Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-01
MAYNARD-SCOTT
The Light Weight Champion Knocks
Ont The Unknown,
Fights and Rumors of Fights Mt the
Grand Opera-House-Successful
Inauguration OF the Knock
ing-Out Season.


Opera-house last night; inside and outside
the twenty-four foot ring there was an
atmosphere of fight. The occasion for
the gathering of two thousand delighted
citizens was the event of much promise
and interest, as it was to be San Fran
%cisco's first real taste of a "knock-out'
contest wherein moro than ordinary slog-
ging talent engaged. An unknown had
agreed, and backed his agreement with
$500, to knock out Harry Maynard, the
coasts light weight champion, in four
rounds, Marquis of Queensberry rules to
govern, the aforesaid knocking to be
done with gloves as lard as the police
would allow. Therefore, the two thou.
sand citizens were delighted. They have
long felt that San Francisco has been
backward indeed, in this respect. Almost
daily the dispatches broughtnews of some
knocking-out contest in New York, at
tended by Roscoe Conkling, Charles A.
Dana and various thousands of others,
and soft was felt here that the eminent
here had a right to complain that this
new and entertaining diversion had not
been supplied by cateers to public taste.
Knocking out" had become, through the
dispatches, a cherished household term,
but not until last night was its real sig
nificance to be understood. The craze
for Greco-R Roman and catch-as catch can
having lad its glorious day, it was evil
dent last night that the craze for the
beauties of knocking out had fairly taken
possession of the city. Before the prin-
cipal event of the evening there were
several minor events between sturdy
~sluggers, yet even this did not prevent
the fighting talk proceeding on and off
the stage. The first evidence of the fever
hat had smouldered and was then about
to break out, to knocking out, in fact,
was the appearance on the stage, in front
of the ring, of a glib-tongued party who
proposed to put up $3.50 as an expression
of his opinion that Pete Lawlor Dublin
Pete) could hold the championship in the
ring against Tack Mailman, Patsy Hogan
or Harry Maynard, the latter preferred.
The man of opinion and coin departed in
a wing, and Harry Maynard, wearing an
ulster over his ring costume, appeared
and said, 81 accept the proposition. I"
Then he retired, and the audience
cheered. A fresh couple of sluggers be-
ing put in the ring, Jack Mailman excit-
edly rushed to the reporters table and
asked the particulars of Lawlor's chal-
lege. Receiving the desired information,
he stepped to the front of the stage and
said: 81 will fight any man on the coast
for the lightweight championship for ST.
600. ! will fight Maynard, and give him
two or three pounds best in weight, OF
fight Lawlor if he will come down to my
weight"
M At A TIME.
At this point Maynard again appeared
on the stage and said: CATER my fight
with Lawlor I'll fight Mailman"
Mailman excitedly showed his hand in
his pocket, and exclaimed: 'Ill bet 500
right here Maynard won't put up a forfeit
on my offer"
Maynard replied, with n generous smile
for the audience: 81 can't fight more than
n man at a time, you know" and again
disappeared.
The audience cheered delightedly and
shouted loudly as a blue shirted, cheerful
looking party climbed upon the stage,
shook hands with Hallinan, and, with an
engaging and comprehensive grin,
knuckled his forehead and spoke: 'I1l
fight any man on the coast at from 140 to
$50 hounds, for from 500 to SIC, 1000"
Deafening cheers from the audince, and
cries of SIS it Sullivan or Vanderbilt
What's your nameq) "My name is
Thomas Kelly, and l amt afeerd Of
it,"
The audience again cheered Mr.. Kelly
who ducked his had in appreciation. AL
this while the sloggers in the ring were
furnishing the delighted audience will
amusement for their eyes, while Mr.
Kelly amused their ears. 1t was as goot
as two circuses under one tent.
After haunting Maynard to put up
} forfeit, Mailman said: 'I1l start a purs'
right now for a fight here tonight between
' Lawlor and Mr.. Kelly" Mr.. Kelly wa
so overcome by this unexpected appreci
alton that he knuckled his forehead 81
!. vigorously as to incur great danger o
knocking himself out. Both he anc
Mailman still stood on the stage, whel
Mr.. Lawlor's hacker dived out from tn,
wings, and presenting Billy Jordan will
two twenty-dollar gold pieces, said
There's my mans forfeit against Harr,
Maynard"
81 have got this money" said Mr.. Jor
dan, which was 80 ~manifestly the cas-,
that the audience cheered, Sand I'm wait
ing for to see the same from Mr.. May
nard."
After this rich literary treat the audi
ence was prepared to see something more
substantial in the way of knocking OUT
than offers to do so, and cheered Mr..
Jordan as he cleared the stage of the
takers, and, in his well-known lordly
manner, ordered OH the principals to the
main event. According to that time.
honored custom some one SHE'D a hat in
the ring, which proved to be Mr.. Scott
the unknown" as that person followed
the hat, and submitted heroically to
Mr.. JoRDAN's INTRODUCTION.
A fashionable bell crowned hat was then
tossed in from the other side, followed by
Harry Maynard and his seconds The
latter bore two complete sets of gloves,
which were submitted to Captain Short
inspection. The police captain carefully
examined the gloves, rejected the thin.
nest, and said there would be no objec-
ton to the fight going on with the others.
The ones permitted are what are called
''half small" and have about one-third
the padding of the ordinary gloves. They
were hard enough for all purposes, as the
fight showed. After much discussion
over the choice of referee, judges, cor
ners, ETC., time was called. AS the men
advanced to the centre, some one in the
audience yelled, 'Two to one Harry
knocks the big one out" Scott is about
five feet ten, and looks to weigh, in ring
l.r.s,.o .,,. 100 ,1,ala 10 ,n.