The Portland daily press., 1895-12-11
A LIvELv EVENING.
Good Sparring at South Portland by Local
Talent.

bition at Union hall, South Portland,
last evening, under the management OF
j. A. P Suule, with "Ed'' Henry as
master of ceremonies. There was an at
Tendance limited only by the capacity of
the hall.
The isrt set-to was between Robert
Noyes and his brother 6 gorge Noyes,
both of Deering. The brothers simply
gave q good exhibition although there
was especially in the second round some
good work. Robert rather winded George,
and got in very pretty slow on the neck
but George came up we'll and scored a
sharp return, as whole Robert was the
better slayer, but better work would have
been done had they heen matched against
some of the other sparrers
Then Flaherity and Murray, two 'kids"
put Oh the gloves, and afforded any
amount of amusement to the crowd.
Murray, the smaller of the two, proved
to be ''hot stuff" and practically put the
other "kid" out of the show entirely
1t was the conclusion of all present that
Murray has the making of an extra good
sparrer in him.
Then Charles Mayberry and George
Bray, both of Portland. put on the
gloves. Bray's great fault seemed to be
a habit of looking sideways instead of
directly at Mayberry. He simply held
his man as we'll as he could, but he lacked
his experience, and Mayberry got in his
blows during the first round about rs he
| Mo hr,t To box Lott
sand and in the second round got in a
| good hit on the jaw of his handsome OPP
penent and earned the applause he re-
ceived Then he slipped and went down,
bat was en- has feet before May berry had
| time to notice the fact. About all that
can be said is that they are a promising
pair, sure to do better work with little
more training.
Jack" Kearns and Harry Fowler
were received with applause when they
entered the ring. There wasn't the loss
of second before there was a stirring
the. first face blow. but Jack" followed
with sudden blow that took Fowler in
the neck Fowler came up we'll and
caught Kearns in the face again. Then
they clinched and broke just as "Ed'
Henry called time
| Fowler met bis man almost in his own
corner when the second round was called
and got in the first blow straight from
the shoulder Kearns had hardly looked
for that, but lost no time in repaying
the intrusive stroke with interest. Then
Fowler struck trifie mildly, missed his
stroke, and Kearns caught him in the
neck, but got good face blow in return,
and then Fowler got in two blows neith-
er of much account, and succeeded in
lodging a clever stroke on the. part OF
Kearps. Fowler rather got the best of the
| second round.
The third round was rather cautiously
opened SO much so that there were
shouts Of .'It's Bluff but ehere was
some good sparring, and Kearns man.
aged to catch Fowler off his guard long
enough to give him a parting blow. 1t
is perhaps needless to add that the exhi-
of the fighting qualities of either
| A pie eating contest between "Keene"
Doughty and Harry Getchell was received
with shoutsSof laughter and fully justified
by the comical appearance of the ''kids. /"
Getchell won, but his opponent was
close second being only section of a
crust behind.
| Then Harry Fowler and ''Joe" Soule
gave fine exhibitions of punching the
bag, after which Billy Cato and pupil
of his, Billy Connors, put on the gloves
and mostly INDUCED in good walking
match for three rounds. The fun was of
a very sllbdued sort, for it was evident
| that Cato wasn't to have chance to
show the good work he is so capable of
doing At the close Connors who is a
promising young FELLOW, with fine
makeup as one would want to see, chal-
lenged the noted Terry the Mick'' to spar
him, hut 'sTerry the Mick" paid no at
tention TO him, not at all bad thing for
Connors
Then came the last and best event of
| the evening, the meeting of joe
Soule and Dinney NicGovern. There was
| tu6 regular fuSH II WHICH IOOulo always
| INDUCES, and Their the sudden shower of
blows that rattles good sparrers when
| they meet him. AIcGovern was too old
sparrer to be much troubled, and got
in a sharp blow but Soule who doesn' t
like to be IN any mans debt long got
in two return blows like flash. Mo
Govern was q lit surprised and before he
recovered was in for third blow, this
| time on the jaw, but he came up we'll
and avoided Soule's right by a quick
| backward movement, and then passed
his guard and caught himsinEthe face
The blow was lidtle moro than a touch,
bat it showed good work and was ap =