St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-20

gymnasium Saturday evening, July %,
for $3.50 a side and gate receipts, is a
lightweight pugilist with a record. He
is among the leaders of his class. hav-
ing reached that point by hard knocks
and hard fights. Hawkins began his
pugilistic career in finish fighting
with Joe Thompson in Eastun town.
ship, Quebec, Can. That was in 1879.
Thompson weighed 100 pounds and
Hawkins 1876. Hawkins won the fight,
which was with kid gloves for 500 a
side, in eleven rounds.
At Montreal a little later he met and
defeated Joe La Rock in nine rounds
for 500 a side. La Rock was a pupil of
Joe La Bochere, at that time an in
structor of boxing in Montreal. La
Rock weighed 155 pounds, Hawkins 135.
for gate receipts, he defeated Tom
WEIGH.
Hawkins then went to Winnipeg and
| fought Frank Secoat, then the light
weight champion of Manitoba. The
fight was for $3.50 a side, and Hawkins
bested Secoat in five rounds.
Glenn Austin, holding the Police Ga
| zette medal as middleweight champion
| of the Northwest, then e%ndeavored to
knock Hawkins out in four rounds, but
got knocked out in the fourth himself.
| Austin weighed 100 and hawkins 1877
pounds.
His first defeat occurred at the hands
of Ed. McKeown, the then ~undisputed
heavy weight champion of Canada.
The fight lasted SiXty-fOur minutes and
was for $3.50 a side and gate receipts.
Hawkins gave up the fight in the six
teenth round, as he was clearly over
matched. McKeown weighed in at
1856, while Hawkins weighed 1876 pounds.
Hawkins next met and defeated Paul
Patillo. of Toronto, in three rounds,
PatiIlo weighing 145 pounds and Haw-
kins 135 pounds. His next go was with
Jim MalOney, of Ottawa, whom he beat
in three rounds. This was to be a six
round go for gate receipts.
He next defeated Johnnie Cash, of
New York, in ten rounds, A month
later he fought a six-round draw with
at which the Gentleman'S Sparring
club presented him with a silver
mounted belt which was engraved:
civilian Hawkins, the Lightweight
Champion of Canada"
He next met and defeated Jack MORT
arty with two-ounce gloves, for $500 a
side, at Montreal, in the hardest fight
of his life, Moriarty having the best Of
the fight up to the fourth round.
Finally Hawkins knocked him out in
the fourteenth round.
Hawkins then went to Toronto, land
was matched to fight Harry Gilmore to
a finish for $500 a side. After a terrific
fight Hawkins won in the twenty first
round, knocking Gilmore out, breaking
his jaw.
Glenn Austin again tried conclusions
with Hawkins, but was again defeated
in seven rounds, Austin weighing 100
pounds.
His last finish fight vas with Jim
Bates, of Butte, Mont. Bates was cham
pion of the state, and weighed 153
pounds. Hawkins knocked him out in
the fourth round. Hawkins was pre-
scented after the fight with a silver belt
with the inscription, champion of the
Western World"
Hawkins has fought twenty-one bat
ties and been defeated but once, GER
tainly a clean record. He has been in
structor in some of the best clubs in the
country, and has had a number of pri-
vate contests, but has W been beSted
in any Ct them. Of course he does not
depend upon fighting for a living, as he
is now employed by the Chicago, st.
Paul & Kansas City railroad, being a
carpenter by trade. His name as "Old
Man" Hawkins is known by every rail-
road man in the Western country.
He is training at Minneapolis. and
any one not seeing this fight will miss
the real good thing of the season. HaW-
kinS' record personally is as clean as
his fstic one. as he is known as a very
reliable man by everyone IN the busl-
ness.
Charley Johnson, Of Minneapolis, is
seven years younger than Hawkins.
and is a we'll built and shapely fellow,
having a very long reach and weighing,
in condition, 40 pounds. He has a rec
ord of a number of private battles, but
his first ring fight was with Black
Frank, of Minneapolis, with whom he
fought a draw of eight rounds. He then
%journeyed to Fargo, where he bested
Tommy Burke in six rounds. Then he
fought Joe Ranley at Dayton, O., and
defeated him. with kid gloves, in thirty
three hard-fought rounds. At the same
place he fought a ffteen-round draw
with the now famous Louis Bizmah,
lately of the MuldOOn and Kilrain COM
bination.
At Logansport, Ind, he defeated John
McCracken, the champion middle-welght
of that state, in thirty-two rounds with
f%our-ounce gloves. A few weeks later
he again defeated hin with kid gloves
in eight rounds. At Birmingham, Ala,
he defeated Louis Allen, a middle
weight, in twenty-four rounds. He re-
turned to Indiana n at Marion
knocked out John B. Wallace (colored)
in forty-three rounds, He found a
hacker and went to New Orleans, La,
where before the New Orleans Athletic
club he knocked out Michael Farris in
twenty rounds.
His greatest fight was with Andy
Bowen, who recently defeated Billy
Myer, 1.-THE Streator Cyclone" where
before the same club he fought forty
three h~ard-contested rounds, which re-
suited in a draw. He returned to his
home and shortly got On a fight with
Jack Lawrence, of Detroit. whom he
stopped in nineteen rounds. His last
fight was with Billy Edwards, of Min
neapolis, whom he easily defeated in
twelve rounds near st. Paul.
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