The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-09
The McCarty-DixOn Fight.

| Boston, Feb. S.-Dixon was seconded h,
Tom O'Rourke and Tom McGueeh: Nc
Carthy, by Tom Collins, Jack O'Meara and
Chappie Marnn Larry Gum held the bot
Tile while Mike Slattery and Jack McMas.
tiers kept time. Dixon appeared in drab
tights and Mac in blue. The men both
weighed 1l413 and were in the pink of con-
dltlon and first class spirits. Their hands
were eneased in the regulation gloves.
MCCARTHY started in to win in short order
leadlng OH with left handler on the
negroes jaw. Dixon countered on his an.
ponent's neck, but Cal lodged him like a
cat. Though Dixon succeeded in petting
IN two or three during the first round. they
were light ones and the round was
McCarthy's. was
The second and third rounds were SINH
lar, ana al the close of the third bets of
Si,CJU 10 So00 We're frantically offered on
Mccarthy.
In the fourth the Bostonian put forth his
reserve power. He led with both hands
and Cal had to do the hardest and ouickest
work he ever did in his life, and the close
OF the round found him dazed
Mccarthy had the best in the fifth and
SlXln ROUNDS, but In the seventh Dixon
went at him again, and after sharp ex-
change OF wind and jaw blows the lad from
Jesey City went down to avoid punish
ment.
There was clinch in the eighth ronnd
and good short-arm work. Then McCar-
thy gave two hard body blows, and Dixon
landed squarely between the eyes. The
bostonlans among the spectators now be-
gan to see victory ahead and betting he
came even. Lively work continued. Dixon
forging ahead all the time and his more
famous opponent losing heart and show
ing plainly that his iaunty notions
Oh winning IN canter had disappeared
When the fifteenth round was reached
betting was at $500 to 800 on the Boston
BOY. mcCarthy got considerable severe
punlshmen5 in the fifteenth. but came mn
smuing In the sixteenth and let Dixon have
three good ones on the wind. Dixon re-
turned the compliment on eye and law.
Then the men exchanged body blows and
both Tell. Honors were about even in this
round and also In the next, but Dixon,s
strength was outlasting mis- rivals and his |
blows counted.
Inc twentieth round was rattliing good
one, Mccarthy having recovered himself |
and the way in which he rained blows ON |
ais r1Vals face and neck delighted his sup |
oorters amazingly.
In the twenty-second round odds were
PACK to even, so well was he showing nm.
Olxon's legs beganito show signs of giving
NV LII ouO oWOuty -LuIEu, DuG ne n6lQ him.
sell together wonderfully and brisklv.
Jhnches now became frequent and blows
nat meant business Cal tried Sullivan's
method of hitting his opponent right under
The heart, but the son of Ham refused to
De knocked out There were no tame rounds.
In the thirty-fourth Cal was Kissed for
and in the forty-fourth Dixon
vas rushed to the ropes. In fact there
vas rush IN almost every round about
rryoC fhaI r,t |
contest anyone in town ever had seen. The
nen were not angry, it was the science of
he pugilist that was being displayed and in
nd IN a royal manner. One round was
ust like another. Several times the referee
lad to caution Mccarthy against cutting d
nd using other foul tactics. So it went
ntil at 40 O'Clock. After the SEVENTEEN
ound the referee, with the approval of
ne spectators, called the fight draw.
'either man is badly punished, discolored {
ptlcs and Redeemed noses being the only
isible marks of the fight. ;