Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-01
EVERYBODY WAS DISCUSTEb
Another Gigantic Fizzle In tt
Pugilistic Limo.
MURPHY ANXIOUS TO FIGHT
But the Spider Prefers TO Give A
Exhibition of His sprinting
Powers and the AFFAIR
Ends In n Row.
The weir.Niurphy Fight.

CHICAGO, March 3l.-Tho long tallSed-oI
| fight between the feather.weights, Ike Weirj
| otherwise known rs the Belfast Spider, and
Frank Murphy, of England, for the oham}
pionship of the world, took place at Koutts
this morning, but resulted as so many fights
have recently, in most unsatisfactory mau3
ner. The referee after the oightieth row
was obliged to declare the fight Off for
day, and announced that IL would have tor
finished some time before Tuesday. 1t is
treinely doubtful, however, if the mon NJ
come together again-ccrtainly not wtRy
that time--and another draw will probably,
have TO go on record.
The tight this morning was most peculiar
one. For eightee.- rounds it was as scicntlfol
and hardly fought battle as has ever been1
seen, but the other sxty.two rounds, saval
the siSty.seventh and sixty-eighth, amounted |
to absolutely nothing. In not more than ten !
of them was a blow struck, and most of the J
time the men did not even put their hands !
up. The explanation for this lies in the fact
that after ten or twelve rounds the Spider'sy
hands went back en- him, and hey
could do nothing with them. Murphy, Who'll
proved himself to be a most plucky fighter
but most wretched general, failed to get !
any advantage out of the predicament of
Weir, who was dancing just out of his reach.
Another thing was that Murphy was not in
the best of condition, Us was shown by the !
great WeltS le1U from eaCh blow. y
The spider proved himself much the
cleverer of the two, and the way in which he {
sailed at Murphy during the first few rounds,
smashing first one eve and then the other
then on the nose, and twice knocking him
down with 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 as
sertions that Murphy showed himself the
better man of the two. He certainly provetr
himself one of the gamiest men that ever ensS
tered ring, aud with his two eyes almost
closed, and in spite of having been sent to
grass twice, he rushed his long, timber an.
tagonist all over the ring. This was in thd
early part of the fight, however. During the
rest OF II neither seemed inclined to do much
OF anything, and the two men alternately
chatfed each other, the spectators occa-
sionally varying the monotony OF the pro-
ceedings by taking hand in the talking 4
match and urging the fighters to give them
their moneys worth.
After round after round had been fought
without a blow Weir made a splendid rally
The sixty-seventh and sxty-eighth rounds !
were rs 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 re.
sumed under instructions of the hackers.
When the spectators saw that nothing could
be expected they soon tired of the show and .
the postponement was really at their demand. :.
Weir's backer acted very square, and before 4
in and fight, even if he got licked. Parson
Davies management of the affair was excel (
lent and his arrangements were all carried =
out we'll
After tho fight Weir showed but little pun.
ishment, though he said his ribs were fright
fully sore and he thought his Jaw was
broken Murphy was badly bruised up. HIS
eyes were almost closed, and on his ribs was
huge lump.
During the morning there were one or two
encounters between the sports and natives .
of Koutts that served to enliven the pro- j
ceedinss. Near the end of fight the owner ;
declared that he had not rented the prem :
ises for a week, and unlass the fight was =
finished pretty soon he would have it B
stopped. Shortly after this queer looking
specimen representing himself to be an officer
worked his way through the crowd and
cried, "Ihis fight is stopped" Before he
had a chance to say anything more he re-
ceived crack behind the ear that sent HIM
over the chairs, and with the aid of several
moro vicious blows he soon reached the outer
air in very dazed condition.
1t is understood tonight that the match
will not be fought again. The Parson said Z
that to have the men come together again /
would be brutal, and he is willing to divide
the 81 300 purse equally between them. IL
this is done it would mean that the fighters
each would obtain one.half of the =
net gate receipts. The purse and gate Z
receipts are one and the same thing. The
affair, therefore, was contest for the gate
receipts, and one explanation of the listless-
ness of the fighters during the last two
thirds of the affair is that by that time they
were tacitly agreed that it would be most Z
agreeable to make division and not iniure
their future business by n Knockout.