The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-10-15
FEAST OF BOXING.
A Splendid Entertainment at the Sac
ramento Athletic Club.
Dawson, the Australian. and Greaney
Give a Splendid Exhibition
Other Set-tos.

The Sacramento Athletic Clubs 'fboX-
ing feast" last evening turned out to be
one of the best exhibitions the club ever
gave.
The members and their friends turned
out IN full force and standing-room was
at premium long before the exhibition
began.
| AT $50 o'clock George Ii. Clark, Presi-
| dent of the club, entered the boxing ring
and made brief speech. He explained
that all of the set-tos were intended to be
OF friendly nature and more of an exhi-
oltlon of science than anything else. The
event OF the evening would be three
round set-to between George Dawson,
the Australian champion lightweight,
and Eddie Greaney, the famous San
Francisco amateur. AS those gentlemen
were coming up on the San Francisco
tram, the audience was to be entertained
IN the meantime by some of the clubs
| boxers.
President Clark was loudly applauded.
! de retired to the dressing room and re-
! appeared with four OF the clubs athletes.
tie introduced them and explained that
| Otto Hebron would box with Mr.. Span
| gler, and key MooSer would Set-to with
Louis Payen, the handball expert. Ref
| cree Henry Gallagher ordered the first two
| boxers to shake hands, and Timex eeper'
"a. Kay rang the gong for business"
| Messrs. Hebron and Spangler showed
| the effects OF their instructors professor
Johnson) tuition in good shape, ana
| punched each other merrily. Mooser and
Payen followed, and then each couple al
| ternated until both had given three
rounds. The bouts were highly salts
factory and were loudly applauded
Professor Johnson and John Kelly,
amateur middle-weight champion of the
/ Pacific Coast, next appeared and gave
| three rafting rounds. Kelly is improy-
! ing every day and as a result he and his
! big teacher gave the boys splendid ex-
| hibition.
Henry Rubenstein, amateur bantam
champion, and Jerry Haley, the we'll
| KNOWN professional feather-weight, who
is to fight Gomez of San Jose to a finish
TINS evening at the Comique Theater,
| next spared. This bout was q treat
Neither OF the men attempted any slog-
| g1ng, but, on the contrary, gave the audi
ence magnificent exhibition of science
The clubmen applauded them loudly at
the end OF each round.
g. A. Strobel, the clubs crack
! lightweight, next appeared with Mr..
weight. These two gentlemen gave
another fine exhibition. Both were
IN line form, and while Strobel was
heavier and stronger and somewhat the
cleverest, he found in McGraw a plucky
and shifty little boxer who gave him
plenty to keep him busy.
| Then came the big event of the evening.
| When President Clark announced that
Dawson and Greaney had arrived and
| were ready to exhibit, loud cheer went
| up from the audience. Another followed
when the gentlemen appeared.
They boxed three rounds-exhibition
rounds, and it is safe to say that Sacra-
| mentans never saw such clever exhibit
ton. The first two rounds were clever,
but not unusually so-because the two
experts were holding back for something.
That something occurred in the third
round.
They had boxed furiously for about
thirty seconds, and everybody grew ex-
cited. Then Dawson rushed at Greaney
and struck him what appeared to be a
vicious blow on the jaw. Greaney
dropped as though shot, The audience
held its breath, thinking that something
that was not down on the programme had
happened. Greaney arose slowly and la
boriously, and just reached his feet before
counted out by the timekeeper. He went
at Dawson but was groggy and weak.
Dawson tried to swing on him again, but
| Greaney ducked, and, revolving, brought
the famous ''La Blanche swing'' on the
Australians neck. 1t was now the lat
ter's turn to go down. He got UP inside
of time, and then both were groggy. Both
struck at the same time, and both went
down. Rising again they staggered to-
ward each other prepared to strike and
both shook hands.
The bout was over. The audience. after
realizing that it was simply an exhibition
of ''fnish," had been bowling itself
hoarse for some time, but now became
almost wild. Dawson and Greaney
bowed repeatedly and then retired. it
was without doubt the cleverest exhibit
ton of the kind ever seen in Sacramento.
and the club is TO be congratulated upon
securing the services of the two boxers.