The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-06

corner. sno0iosts 70 ns
Inc battle was for seo.001-a $1,000 purse and
oe' OF $'.u0 side-and the lightweight cham
ptonship of the world
INC "iiiamsburger was made the reel uient Of
,s " 'ne applause. Notwithstanding the fact
$50. o''e.ns Ayer city. The Williams
seconds opened champagne in the
corner while Ayer was offered a glass of wine
.ne eonanersr, which he accepted, and q
SsS nauoshake wound up the greatest battle
euea In the lightweight class since the
0a'so' Dihy Edwards, Barney Aaron and others
"a. .sc. McAuiire, lightweight champion pugi-
March "a, 1867. His father "a. . s,ee nlech.ss
!ockey' and his mother a lady of a we,i.known
iamhy. She was disinherithd owing to her
oiiiase 70 the Jockey. McAulifse, ST. nv rea-
son OF MS calling, was small of stature, but for
., INA. was noted a. q clever man with his
n "nen jack was 10 months old his father
oecame Fenfan and raised companv Forced
70 leave Ireland, the father came to America
snd enlisted in the army, being a
sergeant under Reno In IS73 he wa
rkAin civilian, living at Bangor
ne. ana It was here the family were reunited,
.a:A oeing years OF age when he crossed the
.l AT Brooklyn, n. Y, six years later,
Earning the trade, was In four years known as
one Oh the best OF workmen, and was engaged
In making sugar barrels
A "es ABOUT this time that Charley Mitchell
showed Billy Edwards I'D in 90 Door a light.
ana AL the boys took to boxing More espec-
my soout the cooper shop, because Dempsey,
'nen hfst becoming prominent was 4 graduate
OF the concern. Jack had . brother who VA.
gwen 20 boxing. and the little fellow fpot 4 bit
inSefested) saw his brother aud friend sparring
one Gay In the garrett, and when the older lads
.eI' 'ne noase ne went In and put the gloves on.
Une Gay his big brother caught him at it, rallied
MN 20 put EN- on" and in consequence Jack
won MS nrst victory. Naturally a hard hitter
ne soon gave his antagonist enough.
biiiy MADDEN once gave q boxing tournament
10 New York city for lightweights. Jack
neard OF IT, and the night before the tourna-
ment Jack and his brother took stroll down
the Bowcry. Then there were many places
wnere boxing by volunteers occurred nightly
iney nnally dropped into place where a light
weight. young Mace. was to knock out man.
Inc man didn't show up, and McAuliffe donned
the mltts Tor the first time in his life It took
him two rounds to do up Mace.
IN Maoden's tournament the lightweight class
took in men up to i40 pounds, but McAuliffe's
hrst opponent was q man named Leayy. who
scaled ID Jack weighed IL, but won just the
same. McGinty came next and after four
rounds both Madden and Jack Dempsey told
McAuiIne that 1t was shame for him to 20 on
win man twenty pounds heavier than he, and
that IL he would draw out, thus giving McGinty
the medal, tournament for men of his weight
should be got up McAuliffe acauesced, and
afterward won the medal offered, beating Kline,
Wilson, Harris and O'Neal.
lie was still working in the cooper shop and
In the summer OF 1854 fought his first finish
fight with one Of his fellow workmen The
name OF the man was Jake Karcher, a German,
and he was the bully of the shop and had been
when Jack Dempsey worked there. Although
NN Anil IA ,,na EnA
seventeen rounds.
Soon thereafter he won the Dempsey and Mad.
den medal for l20-pound men, beating Hogan,
White, Theiser and Doyle, and In March, 1885,
ne became amateur lightweight champion of
America through winning q tournament given
by the New York Athletic Club, in which he de-
feated william and Joe Ellingsworth Then he
met and defeated Sperry, Stevens, Manger and
Mike Cushing
Now Billy Madden challenged Young Mitchell
In Jacks behalf for 81 900 q side and signed the
challenge slack McAuiiffe. lightweight cham
pion of America" and by this act Jack became
professional pugilist-
His first fight as q professional was with Jack
Hopper. six rounds. and he bested his man, and
afterward knocked him out in his first finish
fight with Skin tghts' IN seventeen rounda
Billy Frazier was the next victim. lasting
twenty lone rounds. Then Harry Gilmour got
In and was knocked out in twenty eight rounds
the worlds championship Jack proved as good
as his master, the affair ending in Q draw at the
end OF seventy -four rounds
McAulife is i've feet SIX inches tall Follow
ing is his ring record:
August, 1884. won boxing tourney promoted
by Billy Madden. New York.
ship tourney promoted by Madden, New York.
March ~, 1885. won lightweight tourney N. Y
A. c.. defeating Willie Ellingsworth in final
bout.
April Is, 1885. won tourney promoted by Wal.
February n. 1886. became professional, de-
feating Jack Hopper, IL rounds, III I'm, skin
gloves, at Cedarhurst
October 20, 1886. whipped Billy Frazier: purse
$1,000, II rounds, III. 23m., for lightweight
championship, skin gloves.
January Ii. 1857. whipped Harry Gilmour for
championship; 81 100. IS rounds, H. slim.
Draw with Jem Carney, OF England, at Re-
we're Beach, Mass, November 10. 1854. "A rounds,
Al 5sm l5s.
Draw, 10 rounds with Patsey Kerrigan at Bos-
Whipped Billy Daeey October 10, 1888, III
rounds. AZ MN. 20 sec, at Dover. n. j.; purse
december I6, 1884, whipped Sam Collyer in
two minutes at Williamsburg.
December &C. 1885, defeated Jake Hyams, nine
rounds. Gate receipts, at wiiiiamsburg
February Is, 1859, draw with Billy Myer at
North Judson, Ind; sixty -four rounds. for light
"t April. isss. draw. Kf.een round. with Mix.
March Il. 1870. whipped Jimmy Carroll. Of
Holyoke, in forty-seven rounds, at California
Athletic club. San Francisco.
1891. whipped Austin Gibbons. six rounds,
1892. whipped Billy Frazier. ten rounds.
September 5, 1892, whipped Billy Myef, df-
teen rounds, for iightweight championship of
the world.
THE WINNERS AND LOSERS.