Butte semi-weekly miner., 1889-02-16
A MOST SCIENTIFIC CONTEST.
The Long Battle Between McAuliffe and
Myers, Wednesday Morning.

The Long Battle Between McAulfhe ana
Myers, Wednesday Morning.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, February.-The five thou.
sand dollars side worlds lightweight
championship flint between Jack McAulife
and Billy Myers at North Judson, Indiana,
ended, to-day, in draw, in four hours
and thirty-fve minutes. It was Cd
round affair, consisting chiefly of light
sparring, seasoned with the most accurate
science ever seen in the ring. The
blood. thirsty gentlemen were all disap-
pointed.
Each OF the contestants in the battle
satisfied his hackers. and the people most
interested seemed to consider this achieve
ment the height of modern attainment
in ii ng. If however, instead of
from $4,000 to $4,000 hanging
up on results, there had been purse of
$500 or so, the general opinion appears
to be that there would have been genuine
fight, and, as the talk goes, Myers would
have stood a good chance OF winning. Dick
Roche. the backer OF McAuliffe, openly con-
to back him with $5, 900 against anybody
in the world.
The fight seemed badly managed, about
the only mastery stroke of policy appa-
rent being the naming of Michael G. Nc
Donald, the well known ex-gambler OF Chi
cago, as referee.
It was past z O'Clock in the morning when
the fight began. Upon reaching Judson
the fighters went at once to bed, and all
the time from midnight till morning the
outsiders endured the cold in tramping the
streets or riding up and down the railway
to carry out in pretense the various pre-
texts by which public had allowed them
selves to be "pursuaded" that everything
was in accordance with the law.
Betting was seldom so spirited on any
similar event. "Odds were even" in almost
every wager. One stakeholder alone had
$11 400, another $4,000 and there were
enough others to foot up to certainty OF
$31 900 besides the original stakes and
gate money of over Sc, 200.
Just as the fight began, Roche, McAuliffe's
backer, bet $500 on first blood, and $500
for the first knock.down for McAuliffe. a.
sues, and Myers's hackers won both events.
Myers scored first blood in the twenty
ninth round, and the first knock-down in
the forty third. This is the only money OF
the thousands up which changed hands in
the fight.
Streaton people had been saying Myer
would almost at the very start start break
McAuliffe's neck, and smart eastern fell
low claimed to be sure McAuliffe would win
in one "bloody punch" Neither assertion
was any where near correct.
The style of fighting was usually lead
by McAulifie, which was either coHntered
singly or double by Meyers. McAuliffe's
appearance and action was superb, while
oh@ ulyxuo oyeJS e5.if
lack of finish that would have
been fatal but for the marvellous
quickness he was seen to possess. The
high state OF training in which both men
entered the ring caused blow to redden
the skin instantly, but the mark faded
almost as suddenly as it came, and on the
way home neither principal could have
been picked out OF crowd by the marks
he bore.
Twice during the fight Myers failed. only
by hairs breadth, to knock McAuliffe out.
but the latter's science checkmated the
strength and quickness of Myers, just as
these two qualities saved the Streator boy
from q powerful jabbing and ripping.
testants joked with each other contiI ually
during the fght, and McAuliffe would say,
why don't you fight" and Myers would
retort, "I'm only an amateur, and you
are a PROFESSIONAL esc. Thus it pro-
ceeded: the men got weary and vent
to breakfast only to come back and find
the fight in the SAL e innocuous deseutude
in which they left it. There was too much
money up, it was evident to rybody, to
allow either man to rush the fight and
run the risk of an accidental knock.
At the opening of the 61st round referee
Mcdonald announced, apparently much to
the fighters surprise, that he would decide
it draw. Each had, few moments pre-
vious, declined to acknowledge that such a
settlement would be acceptable, but it evil
IDENTIFY was, nevertheless, if not to the fight
ers themselves at least to the men who
controlled them.
Referee Mcdonald said: Each man had
succeeded in keeping the other from win
ming" The DAILY News" says of the af-
fair as follows Betting men
now control the prize ring,
not in the way of iobbery, but
safe fighters are the highest product OF
the trainers art, and while the average
citizen wants action for his money, the
Myers-McAuliffe fight, on accornt of the
many surroundings, was unquestionably
the greatest scientific lightweight battle on
record, with honors slightly in Myers
favor"