The Prize Fight Of The Future

"Denver E" Smith stepped into the ring and shook hauds with Bill Higgins at precisely 9 o'olock. First Round. - "Donver Ed" led with a tranen of silver statistics delivered rapidly. Higgin.s countered with a quotatiou from Adam Smith. Light sparring eusued, neither contestant being injured. Seoond Ronnd. - Higgins started in by rushing Bd all over the ring. Ed ducked oleverly and met his opponent ■with a body blow from Sauerbeck's tables. Honors even. Third Round. - Smith aimed a powerful silver argument at Higgins' head, but feil short. Bill rtrshed in and infighting ensued, with a hot exchange of epitheta. Bill's friends elaimed a foul, but the referee wonld not allow it. Ronnd slightly in Smith 's favor. Fourth Ronnd. - Smith pursued the same tactics, but Bill gave ground. Bill is hissed. Bill counters on Ed's plea f or bimetallism. Both mn fighting hard. Ed drops to avoid punishment. Fifth Round. - Both men slightly ■winded. Bill starts in with a terrific volley of treasury statistics straight from the shoulder. Ed goes to his knees, but is up in a moment and upper cuts ■with a report of the crime of 1873. A straight knockdown, the round closing all in Ed's favor. Sixth Round. - A repetición of the preceding, Ed having the best of it. Seventh Round. - This was the hottest round of the flght. Bill reached for Ed's position with a statistical report, but Ed was not there. He ducked cleverlyand met Bill half way with a statement of the volume of the currency since 1880. Bill staggered a little, but recovered and tried to rush in and clinch. He failed, bnt succeeded in landing an argument in return. Both men exchanged hot blows, then sprung together and clinched, falling. They vrere almost carried to their corners, ■where their seconds were stimulating them with works on the theory of finance. Eighth Round. - Bill got Ed in a corner, read a chapter of an answer to "Coin's Financial School" to hün. Foul elaimed, but not allowed. Ed rushed Bill furiously. Both men weak. Ninth Round to the Seven Hundred and Fifty-sixth. - Uneventful rounds; both men working hard, but too weak to do damage. Seven Hnndred and Fifty-seventh Round. - Af ter a short exchange of faint blows the referee intervened and