The New York herald., 1871-03-14
THE PRIZE RING.
Fight Between Mike 0'COnnOr and Dan
Carr Near Dubuque, Iowa.
Sixty Rounds in Two Hours
and Thirty Minutes.
The Referee Declares the Fight
a Draw.

'Sce here, old chapn said Marshal Hardy, OF this
town. this morning, IL was once IN New York, and
am going TO make clean breast Of 1t. You see
wouldn't tell you only you have come twelve hun
dred miles to see THIS scrape ana take glorious look:
but we mean business here whether we ore lighting
men, levelling forests shooting and gathering
fish and fowl, from the carboo down to the smallest
trout We mean business, and this Is part OF
IT. and, sir to the town this is glorious excitement
for 1t gives merchants ana boosters alike stir up
that acts like wine, or even better, and begins the
spring sparring session and all that sort Of thing
nicely.n
Thus spoke the Marshal Of this community to me
down on the levee an hour age, and now, In obe-
dience 10 command and invitation, am plodding up
the upper Mississippi river, to take in prize fight
that has in anticipation stirre pleasantly the deni
zens Of our State Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and
Wisconsin. The boat Is
AN AWARD CONCERN
1t Is stern-wheeler, callea Charley Rogers, and
its missions have been Of piety Oft before, but
Captain Donovan is an old boy. fond OF good
thing, and says "pll take yer, my lads, but yer're
to be quiet" The principals are with us-Mike G.
O'connor ana Danny Carr.
MIKE
Is thirty three years od born In st. Arcet Canada.
He is rover, as his pugilistic will show.
Ambition and love Of notoriety made him what he
is. First IN 1869. In the Red River territory, he
whipped John Dolan, In ten rounds, in forty-nve
minutes then he turned circus performer, and was
content with legitimate business until ls0s when In
st. Paul. he fought and cleaned out Mike King
in eight rounds, lasting twenty-five minutes. In
January, 1870, he appeared In the ring again and
was equally fortunate, beating James Barnard In
two minutes, knocking him out Of time. That was
in Rochester, Minn Once more he put up his hands
AOainSt Whnpler WI hOn
he bewidered at Makato, Minn., June IA. OF last
year, In three rounds and five minutes. Next in his
net came, November II, last year. J. G. Clark whom
he laid out In seven minutes ana four rounds.
Finally January 20, this year. st. Clair, Of New Or
leans, an unregenerated and unredeemed sort OF
Kit Burns, suffered the same fate In twenty rounds,
IN seventeen minutes. OConnor is thrty-three years
DID, five feet seven and half inches high, and
weighs wnen stripped 1873 pounds
CARR,
his antagonist Is smaller stature and his features
have been terribly scanned by the destroying small
pOx; his mouth Is large, and looks like huge mash
made N ~, new & caeese @ Wnen ne speaks his voice
Is the agony Of doorhinge that groans for want Of
oil. Carr was born In Ireland, and is twenty-rour
young, and in 1865 stopped in New York
In company with Patsy shppard, another Of your
prize fighters who mean business when they have
sure thing whipping an inferior gladiator. First,
Carr Tough fought ~ aim Brennan, 1887. whipping him
Then eoyS wes he ea sn n Soasc
the light weight championship but finding
no customers of the ring unstained by
leans. where IN 1859 ne fought Patsey O'Mealy
seventyeight rounds in two hours and ten minutes
City, and, once discontented, halted In Dubuque
and went for Red-hAnded Mike. Carr is i've feet
seven and half inches In height, and when stripped
| to the buff three hours ago weighed 142 pounds.
| THE MORNING
apa Te sn sRds
walking towards the point OF emDarkation. Two
Tatboass are ed BY big hawsers to the sseamboats
and oil kinds OF liquors are being placed there 20
Ds In readiness , 70 be drunk Dy the THIRSTY
parturc. splish splish guggle aggle goes
the wnees, and the crowd OF 500 sent up q
cheer to the poor fellows on shore who can't 90 or
are afraid to trust themselves in this eruption OF
strange, uncouth savage-looklng fellows. with
aUa rn.> harreled revolvers, they look like swarm
OF lOcuss, and placid Dubuque Is glad to get rid OF
stop lust above that wilderness and take on board
about one hundred more Of the same kind OF men.
making as precious 2 lot Of rascals as ever
term 1t, and yet withal they have behaved
themselves better than like gangs OF Assyrians
away IN the boiler room, and the stoker grns sar-
donically as he looks down at the coninlike bundle
pass him. At times huge cakes Of ice impede our
progress. but the propeller has fair machinery II
two nas and o ese are ed
sweled head railway OFFICIAL who purposoly dis
plays now and then his ugly and murderOus bowie
knife. Five miles Is nearly gone over, and the Mis-
COVERED WITH sKIFFs,
which shoot out from the thousand and one slOughs
and behind cumps OF willows. They have been
awaiting the boat and now follow u.s. their Occu-
pants shouting ana bowling as their numor best
bays, inlets and arms of this river until
sMEADs BOTTOM
is reached. This Is the location of the fight between
Danny Carr. OF Chicago ILL.,. and Mike O'COnnOr, Of
Independence, Iowa, Tor g., 900 and the champion
Profoundly secret had been kept, and they didn't
want to break the laws of Iowa, and 50
% cons,n. SsHu IS God.roIsaEsn @ '''p4 sp.t s swo
or three miles in length and about frty yards
wide only y, Landing ND ,I y SC soon on, aecssd BY the
the gang. Bawdy songs are vocaized by stentorlan
lungs, which reverberate against the bleak blufs
and come back as lamentatlon. One rufiian from
Chicago, with leer almost nhuman has gone up
to OConnor as they are CARRYING the stakes ashore,
lifts his hand to strike him. but his trainer stopped
him, and the brute Is hauled on
double one. is pitched on the west side Of the
island, about ten yards from the beach, II Is very
sandy soil, and all injurious substances such as
bits Of sharp twlgs and brush, were removed. Seon
the dull thud OF malets IS heard. and Andy Rat
shorn, frem across the river IS welding the nstru
ment with the facility and ease or q blacksmith,
driving the stakes surely and strongly in the EARTH
The crowd now gathers about, and back behind
the main land to witness the exhibition. They are
Hoosers yen would stake your existence. 1t is just
SuCn gang, WIN Dub one or TWO eXcPpClOlS, tndJ
would frighten even a prlze-nghting coterle East.
WhlsKey bottles are In everybedy's hand. and chin
music Is excessive; profanity and filthy expressions
seem to come from every tongue. moment OF ST. |
lence, and at fifteen minutes past Two O'Clock the
cap OF Carr was observed sailing into the ring fol-
lowed Immediately by Mixes and presenting their
pleasant faces to respective admirers, the gadiatOrs
received satisfactory evations There Is great trOu-
BILE ABOUT the referee and 1t Is long time before
one is chosen and here certain Charley Donahue,
q nice looking fellow was chosen.
1--WE want square hght," said Mike, "and came
here for that, by Cod"
ayes, yer can bet,n retorted Danny, "and III
show you how, big duffer. Good enough, old Small
pox."
George Brown, OF Chicago, nigger not qui e
black as the ace Of spade, O'Conn0r's trainer, q
man Of splendid physique and Andy Ratshorn and
Mixes seconds they look as If they mean business
Carr is being attended to by Jerry Donovan, OF
Chicago, and Big PADDY Sutten OF the Key City. In
TOSSING FOR CORNERS
Carr won and selected that with his back to the
sun, which now was very bright and genial. The
cOlors were tied to the stake near the referee
OiConner's was cloth OF green, with harp In the