The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-23
THE ROPED ARENA
A MILL MADE UP.

A MILL MADE UP.
TOM ALLEN AND GEORGE ROOKIE TALK OF AN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE BUSINESS
| GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE RoCKEY MOORE
FIGHT.
The st. Louis Republican, by way oil
variety, gives lively chapter of the ring
suggested by what may or may not happen.
1t says: IL seems that, despite Toms Oft
avowed retirement from the ring, and in the
face Of his recent denial of the report that he
was about TO make match with George
Rookie, he has gone East to arrange
and that a deposit OF $500 a side,
being one-sixth of the agreed stake, is
now in q the hands of Harry Hill.
The fight is arranged to take place within 80
miles of Pittsburg, on the 18th of June. The
chances are about five to two that the fight
will not occur, but as it will probably attra; t
a good deal of attention from the sporting
world brief review of the careers of the
combatants and OF their respective pugilistic
| abilities will not be uninteresting. Tom.
Allen is too we'll known to require any de-
| tailed description, and the sporting public
is already familiar with bis history. He is
| in prime health now, fat as bear, and will
| have TO do some of the hardest training of
his life to get down from his present 210
pound of adipose to the 172 pounds OF bone
and muscle requisite to BIT him for the roped
arena. Moreover, Tom. Is getting a
,riae stale. Not that his age-36-has
began to tell on him, but he
| has trained down and then fat
| tened up again so many ii mes that his sys-
tenn does not take to the flesh-reduclng pro-
cess as kindly as it used to- Indeed it is
| seriously questioned by sporting men
whether Tom is not a better man at 200 or
2l0 than at l72. 1t is true that in bis present
flesh he might be trife slow, and his wind
might give out in a protracted struggle,
while bis face would present cushion for
his antagonists knuckles, and could be cut
and carved like tenderloin of beet. But to
offset these disadvantages it Is said that he
loses strength In training 80 much that the
| Increased activity of his trained condition is
not of sufficient advantage TO counterbalance
the loss OF brute force. Moreover, it APP
pears that all the fights Tom has won OF
late years has been gained by
QUICK WORK,
and even his friends admit that he can't
stand the heavy jolting of a long and evenly
contested battle. In fact he has never fought
but three dragging fights in his life and
those were all fought in England several
years ago. The longest TIME he has stood
| up in the ring in this country was A min
utes with Mace, ard of this about 80 minutes
was a spsrring match, not more than ii min
uJes having been devoted to business. From
these facts 1t would seem that Aliens main
reliance is in his science and strength, and
that his capacity to endure cuts but a small
figure among his fighting endownents.
His prospective antagonist, George
Booke, is about two years his junior,
and is his exact opposite in build. tempera-
ment and appearance. Rookie is an Irish
man, but has lived nearly all his lite in
England and America. He is about i've feet
ten and half inches in height. The New
VNr l. On. To i'm Of h,.f eAof
bs true he must have grown an inch and a
halt since the sporting reporter saw him
tight Hockey Moore eight wears ago next
fail, at Isle OF Shoals, New Hampshire. He
is broad shPuldered, flat chested, an
tribe handy legged; his complexion
is dark, his face vicious and for
bidding, and his head shaped like cube
| his forehead is low and broad,
his br prov, projecting and lower,
"out of true" from the effects of R)ckey
Moore's fearful leit-hand hitting, and his
eyes are small and black like a weasel's. In
short, he is as repulsive a specimen of the
genus rough as could be imagined. But he
is game lighter, either in the ring or In
the rough-and- tumble, and is what is
known in pugillstic parlance as thorough
glutton-that is to say, man who can
stand up and be msuled AL day. His
swarthy skin is like leather, and his
spare flesh is like gristle. so that 10
hitting short of the bone-smashing
variety can "faze'' him to speak OF
| He is not, however a very scientific boxer,
| his low grade OF intellect rendering science
in anything impossible TO him. His ring
experience is not brilliant. He beat Hussey,
third rate, recsiving hardly scratch, in
1865. Then he fought draw with Collins,
whom the presidents son-in-law, Sartoris,
recently cuffed about to suit himself. FL
nally he was
AwFULLY WHIPPED
by Rockey Moore, a perfect novice, who
fought him out of pure freak of boyish Gus
sedness. and whom nobody expected to
stand before him five minutes. Since that
time Rookie has been keeping saloon in
Newark, and has made two matches which
were never fought-one with Joe Co.
burn and the other with Jem|
Covne. His fight with Moore was a most
peculiar affair. Moore was young fellow
belonging to one of the best families in
Brooklyn, and bis registering proclivities
led him into many a scrape, and his family
into much sorrow. His older brother, the
Hon. Hugh Moore, now state senator from
the eighth district OF New York, was some.
thing of a sporting man in a heightened
way. and when Rockey got embroiled in a
difficulty with Rookie which led TO a cbal-
lenge by the latter, Hugh encouraged his
younger brother to take lt up, and we be-
lieved, backed him for the g, 900 which was
the stake of the combat. The diff
Guilty which led to this fight was the
result of lark, and consisted of an
imnromptu knock down between Rookie |
and young Moore, in which the swerthy pu-
gilist OF Newark was badly worsted by the |
gay and festive socie'y young man of Brook |
Ign. Arrangements Tor a regular fight, &C |
cording to the p. r. followed, and the battle |
took place at Isle of Shoals, n. H., in Octo- |
Der, 1867. When the two men shook hands /
in the ring praatar contrast than fhav Tre-