The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-06-17
POOR JAKE LOSES AGAIN
S1avin Proves Too Much for
Him for the Granite
Clubs 10000 Purse.

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Hoboken last nieht. Within, when III
hapds Of the clock indicated the hour OF
nine, the handsome electric dial (which
wont work.. looked down upon benches
that were bare. except for a few strnP-
REers. One might have thought that the
Kurain-Sl fight had no attraction for
the sport4
The mi1utes dragged away and slowly.
one by one. the admirers of puettistic en-
entered and took their seats.
SHll the capacious hall looked almost
empty. At exactly forty-four minutes
past nine the ex-Rev. Cornelius HI Ben
comfnqly dressed In a blue iannel shirt,
dotted with white. and cut slightly decol-
1cte. He wore q white clerical tie, a
black derby hat and q sack suit of blue-
Taxing a seat among the reporters ne
drew forth a pencil and wrote a line.
HE that walkefh not in the counseis OF
the ungodly"-Was 1t THAR Perhaps so:
for he scratched it out and looked
about him Under such Influences his
thoughts became worldly. He drew a
cigar from his pocket and lit it, Then he
draw the derby hat a little more over his
forehead and elevated the cfgara trifie.
They gradually approached each other
till the lighted and of the weed was on q
the hat just cleared it. The transformation
was complete; the ex-Reverend gentleman
had become a sport
Noted people of the sporting persuasion
came IN rapidly after this. Cal. Mccarthy
and Jimmy Larkins were there. johnny
Heating, the ex -featherweiRht champion;
Jack McAuliffe. light weight champion;
Billy Edwards, Mike Donovan, Bob Turn
bull. Dominick McCaffrey, Ned NAL
lahaD, and a host Of book makers, old
time hackers of puRilists, n general
sporting people. Tony Pastor, Maurice
barrymore. Bot Manntell. George W.
Munroe. George Primrose, Billy West and
other well known actors were there, to-
gether with plenty Of Jersey. citizens
Here are some of the people
/ saw; = Justice Davis, John p
Feeney, County Clerk Mclaughlin,
John r. Madden, Dennis Sullivan. Street
and Water Commissioner Dugan, Enoch
Smith, Charles s. Furst. Clerk Wiseman,
OF the Board OF Education; < Mayor
Grassman. ex-Postmaster Curran and
Postmaster Kiel, school Trustee w. j.
pynan, Councilmen Kelly and Fenton,
Danb, City Clerk McDermott and others,
Of Hobcken; There were about l,5oo
present In all.
TINE BArrLE OPENS.
1t a hsen announced that the set-to
would begin as halEpast ten, but it was
nearly a quarter past eleven when hand
some Jerry Dunn n his whiskers
climbed into the ring.
"We'Te a little late tonight, said he,
sowing 70 the Suburban and the enter
tainment ut Castle Paint. of which this
Is an annex. But the men will be here in
about five minutes"
They were already on hand, rs he
spoke, and Immediately climbed into the
ring. They were greeted warmly, and
the fact that Kilrain had the sympathies
Of most Of the spectators became at once
apparent. To my eye, Slavin looked
much this better. His muscles show sup
pleuess. and he has the vigor OF youth.
Kilfain, on the ucntrary. looked old His
There was iissle delay while the cleo
trio dial ran q trial heat against time and
fell down &C the first turn. -Time{Keeper
John Kelly then took the place OF che
electric fluid. and agreed 60 rap out bis
warnings with q stick IN the gong. The
men were directed to go entirely by the
gong
The gloves-boaght by Dunn himself
were then unpacKed and adjusted while
the crowd sat breathless with expectancy.
Charlie Mitchell Ed Sboddard and Pony
Moore put their finishing touches upon
Slavin, while Muldocn, Mike Clearv and
Dan Murphy of Boston did the same for
Kilrain. A minute later the first round
opened.
Slavin has such a reputation as a rusher
that everybody expected him to sail In as
soon as he had the opportunity. Instead,
he spared carefully for an opening; and
many seconds went by before a blow was
struck. Then Siavin led and landed
lightly. Kilrain clinched, and there was
some very unscientihc n ~purposeless
hammering at close range. 1t Is hardly
worth while TO c~rfticise this round. 1t was
an exhibition of very bad boxing which
must have disappointed everybody except
the fai~nt-hearted friends of Kilrain who
were glad that he got at least an even
share Of the points, such as they were.
The second round was hardly better, in
fact it was worse for Slavin. Ktlrain got
In a few good blews which confused his
opponent q little. but did no real harm.
Slaviu hit apparently at random, n
although Jake was not ducking as clever
~ as was his won't. many OF the Austral-
ian's blows went Wild. Kiirain forced his
man to the ropes twice, and on the first OF
these occasions got in several good
thumps OF the body and one in the neck.
kilrafn's friends lost their heads Every
where could be heard such cries as fakes
pot a cinchIs' "Go in, Jake, and do him
right upi" Jake himself was encouraged
and did the pest he could, but his blows
lacked speed, and the exceeding hardness
of the Australians bullet head saved him
from harm.
KILRATN's
However, in the third round there were
high hopes that Jake would score a de-
clsive advantage. The result proved ex-
actIy the reverse. Kilrain went in hard
at nrsf, and landed right and lett on |
Siavin's face. Then there was some really
good in-dghting with the odds about
even.
Suddenly Slavin's stock came up with a
jump. He landed a heavy left hand jab
on kilrain's body, and almost immedi
ately thereafter struck the Baltimoreau a
half arm swing on the edge of the Jaw
which fioored him instantly. Jake went
down as If he were never to rise again
and his head hit the floor with a resound- |
ing whack. Everybody thought he was
done, but he struggled to his feet and
managed to get through the round,
though he was foored twice. 1t was a
wonderful recovery-the most notable
event of the night.
Jake came up with a badly damaged
nose, but a strangely recovered wind in
the fourth. He had to save himself by
hugging many times in this round, but
he boxed well and gave the crowd many |
a chance to howl in his favor. Indeed, 1t
may be said, that from this on to the end
of the fight the interest centred IN Jakess
gameness-in his Warvelions endurance |
of defeat He displayed more skill a
HIS adversary, who rushed In for o knock
out, using HIS right most of she time
II END OF MILL
The end came In the ninth Jake had