New Britain herald., 1915-05-15
'ROnANC[S U TIE
 'SQUARED CIRCLE !
'GsIDse of Ex-Pughst Proves te Be Lively PTepesItiea.

Master Savage in Dublin Town. More than half a hundred people. mostly old men and women, were crowded in fo the room and overflowed into tho hdjoining kitchen and pig-sty. Nov and then the ladies gave vent to the most unearthiy screeches, in which the men joined with hoarse bellows Between lamentations they wetted their whistles with liberal draughts of the crater and puffed their pipes. The Savage parlor was thick with smoke and redolent of the fumes Of alcohol and sodden with tears. For Master Savage was dead, and the neigi1bors had gathered to hold wake in his honor.
 Through tho clouds of smoke, Tn te center of the room, sitting bolt up- light in a coffin placed on two chairs 6ae could see the corpse of Master Savage, the occasion of this joyous outburst of grief He was big and brawHy man, and in life he haN not belied his name, for he was savage one with his fists, and had whipped nearly all the best men in Dublin. But he had fought once too often, and how he had become the subject of 3 wake.
 Well might the widow wall and cry aloud. for her man had been beaten m fair fight, not by some stalwart |Eladiator of his own size and age, but by lad of seventeen, slender and all fznost frail in appearance. Thus an Element of disgrace entered into the Tragedy, and the ''widdy" could now and then catch her fellow nfourners I&iTing vent to expressions of adInira- Hon for the lad who had killed her Husband.
 As the night wore on, and midnight approached, and the contents of the hotties grew steadily lower and the wailing rose higher and higher, the wake came to sudden and unexpect- ed end. The cornse, propped up in his coffin, suddenly opened his eyes, gave one curious glance at the assembled Company, and then tumbled out on the floor. In an instant he was on his feet, and let fly with his fist at the nearest mourner. Stupeffed for m oment with amazement at this m marvelous resurrection, the company eoon recovered the use of it's several vocal organs and legs. and, shrieking with fear, fled from the room, elaving The. supposed dead 'un, now very lively corpse, the master of the field. | Within ia few days Master Savage |6ras back at his work, but, far from Seinxstruculent as of wore, he was Ever after the most quiet and subdued bfzlnen. He had been taught lesson. for he has a perfectly good coffin on his hands. and divil a bit of usd for ftss and the mourners had consumed 2nucil excellent whiskey at his ex- ense,
 .F'oightin', me lads. is too ixpinsive for me-. he used to tell his compan- Ions. Jack Langan, the dashing Irish routh who was destined to be num- bered among Ireland's champions, for 6 relieved him of the fear of the &harge of manslaughter which had yeen made against him.
 It was just century ago. in 1915, at Jack sLangan fought his first ring Attle, that with Savage. which came Bar nipping his pugilistic career Tn e bud. Langan was born in 17aS,s year of the great rebellion in Ire nd. at Clonolton, in County Kildare, ae first sound that greeted his 1n- ntile ears was in popping of guns
 
 Ire attempting to drive out a band trenched in building only few rds from the Langan mud castle
 When Jack was thirteen, his parents Wing moved to Dublin, he was sent
 sea in vessel bound for Portu- ese ports. He engaged in frequent ic encounters with his shipmates, q at Lisbon he was sufficiently pro-
 ,xt-s : ( insensibility two dusky skinned Hians who had attacked him with ettos.
 krticed to a sawyer, and soon be- he the star fighter among the work k It was while thus employed, the age of seventeen that Langan ght big Savage. The ring was thed on the banks of the Dublin
 aI. The bout began early in the
 rnoon, but the men fought on un-
 t was dark. Still neither man
 lid give in. so candles were brought,
 the gladiators continued the bat
 fsE In the dim light Langan's keener
 esl gave him the advantage, and
 anded a blow of Savage,s jugular
 which stretched the older and
 CT man out on the sod. When
 ge did not arise. doctor was
 iedly summoned, and he pro-
 ced Savage dead. Young Langan
 from the scene, his heart full of
 while the body of Savage was
 ed to his home, washed and made
 and put into the coffin.
 ter that Jack Langan's friends de-.
 to match him against prom
 professional bruiser named Slan-
 This was an important match
 Jack, and, as Dan Donelly, Ire-
 s greatest champion, was then in
 in, young Langan went to him for
 ce as to how he should train for
 contest An amusing account is
 of Jacks interview with the i'm
 al Dan.
 rainif', is ut" asked the great
 eIly Faith, an niver throub-