Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-14

most interested seem TO consider
| this achievement the heighth of
modern attachments in the ring
| If, however, instead of from $50 600 to
$50 200 hanging on the result, there had
| been purse of $500, the general opinion
! appeared to be that there would have
| been a genuine fight, and the chances are
| Myers would have won. AS it ended he
| justified every confidence of his friends.
Dick Roche, McAuliffe' IS hacker, openly
| congratulated Myers in the ring and
agreed to back HIM with $4,000 against
! anybody in the world 'sI know, said
Roche, ''that you would not lose my
! money, and there is every chance that
| you would win. -
| The fight seemed badly managed.
| About the only mastery stroke of policy
! apparent being the naming of Michael
| G.. Mcdonald of Chicago as referee.
| Mcdonald is a noted ex-gambler, poll
| tician and capitalist and general all
round expert in sporting matters. He is
brother of Ed Mcdonald, BoodIer Nc
Garigle's chum. 1t was Mike who fixed
the sheriff of the county in which
the fight took place when that official
put in an appearance TO carry out the
law, and it was Mike who fixed the town
marshal, who came IN after the sheriff IS
departure and stopped the fight half
dozen times sit is the first time I
have ever corrupted public officer, -
said Mr.. Mcdonald on the way home,
"always believing it could not be done,
and l did it this time for the public
good. -
The spectators of the fight were
unanimous in the belief that it
was great mistake not to
have notified Mcdonald until at the
ringside that he was to be referee, thus
avoiding so much unnecessary delay 1t
was past 'clock in the morning when
the fight began. On reaching Judson
the fighters went at once TO bed,
and all the time from midnight until
then outsiders were enduring the cold
in tramping the streets or up and down
railroad, two hundred to car to carry
out in pretense the various preteXts on
which the public officials had allowed
themselves to be persuaded that every
thing was in accordance with the law.
Betting was seldom so spirited in any
similar event. One stakeholder alone
had S1I 800, another $1,000 and there
were enough others to foot up certainty
of S31 200 besides original stakes and
gate money of $1,000. Just as the fight
began Roche, McAuliffe's hacker, bet
$500 on first blood and $500 for first
knock down for Mac. A few smaller
bets were made on the same
issues, and Myers hackers won
both events. Myers scored first blood
in the twenty-ninth round and first
knock-down in the forty-third. This is
the only money of the thousands up
which changed hands on the fight. The
Streater people had been saying that
Myers would almost at the very start
break McAuliffe IS neck and the smart
eastern fellows present claimed to be
sure Mac would win in Zone bloody
punch. Neither assertion was any
where near correct. The style of fight
ing was usually lead by McAuliffe, which
was either countered singly or doubly
by Myers McAuliffe's appearance and
action was superb, while Myers showed
an awkwardness and lack of finish that
would have been fatal but for the mar
vellous quickness which he was seen to
possess. The high state of training
i'll which both men entered the ring
caused a blow to redden the skin
instanter but the marks almost left as
suddenly as they came, and neither prin-
cipal could have been picked out of the
crowd by the marks he bore. Only once
was blood shed enough to decide the bets
on first blood. The first knock down
was also only one.
Twice during the fight Myers only
failed by hairs breadth to knock Nc
Aullffe out, but the latter's science
checkmated the strength and quickness
of Myers, just as these two qualities
saved Myers from the powerful jabbing
and ripping under cuts of McAuliffe
The two contestants ioked each |
other continually during the |
bout. McAuliffe would say, "Why |
don It you fight, - and Myers would re-
tort: ''I'm in your corner, chase me
out, - or CT IN only an amateur and !
you re professional. Thus it pro-
ceeded. Men got weary and went to |
breakfast only to come back to find fight |
in same innocuous desuetude in |
which they left it. There was
too much money up, it |
was evident to everybody, TO |
allow the other man to rush the fight and !
run the risk of an accidental knock out |
At the opening of the sixty-ifth round |
Referee Mcdonald announced, appar-
emily much to the fighters surprise, |
that he would decide it a draw Each |
had a few moments previous declined |
to acknowledge that such settlement |
would be acceptable, but it evidently |
was nevertheless, if not to fighters them |
selves, at least TO the men who controlled |
them. AS referee, Mcdonald said:
fEach had. succeeded in keeping the
other from winning
The Daily News sums up the affair as
follows: Betting men now control the
prize ring, not in the way of jobbery, but /
safe fighters are the highest product of |
the trainers art, and while the average
citizen wants action for his money, the
Myers and McAuliffe fight, owing to
money surroundings, is unquestionably
the greatest scientific lightweight battle
on record with honors slightly in Myers
favor.
Short in His Accounts.
TERRE HAUTE, IND, Feb. 13.-It is