New Britain herald., 1926-12-11
THE OBSER VER- Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People

, positively . VOW. These were the 7 first fights I'd ever seen in my life | and l nearly passed out and today I , can hardly TALK. I am so hoarse. l T didn't know the first thing about , FIGHTS and I thought I would be scared to death or sick or start cry
 ling or something and at first I
 wouldn't go, but Charlie said they
 never hat. any really BAD fights and
 that 1t wouldn't be so GHASTLY so
 went finally after Poppa said it
 would do me good to see some REAL
 MEN instead of LAP DOGS that
 hung around me. He was looking at
 Charlie all the time and I nearly
 DIED trying to keep from laughing
 and Charlie got all RED and said,
 Let's go right away" so we went.
 "The first fight we~ a wow and lit was two "ttle bits of men that Icouldn't have -~eighed over 100 and
 I said I was glad that they had little tones to start with because I knew they couldn't hurt each other be-
 cause they were so SMALL. We'll
 the first hit, the littlcst one hits the other one on the NOSE, just like that I-(here she it our already tingling
 noss a~d brought tears streaming to
 our eyes) and the other one nearly
 DIED he was so surprised and every body YELLED it was so soon after Ithe man had lng the bell to let them know it was time to start. The
 other one starts to bleed but I think | it was req. GA71E of him not to stop Ithen becaue0 he was hurt on the NOSE but just keep on hitting the other one on the chin until he fell down. Then I yelled and screamed and told him to get up but he wouldn't take any ADVICE and just l LAID there like a perfect LUMP 1 while man in white pants notion | ed him to get up about dozen times l and then tn carried him out.
 "The next one was an LAWFULLY 1 exciting one because the two men be- 1 gan to WIRE TIE too besides hitting | each other on the face and every body BOOED because I guess they don't like WRESTLING but I ! thought it was CLEVER for them to give WRESTLING and BOXING at the same inc and T at the same time.
 The next one I didn't like because one of them was absolutely the UGLIEST MAN I've ever seen be- cause he had a broken nose and l felt SORRY for the other poor boy y,tba hn 1on in ta ! right near us He was an awful clever boxer even if he didn't win be- cause he would run right away from the other fellows hits. I mean this man with the DISGUSTING broken NOSE would h. him and he would run backwards right across the ring and fall down before the other man could hit him again.
 ''The last fight was between two GREAT BIG men and they didn't do much but h.. each other and get all BLOOD. I don't ee much fun to THAT when they just stand there and TIT zach other and nobody falls down or wrestles or ANYTHING. Charlie got so excited that he hit the man in front of him one on the head and the man hit Charlie one back and he fell down just like the men on the STAGE. I think he did it awfully good for somebody who ! doesn't even TRY 10 learn how to do it and I told him so and he said he slipped. He is so MODEST.
 T liked it all except they had a man with a BELL and just as they would get FALLING DOWN the man would ring the bell like a SAP and they would stop fighting for awhile because what is the use of boxing when some absolute NUT keeps ringing a BELL in your ear. The men had some other men that would pour water all OVER them and get them all WET. They are liable to CATCH COLD If somebody doesn't I stop them. l think these practical z JOKERS are DISGUSTING especial q ly when they are in a public place with everybody looking at them and i, nobody even laug''ed at them they , were so SILLY"
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