The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-15
BADGER FIGHT AT
 THE ARLINGTON
CHARLIE ELLISON AND FRED WALsBAuM ARRANGE THE
 DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.

"Plunger Charley Ellison, one of the turfs most famous characters. and Fred Walbaum. former owner of the GuttenbuTg race track and late proprietor or the Arkansas Club, as well as a host of prominent northern and eastern business and professional men, are apt to find themselves in peck of trouble as a result of figuring in brutal sporting escapade in one of the spacious sample rooms on the ground floor of the Arlington hotel last night
 Mir. Ellison is a married man. So is Mr Walbaum. Mrs. Ellison is at the Arlington. So is Mrs Walbaum, as well as her daughter The three ladies readily joined all their sisters at late hour last night in preparing round robin to be sent at once to the secretary of the interior, protest ing in no uncertain tones to the dis graceful impromptu entertainment pulled off by the male guests of the Arlington. A second round robin will o4bV bt al atit3C anu lOi W ds utu uli CtA to President Taft He will be in formed that he cannot possibly bring his administration to a better close than by roundly censuring all hands who were d party to last nights per formance.
 Stationing sentinels along Central avenue, so as to take precious goad care that Sheriff Bob Williams and his deputies were not in the neighbor- hood, Ellison and Walbaum spread the tip after dinner that 9:15 was the ap- pointed hour for The big doings. The sample room, agreed upon as the bat tleground was we'll packed at that 1 hour.
 1 No, Bo, 1t was not prize fight. Nor i a wrestling match Twas the rendi- tion of holdrover from the barbar- ious days of early life in the wild l and wooly''- a biting, bruising, bel lowing. bouncing battle between a 1 bull dog. from the kennel of a promi-
 nent Hot Springs man, and a badger,
 brought to the Spa from China, at
 an enormous expense, by Messrs. Eli
 son and Walbaum Betting ran ramp
 ant Originally it was even money
 take your pick. but with both Ellison and Walbaum plunging on the badger, the smaller fry strung with them, thinking the two famous sportingmen had something more than their shirts up their sleeves. So at post-time it
 was to with the badger the first | choice.
 Reports differ as to the amount of al hat ho Gosht h1sf 1fr,,rs, ,xf | Cameron, the Arlington Mixologist, admits that he held upwards of $l0,- 000. it is probably that just about twice that figure changed hands on the result After the betting was closed another squabble ensued as to the selection of the referee. John Larkins of Pittsburg; Ed Mayer ot Covington. Ind; 'iDe Ore" Shuler of Bowling Green. O.. and Richard Mur- phy of Omaha, were first suggested, in the order named, but all were yot- ed down. The final choice was Bro. Smith, captain in the Arlington Grill. Being agreed upon to fill the job was certainly compliment to the young man, as included in the talent objected to. were several men of na-
 
 hands were encased in heavy gloves. He stood perched on a box. squarely across the ring from the covered cage containing the badger, rope in hand awaiting the signal from the time keeper to pull the rope.
 "One, two, thres-let Ter go" shout | ed the timekeeper Bro. Smith made good His pull was one James Dandy.
 When he did not observe the alleged | infuriated badger come rushing into
 view, he thought he had failed to yank him out, so he pulled again.
 Then followed the anticipated crash. Ihe member from China crashed ar-
 on the scene; in fact. it crashed itself
 ali over the room
 The scene that followed beggars
 description so the writer will pass
 1t Up.
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