Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-04-23
THOMPSON WAS GR0GGY.
CLEARLY ourrouGur ny los AuNEw
TIiE CtIICAGo rUGILisr.


Beneath two sputterng Kerosene lamps
iu AN open field not FAR from Kansas city,
Lon NEuyw. formerly OF Chicago, ana
Cluul Thompson. OF salt Lake city, light
weights fought eight rounds to draw last
night Agu,w had the best OF the fight all
the way through and only the sounding
uf the gong IN the seventh and again IN the
eighth round saved Thompson from a
Knockout Toward the last he was very
Eoeey ana completely windcd The fight
was for a purse OF about 500
j. u. Herman hacker OF Thomas Dixon,
WAS the referee, Agnew's seconds were
Jim Hamblin g. Mccormack kiI Card
ugr aud Emmett Melody. Thompson was
seconded hy Nigk Burley, Thomas Mru-
oguc and charles Blue The nghung was
brisk and lively from the start.
In the first round Thompson scored on
AGncws face. Thei was a cllnch anu
after the break nway AEnew received a
punch In the stomach. Aguew, pounded
turned with a blow on tho stomach. lie
landed fairly well In two or three places
tu the quick close lighting that followed,
but his blows seemed to lack steam.
Thompson led away at Aguews wind In
the second round, but did not reach lqr
enough Tor the blow to be effective. lie
managed to get IN two on Agncw's face
ANA the latter returned them Win Two
swift punches on Thompson's couut"naucc.
These were followed 10y Agnew with an
upperCut with his left on the dusky boys
jaw. There was "A Clnch and some sharp
In the third round Agncw got IN his LETT
on Dhumpsun's face ana the latter got
back at him with punch IN the stomach
Thompson was leading right along now for
AgnGw's stomach. but the latter stood the
blows well and came down out Of the air
with TWO Summers on ThOmpsonS mead.
There was a little short range hghttng and
the round ended.
To use AN expressive phrase borrowed
from crap game parlancc Thompson threw
box cars in the fourth round. lie failed
TO reach AEnew to any great extent ana
the Chicago boy reached him with two
left handlers IN the face.
In the NTH round Thompson reached with
both right and left for Agncw's stomach.
In an exchange of blows that followed Mt
close range the honors were about even.
Thompson did some very clever duCking.
In the sixth round AEnew gave Thomp-
son Il terrific punch that staggered him
and scored two good left handlers on his
jaw. Thompson weakly responded by try
ing to reach Agncws stomach.
Thompson came very near being punched
out in the seventh round and only the gong
saved him. left handler on the jaw stag
gered him and he was groggy on the ropes
from decisive ten seconds sleep
Thompson seemed to have secured n new
lease on life when he came to the front IN
the last round. His apparent freshness,
was considered remarkable. Agnew Went
at him with Will, however, and soon had
him groggy. He landed twice his jaw
and followed with a telling uppercut
Thompson responded, but seemed to lack
wind and energy, and finally clnched to
avoid punishment. as the gong sounded.
The fight was declared draw. it is
stated that the men will meet in the near
future and fight to finish
There We're preliminary bouts prior to
the fight, in which Dusty Rhodes knocked
out Lee Guthrie in three rounds. George
Quade and Billy Murphy gave a two-round
bout