Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . BU a, B(9 O u ti -t-> r Skunk River When Packey McFar-land and Kid Herman wasmatched for the big go atthe old CoHseuim, to decidewho was to take on BattlinNelson for the lightweightchampionship, some gum-shoe snoopers got to thegovernor out at Des Moines,stagin the big knock, justwhen things was all had the nerve to tell him that our little party was tobe a prize fight instead of a boxin mjatch! Kinya beat it? At that time the gov happened to be grandstandin forthe high-grass vote of the local grangers lodge
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . BU a, B(9 O u ti -t-> r Skunk River When Packey McFar-land and Kid Herman wasmatched for the big go atthe old CoHseuim, to decidewho was to take on BattlinNelson for the lightweightchampionship, some gum-shoe snoopers got to thegovernor out at Des Moines,stagin the big knock, justwhen things was all had the nerve to tell him that our little party was tobe a prize fight instead of a boxin mjatch! Kinya beat it? At that time the gov happened to be grandstandin forthe high-grass vote of the local grangers lodge out in Ap-panoose county, so he wired the sheriff of good old Scottcounty, astin him to block the big mill. Then, thinkin thewires, or sumpin, might get crossed, the gov ordered themilitia company to the ringside, to be sure of makin a recordfor hisself for the comin election. It was a grand sight that moonlight evenin, sport, tosee them dashin young sojer boys of Company B marchinfour abreast, with loaded rifles, down the street to the Coli-seum, that old shack bein packed to the rafters with sportsand fig
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