Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-29
ORANGE COUNTY EVENTS
A SPIRITED ELEvEN-ROUND PRIZE
FIGHT At ANAHEIM.
The Santa Ana Street Railway to Stop
Running Death of "a Bolss Child.
Enthusiastic Dem mocrats.
Other News,

An eleven round fight which ended in
foul took place at Anaheim Saturday
night between Joe Cotton, the colored
middleweight of San Bernardino, and
Tom Bernard, of Anaheim. About 300
people witnessed the fight, but many
were disappointed ae to its abrupt end
ing.
Childs, of Los Angeles, seconded Cot
ton, and Everhart, an Anaheim hotel
keeper, acted as referee. Bernard looked
weak and sickly alongside of Cotton,
who appeared in fine condition, and hav-
ing every advantage in point of weight
and strength over his white opponent.
When time was called the men spared
cautiously, and little or no hitting was
done. In the second round Cotton got
| in left-hander on Bernard, who rushed
and succeeded in landing his right on
| the colored mans ear.
The fourth round was tame and unin-
teresting, but in the fifth, Cotton got in
good upper cut on Bernard, which sent
the latter to the floor. In the sixth
round, Bernard went down again, but
succeeded in landing blow on Cotton's
head, but lacking the strength to knock
his man down, it only caused Cotton to
grin. In the seventh, Bernard forced
Cotton to the ropes,s and the men
clinched. Clinching was INDUCED in
during the eighth round frequently.
and the crowd cheered as the men were
separated by the referee. In the ninth,
Cotton fell to his knees, and, while in
that position, Bernard landed clip on
his back, which caused Cotton to call
foul. At this juneture, Childs entered
the ring, and demanded fair play,
but the Anaheimers were not
going to see Bernard whipped, and
yelled for the referee to order the ring
cleared and the fight continued. In the
tenth round Cotton went for Bernard
savagely, and it looked as though the
latter would soon be finished, but be
was game, and succeeded in warding off
several dangerous blows, but WAS some-
what exhausted when time was called.
In the eleventh rushing and might
ing followed. In this round Cotton
again fell to his knees to dodge left
hand swing, and when he was down
Bernard landed his right on the back of
the colored mans head. There were
cries of "FoulW by Cotton's friends,
and Childs and Cotton's trainer, Fra
zer, entered the ring and de-
manded that the fight be given to
Cotton. This the referee refused to do,
and Cotton refused to go on with the
fight. This did not suit the crowd.
They had paid dollar each to see the
mill, and now eet up howl to have
those dollars returned. "Oh, give it to
TOMMY" yelled one; "he earned it,"
And the referee stepped before the foot
lights and declared Bernard the winner,
after which Childs appeared ard offered
to bet $500 that Cotton could knock the
Englishman out in elk rounds, the fight
to take place at Santa Ana or San Ber-
nardino. No one accepted his chal-
lenge. Bernard had a swollen nose and
lip, but Cotton showed no signs OF pun
ishment.
NOTES.
The Santa Ana Street Railway COM
pany has decided to retire from business
and will cease running it's cars on
Wednesday next. This course was de-
cided upon and made known at a meet
ing held over month ago. A meeting
of business men was subsequently held
to see if something could not be done to
keep the street car lines running, and a
committee was appointed to solicit sub
scription for that purpose, $125 per
month being required to insure the
continuation Of these lines. The COM
mittee have been unsuccessful in their
efforts. and hence Santa Ana will be
without street cars on Sept. 1st.
Tom Morris leaves Tuesday for Oak
land, where he will run a race with a
sprinter up that way.
Frank R. the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Morgan, of Bolsa, died Saturday
night and was buried in Santa Ana
cemetery Sunday. He was years and
6 months old.
This evening the Democrats will hold
a meeting to make arrangements for the
reception of the congressional delegates
Tuesday. 1t is proposed to make the
stay of these delegates in the city q
most pleasant one, and the local Demo-
Gratis will spare no efforts to that end.
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