The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-20
ON A FOUL.
The Great lightweight Fight
Between
Bowen and Myer is Awarded the Former In
the Twenty fourth Round on Foul
"A Game Affair.

New ORLEANS, May 19.-The great light
weight fight between Andy Bowen, the
Louisiana tornado" and Billy Myer, the
"Streator cyclone" took place tonight in
the famous Olympia club. Nearly three
thousand people witnessed the contest
Betting was 500 on Myer to $50 on
Bowen. These men, it will be remem-
bered, met last May and fought twenty six
rounds, at the end Of which Myers man.
ager, Cheney, gave up the fight, Myer
was not knocked out but bruised and
bloody, and presented the appearance of q
man very nearly beaten. Bowen was
seconded tonight by Bob Farrell and Tom
Kelly, while Myer was seconded by Link
Pope, Andy Myer and ALI Kennedy
Alexander Brewster was appointed referee
In the first round Bowen was wary anc
Myer aggressive. Bowen hit Myer 6
smasher on the head, knocking him dowr
and repeated the knock down again in 6
short time.
In the second round Myer continued tc
crowd Bowen and received a hard swing
on the eye. Bowen got a heavy left.
handler on the left ear. Bowen landed
with his right on Myers right eye, sound
Ing all over the house.
In the third round Myers nose was bleed
ing freely and he received smash on the
ribs that nearly knocked him down Bowen
staggered Myer with right hand swine
and landed right hand body punch, the
| force of which was broken by MYERS
retreat.
In the fourth, Myer kept pressing on in
| spite of hard blows from Bowen, and sue
ceeded in landing a right-hander on
Bowen's nose.
. In the fifth, sixth and seventh SHARP
blows were exchanged, but nothing de
| clsive.
In the eighth, Myer tired of being the
aggressor and tried to pull Eowen on, but
| the latter was too cautions Finally wher
Sowen did lead Myer knocked him down.
In the ninth Myer was staggered by
right handler but kept pushing and received
blow in the stomach a moment later.
| In the the tenth, eleventh and twelfth
there were some sharp exchanges, and
Bowen was evidently getting angry. He
began to light vlciously, but with bad
| Judgment. He smashed Myers eve with
right-hauder, and it bled profusely.
| In the thirteenth and fourteenth Myer
begged Bowen to lead. Bowen responded
with smash on Myers stomach. Mye,
landed his right solid on Bowen's head.
In the fifteenth, sixteenth and seven
teenth there was sharp fighting, both land
ing heavy blows. Bowen finishing the
round with heavy right on Myers law
following one delivered on the stomach.
! Myers stomach was looking very bad al
| this time. He had terrible black eve
which was bleeding at one corner, and 6
bloody nose Myer still continued his ag.
gressive tactics, and in the next few round:
landed some hard blows, seeming to gel
ground.
In the nineteenth, after sharp clinch
Myer, in breaking away, fell.
| In the twentieth, Bowen landed, knock
inn Myer to the ropes. The referee eau.
toned Myer to fight fair. The Streatol
boy was evidently eager to finish the fight
but could not land.
! In the twenty second, eBowen landeds ;
heavy right handler on Myers sore left eve
and left on his stomach. Myer landed s
vicious Highlander and committed.seyera
| fouls.
In the twenty fourth round, Myer foulef
Bowen several times, and the crowd be
came boisterous. The referee awarded tn,
fight to Bowen on foul.
President NOVEL; said a final decision
would be rendered tomorrow. Severa
Myer men think Myer lost the battl
justly.