The daily gazette., 1883-08-15
A HARD GLOVE FIGHT.
KNOCKED OUT IN TWENTY
THREE ROUNDS.
A WICKED AND BLOODY CONTEST.
An Englishman Whipped by New York
Bruiser-The Maori Going into Active
Training.

New YORK, August 14.-John Dempsey,
of this city, aged %, a brother of the wrest-
Ter, and John Boylan, of England, also %
years old, fought well-contested glove
fight this morning at Flushing, resulting in
Boylan's defeat after % rounds Jem Mace
was timekeeper, and a man named O'Brien
referee. In the first ard second rounds
neither man had much advantage, Boylan
being knocked out in the first round, while
Dempsey's nose was split in the second and
he was knocked off his feet.
There was change of tactics In the third
round. The men did not respond to the call
OF time with that alacrity that characterized
their first appearance at the "scratch."
Dempsey had been badly hurt and Boylan
was unoccountably modest for a mi N who
had 80 recently foored his antagonist. His
seconds we're at his elbow with advice, and
he went to work with renewed vigor. Demp-
sey was still cautious; many people thought
far too cautious. Boylan once more began
to act upon the offensive, and Dempsey was
not unwilling to meet him half way. There
fore, there was some excellent fighting done
at short-arm distance by both, and, when
the men clinched, they went down, Demp-
sey throwing Boylan and falling heavily
on top of him.
The effect of this fall was visible on Boy
Ian. He had evidently been injured, and
his face was flushed and his eye triae un-
steady. Nevertheless he went straight to
his man, aud attempted to repeat the right
handed "claret- Taper" that was so effective
In the second round. He was not, as a rule,
successful. Still, he made it very lively for
Dempsey, who continued to act upon the
defensive and watch his opportunity for
counters, crosses and falls. He finished this
found, again, by throwing and falling hea-
Vily on Boylan, who was no match for the
other with the hip or foot.
FINISHED IN TwENTY-FoUR ROUNDS.
Boylan responded gamely to the call of
time for the next round, but it was apparent
that while he had not suffered great deal
from the "infghting," he had been winded
by the falls. He attacked Dempsey pluckiIy
and showed that he depended altogether on
his fists for the result. He led, countered,
swung his right, drove his left in at the body.
uppercutted and tried all the lodges known
to boxers. But Dempsey was equal to every
demand thus made, and, although he was
severely punished and bleeding gave Boylan
many Roland for his divers and wound
up by dashing him to the earth and falling
on him.
Each Gf the men stuck to his own line of
tactics from the fifth to the twenty-second
round, the fight progressing steadily and
sanguinarily toward the end. For a long
tory would perch. But at the close of the
twenty-6rst round, after falling on Boylan
again, 1t was plain that Dempsey was the
tresher of the twain. He flushed the
twenty-second round by throwing Boylan
| even more heavily. The latter came up
with difficulty when Jem Mace and the
referee summoned the contestants to the
scratch" for the twenty round.
The expiring embers of the gladiatorial
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he visited Dempsey very severely three or
four times. Both men were in sorry plight,
bleeding profusely and tired almost to death.
Boylan strOve to fight his man down with
his fists, but Dempsey succeeded in grabbing
and getting hip-lock on him. In an,instant
he lifted, twisted and threw Boylan on his
back and contrived to fall on his chest and
stomach. Both were carried to their corners
and attended by their seconds.
When, for the twenty-fouIth round, the
referee and timekeeper called "Time p
Dempsey, bleeding and staggering, came to
the centre of the ring. But Boylan lay in
his corner and heard neither the call nor the
remarks OF the spectators. He was beaten
and his seconds threw up the sponge.
A FoUR-RoUND CONTEST.
PITTsBURa, August IA prize fight be-
tween William Wagner, of Pittsburg, aud
Albert Cannaup, of New York. was fought
this morning at Whitehall, a few miles from
this city. 1t resulted in victory for Can
naup, who knocked Wagner out in the
fourth round.
sLADE GcING INTO TRAINING.
ST. LOUIS, August 14.-Slade, the pu-
gilist, accompanied by Brighton, his trainer,
and Rice, his manager, arrived at Independ-
ence, Mo-, yesterday. Slade will go into
training at once. 1t is now considered
almost certain that the fight between Slade
and Mitchell will take place at Vinita, In
dian Territory.