The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-02
SPORTING MISCELLANY.


No athleti, club should have anything
to do with Eddie Pierce. II the Seaside
ever engages him again It will deserve
to Il sc Its license. Pisrce's best game Is
tc fight with brckbats or bfoadaxes
when his opponent Is not looking. The
actions OF this pugilist In his go" with
Mike Leonard last night we're disgrace
full He fouled Leonard thirty or forty
tin es, and seemed to have no more re-
gard for the rules than he has for the
! Koran. Few men seen in the ring are
such persistent fouers As Is Pierce. and
II is a mystery how he continues to be
in demand. In his fight with Walter
Edgerton some months ago his &C iduct
wps shameful-almost on EAR with his
conduct of last night-but he managed
to escape with only warning on each
| occasion. Leonard by the way. ought
to get dose of disciplinary medicine
himself. To be sure. re haS provoca-
ton last night, but he would have
earned the respect of the better class
of men who follow he boxing game IL
he had not resorted 20 The tricks he did
In the last few rounds. Twice Leonard
rsed his knee on Pie~ce's stomach, and
once he artistically worked his elbow on
Eddie's jaw. Referee Maxwell More
seemed to be blind 20 all this fouling,
and much more ANXIOUS to prevent
knockout than to see that the rules
were lived up to. He undoubtedly saved
Pierce when he stopped the fight for
forty-hve seconds In the fifth round.
Pierce was groggy, and had been half
punched. half-thrown down by Leonard.
Nike was a biz Distressed himself; but
rBs ripe enough to finish Pierce. More,
| however, forced Leonard away and ar.
gued with him until Pierce had plenty of
time to recover. The .ast round was
from start 10 finish. and each was ready
to drop from exhaustion at the end.
The crowd was frantic. The .pugilists
surely earned their money. for there was
enough smuggling in the ten rounds to
satisfy any one who likes that sort of
game. Half dozen times It looked as
II Leonard was done for, and then again
Pierce seemed on the verge Of collapse.
But on the whole, Leonard put up the
better fight.
OF the six boxers who appeared last
night, there wasn't one worth powder
enough to blow him half way across
the street a really clever boy. such as
Dixon. could whip the six of them. 1t
fghtere or SO many contortionists get
together. Mcbride and Downey posed
as II they were Just about to jump
hurdles or to engage In catch-as-
catch-can wrestling match, and Winters
thought II would be real pretty thing
| to get a hip lock on Holmes and whack
the back of his head against the floor.
But all in all the fights were far bet
t Yer 1hhm many persons ,eTpecteu: , haa
likely that boxing at he Seaside would
have been stopped, for good. The man
wbam The ne so ,.ao rrIs po'ht n, WV
M Inrs ome men hn "Sre engage, ana Mr;
hs"''
Mike Haley let himself in for the
wrath of the Mafia by accepting the offer
Mike was sincere enough, but he knows
as much about broadswords as about
Zulu war clubs The fiery little Dago,
Pavesi. got two straight points, one of
lons off Rosss carcass but for the
"'trmor," Then two dead heats were
wrathv. He. swiped his opponent by
and Haley said Ross That settled it:
Pavvy ,crawled through the ropes and
did a dervish dance as he cast his div
ing suit on the floor in intense and ges-
ticulating disgust.
Jack McAuliffe and Horace Leeds may
be brought together at the Seaside Ath-
expressed ms Wiiiingness tor 60 with
me me YOUNG rh.iaaeiiPhi hi before leaving
LOT Bangor Me- with MS newly acquired
bride.
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Iii, Tnothaii I'M ba,,. NIT az SLaIr
SaeiiI ~ " Si,t Siuu' ne
man .; r. 1uiiINah, u me ~. .. "A. -
regarding tne Teiusai Oh the bdrTSs 10
meet them In the LABOR Day contest at
the Bergen Point grounds. They claim
that the Barry players tested their
strength In n game on July & and are
afraid of the Kickhams. Sullivan had
oirendv arranged for a match het ueen
IT, o. -, "a Mannh., 1san,,o a,tI
me 6 Pary amu Meaf ner Saeiic Siuos.
ne " Connells, anotneI HaeNG iteeIl,
want 10 coItest LOT cnaInpionsnlp non
| van proposes tournament on Labor
Day, of three games the final to be
! played between winners of the two pre-
liminary games, for championship
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