The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-02-14
NEWS or THE DAY.
An Exhaustive Prize Fight This
Morning
In the Hoosier Land Of Ben Harri-
son.
McAullnc aud Myers Fight sirty-FOur
Rounds to q Draw.
qhe Fight for tho Light Weight Cham.
pionRhip,

NORTH JuDsOS, Ind, Feb l3,-Ispe'
eial, The great MoAuliite'Myera light
began here this morning, The men
fought like devils, At tho end Of tho
Goth round theSherlli stopped the light
Neither had any advantage, A thous-
and spectators were present when tho
light was stopped, II looked as II II
would take ~ many more rounds TO
end ID, Neither MGAuline or Myers
were badly punished. The crowd
howed and swOre vigorously NJ tho
sheriff, but II did do good, II Isunder.
stood tho next effort fora fight win not
be- Ia Indiana,
There was considerable disturbance
before the fight htcOmmenced, TheorOwd
was very boIster0ua aud threatened 10
clean out everything In sight, and whip
tho whole town, The sheriff gathered
q posse and then watched the Eight for
- roundB Then hc made his raid ON
the ring A special train from sueator
bearing the Illinois Cyclone aud friends
arrived last night Another special left
Chicago with local and eastern sports,
aud the Brooklyn puglIlt was slowed
carefully away In the baggage car, On
the way from the station 10 the light
Ing ground the sheriff was met, who In,
formed the puRill7t8 aud friends that
the battle would not be- permitted, The
party again boarded the train aud were
taken five miles ont Of town. while the
ahcrIlI retired for the night In a few
hours the train returned 10 North Jud'
son. and the party proceeded TO the
place originally selected for the light,
Considerable time was occupied
In pitching q ring aud II was
la6 q, m when the arrangements
had 80 far progressed that the choosing
Of referee was In order Myers and
McAulIlfe stepped into the ring and
shook hands AtGl5 Mike Mcdonald
was chosen referee, After the pugil.
lists entered ring there was delay pre-
sumbNbly to give betting full play.
The crowd grew ugly and demanded u
call Of time, which was however, not
granted, Threats 10 tear down
the ring and clear out the
place were made, and great
confusion resulted, which threatened
10 stop all the proceedings, The sheriff
made his appearance again NJ GI2 o. m.
and commanded the crowd TO disperse,
The shorif.s deputy mounted q plat.
form and ordered hostiltes to cease.
The town constable then held confer.
ence with the sheriff aud further oppo,
siton was withdrawn When time was
finally called the deputy and constable
In close embrace were interested spec
tators from the rear but at an adyanta.
geous point Of view
FIRST RouND-Thore was general
sparrng both McAulille and Myers
using extreme caution.
SECOND RouND-ln this round
Myers led the Aghtng and II was fierce
from the start Finally Myers put In q
terrific right handler on McAuliTe's
neck knocking him down,
TnWp RouSD-rhe third round ro-
suited In no advantage TO either party.
There was only light spOrring,
FouTu ROUND -McAuli0c, cncour.
aged and chccrod by his friends, led tho
lighting In This round lie Mudud his
right aud then hisloIt IN Myers .lcc,
but the blows were short and did not
disturb the man from SrUior very
severely
Thclllh, SIXTH seventh, eighth ninth,
tenth and eleventh rounds were with.
out signal results, on either side. Mcy-
ers being apparently the most wiuded,
In the twelfth round McAuilfo
claimed Il foul, which the referee would
not allow
Then the sparring became very lively
from the thirteenth to the sixteenth
rounds, McAulilre aiming most OF his
blows ut Myers face,
when Myers came up for the six.
teenth round his eyes were badly dam
aged, one being almost swollen shut.
lie also appeared groggy but fought
gamely,
In the sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth rounds not blow was
struck.
The nineteenth and twentieth were q
repetition Of previous rounds. From
the twentieth TO the tweuty.third round
similar tactics we're adopted. With the
attention each man received II seemed
as IL IL would require many more
rounds TO reach decision.
After conference and parley with
the Sheriff and Deputy and constable,
the fight was renewed. The delay
helped Myers TO rally his wind, Tho
fighting up TO the thirty.fourth round
was tame, both men acting cautiously
and the crowd getting ugly and yelling
for more fight,
LATER.
At the end of The sixty.fourth round,
with both sluggers all winded out, but
neither one badly damaged, the referee
declared the fight draw