The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-30
GRIFFIN BADLY PUNISHED.
KIDLAVIGNER KNOCKED HIMABOUr
 THE RING AT WILL.


 to the Ropes. and With a Right-hander
 on tho Jaw Sent to the Floor Dssed- Po-
 lice Put Stop to tho Bout.
 Seaside Athletic Club. Coney Island, Oct. 2a.-scarcely 2,oO0 persons attended the fistic entertainment here tonight, and but few prominent sportsmen were present. The first ev ent was a bout of six rounds between Joe Gates and Jack Madden at 105 pounds. After some live ly fighting the bout was awarded to Madden.
 The second bout was between Dolly Lyons of New York and Kid Hogan of Brooklyn. It was a ten round go for scientific points. In the second round the men fought furiously. Hogan had the best of 1t and Lyons was soon bleed- ing.
 The bout was then stopped by the in- spector of police and the referees award ed the bout to Hogan. ~I"..
 It was then announced that the final bout of the evening between Johnny Griffin of Braintree, Mass, and Kid Lavigne of Saginaw would be on in fif- teen minutes. Half an hour later 1t was learned that when the men weighed-in at p. m.. supposed to be at 124 pounds, Lavigne was under weight and Griffith weighed 125 1-2 pounds. He was given until 6 D. m. to get down to weight, but then he weighed 127 pounds.
 It was then 10:15 o'clock before the matter could be patched up sufficiently to get the men to appear on the stage. Grifhn's seconds were GeorgeReynolds, New York. Billy Crowley of Hartford and Charley White of New York. La- vigne's seconds were Sam Fitzpatrick, Jim Collins and Billy Lavigne, his bro h. er Both men were in good shape, but Grifin looked to be slightly the heavier man. In the first round Lavigne landed on the wind and got an upper-cut from Grifin's right. A rapid exchange took place in which Lavigne seemed to have a shade the best of 1t. Lavigne landed on the face and wind heavily. The round was In favor of Lavigne.
 In the second round Griffin tried to force the fight, but was met well by the Kid. who compelled him to act on the defensive. at which he was ex- ceedingly clever in avoiding punish ment.
 Griffin planted his left on the Kids; face in the third round and got away. without a return. A rapid exchange of blows followed. The Kid landed right and left heavily and forced .his man around the ring. He had Griffin in dis tress when the gong sounded. ,ss.s- In the fourth round Layigne forced Griffin all over the ring, landing with right and left and twice staggered him crossing him with his right. It! was seen that Lavigne was the better and stronger man.
 Griffin landed his left in the fifth round and got hot upper cut in re-, turn. Lavigne forced him all over the ring, landing with right and left at will. Griffin was game, however. He opened a. cut over Lavigne's left eye, but he was tiring quickly. In the sixth round Lavigne landed on Griffin's face with right and left several times Lavigne got a little cut over the fore head. Lavigne's body punches had telling effect on Griffin. In the seventh Lavigne rushed Griffin to the rope and punished him severely. Griffin's eyes were closed, but he put up 8 game fight.
 Lavigne went at the Braintree boy in the next round with rush. Griffin landed left and right, but later got left-hander on the neck that staggered him. It was a pretty fight, with Grif- fms cleverness offset by Lavigne's great strength. Griffin took tremen- dous punching. In the ninth round the men went at it hammer and tongs and Lavigne rushed Griffin to the ropes, where Griffin clinohed to avoid punishment. Griffin sent the house wild by planting straight left flush on the face without return. Griffin came up in good shape in the tenth round and drew forth applause by punching his opponnt in the mouth with hts left hand several times. Lavigne then landed a left-hander on the jaw and a right on the face that staggered Griffin.
 In the eleventh round the men came together with 8 rush and Griffin. by clever ducking, won the house. La yiene forced his man to the ropes and punished him severely. In the next round Griffin got in two good left-hand punches on the Kids nose. and the blood commenced to trickle down. The Kid then went att his man like a tiger, but Griffin held his own astonishingly well. Griffin started in on the aggres- stye in the thirteenth and the men fought all over the ring. They clinched Griffin was in bad shape when the gong sounded.
 Griffin looked distressed when he re- sponded for the fourteenth round. He received two right-handers on the cheek. The Kid then fought him to the ropes, and withsa right handler on the jaw sent him to the floor dazed. He got up, however, and held his own. The fifteenth opened with rush and before the men had been lighting two seconds GrifHn was knocked down, partly from the force of hia own blow, and the inspector of police stopped the bout The referee gave the decis- lon in favor Of Lavigne.
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