St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-13
Columbian Athletic Club Gives
Two Contests on It's
Initial Night.
The Barrier Champion Knocks
Out Willis Kennedy in
Two Rounds.
Costello and Billy Woods
Have a Long and Scien-
tific Fight.
A Big Purse to Be Offered for
the Corbett = Mitchell
Fight.

RoBY, Ind. June 12.-Before crowd
of 5000 spectators Joe Goddard and
Willis Kennedy, the colored pugiliSt OF
New Orleans, contested for purse OF
$1,000. 1t was the initial contest in the
arena of the Columbian Athletic
Club. Goddard won in the Sec
ond round after making chop
ping block of Kennedy, who did nothing
but fall down and get up and finally re-
mained down for good. Buffalo Costello
and Billy Woods fought for purse of
$4,000, and made pretty scientific fight
from beginning to end.
The circumstances leading up to the
formation of the club on the heels OF a
surreptitiously enacted law legalizing
glove fighting are already known. On
the Sd day Of February at indianapolis
Senator McHugh introduced and passed
bill which provided that gymnastic
exhibitions and athletic contests OF
science and skill be allowed within
the state. Gov. Matthews signed the
measure and it became a law, and
with a batch of other measures found
its way into the statutes of the state.
1t remained for Dominick G. O'Malley,
of New Orleans, to discover that this
law had been passed four months be-
fore the sheriff of Lake county became
aware of the fact. Three men beside
O'Malley were taken into the scheme,
and a working capital of $50 900 was
raised. Three acres of property were
bought at point 100 yards south of the
line which divides Indiana from lii
nois and
A Monster Amphith eater
had been raised. Incomplete as yet,
when finished the arena will seat 1S,400
people, or more than the combined
capacities of the Coney Island, Crescent
City, Olympic and California clubs.
The contests tonight are the first OF
series.
When the bidding on the Corbett and
Mitchell fight begins the full financial
strength of the new club will
assert itself. The club will
not be party to any
auctioneering on this match. Mitchell
and Corbett will be offered purse far
in excess of any amount that the Coney
Island or New Orleans clubs can
afford to give. The whole purse will
be deposited subject to the order
of Referee Siler, when the offer is
| made. 1t is intimated that should TINS
offer be not accepted at once, 1t Will
be withdrawn and no further efforts
! made to secure the match. The
appearance of Sheriff FrederickS with
twenty stalwart deputies, and who
were given seats in a row close to the
ropes created a momentary sensation.
When nearly another half hour had past
and the sky above-for there was no roof
| over the vast shell-began to look
threatening, the crowd commenced to
| howl for business and at 9:20 the official
| time keeper, Alf Kennedy. responded
| with vigorous pull of the bell rope. A
moment later Goddard and Kennedy
| yaulted over the ropes accompanied
| by their seconds. Dominic OMally, in
| full evening dress, announced that 1t
was not Il e intention of the club to
violate the law, but to maintain its
majesty. SO long as he was identified
| with the club no prize fighting
| would be tolerated. This was receiver
with mingled laughter and applause,
which was renewed when he told the
| audience that he expected them to be
| gentlemen and to see that the fair name
| of Indiana was neither marred nor dis
| graced. Goddard and Kennedy were
| then introduced.
The fight between Costello and Woods
was declared draw at the end of the
| fifty-seventh round. In the forty
ninth round Joe Chynoski admitted
| that CoStello's hands are broken.