The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-03
SHOULDER-HITS
AND WILD SWINGS
A FiStiC Bill of Fare Pre-
scented by the Colma
Club.
A FINISH AND A DRAW
Agnew Whipped Akers in a
Sharp and Spirited
Contest.
A FINISH AND A DRAW
PEPPERS A HOT STUFF MAN.
Ste zner Was Dazed in the Seventh
Round, but His Opponent Was Too
Weak to Knock Him Out.

The interest in sports pugilistic is evil
IDENTIFY great, judging from the large gath
ering OF people who witnessed the enter
tainment of the Colma Athletic Club last
evening at the Grove-street Theater.
Last Friday evening the Occidental Club
gave fistic entertainment which was wit
messed by 5000 people of divers classes of
society.
Captain Whitman stopped the first bout
of the evening in the second round. 1t
was to be four-round bout between Gus
Longreen, Swede, and Jack Hall of this
City.
The Swede was game, but his knowledge
OF the art of self-defense was very meager,
and to save him from being cut to pieces
the captain ordered the bout stopped.
The second contest was a ten-round bout
between Billy Azers of this City and Lon
Aguew of st. Louis. The men weighed in
at lao pounds. Agnew is quite a clever
fellow and impressed the knowing ones as
! being top notch of the class he repre-
sents. He fought in very cool and de-
| liberate manner and outgeneraled his
! opponent in all points of the game.
The eighth round between Steiner and
Peppers was tolerably interesting Con-
siderable wild slogging was INDUCED in,
vet Peppers, who was handicapped fifteen
pounds in weight, made a very good bat
tie and would certainly have whipped his
| opponent in the seventh round, when the
latter was travelling on queer street from
the eff. cts of a right-hand punch on the
| jaw, had he possessed the necessary
strength TO administer Knockout blow.
! The fights are given in rounds as follows
Akers and Agnew:
First round-Akers, although a much
smaller man than his opponent. had all the
| best of the round, forcing the pace and hitting
Agnew quite frequently with lett and right IN
Second round-Agnew opened by planting
| two heavy rights on Akers jaw, but the latter
warmed Agnew's neck with two heavy swing
] ing rights Immediately following. The round
was give and take until Agnew caught Akers
on the point OF the Jaw aud brought him to
his knees. Akers was up quickly, but re-
manned in a dazed condition until the end OF
the round. Agnew was fresh when the round
ended.
Third round-Agnew had all the best of it.
| but he was unable 10 land on Akers jaw be-
! cause of the clever ducking of the latter. 1t
looked very much like Agnew's fight, as
Akers poor condition commenced to tell on
| him.
Fourth round-Akers' blows were very weak
and his mouth was bleeding freely from the
smashes ne had received. Agnew was GER
tainly holding a strong lead and fighting
coolly and determinedly.
Fifth round-This settled Akers' hash. Ag-
new timed his game well, and after delivering
to his opponent six straight left-hand blows in
the face and mouth Akers dropped to the floor
whipped man. Akers was far from being in
condition for a hard fight, but he battled
gamely and received quite an ovation when
he retired from the ring.
Henry Peppers of Los Angeles, weight
162 pounds, and Jack Steiner of Chicago,
10 pounds, fought an eight-round con-
test. Spider Kelly was behind Peppers
and Jimmy Carroll squirrel Steiner The
betting was $40 to So in favor of Steiner.
The referee selected was Joe Choynski,
and he received great applause when he
made his appearance in the ring. The
master of ceremonies, Billy Jordan, said
that the contest was to be eight rounds,
with the privilege of one or two extra
rounds If occasion required it.
First round-The game was give and take,
but Peppers caught Steiner one or two left
swings on the neck which staggered the Chi
cago man. Steiner came up with rush near
the end of the round and kept Peppers back
by good right uppercut on the chin.
Second round-Peppers played for Stelzner
to lead, with the object of crossing him with
his right but Steiner was up to snuff and re-
NAMED off and allowed Peppers to do the
leading. Some wild swings were INDUCED in
by both men, and Steiner received a hearty
| cheer because of his clever ducking. Peppers
| was still waiting for a cross.
Third round-Stelzner got in good right in
| Peppers stomach, and the latter showed signs
/ Oh distress LOT u SECOND. lie uQAlJy OdSneQ q
! Stelzner, and, swinging wild, he missed three
smashes at Stelzner's head There was con-
! siderable dancing and fiddling in this round
with few good blows landing. Honors were
! about evenly divided.
Fourth round-Peppers tented with the left
and landed a right swing on StelZner'S jaw
| Then some more fiddling and dancing result
| ed. aud finally Steiner landed right swing
on Peppers breast. Peppers caught Steiner a
bad smash in the stomach the Chicago pu-
gilist tried to reach Peppers jaw with left
swing. Stelzner landed two good rights in
Peppers face just before the round ended
Fifth round-Lots OF fancy work INDUCED in
at long range before q blow was struck
on Peppers jaw, then a hot mix up followed.
Peppers dropped Steiner to the floor in q
sharp ally with a right on the jaw, ana when
Stelzner came too he charged at Peppers and
1t was give and take 10 the finish, both fighters
being well tired when the gong sounded.
Sixth round-The round was tame. The
pugilists had bellows to mend and remained
off at good range until the sound for corners
came.
Seventh commissioners came up fresh and
banged Peppers frequently, but the latter
caught Stelzner hard right swing on the
point of the chin and daZed him. Peppers
was too weak TO knock Steiner out when the
latter was all but gone. Steiner finally came
to his senses and warded off his opponent until
the gong sounded the finish. This was the
most exciting bout of the evening.
The eighth and last found was tame in COM
parison to the rounds that preceded it. The
pugilists fiddled around each other without
striking blow until minute before the gong
sounded, when Steiner landed a right swing
on Peppers forehead.
The referee announced the contest a
draw, and the big crowd dispersed. appar
entity well satisfied with the evenings en-
tertainment.
Among the interested snectators rrora