The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-02
FIGHT RESULTED IN A DRAW
BILLY SMITH IND JOE WALCOTT
 ENGAGE IN 4 HOT RATTLE.

| Though Eth Man Would Win, But
 Both Held Out and the Referee Did Not
 Give Any Decision.
 Boston, March 1.--Joe Walcott and
 "Mysterious Billy smith," both of this
 city, came together in seventeen-foot
 ring in Music hall this evening to box | fifteen rounds, and at the end of that l time, after a battle royal, Referee Bar ney Aaron of New York declared the
 contest draw. Both men were strong
 au the finish and fit to continue the bat | tie for an indefinite number of rounds, | Had the contest been decided on sci
 entific points the referee could have
 had no hesitancy in awarding the con-
 test to Walcott. Smith was aggressive
 but was unable to land his blows, while
 Walcott's left drives at long range were
 placed with phenomenal accuracy,
 Smith depending mostly for his advan-
 tage upon in-fghting and mix-ups.
 Walcott was attended by Tom
 o'Rourke, George Dixon, Jack Havelin
 and Maurice Kelley, and Smith by Ho- vie Hodgkins, Billy Hennessy, Jim Gill and Frank Rose. The timekeepers
 were Mike Bradley of Lawrence for Walcott Dan Murphy of Boston for Smith, and Ed McAvoy for the club
 under whose auspices the contest was given.
 Smith looked four inches taller than his rival, but both seemed to be in per feet physical condition.
 When the gong sounded both began to play for an opening. Smith tried for left jab, which he missed, and they came together with bang, Smith holding Walcott on high and letting him down and smashed him under the heart.
 Walcott showed his dislike for such familiarity by breaking ground, then coming in with terrific force, sending his left crashing on Smiths nose, draw ing blood.
 Smith worked his right on Waicott's heart three times in succession in the clinch, and in the bFeakaway Waleott' landed his left on Smiths neck with telling effect Smith again tried an- other left but Walcott with a rush banged him with a left on the face and right on the body.
 In the second round Smith landed his favorite left lightly on Walcott's mouth which angered the latter and he rush. ed Smith to the ropes with a shower of blows and both roughed 1t for mo- ment on the ropes Tn getting away Walcott tried to land a short right cop, but Smith lodged and heavily upper cut Walcott in return. Walcott got his left in savagely on Smiths face, which sent him off his pins. Then followed a clinch, during which Smith resorted to foul tactics Repeated shouts of foul" "foul' went up from the crowd and O'Rourke continually claimed that Smith was trying to 1tte his man.
 When the third round opened Smith l landed a vicious upper cut, following 1t up with another blow of the same sort. Smith countered stifly, Walcott with right and left. A clinch followed and Walcott charged biting.
 Tn the fourth Walcott was forced to | his knees by a vicious right on his | heart. Smith made a vicious swing at | him, many believing he wanted to lose | in a foul, as he had been receiving | bad punishment. Walcott got in two | beautiful straight drives receiving a | and in the rally that fol- lowed repeated the performance and | received a corking right after his head | had been released from chancery. The boxing became of the whirlwind order and Walcott had the better of it.
 Walcott opened the fifth with left
 IL. I with a right on Walcott's jaw. Wal cott's left worked like the piston of an engine, landing with telling effect.
 In the sixth round the pace was so hot that Smith was forced to go back to long range work again and became ! target for Walcott's well-judged de- livery.
 At the opening of the seventh Smith tried twice, but failed, but when they ,ame together his favorite upper crashed against Walcott's breast, being only stopped when it landed against lis jaw Smith followed with perfect stream of blows that kept Walcott bob pin up and down in order to clear them smith then rushed his man, getting in fight, staggering Walcott back with l left on the face Smith stock took ! jump.
 In the eighth Walcott retreated be- Ore Smiths rushes, and was heavily lpper-cut and driven against the ropes. Nalcott managed to land several heavy blows.
 The ninth round was marked by goug- ng and heeling by Walcott with his doves on Smiths heart, and both eemed tired from clinches. Smith was but could not escape Wal otts crashing neck blows. The remaining rounds up to the fif- eenth were replete with clinches and in which the honors were bout even, the rounds being all of the anne general character. At the end of he fifteenth O'Rourke, Walcott's man. ger wanted to go on to a finish but ( mith's packers quoted the agreement, ( which called only for a fifteen round ontest, and insisted that those terms f hould be adhered to. s The referee thereupon declared the { ontest a draw
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