The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-31
HIT HARD AND OFTEN
Rapid and BLOODY Fighting In the Bank
Clerks A. A. Finals.

| Rapid and MOODY ElGhunR IN the bank
Clerks A. A. Finals.
The final bouts in the boxing tournament
came of last night in tho gymnasium Of the
| Manhattan A. G. The finals were quito as
| good as the preliminaries. and were enjoyed
| by tho 500 members Dominick Mccartney
was referee. DR.. Arthur O'shea and George e.
] Sterry. Jr. judges. C. c. Hughes. timer. and +.
| W. Burns. master Of ceremonies.
Il. Stevens. Clipper A. c.. and j. c. Ward.
| Marion A. C.. 105-pound mon. were the first
pair. After some little urging they jumped
| at each other and slugged right merrily. For
| the first two rounds Stevens had all the best
OF it. and hammered Ward at pleasure. In the
last round Ward freshenei and had much tho
best Of It. Stevens was groggy when the round
clos d. The Judges disagreed. and McCafrrey
gave the bout to Stevens.
g. Ross. Lexington A. c.. and r. Atwood. IT,
| tan A. C.were the next 105- Founders. Atwood
hoped around like cricket. evidently being
afraid Of Ross. who had put man to sleep in
| the prelimnaries. Ross tried hard to work
his favorite uppercut. but the Titan man clev-
erly avoided 1t. The scrapping in the final
round was lively. Honors were easy The
judges disagreed and Mccartney decided in
favor of Ross.
The third pair in the los. pound class were
A. Myers. Station G. A. c.. and f. Kahn. Star
A. C. They INDUCED in q series OF bull
rushcs. Kahn's expansive smile served to
enlven the proceedings. He also did most Of
the leading. and the Judges found no difficulty
in deciding on the Star A. c. man rs the win
ner
Stevens. who had a bad eye, forfeitedt to Ross.
E. Kahn. Star A. c.. and ]. Simpson. Olympian
A. c.. tried conclusions. This was uninterest-
ing. The Judges agreed on simpson. Slmp-
ahq h0ss gtSa bast a wnr
III The iii; pound men were next trSttsd out.
This was rafting bout t h.. mon, showing
tie best Of il in height. and reach. but Haush
tns s
settled 4 then and. there; He brought
shortly aitsrwsTd flo0rsd The tsl feoE with
bleeding freely and very weak when the round
ended: The Judges agreed on Hapgh. =,
lo NJ k star T. Titan A. C.. forfeited to NJ De-
n +. Haugh came ,. out again to ). defend his
BROOKLYN. Byrne was only two bites Tor HaueE.
The Eagle man went down like u shot before
right End in minute and six
Haugh came out for the third time to bat
each each other lishtlys isw times. and then Be-
laney forfeited. Haugh is very clever little
The first OF the 1876. FOUNDERS were T. Kelly.
Pastimo A. e.. and J. Delaney. Star A. g. In1
minute and 48 seconds Kelly landed on De-
laney's Jaw. and the latter went down in the
corner. When he got uphe refused to fight on
the ground that Kelly was q professor" and
the decision went to Kelly.
. The second pail. were two hurricane fighters.
rAtT cRnsr As aas sa sRna
match. the men exchanging right and left
hand swings with Frequency and vigor that
would have weakened an OK. There was no
special advantage at tho close Of the third
The Judges disagreed and The referee or
and longs with honors easy and bruises
evenly distributed. One Judge declared for
Gratz and the other said 1t was draw. The |
referee awarded the bout to Findlay. where |
upon Gratz and his friends kicked vociferous-
ly. but unavailngly. |
nounced that Findlay would fight one round |
and then retire in order to protest Kelly as a |
professional The round was q Lively one. |
Kelly tried for knoc kout. but Findlay gave |
as good as he got. and at the end Of the round |
was on even terms, Findlay then drew of his |
]. Hughes and B. Cronin. both Of the Clinton |
A. c., came on for the final in tho 1853 pound |
class. They were evidently on very friendly |
terms and didn't want to hurt each other. Nc |
Caffrey warned them to put little steam into |
their work. Hughes got hit on the belt In the |
second round. and with the remark. oh. me
to continue but soon backed into a corner and |
gave up.
Hughes got second prize in tho 15s-pound |
class.