The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-13
THE RING.
Prize Fight Between Gala ghcr and
Eiliott-A Disgracefui Affair.


DETROIT, November 12.-To-day two
battles were fought on Peche Island. al
the head of Detroit river, the first be.
tween two young sprouts, Halloran, Of
Cleveland, ard Broderick, of Chicago
They fought sixteen rounds in forty
minutes, and had to give way for The
main attraction of the day. They fought
for fifty-fve dollars and divided the
spoils. Both of them were badly pun
ished.
The fight between Gallagher. ana
Elliott was in the same ring, and was
determined and brutal. 1t ended III !.
rough and tumble encounter ana ino''
unjust decision. -, ID
The weather was quite chilly anu
the ring was pitched in wet anu SIP
perry locality. no;red for
Joe Parish, of Cleveland, umPlrea io ot
Gallagher, and Dennis MoyhasnSSui , y.
Detroit, and Johsny Mackey, Vi ofeIo,
land. seconded him. Inc same , oIices
were. respectively, performed ior EIilo.t
nv Dan Leecey, OF Troy, New i0rk;
Dan Brown, of New York, and Iom
biiar If Cleveland. Joe Colbert, OF
Pb;IadeIpbia, was chosen referee. He
rao throughout the fight completely
managed by Elliott's party, and by his
unfair decisions gained no friends from
either side. 1t was quite apparent that
had he decided against Elliott he would
have been killed.
The fight commenced ut eight min.
utes after two, and lasted one hour and
seventeen minutes, during which time
ronnHs wara fnuuht
First-Gallaghe forced fighting, and
ut the onset received a stinger in the
mouth, Elliott thus getting first blood
They clinched and fell, Elliott under.
Second-The men visited each other
severely on the ribs, breast, shoulder,
neck and head without any severe dis
fgurement, and the round closed by
Elliott slipping out of chancery and GO
ing down on his knees.
Third-Another clinch, in which Ell
lott got decidedly the worst of the bar,
gain and went down to avoid punish
ment. This dodge he repeated quite 8
number of times, greatly TO his advan'
tage, and the rounds invariably ended
in his going down down to prevent dis
astrous blows.
ID
teenth round it was give and take, an(
the result at that time was i'll favor o
Gallagher. Elliott had his right eye
completely shut so as to be useless, an(
he was pretty badly bruised in differ
ent parts of his body; his right hand
was badly injured, and appearances in
Dictated that he lad mistaken his man
On the other hand, Gallagher had &
swelled nose, an enlarged ear and sew
eral sore ribs, otherwise he was unin
iured. On the fifteenth round Elliott
rushed at his opponent, clinched and
pulled him down. As they reached the
earth Elliott attempted to gouge out
one of Gallagher's eyes.
The six remaining rounds were fought
in about the same manner. Elliott Oh
each occasion attempted the gOuginG
process and with partial success. On
one occasion he rolled Gallagher com
pletely over, got upon his back and ut
tempted with both hands to take his
opponents eyes out This fraud was sc
plainly to be seen that Gallagher
friends interfered and prOmiscuOu,
row seemed imminent. Quite n numbe'
of men rushed into the ring and the eX
element was great.
Gallagher arose on his feet after tn
close of the goth round and, having
failed to secure previous claims of foul
refused to proceed further with tn
fight. Before time was called, anG
while Gallagher was speaking to tn
referee, Elliott approached him from
behind and dealt him terrible blow
under the left eye. Gallagher returned
the shot and rough and tumble fgh
ensued. Elliott claimed the fight az,
the referee decided in his favor.