Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-15

referee announced Jack Dempsey the vic
tor and the spectators received it in silence
Time, fifty-nine minutes.
Greater stamina, pluckier and fairer
fight, was never witnessed in this country
and two gamer men never faced each other
IN 24-foot ring. The Marine sat in his
chair, bleeding battered and bruised. and
when asked If he was hurt, said family
: am hurt, Dick, badly hurt but it was a
square deal" Dempsey was asked how he
felt, and If he was hurt He replied /:
Well | won, but you can bet that | was
hit hard"
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS
New YORK, March 14th.-Additional
particulars of the fight say that in order To
escape the hundreds of persons who have
IN one direction or another been following
the movements of the principals and their
managers, or others who were supposed to
be interested, and whose presence on
Thursday morning caused the event to be
deferred, the men and their friends had
within the preceding twentv-four hours
quietly dispersed in different directions.
and at given hour assembled on board n
tugboat on the Long Island side of East
river, whence they steamed up to the land
ing-place, mile and half from Rye.
New orh. To avoid publicity and danger,
pCeA AS-APoNs anu DidIlcn were quietly
taken to the summer residence of we'll
known New Yorker, where they went to bed
and rested until daylight A large barn on
the same gentleman's premises was chosen
Tor the encounter, and a ring "a by % feet
was pitched. By the time the ring was
ready, and the principals and their seconds
had reached the barn, forty persons in all
had assembled as spectators. Twenty
eight of these are said to have
paid $15 each toward the purse
for which the men fought The others
were favored friends of the principals. The
purse amounted to 81, 100 and there was a
stake OF $1,000 side put up by the men or
tnelr packers. The arrangements for the
affair We're very complete, and a warning
was gwen to all to keep strict silence, so
that the neighborhood might not obtain an
mixing OF what was going on. Taken al
together, leaving out the men who were to
hight, as they stood preparatory for the
Dattle, one would have supposed the gather
ing to be for far different purpose. The
twenty-eight who had put up their shekels
in silk hats, fashionably cut Newmarkets.
with the latest style Derby and ulster.
savored more of a theater party than a
prize fight. All these were members of
the New York Racquet Club, but their
names were most carefully concealed
That they were deeply and earnestly inter
estei in the event there was no doubt and
bets running into the thousands were
quietly made from time to time. 1t was
was almost I O'clock the sun being up and
shining brightly, when the final prepare
tons were concluded by the choosing of
John ONeill as referee. Meanwhile the
men had stripped, Dempsey wearing a
dark trunk tights, and la Blanch blue
shorts. Both men looked splendid speci-
mems of physical and muscular perfection
Dempsey was slightly taller than his OPP
ponent, but weighed over four pounds less
THE VICTOR AND vANQUIsHED.
New York, March 14th.-Five minutes
after the fight was over the principals and
spectators had dispersed and nothing was
left to tell of the great event but few
blood stains on the floor and the strong
odor of tobacco fumes which pervaded the
atmosphere. La Blanch was taken away
in carriage, and it is said went on to Bos-
ton. The victorious Dempsey, whose
slightly swelled and discolored face and cut
lip were the only indications that he bore
of the famous encounter, was taken aboard
the tug boat and was the center of a con-
gratulatory crowd on the way to Hunters
Point, where he and his friends were
landed about noon. The news RAPIDLY
spread through Green Point and Williams
burg, TO which place he was escorted and
he met with as demonstrative re-
ceptions at the several saloons in
which he stopped as the restrictions
of the Sunday law would permit 1t is a
notable fact that the most prominent men
in sporting circles, such as Harry Hill, Joe
Coburn and Arthur Chambers, were left
out in The cold, and did not get the correct
tip Even old-time sporting news re-
porters went astray after As hours wild
goose chasing over Long Island and West
chester counties. AS to the fight it was
agreed by all who witnessed it that it was
the most fairly fought and earnest encoun-
ter they had ever known. The men were
both scientific in the use of their fists, and
both are hard bltters, but Dempsey's long
arms are terrible. His left hand over
matched the plucky Bostonian's grit and
right-handers, which would have done
much greater damage had they not been a
little too short.
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE
New YORK, March 14th.-Sporting cir
Giles were excited this afternoon bya report
that the Dempsey-La Blanch fight had at
last taken place. AT half-past / o'clock the
San and Telegram published extras. which
were eagerly grabbed up by men who had
been hunting for particulars for two weeks
past. The Telegram gave three pictorial
columns, containing description of the
battle, which it called the greatest middle
weight fight on record 1t said there were
only twenty gentlemen present, and only
three newspapers of this city were repre-
scented. These were the Telegram Herald
and San.