St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-20
A f CONTEST.
That Between Stanton Abbott and
Bobby Dobbs.

11OUDy DODDS
Bobby Dobbs, the colored champion,
has gone into active training for his
contest with Stanton Abbott, the Eng
lish lightweight champion, which oc-
ours at the Twin City Athletic club on
the night of March IL. That the contest
will be one of the events of the season
in the line of tistic performances is
almost a foregone conclusion, for the
proves of the two men is %undisputed,
as is also the fact that they are we'll
matched. This contest will be the
formal Opening" of the athletic
club. although the institution has been
running at full blast for over a month.
Manager Frank Cotharin. however. was
DESTROYS OF securing two celebrities to
give athe first of a series OF contests
which will occur in the clubs auditori-
UNI during the next few months, so de-
cided IN favor of Dobbs and the English
man. Stanton is matched to meet Jack
McAuliffe in California for $40, 900 a
side shortly after his contest with
Dobbs. The following clipping from
an Eastern exchange, giving AN account
of Abbott's victory over Jack Falvey,
will show what kind of stuff the fellow
is made of:
keep going to all the fights, my
boys, or you'll miss the best ones" This
was Uncle Joe" Elliott's pointer for
the youngsters among the gatherers of
fistic news a quarter of a century ago.
The aged patriarch Of the New York
Herald's matchless reports of the ring
contests of those days spoke the truth,
as the experience of all the veteran ring
followers proves. At the Metropole in
Providence last week the"chronics''saw
a glorious go for little money that will
keep them going for the next year or
two to a good many high-cOst bad fights.
Stanton Abbott, the English light
weight, as a finish fighter was a revela-
ton. l find Aleck Greggains, Jimmy
Dime, Jack Green, Tommy Connolly
and the pugilists generally who
were at the ringside, rendering homage
to Abbott as a great little artist with
his digits. This was his first finish
contes. in this country. He made it
evident how wide of the mark has been
the New York aud Philadelphia sizing
of him on the evidence of his quality
derived from four-round contests. He
had no mean foeman at Providence in
Jack Falvey. Loser though the Rhode
~ tS u Il I'll I.
by the majority of tbs spectators with
making a most gallant effort. The eff
fort was futile only because Abbott
was his master in knowledge of the
game and in Judgment how to play it to
win. Abbott is not a world beater fer
strength, but in what he made
Falvey take out of himself In vain
effort to land upon him, the Englishman
was a wonder. He fights perfectly fair
and as cold as Ice. He is a master of
evasion by ducking and keeping under.
He is in front of his man all the time.
He is not a knocker-out, He is better
than that, for he is a fight-winner.
There is no lost motion about him. and
intuitively he seems TO do the thing best
calculated to perplex and discomfort the
other Ian. falvey is clever with his
left hand, but when he let 20
at Abbott, left. right and left again.
and was done with all three blows, he
had not landed anything. This hap
pened repeatedly. English glove fight
ers, as suggested elsewhere in this col
umn. have not been as a rule up to the
brag; but Abbott is one whose methods
may well be an appropriate study for
the lightweight who counts upon doing
him. The ordinary every day "pug, Of
his weight will do well not to take him
Oh except Tor short j%ourneying. Falvey
showed up well and was game and de-
termined. He would have kept on, if
his seconds had permitted, after his
chance was clearly gone and the award
had been given against him. Abbott
was nothing 10th, either, to waive the
first award of the fight to himself, if
permitted, and to resume and do a
Knockout finish since the Rhode
Islander insisted. There was, however.
no question of the complete decis.
%iveness of the contest. Falvey was
clearly beaten. Strong as are the pre-
valent race prejudices in America with
reference 10 English pugilists, | have
found no man who sat about the ring
coming away with anything to say of
Abbott except in very enthusiastic adj
miration of his handling himself. Falvey
could not cross-countsr him. He Was in
and safe away early in the fight with
body smashes delivered time and again
over the Rhode Islanders heart. His
addressing himself TO the jaw and head
did not come until lie cut loose, well
satisfied that victory was then within
reach. to give the polishing off. L find
that the fighters who were there are
agreed that Abbott taught them a lot
that they had never imagined as to the
nlceties of winning fighting"