The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-07
BOWEN BURKE FIGHT.
A CONTEST THAT sAvORED MUCH
OF n FAKE.
The Audience Grow Weary and DIS
gusted and Whistle Home,
Sweet Home"
Special to the REcoRD-US1ox.

special 10 the RECORD-UNION.
NEW ORLEANS, April 6.-At the Olym-
pic Club Andy Bowen of this city and
Jack Burke of Texas fought tonight for
the lightweight championship of the
South and a purse of 8, 500, of which $500
was to the loser, before the largest audi
ence ever assembled in the arena of the
Olympic Club. Both men were in per-
feet condition, and betting was slightly
in favor of Bowen. The fight com
menced at $3.50.
Bowen landed good right in the first
round and Burke clinched. Burke was
fought into his corner, and when the
round ended Bowen was in the lead.
In the second round Burke was al
lowed first blood, but was fought to the
ropes.
In the third round Burke scored a
good lift on his opponents neck, but
was again fought to the ropes.
Burke landed on the head in the fourth
round, and Bowen landed two face
blows.
Bowen landed several rights and
Burke clinched in the fifth round.
Round siX-Burke landed heavy left.
and Referee Duffy cautioned Bowen for
foul fighting in clinching in the seventh
round.
Nothing much done in the eighth
round, but in the ninth Bowen scored a
left on the head.
In the tenth Burke landed heavily, but
he got hot-shot in return. Nothing was
done in the eleventh.
In the twelfth Bowen landed a good
heart punch. In the thirteenth nothing
was done. Burke landed two punches on
Bowen's head in the fourteenth. In the
fifteenth nothing was done.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth
rounds the men fought hard, but the
home man fought foul several times.
Burke caught Bowen with a right on the
nose in the eighteenth, which was the
hardest blow of the fight.
In the nineteenth honors were easy.
but in the twentieth Bowen received
some hard raps in the face.
In the twenty-first Burke landed
several facers, and the round closed in
his favor.
II the twenty-seconds Burke half fell
and was half punched down.
In the twenty-third Bowen was
knocked down and foored again. In the
twenty-fourth little was DONE
In the twenty-6fth Bowen was nearly
knocked out, but his opponent failed to
follow up his advantage.
In the twenty-sixth TO the twenty
eighth rounds honors were easy.
From the twenty-ninth to the thirty
sixth rounds nothing but misses charac-
terized the fight. The men were clumsy
beyond comparison.
There was nothing done from the thirty
seventh to the forty-fourth, and the audi
ence, growing weary, whistling Home,
Sweet Home"
From the forty-iifth to the forty eighth
the fighting grew hot. Bowen knocked
Burke down in the forty eighth, but the
gong saved the fallen man.
In the forty-ninth and succeeding
rounds Bowen went at Burke fast and
furious, but, while Burke was very weak.
the home mans judgment was poor.
During the ffty-seventh round the
audience called for draw, but CAPTAIN
Barrett said there should be no draw
when the fight was not brutal.
From the fifty-eighth to the sixtv-sac-
ond round the fight looked queer Int
many thought it a fake.
At last accounts the men were still
fighting, with no prospect of an immedi-
ate termination of the combat. Both are
very weak, and 1t was anybodv's fight,
Ninety-three rounds had been fought.