The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-23
AFTER FORTY-SBVEN ROUNDS.
MoAulife Wins Lengthy Fight Witt
Carroll.

San FRANCISCO, Cal, Nafcn 21.-NO ilSilJ
for some time has attracted so much atten-
ton as the 20 between Carroll and Nc
AulifTe at the California club tonight. The
purse offered 10y the club amounted TO
3 coo. of which $500 was to go to the loser.
In addition to this sum each principal had
posted 5000 on the fight, making the
total sum which would fall into the
hands Of the wiuner Sl25OO. The men
met at the California club last night
and selected seconds. Carroll selected
Martin Murphy and Flora Barnett. Nc
Auliffe announced that Billy Madden and
Jack Dempsey would be in his corner.
Hiram Cook was selected as referee. Ow-
ing to some rumors atloat yesterday that
the contest was not to be a genuine one,
President Fulda last night informed Car
roll and McAuli1le that If any time during
the contest there was any evidence Of
''fOoiing' the fight would be stopped and
the men thrown out of the ring
The gymnasium of the club, which seats
1000 people, was crowded to its utmost ca
pacitY The last betting was two to one
on McAuliffe.
1t was nearly 9 o'clock when the contest
ants appeared in the ring. The weights
were announced as follows: McAulifle
I34Is: Carroll 135i% Time was called at
$40 McAuiitfe opened the first round
with a rush Carroll escaped by dOdging,
but McAuliffe n moment later found Car
rolls neck Infee ilIlleS, anu III dIoIilSi
found it again. The round closed in a
clinch
IN the second round Carroll did the rush
ing but Mac caught him once on the ribs
and once on the neck. Carroll cOuntering
the latter time on Macs jaw. In the
third and fourth rounds McAulItfe had
some the best of it, found his opponent
Jaw several times without doing much
damage however. In the fifth round Nc
Auliffe aimed for Carrolls jaw but
received a lab on the mouth
that sent him to his knees.
He rose at once aud thereafter fought for
CAROLS wind, finding it repeatedly in the
sixth and seventh rounds. Up to the
twelfth round the fighting was not very
furious McAulifIe still fighting for Car
rolls wind and the latter cOntining him
self to dodgng and cOuutering. In the
twelfth after Clinch terrific smuggling 1Oi-
lowed until both men were very grOggy,
Carroll securing clean knOck-dOWn
by landing on McAulltfe's : jaw.
In the thirteenth round both men
fought hard for a knock out although they
were very tired. McAUliffe did most of the
rushing but just before the round closed
Carroll gave him a staggering blow IN the
law which almost sent him to the floor. Car
roll seemed to be the fresher when the men
came up for the fourteenth round. The
fighting was light to the close of the
Carroll in the wind and in return got
punched in the wind and the jaw too.
In he sixteenth and seventeenth rounds
the honors We're about even although Car
roll seemed TO be the stronger and fresher
of the two The men ClinChed in the
eighteenth and aS they broke away Carroll
upper-cut McAulilfe viciously and then
gave him several right and left-handers
which staggered him perceptibly Nc
Auliife closed the round with left-hand
punch on CAROLS mouth.
Nineteenth round-But little damage
was done in this round until
lust at the close when NcAUliffe
reached Cauou'S ribs three times
and each time received a sharp counter on
the neck which staggered him. From
then ON 70 the twenty seventh round the
fighting was brisk and spirited. with the
honorS about even 50 far as punishment
was concerned. although Carroll selned ia
have the advantage in freshness. McAU-
life fought Tor CarrollS wind. wtile the
latter fought for McAulitfe's ribs and jaws.
The hitting was hard but no great damage
was done
McAulife won the fight in the forty
seventh round