The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-13
A TEST PRIZE-FIGHT.
Two Boy Pugs Selected by the
California Club.
The Refined and Gentlemanly Members Hope
Soon to Be Able to Enjoy Gore and
Broken Bones Undisturbed.

About five hundred members of the Cali
fornia Club were present last evening at
the monthly exhibition which terminated
with the arrest Of the principals and their
seconds by order of Captain Short Of the
police force.
The entertainment opened with ten
round contest between Dan Egan, the
Montana Kid" and Charles Turner, the
middle-weight colo red pugilist of Stockton
Neither of the fighters was in condition.
but they gave clever exhibition neyerthe-
less of clean hitting and stopping.
The final round was quite lively, and had
it not been for the leniency shown by Egan,
Turner would have met his Waterloo.
When the round was about half finished
Eg an caught the colored lad a left-hander
on the jaw which dazed the recipient badly.
Egan did not follow up his advantage, but
allowed Turner ample time to regain his
senses. and the round ended in favor OF the
kid" who snook hands with his opponent
before leaving the ring.
The "eyent of the evening"" a contest to
a finish between Rochelle and young Hunt
ington, followed a few minutes after The
middle-weights had left the ring. Both lads
looked to be in prime condition, and evil
IDENTIFY bent upon making winning fight.
For ten rounds nothing transpired to eX-
cite the admiration Of the spectators. Neither
man at this juncture bore the slightest mark
which would indicate that blow had been
struck. Finally. Roehette essayed to
clip the bark off H1ntington,s
and and having failed to land on the
objective point he left an unguarded face,
the elevated part of which happened to
come into contact with a piece of stuffed
kid which covered Huntington's bunch of
fves from view. The punch was stiff one
q hit Of ttalaratO frnu Rnnbatfa'c
proboscis which trickled down his chest.
In the twentieth round Huntington found
his opponents nasal appendage again, and
the general alarm, to use fire expression,
caused further flow OF the elixir of life.
A glance ut Captain Short, as he sat on
bench within few feet of the ring
side, convinced some of the spec
tators who had become anxious,
that the excitement of the contest
was beginning to tell on that venerable and
experienced officer. The Captain was ex-
ceedingly fdgety and nervous and his con-
science must have begun TO rebel against
continuance of the "manly art test case.
The round ended and Rochelle was hav-
ing his ha IdsOme nose sponged and chest
bathed when the Captain ordered Ser
| geant Coles to caution the puglllsts to de-
sist. Mounting the platform the Sergeant
informed the pugilists that if they continued
to fight he would place them under arrest.
When the gong sounded time for the
twenty-trst round the principals LETT their
! cbairs in sprightly way and squared off tor
| action.
Enough!' cried the Sergeant. 81 place
| you both under arrest" And then turning
| to his assistants he ordered them to place
the seconds, Mick Mccarthy, Walter Jami-
son, alias Duff, Jack Delaney and jim
| Mackey, also under arrest. AS the pugilists
| were marched from the ring into their
| dressing T jms the members cheered
| Justify, Il some of them went so
| far as Il congratulate Captain Short
on having enforced the law against prize
| fighting by arrestiDg the two boy pugs
| whom the Club members, comprising law
yers, doctors, merchants and pugilstic
scum. had selected as victims. or
rather, in their mind, heroes of
test case" The members understand
that matters have been so arranged that
they will be permitted by the courts to re-
sumo their brutal sport at an early date, and
that San Francisco will once more become
the Mecca of pugilists and accompanying
blacklegs.
President Fulda and the Directors de-
clined to make any statement relative to
their proposed "test case"
Captain Short simply said that he be-
lieved the contest had got 10 a point which
he thought brutal, aud as matter of con-
sequence it had to stop.
Huntington escaped unScathed. Rochette' S
,&cse was puffed and swollen, otherwise he
did not appear to have sustained any serious
iniury