He said that he had just been getting ready to take some gymnastic exercise when Jack and some of his chums had come in and begun to talk about his father, saying that they had heard he was dishonest.
"Ruddy said he knew my father was dishonest," went on Reff Ritter.

"That made me mad and I ran out of the dressing-room and told him he ought to be ashamed of himself, that my father was as honest as anybody.

Then he got on his high-horse and told me to shut up or he would knock me down.
I told him it was a shame for him to speak so of my father.

Then he got mad and all of a sudden he jumped at me and hit me in the mouth and the eye and then in the nose.

Then I went for him, and we had it hot and heavy, until we bumped into one of the wooden horses and I went down.