Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-12
finish contest. In that ev~lt he will con-
slider the proposition of the Olympic club"
DAN oRnEDoN GETS A DECISION.


NEW YORK, Dec. 1l.--At the Broadway
| Athletic club Dan Creodon of Australia out
| fought and out-pointed Dick O'Bren OF
Boston in nine rounds. From the begin
ming of the bout until the referee inter-
fcred and stopped the mill, when the ninth
round had nearly expired the work of both
men was very rapid, and they worked SO
hard that during the last three rounds one
good blow would have settled the contest.
Crcedon was undoubtedly the better man
and there was not a word of protest ut
tered when the referee gave his nat. There
were about $500 persons present in the
fIu5 & house i. to see , the mEht FrSlmiVYarE % vary
and Billy Whistler of Philadelphia, l2O-
Founders, SPARED ten hot rounds. Curry
got the decision, and a large majority of
mently.
OBrien was the first to make his appear
ance for the star event of the night lie
Mcbride "Scotty" Faulkner Tim McGrath
and Jack Burns, Crccdon followed him Il
minute later, csquired by Jem Mace, Solly
Smith and Benny Murphy. The men We're
announced to go twenty rounds at catch
weights. Both men showed the results of
faithful training. When they shook hands
at 9:io o'clock, Creedon easily had the adj
vantage of height and reach.
Round both opened with light lefts on
face. Then they mixed up with left jabs ON
face and rights on body. Creedou sent the
left to the head and body. OBrlcn landed
a left on the body. Creedon replied with
the left on the face. O'Bricn slammed
right, and left on the head and forced Cree
don back. After this he planted two good
lefts on the face without a return,
Round 2-They blocked cleverly until
O'Brien landed a right swing on the back
of the head. They then swung rights and
lefts on the face and neck without lctup
for half a minute. Neither man showed
any effects from this rapid work at the
call of time
Round S-o'Brien opened with left on
the, face and right on the neck. Creedon
a left IN hn
his left hard on the face and O'Brien did
the same. OBrien swung for the jaw, but
fell short, and Creedon placed his right
glove on the check Both jabbed lefts on
the face.
Round 4-Creedon opened with a left jab
on the face: ,0'Brien swung his right ON
head and jabbed left on ear. Creedon
landed heavy right on neck but the blow
did not stagger O'Brien. Crecdon uppercut
with the left on the neck, but O'Brien was
still ready for him. Creedon sent right on
the neck and his left on the wind. O'Brien
landed a left on face and swung n right
on neck.
In the nth, sixth seventh and eighth
rounds the fighting was fast Both men
landed often on face and body, but the
blows were ineffective. At the end of the
eighth both We're seemingly very tired and
a good blow would have finished either
Round 9-They ran into clnch at the
start. O'Bren landed a left on the face
and Creedon backed away He came back
with left swing on the neck. Dan put
thi W l'IlS Oh lHe lace ana u Irlen landed
left on the face. Creedon kept up a con-
stant smuggling with both hands on
0Brien's head and o'Brien leaned over
the Australian to avoid punishment. Dan
still kept smashing OBrien with both hands
on the head and face relentlessly. OBrien
was unable to defend himself and the ref
cree stopped the bout and awarded the
fight to Creedon after two minutes and
hftyIGight seconds of fighting in this round.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec 11.-Jack Ben
nett of Pittsburg defeated Charles Nc
Carthy in siX-round sparring match at
the tuxedo club, this city, last night Nc
Carthy tried again and again to land his
famous right-hand swings, but Bennett
very cleverly blocked all of them In the
fourth round Bennett scored clean knock
down and Mccarthy began to grow very
weak. The NTH and sixth rounds were hot
ones, Mccarthy landed some hard body
bIows. but Bennett was making a mark of
Macs face. In the sixth round Mac went
in with his old do-or-die gait, and hit the
Westerner n number of terrific body blows
The latter looked very tired, but it was
from the fast pace he cut himself for he
showed scarcely a mark. Both Judges
agreed on Bennett, and the opinion of the
majority was that Mccarthy had gone
back somewhat