The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-01
GODFREY KNOCKED OUT.
The oolored Man Whipped by
ohoynski Last Night.
ONLY FIFTEEN ROUNDS FOUGHT.
Honors Were Even Almost to the Last.
Both Men Game and Blood Drawn
More Than once--Toward the Last
They Fought With Closed Eyes--A
Great Crowd witnesses the Battle.
Great Interest III 1t.

New York, Oct. 3l.-Eight thousand
men cheered Joe Choynski to the echo
when he landed a knockout blow in the
fifteenth round at the Coney Athletic
Club tonight.
1t was hard fight for George God
frey to lose, but he, like the great and
only John L. Sullivan, fought once too
often.
choynski is young, full of vigor and
activity and his cleyerness in avoid
ing the serious blows struck
by his opponent went far toward land
ing him the victor. He fights very
much on the order o. Jim Corbett.
1t is reported that Choynski broke
two knuckles OF his right hand in his
knockout blow.
The crowd was too large for comfort
and standing room only was to be had
by the time the first bout began. In
this Dolly Lyons was whipped in the
tenth round by Kid Hogan.
Joe Choynski was the first OF the two
pugilists to enter the ring. He was ac-
companied by his seconds John Nc
Vey, OF Philadelphia; Jimmy Carroll,
of Brooklyn; Parson Davies.o Chicago,
and his timer Dominick 0'Malley, OF
New Orleans. George Godfrey was not
far behind his opponent. He was
looked after by Frank Steele, jim God
frey, Jack MCGEE and Prof. Williams,
William Riley held time for him.
Choynski fought at 1863 pounds and
Godfrey l75 pounds. John p. Eckhart
acted as referee in the place OF AL
Smith, who WAS too i'll to act.
THE FIGHT BEalNs. .
Itwas 1910 o'clock when the men
stepped to the center OF the ring and
began to spar. They spared for an
opening, during which Choynski clev-
erly ducked some very wicked blows.
Round 2.-Cautious sparring with
Choynski running away but ducking
some ugly leads. Godfrey led but fell
short. Godfrey landed a light left on
the face aud was countered on the
chest. Each man was acting cautiously
when the bell rang.
Rounds 8 and 4 were tame and honors
were even.
Round 5-Choynski landed his left
twice in rapid succession oil Godfrey's
face and got away with light returns.
Godfrey was furious and went at his
opponent like mad bull. He kept
right at Choynski until he finally got
an opening and sent his right as
straight as an arrow, landing on
Choynski's left eye with such force that
it could be heard all over the house 1t
laid the eye open and marked theyoung
mans face.
Round 6-Choynski came up with
bad left eye, which was bleeding pro-
fusely, Godfrey leading and landing on
that optic four times.
Round Both men did clever work
in this round, but the punching was
not very hard during the early part.
The colored man got in some telling
blows later. The Californian planted
his left on Godfrey's mouth and stom-
ach to good advantage.
WARMING UP.
Round s-Choynski landed on stom-
ach, led again and fell short. Joe let
swing the right hand and missed which
made the coon smile and was quickly
followed by Godfrey and by a right
hand swing was brought 10 his knees.
He stopped then for six seconds when
he chased Godfrey all over the ring,
landing clean left and right which
forced Godfrey to the ropes.
Round 8 was without results,
In rounds 10 and II there was good
fighting. Both men had their eyes al
most closed.
In round twelve, after some clever
fighting, Godfrey sent Choynski to tho
floor with clean knock down. In
round thirteen, Godfrey split Choyn-
skis lower lip, and had the best Of it.
Round 15-Godfrey rushed at Choyn-
ski like blind bull and got straight
lab in the closed eye that made him
stagger about three feet. He was
totally blind in the left eye, and thus
placed at n great disadvantage, as
Uhoynski kept on his left side and the
more Godfrey rushed the harder
Choynski got on that damaged eye.
The Knockout blow was swinging