Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-07
0'DONNEL DEFEATS KILRAIN
Baltimorean Put Out in tho Middle Of the
Twenty-First Round.
AUSTRALIAN TOOK HIS TINE TO WIN
Loser Made quite n splurSe at the start,
but Did Little Damage TO His Willy
Corqueror, Who Did About
ms lie Liked.

there has not been a heavyweight contest
brought OF in the vicinity Of New York Tae
fact taat Jake Klrain Of Baltimore and
Steve O'Donnel Of Australia were 10 meet
here toniCht at catch weightD In a twenty
1ve-round go naturally attracted a large
crowd Of sports. every person who had
had an opportunity was anxious to see these
heavyweights prove which was the bs.ter
man after the very unsatisfactory ton-round
draw whoh they fought short time ago in
Boston
After a minor bout betwe.a locals, George
+. Green, better known as Young l'crbett,"
Of San Francisco was given an opportunity CT
showing his prUwess in the east. His
antagonist was Jim Holmes Of New York
,They mot at ~? pounds for eight rounds.
The young Californian had as seconds
Young Critic; Billy Delaney Of San Fran
McCabs of Fordham The men behind
Holmes were win Holmes, Charley O'Brien
and Pete Dunn of New York and Jack
Desmond of Brooklyn. Young Corbett
showed himself clever, but his blows lacked
steam. He was knocked down in the third
round and Holmss fell over him. Corbett
smashed Holmes right and left on the body
and face. Holmes was very grOggy. He
stopped after Corbett had smashed him
twice in tina face in the next round and
Corbett was announced the winner
The event of the evening was then in
order. There were about 5000 people in
names OF seconds, Billy Delaney, John Nc
Ney Mike Dunn and Denny Murphy, were
to look after ODonnel and Erne Gebhardt,
L. A. Duke. and AL Hoford of Baltimore
were to take care of Kilraln.
Champion Corbett was not in the house.
the rlngsIde Parsoini Davies of Of Chicago
was also an interested spectator. ODonnel
Young Critic was then among his seconds,
who by this time numbered half dozen.
Kilrain arrived a minute later and in com
n
as an elephant. ODohners wight was
said to be $50 pounds and Kilrain's thirty
o'clock and Kilrain looked very beefy
when he stripped.
KILRAIN OPENED BRISKLY.
Round Both men spared very carefully
for, minute; Kilran led l=ft on the neck
and ODonnel went to his knees. O'Donnel
tabbed his left on the chest Kilralnq
got away from swing. He repeated this
Round 2-oDonnsl led with his left, but
Jake sent his left in once more on the chin.
Steve put his left on the wind lightly and
and nose three times. Kilrain landed left
on neck and chin. Steve led left, but Jake
ans thrSW on off The A sSest she wtS FGng s9q tPas6 n
Round 3-kilrain led left for the h sad, but
fell short and his arm stopped a lead of
right and left hand smash in the face.
After a clinch he jabbed again in the face
and both punched on the body; Jaka got in
lightly with left on neck and then landed
left on Steve's face O'Donnel tried twice
for the face and head but fell short.
got in the stomach with his left and
Jake countered on the neck. Jake smashed
Jake landed on the face with the left and
once on, the, neck with his right. Then, he
In the face and a left handler on the nose
in return. Again JAKE reached Steves face
Round 5-OD Donnel led left on face. He
put in a very hard lett on kilrain's stomach
and then jabbed the same hand on Jake's
face. Both countered ON head with their
lefts and then Steve put left on the
stomach Jake went back on the face with
Round 6--ODonnel led left on face and
Jake got in his left on the jaw. ,O'Donnel
rain stopped a hard one meant for his wind.
After a clinch Steve. landed on body and
body.
with his left and then failed on three leads
Jake iabbed h.s left hard on the chest and
LANDED once once GEe on the face
hard leads for the heart very cleverly,
JAKE'S LAST SMILE.
Round Sake came up smiling. He
landed on the face and led for the head and
O'Donnel ducked. but Jake Immediately
landed his right. twice on the face, o'Donnel
and left hand exchanges followed and the
Baltimore mans nose began to bleed
Round 9-Klrain's nose still bleeding.
Both led ana landed left on face and body
O'Donnel put his left twice in quick sue
session e, n on J@keS cheek @T4 foTeheaG Jake
hot one Jakes damaged nose three
times. They clinched and afterward they
face and body
Round 1O-0,Donnel led off with a left
cheek and swung lightly on the face. Steve v
put in his left twice on the face and Kirain
sen sent , IN 4, left & on the body o,Donnel sent
back one in return. Both landed lightly
Round 1l-Light taps opened this round
and then Steve landed twice heavily on the
stomach; steve's left went to the ribs and
again and 3'G hit an H foar times ts went Un the e
face and body without return.
IN R9Tnd Sn IsTKraiT 1 led OF With left jab
left on the neck, Steve put in two lefts
on sa0 the face and KnEain landed left on chest
taliated with left on face. Both jabbed
with their lefts on the face. Jake eot in a
good one on Steve,s jaw and the latter did
the gong sounded.
Round l9,-,o'Donnel swung right, but fell
Jake hit bac!! with hard right swing on
N, ne neck; Then they smashed right and
Jake was very weak, Jake was very nearly
gone when the gong rang.
Round 1i-o'Donnel led and landed twice
the wind, Jake put his right on the face.
Steye's rE hit went hard on the ribs and It
right on. the wind three times aud then
went twice TO the face with the left and
once with his right, Kilrain was clearly
ONLY ONE MAN IN IT
Round l5-O'Donnel landed a heavy right
on the body. Both countered on neck. Steve
then smashed right and left on face and
body. Jake. countered lightly on the neck
This was all O'Donnels round.
Gl Ial 60,
after light interchange. he put his right
heavily on Jake's jaw. Kilrain tapped him
in the neck, and while Steve kept up a
tattoo on the face with his left ne placed
stomach.
Round l7-Steve led off with a hard right
on the body and again on the mouth lie
kept up tahblng his right ON the body.
Jake landed lightly on the face, but was
heavily countered on the neck. Jake put
IN a good right hand body blow, but O'DOn-
mel frequently reached his face damaging
the left eye badly.
Round lS-Steve landed left on chin and