The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-26
DIXON DOWNS SOLLY SMITH.
Seven Rounds Settles the Fight Of the
Californian.

The Colored Champion Has the Fight
His Own Way From the Start-Eight
! Thousand Spectators Around the
Ringside-COney Island the Scene of
the Conhict-The Betting Two to One
in the Victor's Favor.
New York, Sept. 25--George Dixon,
the champion feather-weight pugilist of
the world, met and defeated Solly Smith
| of California at the Coney Island Club
tonight for purse of $4,000, retaining
the title of champion of the world The
winner gets S, 900 and the loser 81, 900.
The fight ended in the seven round, Smith
being knocked out.
Despite the stormy, unpleasant night,
droves of sports went to the island and it
is estimated that 5000 people witnessed
the fight. The betting ruled at 2 TO in
, favor of Dixon.
AT 9:82 o'clock the men shook hands
Dixon was seconded by Tom O'Rourke,
! George Godfrey and Jack Havelin, while
Smith was assisted by Billy Delaney,
| Seward Smith and Jack Oliver. John
Eckhadt was referee.
FIRST HOUND.
They clinched Immediately and ham
mered away at each others face After
the break Dixon led and reached Smiths
chest. They clinched again and Smith got
in two right-hand swings on Dixon's reck.
He jumped under Dixon, swung and
clinched him Dixon landed a left swing
and Smith clinched again. Dixon caught
Smith with a left-hand swing and foored
him neatly. They were sparring when
the bell rang Dixon had a little the best
of the round.
SECOND ROUND.
Dixon missed "a left hand swing and
! Smith was on him like a fash, rushed
him to the ropes and landed both right
and left Dixon landed a right swing on
| Smiths neck, when Smith slipped to his
| knees and took full time to rise. just as
| the bell rang Smith reached Dixons
stomach with his right.
THIRD ROUND.
Dixon followed up the advantage of the
| previous round and went right in and
forced the fighting. He knocked Smith
! down three times in rapid succession and
| had him almost out. The fighting was of
the most rapid character. Dixon kept
swinging his left with great force into
Smiths stomach until he had him very
much exhausted.
FOURTH ROUND.
Good condition and handling sent Smith
to the center looking fresh Dixon led on
| the chest and clinched. A sharp rally
and hard indghting followed, of which
Dixon had all the best Smith appeared
worried, while Dixon was smiling. Dixon
| landed his left twice in succession. This
was clearly the colored lads round.
FIFTH ROUND.
Smith came up strong in this round.
! Dixon forced the fighting and Smith met
him with good straight left hand blows
and succeeded in making the blood flow
| very freely from DiXons face. Smith
grew stronger and landed some good stiff
punches. Dixon was still doing the ma
jority of the landing, but not fighting
quite so rapidly.
SIXTH ROUND.
Both men responded quickly Dixon
tried another, but repeated with better
! success. Smith put his left hand on
| DiXon's nose and drew blood, which ran
freely Dixon tried his left hand and
was countered hard by Solly. Dixon
tried with his right and left, but was met
gamelyby Smith. The bell rang on what
appeared to be the most evenly contested
round of the battle.
SEVENTH ROUND
Smith planted hisright and left
on Dixon's body, and got away
without reply Smith keeps
away and clinches when he is cornered
Dixon misses his left, but plants his right
on Smiths face. Smith lands a right
hand and slips when he is getting away.
Dixon floors Smith with a straight right
Smith staggers to his feet and is foored
again. Again he rises inst as the gong
sounds, but is too weak TO keep his feet
and falls again near his corner. He rises
once more and wants TO continue but the
referee waves him back to his corner and
Dixon is declared the winner in the sew
enth round.
The time of the last ronnd was 3 min
utes AZ seconds, and the time of the fight
26 minutes AZ seconds.
Although Smith had the sympathy of
the crowd Dixon was heartily cheered
when the battle ended.
A HOT PRELIMINARY BOUT.
Jim Burge, "The Iron Man, and Fred
Morris "Muldoon's Cyclone" furnished
the preliminary bout, which was for
purse of $500, $500 to the winner. Both
men are hard hitters, and on several oc-
casions before the end of the third round
they showed signs of dizziness from the
blows they received. In the fifth round
Morris tried 10 force the fighting,
but Burge had him almost out when the
round ended. The colored man rallied,
however and came up strong for the
sixth The end of the eight round found
the men fighting desperately on the ropes
The Cyclone" landed frequently on the
Iron Mans" face in the ninth and an or
dinary man would have gone down and
out, but Burge seemed to be ex-
ceptionally tough and the blows had but
little effect. Morris did most of the fight
ing in the tenth round and the referee
declared him the winner.
Hardly had the battle ended, and just
os the participants of the contest were
donning their citizens clothes, Smith was
put under arrest by a sheriff of Roby.
Ind, for being principal in prize fight
recently with Johnny Griffin, which took
place before the defunct Columbian club.
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