The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-23
THE RING

NEW YORK, April 22.-The feature
of the card presented by the Eureka
Athletic club at Long Island City to-
night was a twenty round go between
Johnny Lavack of Cleveland, and
Tommy Dixon of st. Paul. The win
ner of this bout will be matched
against Champion Featherweight
George Dixon.
"Scaldy Bill' Quinn of Pottsville,
Pa, and Dick Baker of New York,
were scheduled for ten rounds at 154
pounds. Jack McKeik of New York
and Joe Elms (colored) of Boston, ten
rounds at lis pounds, were the third
attraction on the card.
The curtain-raiser was an eight
round mill between Martin Delaney Of
Long Island City and Jim Clare of
New York at 122 pounds. Brooklyn
Jimmie Carroll acted as referee.
Clare was awarded the decision over
Delaney in the eighth round. The bout
was stepped in order to prevent a
Knockout.
McKeik defeated Elms easily, get
ting the decision at the end of the
tenth round.
Baker and Quinn punished each other
severely from start to finish. HonorS
were about even. and the bout was de-
clared a draw.
The last and main fight of the night
was next in order. Tommy Dixon OF
St Paul, attended by Jack Sicily, Jack
Kenny, Jim Cunningham and Dobe
Harley, entered the ring, followed by
Johnny Lavack of Cleveland, with his
seconds, Mike Haley, John Reed and
Andy Hart The contest was spirited
from the beginning. The fist five
rounds were marked by hard hitting,
right and left both men landing freely
on face and body, and several cnnches'
occurring, but it could not be said that
either man had any advantage. IN
the sixth round, after exchanges OF
lefts on the face. Dixon put Sis left
on the face twice more, and then an
exchange of body blows followed. DIX
on bled Lavack's nose with hot left
drive and followed UP his advantage
by hitting Lavack's nose four times
with his left Hard hitting, during
which Lavack held his own, followed
in the seventh.
In the eighth Lavack sent his left
hand to Dixon's wind Dixon stagger-
ed Lavack with a heavy right swing
on the head.
In the ninth and tenth rounds honors
were about even, both men getting in
several hard ones. When the eleventh
opened, blood was oozing from Dix
on's mouth After exchanges on head
and body Lavack sent Dixon's head
back with a left on neck. Dixon did
the same a second later.
In the twelfth Dixon sent Lavack
spinning with a right swing on the
head and landed left on face. Dixon
upper-cut left on head and swung left
on back of head.
During the thirteenth and fourteenth
Dixon repeatedly landed left on nose
and right on body and Lavack was
unable to get back at him. The fiji
teenth, sixteenth and seventeenth
rounds were slightly in Dixon's favor,
and in the eighteenth and nineteenth
honors were even.
In the twentieth round both jabbed
lefts on face and Dixon upper-cut with
left on body. Dixon swung left on
head and sent a straight left to the
face. He swung right on head and La
yack let go with right and left on
head. Dixon jabbed left on face. La
vack swung right on head. Dixon
upper-cut with right on throat and
they were sparring when The bell end
ed the battle.
The referee decided in favor of Dix
on and the verdict was well received.