Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-06


Hour and Twelve Minutes
Gate Money. 500.
We do not feel justified in devot-
ing much Of our space to descrip.
ton of the Williams Chatham prize
fight, which took place on Tuesday
last. 1t is just barely possible that
some few of our readers would relish
q rehash of the disgusting details
which filled two columns of the Vir-
kinia Chronicle in its Tuesday even
ing's issue to the exclusion of its
usually well-written summary. We
do not wish to be understood as crit
icising the Chronicle for clothing the
disgraceful affair in such important
mention, for it is altogether likely
any other paper would have done
the same thing under similar cir
cumstances. But really it is to be
regretted that the tastes and de-
mands OF certain share of news.
paper patrons should make it the
duty of a journalist to load his paper
down with such dishonorable scraps
of q city's history. So much in apo
logy. The scene of the contest was
about one-quarter of a mile from the
Five-mile House. A space so feet
square had been inclosed by board
fence IL feet in height, as an OBJ
struction to those who would not
pay 20 SO to go in. AS early as six
O'Clock in the morning the road
leading thither was literally lined
with teams, horsemen and pedes-
TRANS, and the number of spectators
is variously estimated at from two to
four thousand. At the appointed
time, about 80, the principals, Sec
onds, bottleholders and referee put
an appearance inside the ropes,
shortly after which the articles of
agreement were read and everything
declared ready for
THE FIGHT.
Tom Daley seconded Chatham and
Jimmy Trevillian acted in the same
capacity tor Williams. Jim Chat
ham is much the bigger man of the
two, going into the ring at us
pounds, while Bing Williams pulled
the beam at las. This is their sec
ond bout in the bloody arena, Will
Hams having won the first fight
shortly after the arrival of Chatham
in the State. The latter is an Irish
man and the former Cornishman.
Williams seems much the best spar
rcr, but his opponent is heavy hit
ter, and combines bulldog pluck
and great endurance under punish
ment. The "send-off'' in the first
round lead to some quick sparring
and heavy blows, and the successive
rounds up to the eighth was very
quickly fought, decisive and mostly
in favor OF Williams. At this juno
ture $500 dollars is offered on Will
liams, but no takers. Chatham is
much the worse damaged and has
a "peeper" closing. The results,
with the variation of some few we'll
delivered stingers in the ribs of
Williams by Chatham's right, con-
tinued pretty much in favor of Will
liams up to the fourteenth round,
in the middle of which Chatham
gets in a one-two, catching Williams
regular biff-biF" in the side
and neck, and ending the round by
throwing him over the ropes. From
this to the close the fighting is slow
er, and to the thirty first round the
honOrs are about easy. The super.
ior strength and endurance of Chat
ham from this on tells largely in his
favor. Williams blows, though
still delivered with skill and judg-
ment, are less elective; while the
"big Irishman" has caught his "sec-
ond wind" and when opportunity
offers rains in his blows thick and
heavy. He is "body fighter"
while his lighter antagonist depended
manly on closing the ''shutters" of
Chatham in the first few rounds,
and then polishing him off at his leis-
ure. This he would have undoubt-
eddy done, had Chatham's face not
been worked down by his trainers
beyond capacity to shut out day
light by swelling. The worst
"break," in fact the only bad one,
Chatham made, during the fight,
was losing his temper in the thirty
ninth round, at a cry of foul. 1t
was in this round and the fifty-sec-
ond that Chatham got in his work,
although he had things pretty much
his own way from the thirty-sixth.
In the fifty third and last
round, Chatham leads off extraord-
inarily fresh, while Williams has en-.
tirely lost confidence and is very