The Alaska daily empire., 1914-04-01
EVERY MOVEMENT INTERESTING
 AT FIREMEN'S SMOKER.

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 TREADWELL, April 1-The Tread we'll Firemen gave one of the snappiest entertainments last night which has been seen on the Island for many years. Perhaps never before in the history of the organization have things moved along so fraught with unabated excitement from the moment when the orchestra started the performance at IS:15 to the time of closing at 1O:SO.
 After the orchestra, came Monte Snow, who sang. then followed the tumbling class, under the direction of Tom Mcdonald. Two big men here. upon entered the ring and struggled l like gladiators in an ancient Roman amphitheatre. They pulled and tugged for ten minutes to a draw; these wrest- lers were Pat. O'Connor of Juneau. and Hoffard, of Treadwell. Then fol. lowed a song by Tom Gillies, with Chas. Close accompanying him on the piano. These entertainers were en- cored and had to sing two more songs. The applause had scarcely died away when Hutton and Grundler. middle weights, went three snappy roundT in which they showed total disregard of the feelings of each other Jack Wilson and Tom. Kingsley, was acted as judges could not determine which was the better man, so the lighweights went on for another spurt, and the ref. cree then decided that Grundler had a slight edge over his opponent so he was given the decision.
 Practically the same thing happened to Beals and Jim Mcdonald. They lambasted each other for three rounds and breaking about even, were re. quested to so to it again, and then the referee had to decide in favor of Beals.
 Strange to say, the judges could not decide who was the better man when Kerkes and Goebel went on for three rounds of intense boxing, and for the third time the referee had to decide the contest which went to Goebel.
 Right here followed some scientific boxing which was not on the program -Wah, a Chinaman from aboard the Admiral Evans. now in the harbor at Juneau, and a soldier from Fort Sew. ard named Hootes, each of them men of experience and activity fought to the delight of the audience, giving a pretty exhibition of the noble art of self defense. No decision was render. ed in their case, but they were highly complimented.
 Gnlies, with Chas. Close accompany ing him, followed with two vocal sol. os, and then another three.round box. ing contest came off. Ed Harris, of the Mexican and Ed. Olson of Tread well went to it for home and native land. At the end of their contest, it was hard to decide which was the vic. tor, but as Olsen had received a gory cut over the optic, the decision was given to Harris.
 The wind-up, and it was some wind up, rest assured of that. the two mid dleweights, Gross and DeMontzon, eX- perienced and battle-scarred veterans. of the ring, went out after each others scalp, and each of them lost some hair in the fray. They were cheered on to victory by a wildly enthusiastic au- dience which filled the hall and galler- ies. Again the judges were undecid- ed, and the house rules required that another bout be pulled off to decide the championship, but DeMontzon was too tired to make further battle for honors, and so let the decision go to Gross without further struggle.
 Juneau and Douglas were well rep. resented in the visitors class.