The herald., 1896-10-31
A VERY SPORTY EVENING
Enjoyed at the Los Angeles
Athletic Club
BURKHARDT-DEMPSEY FIGHT
Declared Draw After Eighteen Rounds
oi Fast Fighting
Were Evenly Matched and Both Showed
Pluck and Grit-Several Other
Brisk Bouts.

Some capital boxing was witnessed at
the Athletic club last evening by a
! large attendance of members and ad-
mirers of the manly art. There was
not a slow moment throughout the two
and half hours sport provided. The
| event OF the evening was the meeting of
Young Dempsey and Jack Burkhardt,
who had already proved themselves
splendidly matched before the club
about month ago. Dempsey's science
| saved his bacon. for most of Burkhardt's
! blows were backed with tremendous
/ force, but Dempsey's clever counters
ana discreet lodging frequently render
| er them harmless The referee an
| nounced mo division" after fifteen
rounds ard the men came together for
| three more rounds. but without any 9TH
er verdict than draw being possible.
The preliminary bouts We're all inter-
esting. The first. between Jack Bed
rey of Vermont and Young Asavedo of
Los Angeles, four rounds, proved the
latter to be the master. Asavedo has a
| tremendous if not very scientific right
hand overswing. Bedney went to the
floor in both the second and third rounds
and was on his knees when time was
called. In the fourth round some of the
spectators INDUCED in kissing, which
caused Walter McStay who refereed the
preliminary bouts, to very properly stop
the 60
Henry Slater of New Orleans. lad of
very likely build. and Young Sullivan
of Los Angeles, who lays claim to the
lightweight championship of Arizona,
then came together. Sullivan's style is
somewhat eccentric, but he is clever and
quick in lodging and parrying, his
blows, however. are of the featherweight
variety. He was in poor training and
the end of the fourth round came none
too quick for him.
The siX-round go between Aurelio
Herrera of Bakersfield and Mike Thorn
ton of San Pedro for the featherweight
championship of Southern California
excited a great deal of interest. Both
boyF had met and knocked out Joe
Welch, formerly the pride of the local
fancy. Herrera has improved very much
since his last appearance before the
club, and with more good training will
make a formidable antagonist for any
man of his weight After a long spar
the Mexican got in three terrific swings
but young Thornton remained undaunt-
ed In the second round the San Pedro
lad landed several times but there was
too much "telegraphing' about his at
tack. The third round was somewhat
tame. only couple of blows of any con-
sequence being exchanged. Herrera
landed with his left with a very heavy
overland swing, which he promises to
develop into as effective blow as the
undercut which was Welch's undoing.
| Thornton mixed up in the fight and
| showed any amount of pluck, if some
what wild in his attack. The sixth
! showed some very fast lighting, Thorn
ton taking his punishment nobly and
| coming in with big rushes. The result
| was declared draw.
/ Young Dempsey and Jack Burkhardt
came into the ring both looking in tine
best of trim, and a dead even match at
135 pounds. Jim Winston was appointed
referee ard the preliminaries settled,
| the men got to work shortly after lU
o'clock. The gamest battle ever wit
messed in Los Angeles ensued for the
next hour and three minutes. 1t was the
| evenest sort of a match throughout
| Dempsey's superior science and remark
able activity were the equal of Burk-
| hardt's heavy blows and durance.
| The first round was very lively bout
! and anticipated the fast fighting that
| was characteristic of the match. Burk-
| hardt forced the fighting and kept
| Dempsey dancing and ducking. In this
and the second round Bukhardt got in
some stinging blows. In the third Demp-
sey landed several times on Burkhardt's
nose with left-handers straight from the
| shoulder. Some very close miX-ups fol-
| lowed ard Burkhardt twice drove his
| adversary to his corner. The fourth
| showed some exceedingly lively scrap
| ping. Dempsey stood his ground well
! but grew a tritle groggy from the force
of such OF Burkhadrt's punches as land
ed. In the fifth Dempsey had the better
! of it by his clever cross-counters. The
sixth saw Burkhardt again driving
| Dempsey to the ropes. In the eight
! Dempsey sent Burkhardt to his knees
! but at the call of time honors were fairly
divided. Dempsey landed corker in
| the ninth and escaped any heavy pun
! ishment by his clever ducking and
| speediness on his feet. There was some
! warm infighting in the tenth and vicious
thrusts from Burkhardt got home. In
| the eleventh both men showed caution
but there was more hot infighting be-
fore the round closed The twelfth saw
Gallagher's pupil on the defensive at
| round. The thirteenth was uneventful
and in the fourteenth there was very
brisk interchange of heavy punches. The
fifteenth saw Burkhardt endeavoring
to force the fight to finish but young
| Dempsey was still active in his escape.
The referee announced mo decision and
three more rounds"
In the sixteenth both men stood heavy
punishment well. In the seventeenth
! Dempsey avoided punishment by clever
duCking and the round was uneventful
The eighteenth and last was very hot
| wind-up, although Burkhardt began to
frequent but the only decision at the call
of time was "a draw" Both men were
loudly applauded for the very plucky
exhibition,