Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-14

with light rap on the red nose. This was the
first lead Myers had made since the beginning
of the fight "Blind him." said Madden when
McAuliffe walked out of his corner in the
ninth round. The men danced in the center of
the ring for moment and then bang the big
right hand of the Eastern crack left his breast
like fash and fell with terrible violence on
Myers left cheek bone. The Streator lad stag
gered for an instant, and then he came after
his man with his face split in two hemispheres
struck during the fight. and it raised lump
that almost oyerlapped the drieo prune welt.
There was little fighting in the tenth, elev-
enth, twelfth and thirteenth rounds, although
McAuliffe, by desperate rushing, managed to
tap the Jumps on Billy's bad jaw in the
twelfth andl the thirteenth. Continu-
ing his aggressive tactics, McAuliffe rushed
Myers into his corner in the l4th round wit h a
cracking
GOOD HIT ON THE JAW,
and escaped swinging blow from Myers right
by pretty duck. McAulitfe again rushed upon
the Western boy, but, slipping, drove his head
against Myers stomach, Both men staggered
into Myers corner, while a cry of foul was
raised by the Streator crowd. Myers, however,
didn't want any of the best of it, and beckoned
his men to stop yelling. The Streator lad made
a strong lead in the fourteenth round, when he
SWING his right on a dead line with the champ
Ion sneck. McAulife got away by ducking. Ihus
far Myers had got most of the punishment
both cheeks being putfed up and discolored.
McAuliffe didn't carry a mark
In the fifteenth round Myers swung his left
against McAuliffe's forehead with bang, and
in rapid exchange of blows, he scratched the
champions face. First blood was claimed by
the Myers people, but it wasn't allowed.
In the sixteenth round McAuliffe, who was
still doing all the leading, landed hard on
Myers forehead, and got away with a light
swinging tap in the jaw. Then the champion
drove his left hand into the Streator boys right
eye and bringing the water. This was IN the
eighteenth round. IN chop him." the East
ern lad said, when he returned to his corner.
Myers was now in bad shape, one eye was fast
closing. and the two welts on the left jaw
looked as though they might also extinguish
the other lamp. McAuliffe was now confident
of victory.
While the fighting hadn't been hard and furi-
GUS it was one way, and that way was clearly
against Myers, who was chewing his wad OF
gum with the gusto of a schoolboy.
MYERS sKILLFUL PARRYING.
There was no fighting in the nineteenth, but
in the twentieth the Westerner, by skillful
parrying, saved his skull from a sound thump-
ing. In this round Myers raised statuesque
guard, and McAuliffe, amused at the spectacle,
exclaimed: What are you doing? Playing
baseball?" "Wen," replied Myers, sadly, Il
expect to take a slide pretty soon" Nc
Auliffe in his rush on Myers in the twenty-first
round. caught a left-handed blow in the jaw.
which he quickly squared by sending shot
into his antagonists stomach.
The twenty'second and twenty-third roonds
we're marked by clever ducking by Myers, who |
got away from McAuliffe's rushes like phan- |
.om.
Il can't hit him." the Eastern man said to |
Madden, as he was being sponged for the |
.wenty-fourth round, but McAuliffe was still |
willing TO fight, although Myers persistent |
sactics were clearly worrying him. With a |
i'm dashed a.
erner, and with a left-hand blow on the jaw /
lrove him against the ropes. Myers countered |
heavily on McAuliffe's neck and then came |
mother rush from the Easterner. Myers |
tucked under the swinging arm and coming up |
struck out with his right harmlessly.
In the twenty-sixth round Deputy Sheriff |
prang into the ring and undertook to stop the |
light. He had been ''seen" before, and big Alf 1
and the crowd threw him through |
he ropes and out of the hall. There was moth /
ng of any great moment from this time to the |
ixty-fourth and closing round, beyond an occa-
ional blow, and at that point Referee McDon-
Id declared the fight draw.