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and rushed in with right handler on the


shoulder just before the gong sounded.
Round dawson sent in good right
handler on the ear and got away. He was
constantly looking for an opening, while
the Oaklander, finding swings of little
avail, waited for chance to use his right
at close quarters. Dawson got in hard
twice on Gallagher's face
Round 8-Honors were even. In this
round both men got in on the face in good
shape.
Round 9-Gallagher got in good left
jolt on the jaw, and scored several let's
in the wind.
Round l0-Galiaghers lip and nose
were swelling, and he guarded himself
carefully. Dawson appeared as fresh as
ever, and kept up his shifty jabbing
from all quarters. Gallagher scored two
good ones in the wind. but Dawson more
than evened things by tapping him in
the face.
Round l1-Dawson punched Gallagher
to the ropes. The latter was waiting for
good chance for a Highlander.
Round PA hard left counter on the
ear by Dawson and a back hand right on
the ear from Gallagher were the features
of this round.
Round 13-Gallagher sent Dawson
spinning with a couple of let's, and then
rushed in desperately. lie landed his
right twice. and twice Dawson avoided
him, slipping almost to the floor. The
men exchanged swings at close range and
a blow IN the right place from either az
TINS stage would have proved a knock
out. This was the best round yet fought
Round I4-Even money had been bet
prior TO the fight that the contest would
not last fourteen rounds. Gallagher de-
spite the ODDS on Dawson, had been the
one selected by the local opinion as the
one to end the contest, but he had found
Dawson no easy mark, and though he got
in twice on DawSon'S wind the end OF the
round found the Australian still iabbing
away at him.
But little more was done until the
eighteenth round, when Gallagher sud-
denly caught Dawson on the cheek with
ms right, staggering him, and then sent
hlm TO his knees with right on the neck
as the round closed.
In the nineteenth Gallagher dropped
Dawson with a left on the jaw, and after
hot exchange Dawson slipped to the
noor, pulling Gallagher down with him.
The twentieth round and the next two
rounds were hot ones, Dawson using his
left, drawing blood from Gallagher's
mouth. The iatters LETT eye, cheek and
ribs were swollen. Gallagher countered,
but accomplished little.
From the twenty-third to the twenty
eighth the fight continued about the
same, Dawson jabbing away and Sal
lagher occasionally leading or counter
ing. 1t appeared any ones fight at this
stage.
From the twenty-eighth to the thirty
sixth rounds very little effective work
was done, and honors were about even.
In the thirty-sixth Gallagher suddenly
dropped Dawson with half arm swing
in the stomach. This was followed by
sharp mitigating, and Gallagher went to
his corner tired.
The fortieth round was reached at mid
night, and still no immediate prospect Of
a Knockout. Dawson hammered Gal
lagher on his bleeding mouth repeatedly,
almost cutting the upper lip away and
staggering him. The spectators urged
him to give it up, but Gallagher bravely
came up for another round
The forGy-first and forty second passed
with Dawson forcing Gallagher from
corner to corner, trying to jab him out
He fought fairly, and several times re-
fused to take advantage Of GaIlagher's
halt-hearted lodges. The latter was
nearly worn out, and when Dawson got
him against the ropes near the close Of
forty second, and hit him on the cheek
with his right, he dropped to a sitting
position, and his seconds threw up the
sponge.
The spectators agreed that Dawson was
an exceptionally clever man, and that
Gallagher had made as good fight
against him as possible.