Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-07
FIGHTING ALL NIGHT.
Struggle for tho Iight'weight
Championship Of the soutb.

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New ORLEANS, April o. - Andy
Bowen OF this city anu JACK Burke o
Texas fought tonight for the light
weight championship OF the South
and purse OF S25, 900, of which $500
went to the loser, before the larsesl
audience ever assembled In the areni
OF the olympic club. The fight com
menced NJ $3.50 p. m. Bowen landed q
good right and Burke clinched. Burk,
was fought into corner whore the
rouud ended with Bowen In the lead.
In the second round Burke was
allowed first blood but was fought Il
the ropes.
Round 3-Burke scored n good left on
his opponents neck, but was again
fought TO tho ropes.
Burke landed on tho head in the
fourth round. Bowen landei two face
blows.
Round 5-Bowen landed several
rights, and Burke clinohod.
In the sixth, Burke landed n heavy
left. Referee Duffy cautioned Bowen
Tor foul fighting Ia clinching ia the
seventh round. Nothing was done In
tho eighth round, but In the ninth
Bowen scored n left on tho head. In
the tenth Burke landed heavily, but he
got hot shot In return.
Nothing wss done In the eleventh.
Ia the twelfth Bowen landed n gooi
heart punch. In the thirteenth moth
ing was done. Burke landed TWO not
punches on Bowon's head Ia the four.
teenth.
In the fifteenth nothing was done.
n tho sixteenth anu seventies nth the
men fought hard, but tho home man
fought foul several times. Burke
caught Bowen right In the nose In the
eighteenth, when was the hard. blow
OF the fight. In the nineteenth honors
were easy, but In the twentieth
Bowen received some hard rGps ia
the face. In the twenty first burke
landed several facefs, and the round
closed In his favor.
In the twenty-second Burke half
fell and was half punched down. In
the twenty-third Bowen was knocked
down and fioored again later In the
round. In the twenty-fourth little
was done. In the twenty.fiith Bowen
was nearly knocked down, but his
opponent failed TO follow up the al.
vantage. In the twenty.sixth to
twenty'eighth rounds honors were
easy.
From the twenty ninth TO the thirty
sixth rounds noting but misses charac.
terized the fight. Tho men were ex.
ceedingly clumsy. There was nothing
done from the thirty.seventh to the
iorty-fouth anu the audience growing
weary, Dugnn whistling "HOme,
Sweet Home" From the forty.fiith
TO the forty.eighth the lighting grew
hot. Bowen knocked Burke down In
the forty'eighth, but the gong saved
the fallen man.
In the forty.nin,h and succeeding
rounds Bowen went at Burke fast anu
iuriously, but while Burke was very
weak tho home mans Judgment was
poor. During the ffty seventh the
audience called for n draw, but Cap.
tain Barrett said there should DO 10
draw when the fight was not brutal.
From tho nfly.eighth TO the sixty.
second found the hght looked queer
and many thought it was a fake.
At2:4O this (Fridsy) morning the
men are still fighting, with no pro.
spects OF the immediate termination OF
the combat. Both are very weak, and
II In anybody's fight. In rounds
soventy-,wo to oighty.two inclusive,
nothing but poor judgment was dis.
played by either OF the pugillsts, and
the audience Ia growing very weary.
There seems TO DO an Immediate
prospect Of the referee rendering a de.
cision at this hour (S;i5a. MI