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DID NOT MEETPROPOSED FTCJIiT BETWEEN JACK TfTCRNEY AN!) PljlTlvR TRAYNOR AT MARION 13 . INDEFINITELY POSTPONED.Tins prize fight, or glove contest, f ha' was to have taken place at Reece's hail in South' Marion. Monday nigh!, wa.i riot pulled off. The meat was not prevented by any action on the part of the sheriff of Grunt county, but the fighters w^re not anxious to be. in*emewad on the stibj.Tt by that officer, and they did not go near the opera house. 0' iho matter the Marion Beader says:Sheriff C. C. Bradford received orders from Governor Mount to stop tlm contest in case it partook of the nature of a genuine prize fight. Mr. Bradford stated today that Mr. Reese, proprietor of the house, and John Fitzsimmons, who was to referee the contest, called on him Monday, to ascertain if possible, whether or not the meet would be stopped. Mr. fkadfoi’d told them that he could not assure them that it would not be stopped, as he most certainly would stop it if it developed into a knockout contest..Both the fighters were In the cPy Monday night, ready for the contest. Jack Tierney came over from Kokomo on the 6 o’clock train. Hi* was mt at the station by several friends, who toldhim that the sheriff might, stop the fight. He said he did not want to be mixed up In anything of that kind, and that ho would take the next train hack, which he did. He did not even go to she trouble to sec Manager Reese, Traynor. or any of the others interested in the contest.Monday evening Sheriff Bradfordand several deputies, with Chief of Police J. B. White, and Patrolmen John [3 .Golding and Tony George, went to the opera house, but it was not even light-1
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Logansport Journal
Logansport, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 01, 1900
Page 5
Full Page
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