The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-12
POLICE PUT A STOP
TO THE BATTLE
Leonard and Judge We're Fighting
ViciousIy When Officers IE:erfered.
CROWD WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED
Their Appetite Had Been Whetted fCr
a Real Punching Match When CtAef
Kobiing Entered Ring aud stopped
the Argument..Two Exhibitions
Preceded the Go Of the Evening.


fifty cents apiece according to the To-
cation Of their seats. to see the judge
Leonard fight at Music Hall, saturday
night. and but for the intervention or
the police they would have gotten thelr
moneys worth The men meant Dusi-
ness and went at one another hammer
and tongS fashion, so viciously. in 1act.
that Chief Robling's judgment told nm
IL was not a scientific bout for points,
as he had been given to understand,
and after warning them once he put
stop to the slugging by threatening
them with immediate arrest II II was
persisted in. After short consulta-
tion the fighters agreed to quit and for
the six remaining rounds there was the
worst kind of horse play, to the accom-
paniment of Kisses. jeers and angry
denuncia tiOns from the crowd.
The crowds disappointment was all
the more keen because it had been
nieasurably disappointed in the char
acter of the go" The tip had heen
passed around that it was 20 be battle
for blood. but this announcement was
taken with a grain of salt. because or
the number of fiZZles to which local
admirers of the manly art have been
treated, after the promise of really
truly mills The first round had not
heeen on two minutes before 1t was
seen that the men were there to fight.
Then the crowd was in great glee.
They were to see what had oft been
promised, but never given, genuine
punching match. When, after enough
had been seen to fairly whet their ap-
petites. II can he readily imagined how
disappointed the crowd was at the in
tervention of the coppers.
THERE WE'RE TWO OBJECTS.
The primary object of the meeting
was 10 catch the coin of the holiday
crowd that was in the city Saturday.
secondly, each of the men wanted to
prove to the sporting world that he was
better than the other and thereby put
themselves in the way of an invitation
to do turn before some of the metro
politan clubs. Both are candidates for
the first rank among light weights and
each had to get there over the van
Uuished form of his opponent or not
get there at all. They We're therefore
on hand for business, each determined
to finish off their undecided six round
argument at the rockingham, two
years ago.
They entered the ring at catch
weight. Judge weighed IA pounds to
1.eonard's 1856 The local man also had
the advantage in height, standing S
feeet inches as against the feet 6
inches OF Leonard. 1t was 10. 30 o'clock
when the preliminaries were over.
Mike keeeley was chosen referee and
James j. Coleman time-Keeper Harry
Tuthill. Leonard's trainer who IL also
the trainer of Griffo and number of
other light weights, handled the
Beau" His manager. F. c. Albright,
was also in his corner. Judge had r.
j. Hopkins and Patrick Murphy behind
him. The referee called the men to the
center and gave them brief talking
to. afterwhich Chief Robling called
them over the ropes and cautioned
them against slugging.
The frst round was nearly all taken
NJ with surveying. Towards the end,
however. they exchanged a few clean
blows and got tangled up several
times. Judge drew blood from Leon
ards lip with straight right hand
lead.
Leonard forced the fighting in the
second, rushing at Judge and using
his forearm and elbows quite as much
as his mitts. Judge, however would
stop the inhghting with a clinch and
then pay back his shorter opponent
with interest when the long arm work
began again. Twice Judge caught
Leonard as he was closing in and
gave him vicious thumps about the
face.
Judge was growing confident and
aggressive and was clearly besting the
New Yorker. AS the round was draw
ing to u close Judge with his back al
most against the ropes stopped one
of Leonard's' rushes and was fighting
him off in good style, when Chief
Robling jumped into the ring and Or
dered the men to quit. Both smiled at
the chief as much as to say "why this
inc fam, l..x ll,,,. T.,
way and told them 50. On their promise
to tone it down little he agreed to let
them finish the eight rounds. The
third round started out as nervOusly
as the preceding one hand ended and
sad very fairly begun. when the po-
lice rushed in and stopped them. There
was general hubhub and after Il few
minutes wrangling the fight was de-
clared off. For the remaining six
rounds there wasn't a blow struck the
men merely ducking and tapping each
other playfully, Leonard occasionally
giving the referee and Chief Robling
rap. Leonard made a speech saying
he was willing to fight Judge for any
amount at any time and Judge made
like announcement.
There was curtain raiser of three
rounds between Thomas Gardner and
John p. BOland, two local Bantams and
a similar set-to between John Tighe
of this city and Mich2el Gibbons, Of
l'ittston. in which Tighe did as he
liked with the Pittstonian, although
the latter is a bigger man.
Outside of the stage show, there was
a laughable entertainment provyided
by the crowd. which kept up a cS,tinu-
al run of cOmical sallies, expressive of
impatience or disgust as the occasion
demanded. A Wilkes Barre buck"