Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-10-17
RESULTED IN A DRAW
THE GLOVE CONTEST BETWEEN
 O'BRIEN AND O'DONNELL.
About Three Hundred People Wit messed the sport.-AIl Were
 We'll Pleased.

doctors, merchants, pugilises. They were all at the ring side and saw tht scientific glove contest for points
 put up by the followers of inc manly art" before the Pine Bluff Athletic Association. And, just here we will state that not a man in the large audience regretted the fact, or felt that he had not received h full moneys worth.''
 As advertised. the Athletic Asso- ciation had arranged to have a fifteen round glove contest for points" between Billy O'Donnell, of this city, and "Kidd" O'Brien, of Hot Springs. with the addition of a four round contest of the same description between Billy Lay ton, of New York. and Jimmy Ryan, of Australia. Friday night
 Before S:30 o'clock. the advertised hour for tine the men to enter he ring for the first event, the Club room was filled with an eager. ex- cited throng of men who had assem- bled there to witness the sport.
 Fhe preliminaries of the affair was a sparring contest between two col ored lads, which was certainly not scientific, if for points; and the clum- sy, awkward manner in which they put up their dukes" created a great deal of laughter This was followed by the "go' between Lay ton and Ryan.
 Both men are superb in their class, but Layton, both in strength and science, was badly out classed by his famous Australian opponent. The exhibition they gave was full of vim, and had every appearance of being q boni fide s'battle for blool," rather than for points, though both men were on the most friendly terms, and the slasbing blows given and taken, "blocked and tucked" were merely as a pastime to them, and the "uppercuts,' swinging rights and lefts" had no more ap. parent effect on them than the gen tie slap of a kind mother administered to a bad son.
 This event was followed quickly by the "fifteen round go" between 0'Donnel and O'Brien.
 Manager Portis entered the arena, introduced the men and announced that the contest would Le merely q scientific exhibition for points, and requested the audience to maintain good order if they expected the fight to continue. O'Donnell entered the ring first and selected his corner. His seconds were Tim Fitzgerald and "Shadow" Maher. He was closely followed by O'Brien. O'Brien had for seconds Layton and Ryan, under whose instructions he has been training at Hot Springs.
 As both men stripped for the fight it was apparent that in some man. ner O'Donnell certainly appeared the best man. Perhaps this was due to his look of confidence and fine physi- cal condition. His flesh appeared as hard as marble and the well knit figure showed that it could suffer punishment without being much the W orse off.
 O'Brien was probably heavier and taller than his opponent, but he ap- peared young and tender" and this possibly prevented him from be- ing a favorite of the men who backed their judgment with money.
 The first, second and third rounds were so one-sided, In favor of O'Don- nell, that everybody predicted that the Kid" would be put out' in less than eight rounds, for O'Donnell punched him unmercifully about the head and face. The "Kid' bore his punishment like a man, and when the "crinson" was flowing in a stream from his nose caused by a iab from O'DonnelPs left, he re- marked in a pleasant manner that She had plently to spare" and that l q llIIle llCk Oll HIS DOSG WOQlQ uGNSI knock him out. Bleeding did ap- parently have a beneficial effect on him, for after the fourth round he began to improve wonderfully, and lead the fighting. He made the rushes and slashed tremendous blows at his opponent, but the latter was to nimble, and ''got away without getting but possibly three severe blows during the evening, at , the same time he continued to ham, mer O'Brien's face at pleasure, and at the close of the fight it presented
 a much battered appearance
 Neither men could get in telling
 blow, and so at the end of the
 fifteenth round amid general ap , plause the fight was declared 2 |. draw.
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