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"Th Yankee sailors are noted nil over
tha.wnrlil for their game fighting qual-
. Hr Itld tlm old New Tork sporting man
to Me friends the other night during a
j fanning "be about Incident of the pr'za
rinaj. "I remember mriy bark forty-two
, year a (to Nn I shipped aboard the fnlteil
' fHatea Steamship Pawnee in a boatswain
and tailed for South America.
"I Wanted to st-e the world and I cer
tainly did tee It too with a groat deal of
j satisfaction from the dck of a raan-o'-;
war. - Whvn we got to Montevideo In Ben-
temfear. , 1M7, we had the. United States
Steamship Oueriiere with u. On board J
;both Vessel there waa a bunch of lads
; willing and anxious for a llttkt aport.
Finally Jack Mitchell and Billy Turner.
. two arurdy young tars, agreed to fight It
,t out under tha old Iondon rrtee ring rules.
t They both belonged to tha Pawnee and put
.up a siaaning Die 01 xwemy-iwo rminns,
each taking severe, punishment for mora
' than an hour, when we derided that they j
, had gona far enough and the fight win
called a draw.
"Tha next month we had a couple more
' hard mtlla. the firat being between Pete
Keel end and Joe McAvoy of the Pawnee.
They fought at Rio and McAvoy hnd
enough In five round, lasting Juat fourteen
mlnutea. In the aame ring John OTonnell. j
alia Blunt, met Jimmy Roan, the champion '
of- the navy at that time. After a good
battle for nine rounda Roaa waa declared I
i the winner and- proceeded to Issue a chat- J
lenge to any man-o-wara man In the world. '
Reee Had Wallop. j
"Rosa waa only a middleweight, but he
had a terrible wallop and waa alao aa
' gam aa a pebble. One evening a lot of the
boys went eehort at Rio for a lark. They
ran ap against a crowd of greaaera who
were very .Insulting and swore that they
could clean up the Yankees with ease.
' Triers' were five greasers who were par
ticularly offensive In their tirade against
I'ncle 8am. After some hot challenges
Hose stepped forward and declared he
would fight each of the five greaaera, one
at a time, with ten mlnutea rest between
battlea. They, laughed at the offer at first,
but finally agreed to have one fight and
.selected ,the biggest greaser as Ross' op
ponent. The men stripped quietly, and the Rio
gang thought they had a cinch. It waa a
gu-as-yau.-plae.sa scrap, a regular rough
and tumble affair. The big greaser made
a desperate grab at Ross' throat, but tthe
sailor ducked and responded with an upper
cut that put his antagonist on the floor.
In a second Roaa was on top of the
greaser, butting hia face into a pulp. The
Rio gang was amazed at Ross' qulrkness
and tha fierce punishment he handed out
and soon agreed to buy drinks for the
crowd In order to save their man from
further harm. Roaa' three-minute victory
settled the whole shooting match, and after
that the Yankee tare commanded much
mora respect In Rio.
Retford-Taylor Battle.
i( "In the early part of im Harry Betford
1 of the Pawnee and Mike Traynor of New
" 'York met In the ring at Montevideo and
fought one of the hardest battle I ever
saw. It lasted for thirty-seven rounda, one
hour and tenminutes, Traynor winning
. after receiving a terrible punching. On the
big dock. at Rio not long after I aaw the
fiercest tough and tumble battle of my life
between Tom McGrath and Barney Kartell
of tha Ouerileie. After a terrible struggle
which lasted more than two hours the men
fell from exhaustion and the mill waa de
clared a draw. Thsy were so fearfully
punished that they were kept In a hospital
for nearly a month. Fan-ell, by the way.
aald ha was a cousin of the noted Joe
Cobura, then tha heavyweight champion of
America,
"Shortly after this scrap Joe Oarron and
Pan Demcaey fought In a coal- bunker
aboard tha Ouerrlere. Pwmpaey won by
closing both of Oarron't eyea In the four
teenth round, the battle Isating one hour
and nineteen mlnutea After this affair the
Pawnee and the Ouerriere were ordered
homo and the United States Bteamphlp
Ijanoastar was sent to Rio In 187a Big Bill
Davis, an Englishman, was one of the Lan
caster arew and ha challenged any man
In tha fleet to a combat Mike Landy ac
cepted and the battle took place aboard the
cruiser. It took twelve rounds for game
Mike to put a stop to Big Bill.
"At this time Big Ted Drtscoll waa
aboard tha Unite State steamship Cali
fornia In tha Pacific ocean. He defied
every tar In the navy. One fine day Ted
was ashore at Valparaiso when hs ran into
Tommy Roundhead, who a short time be
fore had a hot go with the well known
pugilist.- Tommy Chandler. Roundhead
disputed tr1scoll's claim to pugilistic honors
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Never in the History oi the Piano Business Were so Many Pianos Sold in so Short a Time. The Reason Why.
We are selling strictly High-Grade Pianos at the regular price
, . . , .. aj it., pntirp stook of the Holmes Piano Co. This well known piano house was located at Mankato, Minn. They carried the very finest
Aj announced in the da dy papers purchased the wag lued flt $m 000. We made them a spot cash offer. they accepted it and that is why we ran offer you
line of musical mstruments, as well Jgh grade pmnos, ana jf tunit of ft Ufetime Dufing this sale gome of
a high grade piano at the pnee of A,cht a Hfe time. Every one is satisfied that this the greatest money-saving piano sale ever held. Every piano which we
Omaha's best mcn8 of these instruments you get an absolute guarantee of perfect satisfaction or your money refunded. We could not offer
i'Xti thJ Piano you want during this great sale and pay for it on your own easy terms.
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Fw of the World Renowned Pianos That are Offered in This Sale Knabe, Chickering Bros
Fisher, Sohmer, Schaeffer, Wegman, Miiton, Dusn & Lrert, rnce leepie, ustey,
Angelus Pianos, Voghe, and 25 Other Makes.
,;r,o- thU sale that we are obliged to sell them at whatever price we can get. There are 68 second-hand pianos at prices ranging from
UOM e,rZZ7aZ 2c aU upright and will be .old regardless of tho actual value. We give below a partial list of the second-hand pianos:
One Kimball, ebony $80
One Horace Waters, ebony $40
One S. Dobson, ebony $50
One Sohmer, ebony $90
One Jvers & Pond, ebony $125
One Hallet & Davis, R. W $140
Qne Bush & Gerts, ebony $150
Catalogues Sent to Those
Who Cannot Call.
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One Wheelock, walnut .$10O
One Crown, oak $125
One Baldwin, mahogany $380
One Price & Teeple, mahogany, slightly used. $255
One Smith & Barnes, mahogany, slightly used .$260
One Ebersole, mahogany, slightly used $260
One Steger & Sons, mahogany, slightly used $160
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One Royal, mahogany, slightly used $135
One Knight-Brinkerhoff $155
One Schauffer Mission $280
One Milton Mission $190
One Estey smallest size $200
One Haines Bros , $240
One Wegman $225
One Smith & Barnes $175
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In the navy and they fought like tigers
until there was a riot In progreaa at tne
ringside. Each man claimed a victory, but
It was such a mixed up affair that there
waa no decision.
British Terror Tamed.
"In 1RT1 the Cnlted States ateamshlp
Plymouth waa one of the European fleet.
Aboard of her waa Tom llunlhorne, a fight
ing Englishman, who had been the terror
of the fleet for several years. On the
aame vessel waa Billy Colter, alias Cock
ran, who had no ring record, but who
volunteered to tackle the aggressive Briton
on French soil. They alnslied away for
thirteen rounda, when Colter waa declared
tho winner. Colter afterward married the
widow of Dan Kerrigan, ut one time mid
dleweight champion of America.
' "When the American fleet waa at Key
Weat in 1873 Billy Hoyle of the t'nlted
Btates steamship Dictator kept a sporting
hotel there which waa the hangout for all
kinds of fighters. They had the gloves
on day. and night, and there wrre both
boxing and slugging matches galore. I
remember how . Baldy Sours knocked out
The Terror from New Orleans, who came
over to Key West to wipe out all the tars
In the fleet After walloping The Terror
out In seventeen rounds, Baldy waa ar
reated, paid a' fine and was on the Job
bright and early the next morning washing
the deck. . i '
"On the t'nlted- steamship Ooljrado In
1874 were Tim Mahuney and Dave Casey
They fought twice alung the coast bctweei
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Key West and Norfolk, but neither had a
decided advantage, although moat of us
considered Mahoney the better man. About
the aame time the United States steam
ship Swatara waa out In New Zealand. A
burley Englishman ashore boasted that he
could lick any man on the Yankee warship.
Aa soon as Jack Flannlgan heard of It he
asked to go ashore, where he met Thomp
son, the Briton, and they fought for more
than an hour on the turf until darkness
stopped the mill. The next day they met
again, and after battling for forty-three
rounds the Yankee sailor was declared the
winner-
"In. 1877 the United States steamship
Trenton was In European waters when Big
Johnny dwarda and Dan Fab had a
rough, unfair go, for when Edwarda was
getting the better of It In the fifth round
the Fab gang broke Into the ring, and al
though Edwards tried to fight them all at
once, ho could not get a square deal and
waa overpowered.
Rmi Again to the Fore.
"While the United fftates steamship Hart
ford was in South America In 1S79 Jimmy
Rosa was abroad, and one of hla pupils,
Harry Eaterbrook, challenged htm to fight
to a finish with hard gloves. They fought
on shipboard In February and Eaterbrook
managed to stay through ten hard rounds,
a pretty -good showing for a novice. The
Hartford had another man on board look
ing for fistic honora named Mickey Welsh.
He challenged Rosa to fight for the mid
dleweight championship of the navy and a
olt. . They met aboard the Hartford on
.March 29, 18TS, before a big crowd of sall-
I on from the other ships In port. Welsh
I put up a game battle, but he was com
I pulled to surrender In the nineteenth round.
"Two weeks later a fine boxing exhlbl
I lion was given on the Hartford and the
btll waa presented to Ross. A large num
ber ct Englishmen were present and two
days afterward Tom Evans of the British
warship Garnet, who claimed to be the
champion of the queen'a navy, challenged
any man in the Yankee fleet, but none of
the heavywelghta on the Hartford stepped
to the front Jimmy Ross, though a mid
dleweight, sunt word, however, that he
would meet John Bull's champion. When
they faced each other at Mount David on
May I Evans looked like a giant along
side of Ross. It waa a swift, hard fight of'
seven rounds, when the Englishman weut
down with two broken ribs and other In
juries, whereupon Russ waa hailed as the
champion of the American and English
navies and held the belt for three yeara
agalnat all comers, when it became hla
person! property.
"The United States steamer Trenton had
a new crew sent over In MSI. Among them
were Mike Carroll and Jim McClellan
brother of Prof. Billy McClellan, who waa
twice defeated by Prof. Mike Donovan.
Carroll and McClellan agreed to fight oa
shore In France and the former won Id
eleven rounds, as McClellan sprained his
leg and could not do hlmaelf justice.
Officers (topped This Mill.
"There waa a great glove fight on board
the United Btates Steamship Minnesota on
Washington's birthday, (U1, between
George Miller and Jimmy Ross, the cham
pion. It was aa exciting affair, for after
lasting seven rounda In ililrty-fnur minutes
the officers of the ship were obliged to
stop tha mill to prevent a frte-for-sll scrap
among the outsiders who had come tn see
the go from other vessela. Shortly after
this match Miller met Walter Welaey of
the United Slates Steamship New llimp
shire n(i knocked him out In six rounds
The winner received a challenge from
Henry Leonard of the United Btates Steam
hip Constitution, but aa Mlisvr bad re
ceived hia discharge, he handed the fight
over to Pat Logan, whom Leonard de
feated. "Along about 1SS3 there loomed up in the
navy a freak fighter called Sailor Brown.
He was a game fellow and could fight,
too, but waa very erratic. One night he
went aboard an English man-o'-war at
Sydney, Auatralia. and offered to fight any
body. They were going to throw Brown
overboard for hla daring challenge, but
finally one of the crew offered to box him
ten rounda for $o0, thinking the Yankee
waa either half daffy or didn't have the
coin.
" 'All 'right,' said Brown, producing his
half century. 'But who'll hold the money
and referee the bout?' A number of
Britishers offered to be both referee and
stakeholder, but Brown wouldn't have
them.
"'Haven't you got an Irishman aboard?
I'll trust a good Mick , any time!' roared
Brown. Then half a dnxen sons of Erin
came forward and Brown selected one
named ,Kafferty as stakeholder and another
named Murphy as the referee. They were
both stokers, big, husky fellowe.
" 'Now I know 1 11 get fair play." said the
Yankee, putting up hla coin and stripping
for action. 'A 11 I want la a square deal,
poya. I'm an American! A New York
Bowery boy, at that!'
Brown Made Geed.
"The officers and crew looked upon the
whole affair as a joke, but when Brown
shot out his left and brought the claret
from the English tar's nose it looked dif
ferent. They say It was a redhot mill,
with both men soon covered with blood.
The Yankee went down several times, but
he was up in a jiffy and at it again like
a wildcat. Finally In the eighth round
Drown got home a wallop on the jaw and
the Britisher went down and out.
" 'I win. Qive me the dough, Rafferty.'
cried the freak, jumping from the ring
like an Indian. He got the money and left
tha English warship amid much confusion
and amatement. Sailor Brown fought
some long, hard battlea in the navy, aome
of which he woo. but he was always dead
game and he had to be knocked out cold
before he'd quit .
"Tom Sharkey, when a sailor, put Brown
away In a couple of rounds, but Sharkey
was a heavyweight while Brown at that
time was only a welter. Sharkey was
one of the best big men the American
navy ever produced. He knocked out
Rough Thompson twice, Nick Burley In
eight rounds, George Washington in tw
and Bily Tate in four. Up to 1896 Sharkey
claimed the championship of the navy and
then obtained hla discharge that year t
become a professional pugilist. Hla first
battle after leaving the navy was with
Joe Choynskl, whom he defeated In eight
rounds. Then he mixed up roughly with
Jim Corbett In a four-round bout, with no
decision, at 'Frisco, and shortly afterward
he won on a foul from Fltzslmmons In
eight rounds under a questionable decision
rendered by Wyatt Earp, a gun fighter
who went Into the ring with two revolvers
stuck In his belt
"Sharkey gave Jeffries two great battles,
one of twenty rounda and the other of
twenty-five. Although the decisions went
against Sharkey In both contests, he made
a wonderful showing.
Burke Succeeded Sharkey.
"Another noted pugilist produced by the
navy ia Sailor Burke, formerly of the mon
itor Florida, who waa recently mentioned
as a possible opponent of Stanley Ketchel.
Burke spent four and a half years In
Uncle Sam's service, enlisting when he was
lt years old. During that time he gained
much fame by defeating every tar he went
up against. Just before Burke's discharge
about two years ago he waa selected to
meet three of the best men In the navy
at the Grand Opera house, Rockland, Me.
They were Sailor Byrnes, welterweight
champion of the Atlanta; A. J. Pauline,
middleweight champion of the Texas, and
Ed Cunningham, heavyweight champln
of the Texas. Burke says he weighed or v
138 pounds at the time, yet he defeated
these three fighting sailors all in one night
with a rest of fifteen minutes between tne
bouts. It was a great night for Sallji
Burke, you can bet.
"American sailors are famous the world
over for their fighting and they are the
champions of tha deep sea. Some of thu
young tars spin Interesting yarns about
trimming all comers In far away countries.
They love to fight with their gloved fists
and flory in their triumphs."
apprehension that all "training" Is dan
gerous business. It Is regrettable that auch
excesses exist, for It Is of the utmost im
portance that the young should be given
ample opportunities for much activity.
Muscular fatigue Is not to be dreaded; In
deed, Dr. Rowland S. Freeman (American
Journal of the Medical Society, November,
ltOS) denies that It occurs In New York
school children, though Dr. W. 8. . Chris
topher of Chicago has reported that It
hows Itself within an hour of the opening
of the morning session and progressively
Increases until the noon recess, the after
noon showing similar conditions. The nec
essary repression of the school room Is
the harmful factor which wise teachers fre
quently relax to avoid a nervoua fatigue
different In no respect from that of ath
letes. Without this outlet the children
seem to explode as soon as school Is over,
and curiously enough this muscular exer
tion can be made even wnen mental fa
tigue la so great that attention Is prac
tically in abeyance. While, therefore, the
modern Movement for playgrounds and
school sports must be supported as a ne
cessity of urban life, we should sternly re
press the all too common tendency to per
mit or even encourage children to "train"
for any great effort, for they will surely
be Injured by the twin evils of strain and
nervous exhaustion. The family physician
here has a serious advisory duty. Ameri
can Medicine.
Mare Tfana One Way.
The caller, a man whom he had known
in the old town back In Pennsylvania, had
dropped in to talk old times with the busy
lawyer, ano. the lawyer had endured it
patiently for an hour end a half. Tlicn,
unseen by the caller, he pushed a sm ill
knob ut the end of his desk and a bell
rang In the adjoining room. '
"Excuse me a moment. Mr. Horkcruplut
ter," he said, stepping into the other room
and proceeding to hold this cne-slded con
versation over an imaginary telephone:
"Hello."
"Yea."
"No, Bertha; I'll n"t have time to ciime
home for dinner. It's alret.dy l .V, and I
have several hours' work yet to do. I am
very buay, and have been detained."
"Yes; good-bv."
Then he went back to his desk but Mr
Hockensplutter had already risen to go.
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MARATHON RACES BANEFUL
Medical Aathorlty Points Oat Dss
grers and Urges Prompt
Suppression.
The dangerous Marathon races should bt
suupressed, and the medical profession
must do Us share In making known the
reasons why such strains may cause per
manent damage. One of the ancient Con
testants died at the moment of victory.
and the modern races hsve been signalised
by many serious esses of heart strain or
acute dilation j)ot fatal, particularly In un
developed boys. It has been stated that
youths will hereafter be excluded, but It Is
a strain to which no human being should
be subjected. Indian runners make longer
journeys, but It is generally at low pres
sure, and It is a matter of training from
Infancy; but even In them we cannot safely
say It haa proved harmless. Many a white
boy now training for Marathon races Is
causing permanent Injury to heart sad
arteries, which Is sure to wreck him twenty
or thirty years hence, when he loses his
ability to "compensate." Let all parents
be warned to forbid any athletlo exercises
which cause undue and prolonged heart
train.
The nervous exhaustion of athletes Is
another cause for condemnation of greet
efforts. The "stale" athlete Is not the only
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Picture and Art Sale
Begins Saturday, May 29
Rose's Art Store, 1521 Dod"e S1-
The entire stock must be clobed out at once.
Thousands of dollars worth of framed and unf rained
pictures and art goods at
HALF PRICE
All goods marked in plain figures.
Oil Paintings, landscapes and figures. . .$500 down to $5.00
Water Colors, landscapes and figures. .$10.00 down to $1.00
Carbons and Photosr landscapes and figures, $5 down to 50c
Colored Photogravures, etchings and
engravings $12.00 down to $1.00
An endless variety of Art Novelties
and Small Pictures, at 5c, 10c, 15c, 20c, 25c and $1.00
Every piano on the floor must be closed out during this
sale. A few of the bargains:
One Upright Piano $65.00
One Upright Piano $135.00
One Upright Piano $175.00
One Upright Steinway used $200.00
Players and Player Pianos everything goes.
One $900.00 Baby Grand $450.00
Rose's Art Store
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