The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-07
DIXON HAD A WALKOVER
Sicily No Match for the Col
ored Champion.
EIGHT ROUNDS ENOUGH FOR HIM.

While the Brooklyn Boy Was Badly
Punished Heavyweight Championship
Ne1t-Both Men Confident.
New ORLEANS, Sep. IF poor Jack
Skelly is wise he will, upon his return to
Brooklyn, hunt up the man who told him
he was fighter and sue him for libel. If
he is photographed to-day and offers the
picture IN evidence he will get a verdi ct
from any court in Christendom. He met
the featherweght champion, George Dix
on, before the Olympic Club last night,
and after he had been in front of him for
half hour, he was as limp as a rag, az
senseless as a clod, and his face looked as
though it had been run through the bust
ness end of a sausage machine His con-
queror did not have scratch to indicate
that he had been in a fistc fray He had
two black eyes-but those he had before
he began hostilities.
Skelly simply wasn't "in it," and at
the end Of eightsrouDds was pounded into
insensibility.
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competitor for the colored champion. Tho
Brooklynite meant we'll enough and
showed good heart, but unfortunately he
does not know how to fight a good man.
Dixon was loudly applauded when the
decision was given.
The occupants of the colored gallery
made a great noise and kept it up until
r. NJ. Frank, the official timekeeper Of
the club, called for order, and announced
that Charlie Mitchell had sent a challenge
to the winner OF the fight tonight for
$40, 900 a side within ten weeks if he were
allowed 81, 600 for expenses.
There was not much money put up on
the contest of last evening" because the
Southern people who wanted to back the
white man did not dare They had never
seen Dixon, but had heard lot about
him. They wanted to see the colored
boy lose, but felt that he wa, too clever,
therefore, they held off All those peo-
pie who had seen the Halifax 5psJoninl
only believed he had a walkoyer. The
few who witnessed the glove proceedings
of both men felt that Dixon would be a
sure winner.
Skelly's want of experience in a long
contest was sure to be against him in
long contest with an Old timer like D xou,
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a draw. In the amateur ranks Skelly
was not allowed to spar over 10 rounds
He had a go OF that duration with Jack
McKiernan in Brooklyn two years ago,
and that is the longest fight he ever had
McKiernan is hard hitter and Slelly
won on points, but that record did not
satisfy the New York and BroO tlyn
sports, who knew it, and Dixon money
went a-begging.
Sullivan and Corbett are putting on fin
ishing touches for the great fight to-
night and from all reports il would APP
pear that the men are in the pink Of
condition.
Every hotel and lodging house in the
city is filed to overflow with sports and
would be sports from all parts of the
country and nothing else is heard in
public resorts but prize fight talk
Corbett declares that he is in the best
Of health. lie looks brown and hearty
and his eyes shine brightly, but ne has no
flesh to spare He is making hls head
quarters at the Southern Athletic Club,
taking light exercise every few hours.
Sullivan was followed by an enormous
crowd when he drove from the St. Charles
Hotel to the Young's Mems Gymnasium
Club this morning. The block on North
1solllp1lO SbIcSG WlltI6 IllS CluD mousse Is
situated was packed with people all tine
time that John l.. was inside,
The big fellow skipped the rope 656
times and worked with light dumb-bells
for while. He said he only took this
exercise to keep from getting stiff.
Sullivan remains the favorte over Cor
bett at about 2 to l. The Corbett parti-
sans want to do better if they can, but it
is likely that the money will go at the
last moment at these odds.
There is plenty of money in sight this
morning and bets are being made reckless
and rapid.
The New Orleans residents were rather
on the side of Myer. They had seen him
fight once before, and liked him They
had never seen McAuliffe. They now
wish they had.
McAuliffe says he will fight no more,
but he always says that after battle
No man is better pleased over Jacks
success than John l.. Sullivan. Sullivan
is essentially "home rule man, and he
always likes to see success perch upon
the banner of the man who halls from
the place nearest to his home.
Myers right eye is closed, his right ear
split open, and there are number Of
ugly red marks on his cheek and throat
where McAulitie's gloves had torn the
tough skin. McAulitfe does not show a
scratch.