The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-08
GIBBONS The WINNER.
He Defeats the Man from Maine
in the New Orleans Fight.
TH1RTY-ONE VIGOROUS ROUNDS.


Pugiiist, Although He Made Game
Battle and Kept His Antagonist Very
Busy.
NEW ORLEANS, March s.-There was more
than the usual interest taken in the fight
last night between Austin Gibbons of
Paterson, and Mike DAILY, of Bangor, Me.
Among those present were some of the most
prominent sporting men In the country,
who had come in from different sections
OF the country to see the great battle be-
tween Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Hall,
who battle tonight for a $40, 600 purse The
prices for the contest last night were fixed
at popular figure an and immense crowd
OF the admirers of the fstic art filled the
house.
Prior to big fight there was prelimi-
nary bout of four short ronnds between
Dolly Smith, of California, and Owen Har-
ney, of New Orleans. 1t was only friendly
bout In order to introduce Smith, who is
matched to fight George Dixon for s., 500
side They had four very lively rounds,
but while Smith had the best of the fight
ing he did not strike anybody as being in
the class with Dixon.
The arena in which the men fought was
built especially for that purpose and was
comfortably seated without single person
having poor view of the ring.
Both Gibbons and DAILY were under the
stipulated weight when they weighed in,
and were in prime condition. Gibbons was
looked after by his brothers, Tim and
George, George Dawson of Australia, and
George Mcdonald, of England who
trained John l.. Sullivan for his fight with
Charley Mitchell.
Behind Mike DAILY were Captain Bill
DAILY, his hacker, Joe Choynski, Alex
Greggains and Professor Robertson, with
E. S. Merrigan as bottle holder.
Dan Murphy, of Boston, held time for
DAILY, and S. I. Jacobs, of Hoboken, held
the watch for Gibbons
After the usual preliminaries time was
called.
DAILY Makes the First Rush.
First Round-Daly rushed right at Glib
bons and planted stiff right handler in his
wind. Gibbons, contrary to expectations,
stayed right in front of his man and re-
ceived many stiff blows with both right
and left, and only hit back when he got a
good opening. On one Of Daly's misses
Gibbons upper cut him and put him on his
knees.
Second Round-Daly landed many good
stiff left handed blows, but got fully as
good as he gave. Gibbons was cool, and
every time he landed with effect
Third Round-This round was not very
ferocious, as DAILY was forced to act on the
defensive
Fourth Round-Gibbons showed a de-
cided superiority over DAILY, and simply
played with him as a cat would with a
mouse. DAILY had spent his force in the
first round, and now tried to spar for wind.
Fifth Round-Gibbons was confident.
He took things easy and marched right
ahead as il he We're sure of his victory.
He had sized up his man, so he thought,
and instead of adopting his usual policy
of waiting, as he did with Andy Bowen
and Jack Mckuliffe, he rushed matters.
Sixth Round-Gibbons settled down to
business in this round and did his utmost
to finish his man. DAILY was almost out
toward the close of the round and only
saved himself by going down and remain.
ing on one knee for nine seconds, during
which time Gibbons leisurely sat upon the
ropes and waited.
Gibbons Superiority Shows Itself
Seventh Round-Gibbons had all the
best of this round, and fought his man all
over the ring. Daily landed enough good
swinging blows to make Gibbons little
cautious.
Eighth Round-Daly was up strong in
this round and while Gibbons was groggy
he landed dozen or more straight left
handed jabs full on Gibbons face, and was
heartily chcered by the spectators. Glib
bohs landed many good, stifl blows, but
they lacked the necessary steam to put his
man out
Ninth Round-This was Daly's round,
but the first one that ended in his favor,
Up TO this time Gibbons had been doinu
most of the fighting and Dalyis friends
were feeling sorry for him, but this time
he got in a series of left hand blows in
Gibbons face that were refreshing to the
the friends of the man from Maine.
From the tenth to the thirteenth round
Gibbons forsed the fighting, but DAILY had
him bleeding profusely from the nose and
mouth. In the fourteenth DAILY went at
the Jerseyman with rush, but was quickly
stopped.
From this on to the twenty-fifth round
there was very lively fighting DAILY still
appearing as fresh as ever In the twenty
seventh round the Maine man came IN
groggy, but still game. In the twenty-efghth
round DAILY realized that he was whipped
and rather than be knocked out he preferred
to loso the fight on foul and repeatedly put
up his knee for Gibbons to run up against.
He was not only warned by the referee, but
by the captain of police, but still he con-
tinued foul tactics.
Twenty-niuth Round-Gibbons made the
fighting, and had punched his man all
over the stage, knocking him down near
the close of the round and just as he got
up the gong sounded
Thirtieth Round-Gibbons forced the
fighting and DAILY was compelled to drop
to his knees repeatedly to avoid punish-
ment.
Thirty-frst Round = This round only
lasted two minutes and half So many
good clean right handlers were planted on
Daly's head and face that he could scarcely
stand. Before DAILY could be counted out
his seconds threw up the sponge
A Great Strike Threatened,