The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-25
TWO FAKES AND A DRAW.
THUNDERBOLT'S PRIZE FIGHTS
TAKE IN 400 People.

Spouge-rhe Contest of the Colored
Heavy-weights "a Good Fight, But
the Referee wouldn't Let 1t Con.
clude- dis Decision Brings on a
First-class All-around Free-for-all
Smuggling Match Among the Specta-
tors-Engle and Langston Adopts In
Ring Fakiug-Len Rston Awarded
"Victory"-A Dollars Worth OF Fun
and FIR ezing.
About 400 persons went TO Thunderbolt
yesterday afternoon to see the much talked
of glove contests 1t is putting it mildly to
say that the crowd was badly disappointed
.in the fights. In point of scientific pugilism
the contests we're absolutely rotten. There
we're several good points made, however.
which led the crowd 20 hope for better
things later on, and the spectators sat shiv-
ering in the cold il anticipation, quietly
and patiently enduring the raw atmosphere
to e at last rewarded with what was uui
versally pronounced fake.
! A side hght not on the programme, the
| circumstance of which will be detailed fur
Their as this narrative pro- eeds, was indeed
the only genuine fight of the day.
1t was commonly rumored around the
| city yesterday morning that the fight
/ would not amount TO any hing and conse-
quently many who intended to 60 did not
| do so. W hen the first number" on the
| programme was commenced there were
| hardly over 200 people present but later the
| crowd was swelled to double that number
| by belated passengers. The gate receipts
| will not show even that that many
people paid admission, for on every
side men could be- seen climbing
the fences, and just before the last fight the
| pressure from a crowd Oh the outside broke
down portion of the fence on the north
and an indlscriminate crowd of black boys
and white men came In free and without
| Interference.
PRoMPTNEss A REDEEMING FEATURE.
A large ring" about twenty feet square
was erected just in front Of the grand stand.
| II was about two feet from the ground and
| was roped around like the regular hstio
arena. Upon this stand the pugilists fought,
| and 1t gave every one a splendid op-
| portunity to see what was going on.
Contrary TO general expectations IN such
matters, the encounters. began promptly at
8 O'clock as advertised. Billy Taylor, the
| well-known base balIisG, was selected as ref
cree for the first fight, and he introduced to
the audience Furlong and Hanrahsn the
oombatants for the lightweight champion
| ship Both men showed up in hrst-class
| condition and the audience was enthusiastic
Ia it's anticipation Of the mill. The men
were stripped 10 the waist and
was called they went through the
regulation handshaklng and began work.
The first round was emily a sparring match
for an opening and neither pugulist accom-
plishsd anything.
the second round was almoIt a repetition
Of the first until nearly the close, when Fur
long get in a heavy one on Hanrahan's
| wuks kf,v,k a. A.
be got up the gong sounded and the round
closed a. Furlong's favor.
The third round was very tame affair
Both men spent their time in sparring for
an opening when Furlong finally got In q
blow on HaurahanS nose, which gave him
first blood.
AN AMATEURIsH AFFAIR.
There was absolutely no science In any of
the rounds above, and the audience became
much disguised with the amateurish exhi
bitlon. 1t was only by accident and the
meresE blunde ing that Furlong was able
to have first blood to his credit The fourth
round opened with both men badly winded
and neither anxious to force the fight. After
considerable sparring they got in some
telling body blows on each her. They hit
in the widest way, and Furloug fell Just as
Hanrahan was aiming a heavy blow at
him. He got up and both men landed In
the face without effect.
The fifth and last round was little more
lively. Both men did some heavy body
hitting. Hanrahan got in a telling one on
Furlongs neck and knocked him down.
After he got up the men passed at each
other and clinched. AS they broke away
Furlong landed on Hanrahau's mouth when
the gong sounded. Both men we're badly
winded, but it did not appear to the audi
ence that either had been whipped, but as
the gong sounded for the sixth round Han
rahan threw up the sponge. The last blow
in the mouth settled him.
This fight possessed no feature calculated
to enthuSe the crowd. From beginning tc
end it was a tame affair, and everybody
was glad when the farce was ended.
INTERESTING sET-To.
The next fight on the programme was ex-
pected TO be more interesting and 10 was
1t was a contest between two negroes for
the heavyweight championship. The con-
testants were Charles Diamond, better known
as ''Black Diamond, land W. W. Smith. This
fight lasted Tor thirteen rounds and the
men showed themselves to he very clever
fighters Smith lead the fight from the
start and Diamond was always on the de-
fensive.
Smiths tactics were evidently TO tire Out
his opponent by lodging and running, aud
in both particulars he showed himself an
adept Neither man punished the OF her
, to any extent during eleven rounds, and the
description of one will suffice for all up to
that tiue. Smith would lead always. but
his blows were parried by Diamond, who
} however, did not follow up the advanta-
geous openings that were given
} him. Smith was badly winded
: by his lodging and running
while Diamond, "a no had been standing or
the defensive always, was comparatively
fresh.
In the tenth round the men clinched, and
Smith Rugged Diamond and tried to bite
him. When time was called blood va;
flowing from Diamonds right ear. Many
contend that Smith chewe Diamond, and
to one situated a distance from tue fighters
, II looked very much that way. Diamond
claimed he had been bitten, and called uDor
the referee to stop such tactics. Smith de-
MED the charge, hut the referee warned hin
about the matter.
DIAMONDS DANDER UP.
When tbs eleventh round began Diamond
quit his defensive tactics and BEGAN to
lunge at Smith with vengeance. The latter
very cleverly avoided the punishment in
tend3d for him by doing some splen-
did lodging Smith warmed up to the
fight, too, and made some vicious hits a.
. Diamond, but every time he made strike
L. ELL Al. M.