St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-01
GARDINERIS WHIPPED.
Thomas Dixon, the Handy
Boxer, Does the Job.
IT TOOK HiRTEEN ROUNDS.
The Boxers Display a Good
Deal Of Science.
PADDY Smith WINS At R0BK
George Green Throws Up the
Sponge in the 28th Round.
SMITH WINS At ROBK
1900 ANXIOUS SPOTS PRESENT

About $50 lovers of sports gathered at
the Ph@niX Athletic club rooms last
evening at 8 80 to witness a twenty-five
round glove contest between Tommy
Dixon, OF st. Paul, ana youth passing
under the euphonious appeIatiOn OF
The Omaha KID The proceedings
were inangurated by friendly set-to
between a cOIOred man called jacobson,
and a blond. muscular Christian an
sWeTing TO the name of Klein. Then
followed a very gamy entertainment
between two callow youths of fifteen.
which provoked some applause.
Following this Manager Barnes
announced that Jack Dempsey, the
Weli-knOwn fighter, of San Francisco.
was unexpectedly in the city en- route
for the East 10 meet professional en-
gagenents. lie further said that Demp-
Sey had consented to spar three rounds
for the entertainment of the audience.
which announcement was received with
applause, and the Golden state sport-a
handsome young fellow, looking any
thing rather than prize fighter filed
his part Of the programme gracefully.
Then came the main feature of the
evening d glove contest OF twenty-five
rounds, barring a knock-out-between
The kid from Omaha and Tommy Dixon.
The two men appeared fairly we'll
matched as they entered the ring.
though Dixon presented himself as
slightly the heavier OF the two, and
perhaps was a shade taller.
The sporting editor OF the GLOBE
being otherwise engaged. a reporter,
entirely new TO the ring. was assigned
10 witness, in the interest OF the general
reader. The contest. He was assured by
the manager that the contest was in no
sense a prize fight, but merely a little
set-tO based entirely on scientific prin-
cIDies. To an unbiased observer, how
ever, the fight was very much in earn
est from the start. Either twO-ounce or
ten-Ounce gloves were uSed-anyhOW
they were not sufficiently soft and
pllable TO Obvlate The Omaha child from
sweating blood freely from the nose
about the tenth round.
Some most excellent smuggling was
done, both parties being dead game,
according TO current comment by the
spectators. But the age. training and
endurance OF Dixon told from the start
I'm the eleventh round he gave the
KID blow in the right eye which
entirely destroyed the further efficiency
OF thar useful member. and thereafter
the Kid was compelled to go one eve
on il. The little fellow had nerve. now
ever. and came up for the final
round with such pluck and con-
hdence as a One-eyed man might
command. After brief preliminary
SpaTTlng Dixon apparently got tired of
playing with the Kid" He gave him
swinging rIght-hauder on the juguiar,
and the boy from the Missouri river
bottoms Immediately lost all further
interest IN the proceedings. He fell all
IN heap in the corner. The referee
slowly counted ten. The youth showed
no more motion than a bag of sand.
The referee shOuldered the unconscious
man ana bore him hence To the dressing
room.
Every person present called it good
contest. and the uneducated reporter
cheeTfully responded: lit appeared 10
De an excellent fight"
Dixon Il Likely 9Un.
Tommy Dixon. the winner of last
nights battle, is an old-time pupil of
Morris Self, OF the Phoenix Athletic
club. and fought his first right under
his tuition at the armory in this city
with Dick Ward, which lasted fifteen
rounds. and was called a draw. though
Dixon had the best OF it all the wav
through. Dixon is a New Zeaiander by
birth, aged tWenty-three, ami came to
st. Paul in 1856. After his fight with
Ward he went TO Canada on a visit.
and there knocked out Billy jackson
in two rounds at Toronto, and
Billy Smith. OF Salt Lake City. at
the same place in one round. He
then fought Walter WestwOod for the
us pound championship of Canada, and
knocked MIN out in three rounds. lie
then beSted and knocked out the fol-
lowing III succession: Denny Sheehan.
for the championship of Lower Canada.
IN three rounds; in northwestern Can
ada he DeSted he champion weller
weight, who weighed 142 pounds, in
SIX rounds: went to Buffalo and
knocked out Walter Campbell before
the Buffalo Athletic club 10 five rounds /;
knocked out Teddy Lang, OF Rochester,
before the lToquOis Athletic club. of
Buffalo. IN three rounds.
MOTIFS Self then sent for Dixon to
come to 81. Paul. and the fight last
night makes ham the champion in that
-LA4C AOl VIC -Nui III NOois anu TIC ou6tS 10
ngnt any one at IFS pounds for a purse
or from Sl00 to $1,000, and further ex-
presses the Willingness to go against
any OF the cracker jacks in his class in
the East. Self places a great deal of
confidence III his pupil. and the young
man has no lack OF sand himself either.
Robert DObhS, the CoteTed ia htweight
VINO IS to box Jack Hail. the Australian.
Tor purse at the Twin City Athletic
club Thursday night, Aug. 3, was intro
duced TO the gathering at the Phoenix
last night. he is the picture of health,
ana as clean built a boxer as ever
stepped into ring.
Jack Hall Is in training at Medicine
lake ana he Is being cared for by jim
Burge. the iron man. of Australia.
PADDY SMITH WINS.