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----G HIFFO GOT STL'CK.Finally Derided That Ho Would Go West toTTi? Training Quarter?. *Chicago, Nov. 25.—Young Griffo. the pugilist, who Is matched to fight Lvigne in California, went into the Harrison street police eteh'on last n:gh* rather than go West to his training quarters. A short time in the police starlon convinced Griffo that a Pullman ''ar wse more pleasant than a cell, and he mourn- I fully premised :o start immediately if he was \ allowed to go. So his manager end nis friends j i took him to th* tram.. He has been having j a gar time in State street, and spent all his I money. Colonel John P. lTopkln?, the theati- J rai manager, wboee theater i* on the eas-r }side of State street, advanced Griffo the j money with which *o go West. Griffo got as far as the west side of State street, where he attack. Then Coion^i Hopkins had him arrested and told him b* lt;*tuld go West or stay behind the bars, *s he 3ik« d. Griffo chose the bars, but later changed hli mind, and was hustled on board a train for California.
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Terre Haute Semi Weekly Express
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 26, 1897
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
John H.
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