Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-22

soto showed his best qualify. He in
stantly took advantage of this and show
cred in many hard knocks on the body
OF his enemy.
THE NINTH ROUND
Was perhaps the hardest fought up
to this point. For long time it was
a hard give and take business,
b tn men taking punishment in a
game way. 1t was telling moet on Jones,
and Soto hit him four blows al
most in succession. This seemed to wake
Jones up, for he let out right and left on
the San Francisco boy, and by the end
of the round it was hard to
tell which was nearest ratified. Still a
little coterie of gentlemanly sports, who
had congregated round the HERALD man,
never wavered in the opinion that the
fight was Soto's, sooner or later.
The tenth round was utterly barren of
noteworthy results. Just as time was
called Jones seemed to begin to realize
that he was in fight, and was about to
make one of his great lunges, when the
word stopped him. He stamped inn
patiently with his foot.
THE ELEVENTH ROUND.
Soon after the men met in this round,
Jones went down before well aimed
blow at his chest. Soto followed up his
advantage to good effect, as he always
does; but punishment, as usual, woke
Jones up. He rallied to great degree;
but when time was called he was not
sorry, as he had been at the end OF the
last round.
THE TWELFTH ROUND
Developed more and more plainly that
Soto was to be the winner. He was far
better groomed than Jones was. He was
first in his chair and last out OF it at each
resting spell. He had been, as he was
all through the fight very skillfull in
escaping punishment. Ii he could not get
away from heavy blow, he ran in go
close, ducking or dodging SO quickly, that
the blows went harmlessly by him. In
this round he got in bad roaster on
Jones' ribs, and several on his neck.
Once more Jones rallied and rained in
blows on his enemy. Still, the Angelefio
was getting tired, and the "'Frisco" boy
had the best of the bout.
THE THIRTEENTH ROUND
Was much like the last one. Soto aimed
all his batteries at Jones' bellows, and
some OF them TOOK eHect.
THE FOURTEENTH ROUND
Was pretty full of hard give and take
business. Jones fought with good deal
of pluck, but was the worse for the wear
at the end of each bout.
The fifteenth round was in the main
like the last. Soto fell again, but Jones,
who does not use his head at all, was too
slow to take advantage of it.
THE SIXTEENTH ROUND
Was the hardest fought one of the battle.
Jones had got several hard blows on the
neck on the nose and the eye. His nose
was bleeding quite freely. His neck was
ugly with frequent blows.
THE SEVENTEENTH ROUND
Was all in favor Of Soto, and Jones was
too evidently giving way at every point.
In the eighteenth round there was
nothing done. Jones seemed to be more
than willing to take as much rest as he
could.
The nineteenth round was nil in re-
suits, excepting for most curious ''fake"
which Soto played with telling effect.
He lunged at Jones with his right hand
and missed him, shot past the right side of
his antagonist, whirled around on his heel
like on a pivot, his left arm extended at
full length, and took Jones full in the
wind with the worst blow OF the fight.
Jones did not recover from the effects Of
this.
In the twentieth round Soto hit him
eight times on the left side of the neck,
and twice in the bellows.
Jones saw evidently that the game was
all over with him, and while he did not
seem much ratified as he went to his cor
ner, he came back in a seemingly bad
shape. After few passes he began to
go to pieces all over and all at once. He
was knocked down, but came to his feet
once more to fall a second time. That
ended the mill to the delight of Soto's
friends. 1t was a good little fight but
Jones is not hurt.