The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-10
TWO kNOCKOUTS.
First Tournament of the
Olympic Club.
SEVERAL GAME ENCOUNTERS.
A Number of Genuine Sparring
Matches Contested With Re-
markable EarnestnesS.

III every boxing tournament given by the
Olympic Club shall partake of the character
of the one held last night in the new GYM
nasium the lovers Of genuine slogging will
have their best wishes gratified.
Probably there never was an exhibition
OF more genuine sparrng in clubroom in
this city before in one night than was wit
messed at this same tournament. Both In
the way OF hard hitting and square encoun-
tiers the exhibition was tremendous sue
cess. There was one knockout in which the
man was knocked into temporary insensibIl-
i!y and had 20 be led away after he was re-
vived. What the contestants lacked in the
knowledge Of sparring they made up for in
IA sort of whirlwind punching of each other
until exhausted.
Ihe.new gymnasium proved to be very
comfortable place to hold a fight in, being
omm0dious and we'll ventilated. 1t was
crowded to the doors by the members OF
the club and their guests Near President
William Greer Harrison were John ID.
Spreckels, A. p Hotaliag, Captain Lees,
Police Judge Campbell, j. d. Reddlng and
Supervisors Denman and Montgomery.
The Police Judge. the captain OF the
detectives and the Supervisors looked at
the slOgging for three hours with great de-
light.
President Harrison announced to the
meeting that the Street Committee OF the
Board of Supervisors had unanimously
passed the resolution giving the olympic
Club franchise 10 bring salt water from
the ocean. When this news was given the
audience cheeTed for five minutes. PreSl-
dent Harrison also stated thnt the club had
only an indebtedness OF $1,000, which 1t
was soon TO wipe out. There was still on
hard $4,000 worth of bonds unsold.
The club empowered the president to use
H.. IL. Hold
grand Giaco- Roman carnival in Aprll next,
which will last six days, and at which the
Greek aud Roman games will be revived.
The slogging matches then began with
siX-raund contest between Maurice Lea, 136
pounds. and Daniel McAskill. 40 pounds.
Jack Kitchen acted as referee. while John
COnroy and .. j. Treat took the part OF
judges. The timekeepers were Milton Nj.
Lagrange and ID. ". Donnely.
In the first round McAskill had the best
OF the. contest. his PUSHES becoming so
strong that Lea soon became grogQy.
Neither man showed any science and they
punched each other until their wind was
gone and their blows became feeble through
lack Of strength. In fact, this was also the
| character of all the succeeding matches.
| there being sort OF glve-and-take business
| about them. The harder the punches the
| grOgger the men.
In the sixth round both men showed mp
all right. and repeated their hard punching.
! The judges gave the fight 10 Lea, he having
| scored the most points,
The reward for ali the matches were
| Olympic Club class medals. OF all the con-
| testants in the ring only one was a member
! of the club, aud that was Al Williams. The
matches were Just arranged for the en- ter
| tainment OF the club.
| The second event was a siX-rOund bout
| between Richard Carroll Q23 pounds)
! aud J. Cunningham l26 pounds Carroll
i,af, n I. har IT. INV far
| fighting In this contest was swift and decis-
| i've. Carroll rushing his antagonist In the
| third round Cunningham measured his
! length on the floor. receiving staggering
| blow on the chin. He did not rise when the
| ten seconds were called
| Another quick fight. in which the slog-
| ging was swift and fearful, was the combat
| between III. T. Flynn GAO pounds and Will
| liam Cook Q50 pounds. In the second
| round Flynn was Knocked iLsensible, and
| the fight was given TO Cook
Then followed a eatch-weight contest OF
| four rounds between William Hanton OBS
| pounds) and j. +. Sullivan 125 pounds).
! Hanton was slogged out in the second
round. and was hit so hard his seconds gave
up the fight. Sulllvan's body showed signs
! OF punis hment
| AL Williams Q33 pounds). the only Olympic
| Club man in the tournament, fought six
round hfut with ". II. Hogan (l35 p0unds),
and was declared the victor.
The six.round set-to between I. Killen
| u19 pounds and Nick Smith u20 pounds
was the last OF the evening. aud was de-
clared draw, though Nick Smith had the
| best of the game.
Frank Coughlan 114 pounds won four
round contest with Henry Fitzgerald 11S
ppundsl.
William McAyoy was severely punished
about the t. c., which showed the effects
wildly when Charles S. Phelan got through
| hammering it. Both men tipped the scales
| AT 10 mounds