The herald., 1896-10-24
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BAKER BESTED BY CREEDON
After Divers and Sundry Jams, Jabs
and Jolts on the Jaw
Champion Jim Also Defeated, but Mrs.
Jim Fought Foul, Using a Soup
Plate for a Weapon.

| Associated Press Special Wire
MASPETH, L. l., Oct. 2S.-The box
ing contests which were held tonight at
the Empire Athletic club attracted 5000
persons to the club house. Tim Hurst
was the referee. The curtain raiser was
a ten-round go to draw at 12O pounds
between Frank Patterson of Brooklyn
and Joe Bernstein of New York.
The principal bout was a twenty
round contest at catch weights between
Dan Creedon Of Australia and Henry
Baker Of Chicago. Peter Maher and
Bob Fitzsmmons were among the most
prominent sports at the ringside.
Fitzsimmons and Sharkey were today
matched to box ten rounds on December
9th at San Francisco for purse OF
10000 winner to take all. Martin JUL
ian, the manager of Fitzsimmons, would
take on the ex-sailor.
Fitzsimmons will leave for San Fran
cisco Thursday.
Henry Baker entered the ring at 9;45
O'Clock, accompanied by Harry Tuthill,
Henry Black. Johnny oliver ard Dan
McMahon. Creedon showed up few
minutes later, with Sam Fitzpatrick,
Pady German and Dennis Murphy as
his seconds. Both men were weighed
In at 160 pounds, and Creedon was the
favorite in the betting.
Round one-After several passes Ba-
ker sent Creedon down with right
swing on the face, and Creedon was still
down when the gong sounded.
Rounds two and three saw hard fight
ing of the give and take order, without
decided advantage to either. Baker
drove his right hard Oh the body. Cree
don sent two lefts on the body and a
right on the jaw.
The next six rounds the fighting was
fast and even.
In round eleven Creedon rushed, but
Baker blocked his leads. They both
countered on the jaw. Baker ran his
face into left swing. Creedon jabbed
his left on the face four times in sue
cession, and smashed hard left on the
face which nearly put Baker out.
Baker was again badly treated in the
twelfth round, but responded gallantly
in the next, and continued to give as
much as ne received. Both men played
for the head and face, and the blows
rained heavy on each.
In the eighteenth round Creedon sent
his left flush on the mouth and right
hand smash ON the jaw Baker sent
his right in on the jaw. Creedon put
his right and left on face and body.
Creedon jabbed his left five times in
| the face without a return, and Baker
was very weak at the end of this round.
| Round ninete een-Baker got in left
Jolt on the chin. Baker landed left on
| face. Creedon jabbed left on face, and
they exchanged lefts on the body. Cree
| don put his left on the nose and both
sent lefts on the face. Creedon swung
| his left on the face, and Baker put a
straight left on the nose.
Round twenty and last-Baker came
| up in good shape, but Creedon landed
| his left on the nose again. Baker sent
| straight left under the chin. Creedon
| kept jabbing his left on the face and
body. Baker swung his right for the
! head, but only landed on the arm, and
| Creedon sent his left on the face. They
| diddled until the end of the round.
| The referee decided in favor of Cree
| don.
JIM'S LITTLE WIFE.
MONTREAL, Quebec, Oct. 2.-James
], Corbett is here playing with his com
pany He and his wife had a row at tn:
| Windsor hotel, which is likely to result
| in their separation.
An anonymous letter was received by
Mrs. Corbett, and when Corbett got tt
the hotel last night his wife charged
him with unfaithfulness, and immedi
| ately there was row. The dinner Wa:
We're minor weapons. Corbett left II
| disgust, so he said, and Windsor con
| stable says he saw the champion run
At $3.50 Corbett returned, only to fine
his wife had left for New York
| ON THE TRACK.