Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08

Fer this fight they imported ref
cree Of parts-none other than Mr..
Wyatt carp, former sheriff of Dodge
City in the days when Dodge City
would have made Chicago look Ike q
IY. M. c. A. auditorium. Mr.. carp had
so many notches in his blue barreled
frontier ASS that the grips felt like
corrugated iron. Mr.. Earp's reputation
preceded him to San Francisco, where
they shot only on compulsion or when
highly irritated.
THE record books will show that a
foul entered into that particular
heavyweight prize fight. At any rate.
Mr.. carp said 1t was a foul, and in
those days the referee was the sole judge
OF such and all matters in the ring,
particularly when the referee was Mr..
Wyatt carp.
When Mr.. carp stopped the conflict
and announced that there had been a
fuol there was considerable protest from
the customers. Some dissenting GUS
toner threw his bowie knife into the
ring and it almost pinned one of Mr..
Earp's feet to the canvas. Another
gentleman threw Mr.. carp a drink, but
it still was in the bottle, and the bottle
grazed Mr.. Earps head, breaking against
the head Of customer on the other
side of the ring.
Mr.. carp gathered that his verdict
was not unanimously pleasing. He made
q quick motion. and his hands emerged,
each Of them holding a Frontier forty
nve, with blue barrels. Pointing these
In all directions as plea for silence,
Mr.. carp announced: Gentlemen. that
Is my verdict. If anybody wants to at
tempt to convince me that I have been
in error, will be very glad to take up
the matter with him at my hotel"
The referee then stepped quietly out
OF the ring and walked toward the exit
Nobody started a debate with him for
the time being. The customers wished
a little time to reconsider the matter.
So much money had been bet on this
particular fight that there were storms
of indignation over it for at least a
week. San Francisco sports writer's de-
nounced the carp family and they de-
nounced the gladiators. There was more
literature written concerning it than
there was over the fouling of Phil Scott.
Eventually 1t got into the courts in
some way or other, and Col. Kowalsky,
a lawyer Of the old San Francisco days,
! took upon himself to denounce Wyatt
carp as nobody ever was denounced in
san Francisco before. There were some
eloquent denouncers in San Francisco.
but when Col. Kowalsky denounced
| ~ WS&S ACnA 1Hey
stayed denounced for the remainder Of
their days.
At this point it Is necessary to ex-
plain that Col. Kowalsky suffered
from strange physical defect. At one
time he had been in the employ of Leo
pold, King of the Belgians, and had
Journeyed on business to the Belgian
Kongo. There he was stricken by the
sleeping sickness, to which he always
was subject to recurrent attacks in later
life.
have seen Col. Kowalsky in a court
room in the midst of an impassioned
address close his eyes suddenly and go
to sleep on his feet, snoring gently. This
defect was known to all OF the judges
In California. He would sleep only a
fraction CT minute. Then he would
resume exactly where he left on, even
II 1t happened to be in the middle of
q sentence.
Once when was crossing the bar,
sailing in through the Golden Gate be-
fore the wind in a small lateen -rigged
fishing boat, saw Col Kowalsky stand
ing, sound asleep, in the bow, with the
spray dashing over him.
But. Col Kowalsky still was one OF
1.-THE most eloulent men In an eloquent