Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1902 — More About the Prize Fight Fiasco. [ARTICLE]

More About the Prize Fight Fiasco.

We have further details of the tribulations of the poor spoite who' went to Shelby to see the fight Wednesday night. A hall had been rented, but when they got there they found that a secret society was holding a lodge meet-, ing in it, The “Royal Neighbors,” or Nabobs, or Swamp Angels, or something of that kind. Anyhow they didn’t close the lodge till they got ready and then, stayed in to have a free view of thefight. By that time the crowd willing to pay had great diminished. About this time, Hennesy, the Frankfort man, began to “spar for an opening”—to crawl out of. He kicked for a purse of 150 which was raised. Then he kicked about the Swamp Angels being in free, and finally demanded a purse of 175, instead the SSO he had first asked for. He was then invited to go to Frankfort, and the fight was called off. The purse money was refunded, and the Rensselaer contingent cams home on the 11:30 night train