. Japan, Hong Kong, Hon olulu and Australia. Travelling some, and I am not the only one. The world of sports would be amazed if a com- plete list were ever printed of the clobe-trotting fighters who make their way in far-off lands and introduce the good old biffing game in lands that most folks have never heard or.
 There is one place, however, where I do not care to fight, and I would earnestly dissuade any of our athletes from seeking 1t as a place in wh ch to do battle Poyerty-stricken place? Nay nay More money there than any spot of Its size T ever saw and more money for fighters tao. This strange place is Baroda. in western Hindustan. Everybody from the gaekwar or king, down to the common soldier is bug on fighting and a champion in any class can command from $500 up to $2o.o0o for a mill.
 Whats the matter with this de- lightful place, you say? Oh only this much: If you fight n Baroda you have to fight under Baroda rules and one brief glimpse of those rules was so impressive that I passed right on into the next territory. The boxers of Baroda fight as the old Greek and Roman pugs battled. but more so. have heard that in Greece and Rome they used the cestus for a boxing glove-a mitten studded with knobs of brass. lead or iron.
 ''In Baroda, where a boxing match is known as 'nukki ka koosti, the fighters wear glove with spikes or claws. of tempered steel and about four inches long. Lovely business. The rules are substant: ally the same as is the prize ring, with the addition of these lovely gloves. Challenges are given, bouts are scheduled and the athletes mix with these spiked gloves. The knockout blow in Baroda is a swinging chop that rips out the eyes although an uppercut that removes the framework of the jaw is both popular and effective.
 When I arrived in Baroda, invit- ed any 135 pound man in the kingdom to do battle. and my deh was accept cd by three young fellows whom I figured as easy money. When an of ficial who was arranging tho contests for the next show. informed me that the purse would be s2,00O, winner take all, my first opponent to be chosen hy lot, was gleesome child. I ac- cepted the articles requiring me to wear the Baroda gloves without wor- ". Then I went to see a little fight that was being brought off between two preliminary boys-two feather weights Nwho were just coming out. One of them was killed deader than a rabbit by a swing with those spuikes. and the other was scared for keeps.
 '' Say fir end, said I to the dignified Rajput soldier who was showing me the sights. do We wear those things when we fight?'
 Surely Sahib Carrig.' said he, "It is the custom I feel said I, that must go home from here. I am posi- tive that my brothern in America is very i'll, and wants to see me- And I beat it as fast as the nearest avail able transportation could convey me.
 Say. what a place for fakers. And another thing surei The loser in one of those battles would never try to come back, and never ask for a return match. In Baroda. it's one fight and only one-and that's a plenty"