The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-06-13
The Columbian Athletic Club Begins
With Two Very Unsatisfae-
tory Fights.
roa Goddard Has It All His Own
Was With Willis Ken
nedy.
,,un.,, CASTILLO aud Billy Woods Show
I'm Well Awhile, hut 1t Ends
in . Draw.

RogY. Iud., June 12.-The circumstances
leading M 10 tho formation of tho Column
bian Athletic club on the heels OF the sus-
reptitiously enacted Law leenlizinR glove
lohts in Indiana are already known. ana
Tonight saw the inauguration OF the new
astic arena, incomplete ~ yet. When M
,shed the arena will seat over eighteen
thousand people. Tn contests to-niRhs
we're the first Of q series embracing Hugh
Napier. OF Australia, and Bobby Burns.
cououeror of Cal. Mccarthy, who meet two
weeks from tonight; Solly Smith. the IA
cifo coast fsather-weiGht champion, ~
John T. Griffin. she Braintree lad. VINO
will have II ont July 10; Dan CEeedon ana
Alec. Greseains, who are billed for the lasser
part oil July. md Geo. Dawson n Tommy
RYAN. who will decide the welter-w sighs
championship Of the world in August.
Other matches are on che tapis and when
tho Corbett-M Mitchell fight comes up the
eIub will assert its full financial strength.
The Illinois Central road tonight ran I've
special trains from Chicago to the club
grounds, zach OF which were crowded 20
oyerlowinR. joe Goddard ana Willis
Kennedy furnished the curtain raiser to to-
NIGHTS performance. Tho other 20 was be-
tween Billy Woods and Buffalo Costello.
The nrst was for 81, 200 and that etween
Costello and Woods for $500. Before the
contest began Dominick O'Malley, man
aoar OF the club, delivered a short address.
He declared it was not the intention OF tne
club to violate any Jaws OF Indiana. nor TO
hold prize fights in the common acoepsation
Of the term. but simply exhibitions OF
puoilistic science and skill.
Il WAS 9.15 when Goddard, followed ~
his seconds. entered. In a second M
came with his Q owt. Time was eelled a.
9.a5. In the nYst round the men opened
v~ioorously. Kennedy was knocked down in
the center. then in his corner; then IN the
center. and then three times more in quick
succession. He managed each time, now
ever. to come ur, and was lettering against
the ropes when time was called. which was
all that saved him. Ia the second Ioona
vse at once knocked down. He rose only
to b Knocked down again and again. God
dari hit him when he was rising and was
crested with a storm OF Kisses and cries OF
'foul," He Knocked Kennedy down with
savage right in his face and before the
colored man could come srouna ne va oo''
Kennedy was oheered on leaving the ring. i,
Within twenty minutes after Goddard
md Kennedy had left the ring the Rone
rang for the main event of the evening.
Costello first climbed through the ropes a,
1905. Woods two minutes Later seatet
himself in the corner which KENNEDY h4e
occupied. Time was called at 1915. II
the first round Costello landed lightly OF
the neck. Woods led and fell short ans
then made a vicious swing. which Cestellt
duoked. In tho second Woods led RICH
and left. and Costello ducked both. Wood
got in two hot ones and the men clincneo
In the third round both mon clinched ant
Costello landed heavily on the chin. II
the fonrth Woods landed on the ear and
received a soaksr on the chin. Costello go
in o good left on the stomach
aud Woods clinched. In the mt
Woods got In a hot right ON tn
head. Costello got In a left on the side AM
followed with another on the chest. Wood
staggered Costello with a right on the jaw
Costello got in four hot swings in Tn
sixth, when tho men clinched and fell. III
seventh Was devoted to sparling for wind
In the eighth Woods landed heavily will
the right and Costello got IN a savage righ
right on the face. Woods got in his RICH
on the neck. receiving a heavy left In TIT
stomach. Costello landed on the mout
. and Woods on the neck in the tenth. II
the eleventh Woods got in a savage uppe
cut IN the jaw. staggering Costello. l
lighting md landed his left on the hea
and his right on the stomach. Costell
drew first blood in this round. The thir
tenth and fourteenth saw hot exchange
which ended in Costello's favor. The mel
five rounds were made up OF pretty stead
fighting with honors evenly divided. The
was furious fighting in some rounds but ar
parentIy little damage done.
In the twenty-first round a walking masc
begun and in the next eight rounds nothir
worth %chronicling tool place. In Il
thirty-frst she crowd had grown weary ar
were guying the men, who were still wall
ing, doing nothing. The next ten rount
were n repetition. the crowd yelling
Woods to get n bicycle and chase Costell
und when leads were made they were m
with derisive howls. Up to the ffty-fr
round the situation was unchanged. Il
men doing practically nothing. Tbs refsrt
announced the men would fight to a fnil
il it took a week.
The same tactics continued till the fit,
seventh round, at the Gloss OF which Il
referee declared the fight a draw.