Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-15
CHAMPION AT MIDDLE WEIGHT.

| or Iour days.
 CHAMPION AT MIDDLE WEIGHT
 Jack Dempsey whips the Marine i'm | Fierce Battle of Fists.
 NEW YORK, March 14.-The greatest mid
 dle weight fight on record was fought thi
 morning at o'clock at Larchmont on tn, Sound. The contestants were George It Blanche, of Boston, and Jack Dempsey, o1 1 New York. The stakes were $1 ,000 side 1 and $1 800 purse made up by certain gen | tlemen of this city. Dempsey stood five feet l eight and one-half inches and weighed 145 l pounds. Le Blanche's height is five feet
 seven inches and he weighed 155 pounds. Thirteen desperate rounds were fought and Dempsey won. The managers of the affair carried the fight to successful and entirely satisfactory conclusion. There were only thirty persons present. The chief difficulty
 experienced by the managers of this fight
 was to hoodwink those watching for it and
 the ''toughs" who were bent on being pres
 ent to mar the fairness of the operations. In
 the first place the men were put on board 8
 large propeller which steamed far up the
 North river and then took the remainder of
 the guests OF board and steamed for the
 battle ground. This was sixty-fve miles
 away and was reached in good season.
 A better looking man than the marine would have been hard to find. He was not quite
 as tall as Dempsey, but he weighed few pounds more. Dempsey looked trife less bulky and was equally as fine. Both men were very calm and neither had any thing to say. The place had the aspect of Sunday school gathering, or, at the worst, merely college gymnasium school at prac- tice before the faculty
 After twelve rounds had been fought in which both men had terribly punished each other the marine came up for the thirteenth round and dashed gamely at Dempsey. The latter went at it for dear life, for he certain ly knew by this time that the crisis had been reached. The marine was bleeding like 8 stuck pig and Jack was putting and blow ing. The gloves of both were in tatters and covered with blood. They got to work at punching each other until the ma rine dropped exhausted. Dempsey went to his corner showing the signs of the terri ble punishment he had received and the ma rine strove to get to his feet, but he could not rise. He was practically, if not literally knocked out. When the referee called ''time" he could not respond. He did get up and hurling himself at Dempsey fell into the latter's arms and was assisted mercifully by the plucky New Yorker to his chair in the corner. He was beaten man and his second gave it up. Then the referee an nounced Jack Dempsey the victor and the spectators received it in silence.
 The time of the fighting was fifty-nins minutes. A pluckier and fairer fight was never witnessed in this country and two gamer men never faced each other in twen- ty-four foot ring. The marine sat in his chair, bleeding, battered and bruised, and when asked if he were hurt said frankly: 1T am hurt, Dick, badly hurt, but it was square deal.' Dempsey was asked how he felt and if he was hurt. He rep piled: 'tWell, I won, but you can bet I was hit hard. Do you think I will have black eyes I never had black l eye in my life' After measures had been | taken for the temporary relief of the men the party left the battle field. Le l Blanche started east and Dempsey came to New York and then went to l his home in Williamsburg. After a bath l he started out for walk. He was followed | by great crowd and occasionally he was 1 ,heered. |