Daily Republican., 1886-07-01
A Prize Fight.

some two months ago q prize fight
was arranged to take place in this city,
! on Saturday night, about four or Eve
weeks since, between two men named
Nitchie Golden and James Grady. A
room was secured In the vicinity of
Fifth and Market streets, but on &C
| count of some dissatisfaction on the
part OF one OF the sporting men he made
The matter 30 public tina: the fight was
declared of.
Tickets had been sold to the initiated
| at $3.50 each, ard the word WAS passed
around that all holding tickets could
have their money refunded by calling
on well known sporting man In Tia Is
city. In the meantime other arrange
ments had been IL AIDE, and IL WAS d eel
ded TO have the fight take place, but to
keep II secret from the one who had or
posed II before, consequently o select
Few were informed that by paying so
cents additional to the 81 90 already
paid, they would have an opportunity
of witnessing the mill.
A large mum Der Of tickets was cold,
and the arrange ments made to have the
fight take place ut an early hour this
morning At o point on the Delaware
river about three miles above the mouth
1 GO
kept as quiet az possible for fear of in
terruption by the authorities, but not
withs.auding the effort to keep IL secret
1t was generally known last night that
the fight would take place, and from 10
] o'clock in the evening until 2 O'Clock
this morning hacks and vehicles were
In demand to carry persons to the place.
Shortly after midnight, one OF the
steamb boats which plies between Phila.
delphia and Ridgeway Park, came up
the Chribtiana and made fast outside
the steamer Brandy inc. at Fourth
street wharf, and few minutes later
squads of two or three men, commenc.
| ed to 20 on beard OF her BY 2 O'Clock
| this morning tho boat was pretty we'll
| filled with passengers, aud short time
afterwards steamed slowly down the
creek to the Delaware.
The passengers, among whom were
| several well-known business men OF
this city, were very reticent in regard
TO what WAS going on, and Que, W hen
asked on the wharf what the matter
was, replied that they we're going to a
funeral, while another averred that 1t
was nothing more than = tiehing party
who were going down the bay for d
days sport.
The boat steamed up the Delaware
river TO DuPont's pier, where landing
was made and as 1t had been preceded
by two b bats from Philadelphia, there
was quite o number of persons on tho
grouud when the passeDgeIs from this
city arrived.
Shortly after daylight tho ring was
formed, the referees chosen. and every
thing got in readiness for the combat.
| A few minutes later Golden and Grady
stepped lightly into the Enclosure,
stripped TO tho waist, and evidently
meaning business. Eleven rounds
were fought, aud some pretty hard hit
tina done, which resulted il bot Ia III, Il
| being badly punished.
When time was called for the twelfth
round, Grady failed TO respond, and
| Golden was declared the winner. Con.
siderable money changed hands ON
the retult, as the general opinion
seemed to be that the men were pretty
evenly matched, and that the man who
won would do it by science AID heavy
blows.
| The sports from this city reached
home about O'Clock, and according to
their statements were not out of the
city, and did not even know that there
had been fight until they heard il
/ Oh the street.