The Washington herald., 1917-01-02

Well. Lon. how'd tn tight festival at
Ardmore pan out yesterday?
| Tip-top, Boss, an while tn main scrim-
mage ended in a draw. everybody seemed
to have a bang-up time, cause there Amt
no two ways about It, Tommy Lowe is
popular III scrapper, an folks was
| tickled Z death T. see tn veteran put
up such a good tight
There was a mess O. fiddlin' around out
in tn room where they keep tn stove,
| overweights. contestants, an such like,
but when they did get down t business
everythin' went afiyin'.
o. course there was tn usual yell t
go up when Pat o'Connor called it a
draw, but with all things took into con-
sideration l can't see how he coulda
done otherwise.
Andy Cortez didn't put up tn gingery
fight he's capable Of however, an as
Tommy was in tn pink O. condition, It
mighta looked L some like tn local lad
shoulda got tn decision. but nobody can
say they didn't get their moneys worth.
for the boys ft from hag-fall { finish.
an tn way it turned out oughta sat
isfy 'em ALL
Th' carnival started of with a classy
battle royal an a long, lean. hungry
lookin' "Dingy'' pulled down tn grape
fruit" after some mighty tough scrap
pin. He deserved what he got "Shanky''
Gardner refereed this mess
TIL second spasm saw Johnny Cunning
ham, Joe Turner's wrastlin' mate, knock
spots outa Otto Brown. Johnny was in
turrible hurry t get through with
this, as he hada fight Young Earne
in Baltimore City tnight, an went right
after Otto in businesslIke fashion. This
lasted one III pesky round, an George
King done tn tudgin'
But Boss, va oughta saw tn setto
'twixt Patsey Donovan an Young Scotty.
for. believe me, 'twoulda done your heart
good. These two bantams went to 1t tn
minute they piped each other of. an
for few seconds IL loked like they would
have { get undertaken for patsey, but
true to his name, he'd no sooner got a
taste O. red fluid than he was ct home,
| which meant the curtains for Scotty for
they'd hardly started tn second round
when Patsey let loose an. catchin' TIL
other kid plumb on tn 'hearer," sent him
sprawlin' on tn ropes Just a few feet
from me, an while tn Donovan boy
| waited Z see whether he was ever comm
| back, Scotty stood there recitin' a piece
that sounded like this, Remember this.
Alice. no trouble, no partin' can ever
come between you an me. Remember
that always, sweetheart, a-l-w-a-y-sr'
twas pretty thing. but they cut II
short when they carried him away. TIL
Patsey kid is a wild Irish terrier. Buddy
Ray officiated.
Nobody seemed { wanta fight Young
| Thomas, who entered tn ring by him
self. an after invitin' anyone in tn au-
dience to accommodate him for a few
rounds, an being fatty refused, he quick
ly made a exit.
TIL main bout was tn final. an was
well worth tn trip. Jerry Mccarthy,
Buddy Ray Young Thomas an Mike
Craine saw to loves towels an sponges,
while Harry Belts, Danny Lewis an Joe
Oliveri looked after Cortez
TIL entertainment was well attended,
an bunch o. old-time fight "bug.''
turned out en- masse, which means in a
cluster. A few Z be saw II you wanted
Z look was Ed Roche. Mike Uraine, jos
Grant, Joe Turner. Jim LaFontaine, who
acted as timer; Pat Dougherty. Jimmy
Conrad. Frank Zerasa, George King,
'Bingy" Bryan, Harry Remsen. Joe Nc
Laughlin. Frank Salisbury an a mess
O. others.
Note-Lon says some conductors treat
you like you was Just out on parole