St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-28
MINNEAPOLIS SPORTS.
The .sGreat ALI Greenfield COmbi-
nation, DelusiOn.


1t was fair-sized audience that found its
way to Market hall last night to witness the
glove manipulations of the ''Great Alf
Greenfield combination" Smuggling was to
have been the order of things, but those
who expected to see smuggling were badly
fooled. 1t was talked around town that
Glover would give any Minneapolis man
$50 to stand before him four rounds. Lit
tie Jerry Murphy was ready to accept the
proposition too quick. He had his spar
ring toys in readiness and had his determl-
nation announced to Glover by friend,
but Glover did not care to meet anyone, and
the scheme was a iZZle. Neither ALI
Greenfield nor Burke put in an appearance.
The '.great combination" summed up, in
Guided two men only, Capt. Dalton and
Glover, consequently Billy Wilson found
no foeman worthy of his steel, and Tom
Devine found no one to face him. Patsey
Mellin, the Minneapolis favorite, Off
ciated as master of ceremonies.
Schuster and English, two well-known
boot-black pugilists, opened the ball with
four rounds. They were followed by Jack
Caldwell and j. F. Dormer, in a fancy set
to of three rounds. The first round was
quite lively, but the others were tame
Shepley and Harley had friendly contest,
when the great Billy Wilson, the colored
champion, stepped upon the stage followed
by Prof. Hadley of st. Paul. They
gave a free exhibition. 1t was four
round contest, the last round being an inno-
yatiOn, in that the gloves were discarded.
As the two powerful men faced each other
with bare knuckles the audience waited in
breathless expectancy. Then murmur
1,al1 In
were they to see the claret flow, but they
were not long held in suspense. They
played with each other much as kittens
play until time was called.
Prof Donaldson and Patsy Mellen had
friendly set-to, reminding one of the old
times when they gave almost weekly eX-
hibitions. When ''time and windup' was
called by Glover, who acted as master Of
ceremonies, some one in the audience shouted
KNOCK HIM OUT. PATSY"
Prof. Donaldson smilingly responded,
Come up yourself aud knock him out, :"
but the author of the proposition had no
disposition to face the boxer.
The finale of the entertainment was a
spaTing exhibition by Glover and Capt.
sized gloves, and an outsider might
have been misled into the supposition
that they meant business. But like the
balance of the tournament it was only
Eight taps" The audience made few
attempts to goad them on to heavy hit
ting, but the shouts were unheeded. AS
far as the merits of the two men could be
Judged, Dalton seemed to be the better
man As the crowd slowly filed from the
hall EXPLANATIONS of dissatisfaction could
be heard on every hand, and it would be
difficult for the ''Great Greenfield combi-
nation" to draw fifty people again.
OTHER SPORTS.
The collar-and-elbow wrestling match
and eight-round soft glove contest which
was announced to come off in Weingart's
hall on the East side between Dormer and
Fielding, has been postponed for some
reason.
A reporter of the Journal has been taken
in again. Two young freshmen of the state
university put on the gloves the other night
for friendly bout and boxed three rounds.
Not one hard blow was struck, yet the
evening paper was fooled into saying that
it was prize fight with hard gloves" and
it ended the screed with the words: Both
were severely punished, The students
and their friends are very indignant over
the misrepresentation.
The Lacrosse club held meeting in the
West hotel last evening and discussed the
summer campaign. The club will soon go
to st. Paul to play the boys of that city
and an exhibition game will be given in one
Of the Minneapolis Kinks in week or so.