One of the pickets in King Street, Sydney, during the tramway strike, tried to induce a loyal driver to leave his car, and when cajolery failed, talked fight. The driver replied that he could not fight, that lie had a weak heart, and that any exertion plight imperil liis life. The striker swung his right, but the driver slipped under the whirling arm, and sent in, a short right, so neatly that the striker hit the ground hard. When he .jumped to his feet again and led with his left, the driver, who seemed to know a good deal about the business after all, side-stepped, and got in. one on bis opponents ribs; then fop lowing up his advantage, he brought home a straight left-.. The striker ,after scrambling to his feet did not try any more. He had not quite made up his mind about ihe driver’s weak heart, but he knew all about his good pair of hands, in admirableworking order.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2265, 10 August 1908, Page 3
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