Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-15
BOWEN KNOCKED OUT. 1 The Saginaw Kid Does Him Up
 in Eighteen Rounds. MORE GRIT THAN FIGHT Was Shown by the New Or leans Boy-Ryan-DempSey
 Fight Tonight:
MORE GRIT THAN FIGHT

NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. H.-George (Kid) Lavigne of Saginaw, Mich.. knocked the puglistic aspirations of Andy Bowen of this city into the proverbial cooked hat tonight in the eighteenth round, in the presence of 2500 spectators at the Audito- rum club.
 The contest was purse of S2500, at 130 pounds weight, but both men were over the scale. Lavigne tipped the beam at 135 pounds and Bowen at 133. The Louisiana man was clearly outclassed, and while he has developed little better judgment from his training with Dempsey, it was not enough to give him chance against the "Kid'' from Saginaw.
 It was one of the cleverest fights that has ever been pulled off in this peck of the woods, and the kid made monkey of Bowen throughout the whole contest, playing with him as cat would with mouse. He took his time at knocking him out, aud only did so when he got good and ready. The gong saved Bowen several times, but it was conceded by the spects- tors at the outset that Bowen WAS to be the loser He put up game fight by staying up for his punishment, but he was poor at fighting back. Once Bowen went down and waited for the referee him very little. He was severely punished, his left eye being closed end his face all bruised and swelling, with hls lips swollen to twice their normal size. Lavigne was unharmed and as fresh as at the opening of the fight, but his left hand was swollen to almost the same size as his glove. The knock -out was delivered by left-hand drive on the side of the jaw, fol- lowed by a cross counter with the right hand on the chin, and Bowen dropped squarey in his tracks, his head striking the floor with d resounding thwack that was heard all over the house. He was un- conscious for twenty eight minutes. After eight minutes work by his seconds he was carried to his retiring room and Drs. Schuppert, Herman and Finuey called in. and Sergeant McCabe placed Lavigne and his party under arrest. They were re- leased on the recovery of Bowen, who, when he regained consciousness, attempted to speak, but was cautioned to remain qu'et and turned over saying: "All right"
 It was 9:20 when Bowen stepped into the ring accompanied by his seconds, Austra- lian Billy McCarthy, Billy Layton and Al Spilztaden, with Ben Spiggs ot Chicago as timekeeper. He was followed closely by Lavigne, with Jim Hall, Sam Fitzpatrick and Martin Murphy as his seconds and George F. Considene of Detroit as time- keeper.
 Prof. Johnny Duffy was referee and Sam Stern official timekeeper for the club. The police were in charge of Sergt. J. M. Me- Cabe of the First precinct, and perfect or der prevailed.
 Bowen forced the fighting for the first two rounds, when Lavigne sized him up and proceeded to make chopping block of the hard headed Orleanean. He proved good man with both his right and left hand, landing either at will and whenever he wanted to. Dempsey had trained Bowen for the fight and gave him some valuable lessons in ducking, but the kid caught on to his style of duck ing and landed an effective uppercut every time. After the fight Sam Fitzpatrick stated to the Southern Associated Press representative that Lavigne would like to take on go with George Johnson of Eng land at 126 pounds for a side bet and the largest purse offered by any reputable club.
 The Ryan Dempsey fight will be on to- morrow night, with Ryan selling favorite in the betting at $190 to S80.
 Among the well-known sporting men oc- cnpying prominent positions about the ring were the following:
 Parson Davies, Tom Ryan, Jack Demp- sey, A. Erlanger, M. B. Curtis, J. Choyn- ski, Jimmy Barry, D. c. O'Malley, John Hogerty, Frank Ives, Sandy Waters, F. B. Bowes, Senator O. Malley of Chicago Pres- ident Jules Rosiersof the Pastime Athletic club, Lew M. Houston, Fred s. Cox and many others of lesser note.
 Stamp it on the sun-paint it on the mOon-the superiority of Dr, Price's