St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-13
MINNEAPOLIS SPORTS.
LELAND RINK.

The ball was opened by a red-hOt contest
between Jack Colwell and Tom Gallagher.
After a little preliminary sparrmg, Gala
ghel made feint with his left and planted
his right on COlwelfs ear. 1t was stun
ner and surprised Jack. Heavy work fol-
lowed ending in a clinch, in which Col
well was thrown heavily. Regaining their
feet. hard blows were exchanged. Colwell
led with his left and countered with his
right. Gallagher ducked and clinched.
Colwell took his antagonists head in chan
Gerry, and refused to break-away at the
referees command. Colwell threw Gal
lagher, who quickly turned to the
top. The referee, by sheer phys
ical force, separated the pugilists
and the program was repeated. 1t was
more of a wrestling match than anything
else, Colwell getting thrown through the
ropes. Detective Quinlan hurried to the
stage and stopped proceedings. Through
out the bout the audience shouted like mad.
Tom Shields and Ed Cromwell gave an ex-
hibtion wrestle. Shields won the first
bout, Greco Roman, in fifteen minutes.
and Cromwell the second. catch-as-catch-
can, in thirty seconds. The third bout was
also catch -as-catch- and was won In
twelve minutes by Shields, who was de-
clared the winner of the match. A gro
tesque set-to of three rounds followed be-
tween Prof. Hudley of st. Paul and Prof.
Moriarity of Minneapolis. AS Jerry
Murphy introduced Moriarity, wit in the
audience yelled, Are you there?" and a
big laugh was provoked. Moriarity's style
is quite peculiar. and the manner of put
ting up his dukes was indeed amusing. Be-
fore the third round ended he quit
The next set-to was between Frank
Stark. the lightweight whom Jerry Muir
ply knocked out about month ago, and
George Phalen of Canada.
E. A. Cromwell then juggled the Indian
clubs and Jerry Murphy manipulated the
heavy dumb bells.
This was followed by the event of the
were eschewed, and the regula-
ton soft gloves were donned ir
their stead. AS reason fol
this Prof. Donaldson explained thai
the attendance was not as large as had beer
expected The match was to have beer
65 per cent. of the receipts for the winner
and 80 per cent for the loser, but as ex
penses had not been made there was nothing
to spar for. The pugilists appeared
stripped to the waist, and spared accord
ing to the Queensberry rules, four rounds
The first round Donaldson evidently put il
the most hard blows, but in the second
Rookie got fairly warmed up and let botf
hands, landing on DonaldSon'S body, anC
crowding him against the ropes. In th'
third round Rookie sent in few telling
body blows and Donaldson's gloves paid fo
quent visits to Roake's cheeks. Roake had
the best of the round. They came up fresl
for the last round, but opened very tame
and continued so until Roake planted Z
heavy left-hander on the cheek, Donaldson
ouickly retaliating. 1t was then an ever
thing, so far as the exchange of blows go
but the contest was not fast and furious,
as had been anticipated.
NOTES
The Scandinavian Turn and Ski club has
membership of fifty-five.
W. M. Woodside is in active training fol
the six-day bicycle race with Schock.
Another billiard match between Lauuie Nc
Afee and Frank Billiter is probable, and 70
q good stake, too.
Prof. Duplessis, of the Minneapolis gym
nasium has decided to offer medals for tn
Graeco-Roman wrestling championship of tn
gymnasium. The members OF the afternoO
and night classes will contend among them
selves to see who is the best man of eac
school. The two champions will then NEE
on the carpet for the championship or I'd
gymnasium.
A five-rnile skating race will open the pr
gram at the Washington rink this evening
between Bromley, the champion or lowawn
has won every match he has started IN In
year, and they have not been few, ana
hert, the swift Chicago skater. 1t VIII be
great race. and possibly records will
broken. This race will be Immediately 1o
lowed by the promised ten-mile bicycle rae
between Mile. Louise Arniando ana w
Woodside. WooGside will ride his hude
safety machine, and will give half-ml