The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-26
DixoN-wnTrE coNrEsr 4 DRAW
Chicago Feather-weight a Match for the
 ColOred Wonder.


 New York, Sept. 25.-George Dixon, the champion featherweight of the world. had fought the hardest battle of his career when he finished 2O-round draw with Tommy White of Chicago tonight Dixon went into the ring a hot favorite, but before half the battle was over the 5000 spectators saw that he was not the Dixon of former battles Had the westerner possessed more hit ting power Dixon must have gone down before the blows which were landed plentifully on his jaw, White had all the best of the last round.
 It was the first bout of any import ance decided under the new law legaliz- ing boxing in the state, and although large force of police was on hand the authorities saw no reason to inter- fere. The fight took place before the New Broadway Athletic club.
 The first round consisted mainly of an exchange of light blows. In the sec ond Dixon tried rushing tactics. Hard blows on the face were exchanged and George staggered the western lad with left handler on the jaw. In the third round the champion rushed and sent in some hot blows on the body and face. White retaliated with stiff blows on the face and jaw
 | Dixon in the fourth round landed sev- eral times on the stomach and neck and received smart lefts on the neck and body Both were fighting very fast. Later he landed on the heart, White iabbed his left twice on the face and Dixon appeared worried. George put a stiff right on the ear and took stiff left on the mouth.
 In the sixth round Dixon landed on | the mouth, stomach, body and jaw. White put his left several times on the face, but there was little steam in the l blows In the seventh round some hard blows were exchanged. In the eighth White rushed his man to the ropes and put a couple of lefts on the l face. There were some fast exchanges and White jabbed twice on the nose and drew first blood. There was some hard l mitigating in the ninth round. George 1 landed a hot left on the face and stag gered his man.
 | In the tenth Dixon tried to hustle his man, but White kept cool and stood him off. Georges nose was bleeding freely when the round closed. In the eleventh there were some lively ex- 1 changes, but neither appeared much the worse They exchanged lefts in the | twelfth. In the thirteenth White jab- bed his man on the nose, making the | blood come freely. Both men did live ly work in the fourteenth round, and both seemed tired.
 In the fifteenth White put four con- secutive lefts on tha nose and rushed l his man to the ropes. Dixon, who l fought back well. was bleeding from the nose and mouth as the bell rang, and his left eye was puffed little In | the sixteenth round Dixon landed a number of body blows, while White landed several times on the face In l the seventeenth round somewhat sim ! liar tactics prevailed Dixon's left, eye began to swell badly. In the next iround stiff blows on body and face were exchanged.
 1 Tn the eighteenth White made good | use of his left on the face. George put l in hard ones on the stomach and sent his mans head back with left on the chin. In the nineteenth George rushed again, but Tommy returned a ribroast- CT with two lefts on the face. They clinched and White requested Dixon tc fight fair" Hard mitigating closed the round.
 l In the twentieth Dixon pasted his man on the neck. They fought furious ly. Again and again White drove his left into Dixon's face, while the colored lad pasted his man on the body ano clinched furiously. The referee hac hard work separating the men. White kept forcing his man with the left, but his blows lacked steam. Dixon was having a good deal the worst of thS finish, and the crowd was nearly wilo
 when the gong put an end to the ten sion. The referee called it a draw.