The daily gazette., 1883-05-31
A SAVAGE FIGHT.


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Two Philadelphia Bruisers Pound EacI
Other for 80 Rounds in 81 Minutes
near GlenOlden Grove.
One of the most gamely contested of tn
numerous prize fights that have recently
taken place In the suburbs of PhiladeIpbi,
came off In Delaware county yesterda,
morning, when Michael Donnelly and JameI
Clinton fought. Both men live in tht
netghborhood of Sixteenth and Carpenter
streets. Donnelly is butcher,35 years old
feet inches high, and weighs 1853 pounds
He is reputed to be a skilful boxer and hi.
gameness is undoubted, he having been vic
torious In half dozen hard fought battles
On one occasion about a year ago he dis
tinguished himself by whipping three men
in succession in locked room on Wash
| ington avenue. Cliuton is 80 years old and
bnckmaker, He is feet 8 inches high
and weighs about IT'S pounds. He has
| won number of fought battles, Don.
nelly aud he have for two or three years
been rivals as fighters and each has strong
backing of friends and admirers. Things
came to crisis on Monday, when Clinton
dared Donnelly to fight him on Decoration
| Day. The challenge was accepted and pre-
parations were made for the battle. Yes
terday morning the principals and fifty or
sixty friends, who were let in on the ground
floor, took train at Sixteenth and Wash
| ington avenue and went to Glenoldpn, Della
ware county. There the party left the cars,
walked up the railroad quarter of q mile
| and then across fields to the shadow of a
piece of woodland, where the ring was
pitched.
Patrick Morris was chosen referee. John
Williams acted as second for Donnely and
man named jackson handled Clinton
Tha Hfrhk s..l-a
wore nothing but pantaloons and shoes,
Half dozen stalwarts spectators were picked
out to keep the crowd back When the
men faced each other the referee explained
The rules and called time. The contestants
shook hands and then went at it. Clinton
began sparring cautiously, but before he
had made half dozen moves Donnelly
landed stinger on his neck. Clinton
rushed In and received another hot one on
the jaw, but in the clinch that followed
Donnelly's ribs were badly punched
Clinton ended the round by throw
ing his opponent Little or no time
was wasted between rounds and
the seconds had hardly wiped their men off
before the men called time. Clinton now
forced the fighting and series of vicious
blows were gwen and taken by both. AL
the taller man, Clinton spared and fought
lower than Donnelly. The men closed and
fell with Clinton on top. Clinton received
three blows In the third round before he
cross -countered his opponent, who went
down Ikea ten-pin. Donnelly's nose was
bleeding when he was picked up and first
blood was awarded to Clinton. The fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh rounds were repeti-
tions of the third, Donnelly being knocked
down in each and coming up smiling after
each time he was sent TO earth. Both men
were cut and bleeding
In the eighth round Clinton countered
wickedly with his right. Donnelly ducked
and coming up caught the big man under
the chin, Telling him like an OK After
moments sparring for an opening in the
ninth round Clinton rushed In and received
two hard facers, but they did not stop him.
He closed, cross-buttocked and threw DON
nelly, falling on him heavily.
Donnelly was knocked down in the tenth,
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth
rounds, and his friends began to lose hope.
Clinton, however, had less wind left than
his plucky opponent, and Of the two Dom
nelly was the most cheerful looking. He
forced the hghtingin the fifteenth round and
pounded away vigorously on Clinton's
head When it became too warm, how
ever, Clinton adopted his old tactics, losed
with and threw his man. Donnely had
hardly faced Clinton in the sixteenth round
before he received terrific right handler,
/ which sent him down like a falling log.
This blow completely closed Donnelly's left
| eye and left lump as large as an egg on
that organ of vision. His second wanted
him to give up, but he replied, "No; I've
got an hour of fight left in me yet" He
proved it in the seventeenth r und, when
after some wicked in-fghting, he got away
from Clinton, who followed and was
| promptly knocked down. Donnelly out
fought Clinton in the eighteenth, nine
teenth, twentieth and twenty-tirst rounds.
He gained two knock downs in those rounds,
was thrown once and fell.
| They both showed severe punishment
when they confronted each other again.
Clinton's face was cut, swollen and bleed
ing and his body was terribly bruised. DON
nelly's eyes were nearly closed, his face was
i cut, there were half q dozen unnatural
wens on the side of his head and his body
on which Clinton had literally rained blows
| for more than half an hour-was in shock
ing plight. Donnelly, however, had the
most fight in him, and at it they went ham
mer and tongs, science being dropped after
the first half dozen blows were struck
Clinton finally slipped and Donnelly as
sisted his descent by planting blow on his
beek. They slugged each other right and
left in the twenty-third round, and Clinton
emporarily stopped the pounding by
knocking the other man down.
| Out of consideration. for their exh austed
condition the referee allowed the men two
minutes breathing time. The twenty-fourth
round began with light sparring, but Clin-
ton saw an opportunity and began slugging.
DonnellY responded and for half minute
the blows fell fast and furious. Then DON
nelly was thrown as he was in the twenty
fifth round, after some terrific fighting.
Clinton, however, seemed to have made a
last effort to knock his man out in the
twenty-fiith round, but he failed, for Don
nelly came up for the twenty-sixth looking
like smiling beefsteak. Clinton received
two blows on the head and then rushed In
and threw his opponent by sheer weight
Donnelly had things pretty much his own
way In the next four rounds and In each
knocked his man down. Both were very
weak at the close OF he thirtieth round.
Donnelly was helped to the centre of the
ring by his second Clinton tried to come,
but was too much exhausted and gave up
the battle, which had lasted 81 minutes.