Great Outdoor Fight 1935

From The Great Outdoor Fight

The 1935 Fight is most remembered for the betrayal of "High Hat" Daddy Razz a member of the 1933 army Twenty-Three Skidoos by his own gang, the Top Hat Gang, and the eventual victory of Silas Losey after Losey's own small Army defeated the remaining Top Hats.

During the majority of the fight, the Top Hats looked to be the sure victors, as "High Hat" Razz led them on surgical strikes against the larger armies, causing confusion and generally keeping the fight in a state of unorganized brawl.

By the afternoon of the third day, only the Top Hats and Silas Losey's unnamed four man army remained, Losey's force having been considered too small to be worth a strike against before then. However, before High Hat could lead his men against Losey's group the Top Hats ganged up on High Hat and attacked him. High Hat took out five of his nine attackers before being dropped himself and Losey's men came in and took out the rest, with Losey standing victorious at the end of the melee.

High Hat later commented that he had wanted to fight his own men one at a time after dispatching Losey and his three followers, as Young Jude Surrency had done with his Skidoos in 1933.

Losey later stated that at the moment that his group of three attacked the ten-men-strong Top Hats, he had no idea that the Top Hats were fighting their own leader. He did express gladness at taking out "those backstabbin suns-a-bitches."