St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-05-07
0'DONNELL'S LEFT.
1t Did Terrific Execution on
the Ponderous Frame
Of Kilrain.
JAKE WENT DOWN BEFORE 1T
After a Score Of Decidedly
Hot and Well-Fought
Rounds.
THE POLICE INTERFERE
In Time to Save a Knock
Out--O'Donnell Declared
Winner.
THE POLICE INTERFERE

Out--O'Donnell Declared
Winner.
CONEY ISLAND, N. Y, May e.
Since Goddard and Maher fought here
in December, 1892, there has not been
a heavyweight contest brought off in
the vicinity of New York. The fact
that Jake Kilrain, of Baltimore, ana
Steve O'Donnell, of Australia, were
to meet here tonight at catchweights
in tWenty-fVe-round go naturally
attracted large crowd of sports, as
tunity was anxious to see these
heavyweight pugilists prove which
was the better man, after the very
unsatisfactory ten-round draw which
they fought short time ago in Bos-
ton.
After minor bout between locals,
George F. Green, better known as
Young Corbett," of San Francisco,
was given an opportunity of showing
his prowess in the East His an
tagonist was Jim Holmes, of New
York. They met at 135 pounds for
eight rounds. The young Californian
had as seconds Young Griffo, Billy
Delaney, of San Francisco; John Nc
Vey, of Philadelphia, and Jim Nc
Cabe, of Fordham. The men be-
hind uo1yo &c 1r,ara WIFI IIOI,ooe, SJ,o,
ley O'Brien and Pete Dunn, of New
York, and Jack Desmond, of Brook
lyn. Young Corbett showed him
self clever, but his blows lacked steam.
He was knocked down in the third
round and Holmes fell over him.
Corbett led in the fifth and sixth,
and in the latter he smashed Holmes
right and left on the body and face
at will. Holmes was very groggy.
He stopped after Corbett had hit
him twice in the face in the next
round, and Corbett was announced
the winner.
O'DONNELL-KILRA
The event of the evening was then
in order. There were about 5000 peo-
pie present in the house when the
announcer gave out the names of the
seconds, Billy Delaney, John McVey,
Mike Dunn and Benny Murphy were
to look after O'Donnell, and Erne Geb-
hart, Laduke, Al Hoford, of Baltimore,
We're to take care of Kilrain. Cham
pion Corbett was not in the house, but
his manager, Billy Brady, sat close
IAxr 6a ,-iva Do, -
Chicago, was also an interested spec
tator. O'Donnell climbed through the
ropes at $50, and Young Griffo was
then among his seconds, who by this
time numbered half a dozen. Kilrain
arrived a minute later, and in COM
parison with his tall opponent, he
looked as an elephant. O'Donnell's
weight was said to be $50 pounds and
Kilrain's thirty pounds more. The
men shook hands at 10 o'clock, and
Kilrain looked very beefy when he
stripped.
Round One-Both men spared very
carefully for a minute. Kilrain led
left on neck, and O'Donnell went to
his knees. O'Donnell jabbed his left
on the chest Kilrain punched his left
into O'PonnelPs chin and got away
from a swing. He repeated this mo-
ment later.
Round Two-O'Donnell led left, but
failed, and Jake sent his left in once
more on the chin. Steve put his left
on the wind lightly, and then the same
hand visited Kilrains eye and nose
three times. Kilrain landed on neck
and chin. Steve led left, but Jake
threw it off. AS the gong sounded,
Kilrain landed on the chest with a
straight left.
Round Three-Kilrain led left for the
head but fell short and his arm stopped
right and left-hand smash in the
face After a clinch he jabbed again
in the face and both punched on the
body. Jake got in lightly with left
on neck and then landed left on Steve's
face. O'Donnell tried twice for the
face and head but fell short.
Round Four-After a few passes,
nell got in on the stomach with his
left and Jake countered on neck. Jake
smashed his right on the neck and the
men clinched. Jake landed on the face
with the left and once more on the
neck with his right. Then he jabbed
his left on the face and got a left
handler on the nose in return. Again
Jake's left reached Steve's face and
O'Donnell countered on the same spot
O'DONNELL LED LEFT.
Round Five-O'Donnellle led left on face
He put in very hard left on Kill
rains stomach and then jabbed the
same hand on Jake's jaw. Kilrain
returned with his left on the face
Both countered on head with lefts and
then Steve put a left on the stomach.
Jake went back on the face with his
left.
Round Six-O'Donnell led left on face
and Jake got in his left on jaw, ODon-
nell landed left on neck and they
clinched. Kilrain stopped a hard one
meant for his wind. After a clinch
Steve landed on body and Jake
swung his right on the head. They
spared and Steve landed lightly on
the body.
Round Seven-Steve tapped Jake's
lightly with his left and then failed
on three leads. Jake jabbed his left
hard on the chest and landed once more
on the face. Exchanges on the body
followed, and then Kilrain put in his
left on the face. He stopped two hard
leads for the head, very cleverly.
Round Eight-Jake came up smiling