, 1889-04-04
A FIGHTING EIASCO,
WEIR AND MURPHY HAVE a wALn
ING MATCH.
The Purse Divided Equally Between
the Alleged Pugilists aud De-
cided u Draw.

cided Draw.
CHICAGO. April 1.-The long talked of
fight between the feather-weigbts. Ike
Wier. otherwise known rs the Belfast
Spider. and Frank Murphy of England,
for the championship of the world took
place at kouts, Indiana. this morning, but
resulted. as so many fights have recently,
in very unsatisfactory manner the ref
cree after the eightietn round being
obliged to declare the fight off for the day,
and announced that 1t would have to be
finished sometime before Tuesday. II IL
extremely doubtful however, if the men
will come together again-certainly not
within that time-and another draw will
probably have to 20 on the records. The
light this morning was a most peculiar one
tor eighteen rounds Ii was as scientific IA
and hardly fought battle as has ever been
seen, but the other sixty.two rounds, save
the sixty.seventh and sixty.eighth
amounted to absolutely nothing,
In not more than ten ot them was u
blow struck and most Ct the time the men
did not even put up their bands. The ex-
PLANTATION for this lies in the fact that after
ten or twelve rounds the Spiders hands
went back on him and he could do rothing
with them. Murphy, who proved himself
to be most plucky tighter, but most
wtetched general, failed to get any ad-
vantage out Of the predlcament of Weir,
who kept dancing just out Of his reach.
Another thing was that Murphy
was not in the best of conditlon
AS shown in great wets left
from each blow. The Spider proved
himself much the ceveter OF the two and
the way in which he sailed at Murphy dur
the hrst few rounds, smashing him first ON
one eye and then on the other, then on the
nose and twice knocking him down with Il
resouudIng crack on the neck, convincing
many that hr could have won the fight had
his hands held out There were Others.
however, who were loud in their assertion
that Murpny showed himself the better
man OF the two. He certainly proved hirl-
self one OF the gamest men that ever en-
tered the ring and With his both ewes
almost closed. and In spite of having been
sent TO grass twice. he rushed his long
hmbed antagonist all over the ring This
was In the early part of the igut, how
ever. During the rest OF it neither
seemed inclined To- do much
of uStEing and the two men alternately
chdff-d each other, The spectators occas-
ioualy vary ing the uonotony of the pro-
ceedings by taking hand in the talking
match and urging the lighters to give
them their moneys W rth. After the
sixty.sixth round had been fought without
many lows Weir made a splendid rally,
and the sixtyseventh and sixty-eivhth =
were as lively as the most bloOdthirsty
could desire and Weir almost had Murphy
Snot ked out. The squirt was a short one
however and the old tactics were again
resumed under the instruction OF their
hackers.
When the spectators saw nothing was
to be expected the! soon tired Of the show
and the post stpOnrment was really made at
their demand, Weir's backer acted very
square and before the rally repeatedly
urged Spider to 20 in and fight
even If he got licked. Parson Davies,
manager OF affairs, was excellent, and his
arrangements were all carried out we'll.
After the tight Weir showed but itt q
punishment though he SAID his ribs were
tirghtfuIly sore ana he thought his jaw
was broken. Murphy was badly bruised
up. His eyes were almost closed aud on
his ribs was Il huge lump. During the
mrruing there was one or two encounters
between sports and natives OF koufs that
served to enliven ;he proceedings. Near
I he end OF the hnht the owner of the hall
declared he had not rented the premises
for "A week aud upless the hpht flushed
pretty soon he would have 1t stopped
Shortly after this queer looking speci-
men. representing himself to he an officer,
worked hls way through the crowd and
cried this fight is stopped Before he
had chance to say anything more crack
behind The ear sent him over the chairs
and with the aid OF several more vicious
blows he soon reached the outer air in
very daaed condition.
II Is understood tonight the match will
not be fought again, Parson Davies said
to have the men come togerher again
would be brutal and that he would will.
ingly divide the $500 purse panally be-
tween the men II this done il would
mean that the fighters each would obtain
one'half OF the net gate receipts The
purse and gate receipts are one and the
same thing. The affair therefore was
practically contest for gate receipts and
one explanation of the listie ssness of the
fighters during the last twothirds Of the
atflir Is that by that time they we're
tactcIy agreed it would be most agreeable
to make II division and not njnre their
future business by spoiling ,ith.r mans
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