Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-01
home AFFAIRS.
WESTERN TRAPPER KILLS
ELEVEN INDIANS.
The Fight for the Feather-Weight
Championship Crop
Prospects-Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-USIoN.l |
EIGHTY ROUNDS.
The Feather-weight Fight Ended In a
Draw.


Draw.
CHICAGO, March 31st The long talked
of fight between the feather-weights, Ike
Weir, otherwise known as the Belfast
Spider, and Frank Murphy of England, for
the championship of the world, took place
at Koutts, Ind, this MOI ming, but resulted
as SO many fights have recently, in a most
unsatisfactory manner. The referee. after
the eightieth round, was obliged TO declare
the fight off for the day, and announced
that il would have to be finished some
time before Tuesday. Ii is extremely
doubtful, however. if the men come to-
gether again. Certainly not within that
time and another draw will probably have
to go on record. The fight this morning
was a most peculiar one. For eighteen
rounds it was as scientific and hardly
fought battle as was ever witnessed, but
the other sixty-six rounds, save the sixty
seventh and sixty-eighth, amounted to ab-
solutely nothing. In not more than ten of
them was blow struck, and most of the
time the men didn't put their hands up
An explanation for this lies in the fact that
after ten or twelve rounds the Spiders
hands went back on him, and he could do
nothing Murphy proved himself to be
most wretched general, and failed to get
any advantage of the predicament OF Weir,
who kept dancing just out of his reach.
Another thing was, that Murphy was not
in the best of condition, as was shown by
the great welts left from each blow. The
Spider proved himself much the cley-
erer OF the two, and the way
in which he sailed into Murphy during the
first few rounds, smashing him first on one
eye, and then on the other, then on the
nose, and twice knocking him down with a
sounding crack on the neck, convinced
many that he could have won the fight had
his hands held out. There were others,
however, who were loud in their assertions
that Murphy showed himself the better
man of the two. He certainly proved him
self one of the gamest men that ever en-
tered ring, and with his two eyes almost
closed, and in spite of having been sent to
grass twice, he rushed his long limbed an
tagonist all over the ring.
This was in the early part of the fight,
however, and during the rest of it neither
seemed inclined to do much of anything,
and the two men alternately chaffed each
other, the spectators occasionally varying
the monotony of the proceedings by taking
hand in the talking match, and urging
the fighters to give them their money 5
worth.
After round after round had been fought
without blow, Weir made splendid
rally. The sixtv-seventh and sixty-eighth
rounds were as lively as the most blood
thirsty could desire, and Weir almost had
Murphy knocked out. The squirt was a
short one, however, and the old tactics
were again resumed, under the instructions
of the hackers. When the spectators saw
that nothing could be expected, they soon
tired of the show, and the postponement
was really made at their demand. Weir's
hackers acted very square, and before the
rally repeatedly urged the Spider TO go
in and fight, even if ne got licked.
Parson Davies management of the affair
was excellent, and his arrangements were
all carried out well. After the fight Weir
showed but little punishment though ne
said his ribs were frightfully sore and
thought his jaw was broken.
Murphy was badly bunged up, his eyes
were almost closed, and on his ribs was a
large lump. During the morning there
were one or two encounters between the
sports and natives of Koutts, that seemed
to enliven the proceedings. Near the end
of the fight the owner of the hall declared
he had not rented the premises for week,
and unless the fight was finished pretty
soon he would have it stopped.
1t is understood tonight the match will
not be fought again. Parson Davies said to
have the men come together again would
be brutal, and he is willing to divide the
81 $50 purse between them. If this is done
it would mean that the fighters would each
obtain one-half of the net gate receipts.