Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — Man Versus Bear. [ARTICLE]

Man Versus Bear.

The mania for something new in the sporting line recently reached its climax in Berlin, where a prize fight took place between a man and a b ar. The man was a professional boxer, lifter of heavy weights, and an all-round athlete. The b ar was a tame one in one of the public gardens. When time was called the man s uared away at bruin, who put up his dukes in good style, but evidently he didn’t know what was coming, for his oppon nt gave him a blow that knocked him off bls center. The surprised quadruped got up, and seeing the man 1; fore him gave him a cuff wh ch ent him to the carpet, th n . abbed him by the slack of the tr use and was about to be rough with hi . w i the bear’s trainer, who stood b <’a ed him off, and the police, thinkini h ixhibition a demorali ing one, stoi ,• d the fight The man was not seriousi} hurt