The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-21
THE CHoYNsKI-FOGARTY FIGHT
Easy Victory for the American, Who
Could Have Knocked His Man Ont.

SAN Francisco, Dec. 20.-[Special. THE
steamer Mariposa, which arrived from
Australia today, brings advices giving the
first details of the fight between Joe Choyn-
ski, of San Francisco, and Jim Fogarty
of Australia, before the Sydney Athletic
Club November "a. A wonderful degree
of interest was taken in the heavyweight
battle, and great crowd of spectators were
present.
As the men came together for the first
round there was marked difference in
their height, build and style. Choynski
lowered above his stocky, sturdy-looking
opponent, and had loose, easy, confident
style of sparring, while the Australian
looked punched up and nervous. Almost
at once the Californian began poking his
long left hand out menacingly. He kept
Fogarty jumping back, and it was fully
two minutes before blow was struck.
Fogarty was the first to lead, getting home
heavily on the mouth with his left.
Choynski grinned, and Fogarty let go his
right for the ribs, but Joe squirmed away
and then put his left glove on Fogarty's
mouth and his right on his ear. Several
more of Choynski's blows fell on the Aus
tralian's nose before the first round closed.
In the second round after receiving sew
eral singing blows from Choynski, Fogarty
countered him once hard on the chin with
his left hand, and Joe remarked, in an ap-
proving sort of voice, "Good boy, JIM
The third round was a bad one for the
Australian The American cuffed Fogarty
under the ear with his long left hand
when and where he wanted to- and then
made him groan by a punch in the
stomach.
Not single blow was struck in the
fourth round. Fogarty kept jumping out
of danger until it looked as if the Ameri-
can would whip him without blow.
In the fifth round Choynski plunged
his glove twice into Fogarty's stomach, and
then struck him twice on the ear In the
next round the American put his left three
times like magic on the Australians
mouth, and walked away unconcernedly
Fogarty, who looked bad, let go his left
and it fell feebly on Joe's mouth. Choyn-
ski hit him just when he pleased, and
though his blows did not seem to possess
pile-driying power, still there was power
enough in them to utterly demoralize Fo-
garty.
Choynski fairly rained blows on Fo-
garty's face and body in the seventh and
eighth rounds, until it was evident that
the Australian was doomed. Choynski
continued the same thing in the ninth
round, and soon had Fogarty hanging over
the ropes. Joe stood as if he meant to
start some heavy hitting, but he stepped
away and let his man come out of very
light spot, and the crowd cheered him for
his magnanimity. Fogarty got in left
lab a trihe later, and this made Joe deal
out a lot more of sinful sort of pleasure
in return.
In the tenth round the Californian shot
his left fair on the mouth and then let it
go on the stomach. More than once it
looked as if Fogarty was going to lie down,
as he had no earthly show, and toward the
end of the round he went down on his
knee from light tap, but got up without
taking his ten seconds. Choynski dealt
mercifully with him, and when Corners
was called the sponge was thrown up by
Fogarty's seconds, and the international
fight was over.