The San Francisco call., 1896-05-02
GREEN WAS AGGRESSIVE
Given the Victory Over Zeigler
on That One Point
Alone

George Green and Owen H. Zeigler were
the star artists at the physical-culture ex-
hibition at the Mechanics Pavilion last
evening. The former was given q favorable
decision in the ten-round contest because
of his aggressiveness. 1T was agreed when
the men entered the ring that the most
aggressive fighter should wear the laurels
OF battle. Zeigler made a splendid show
ing, and had many admirers among the
great throng.
The exhibition was in every way
success. There were four contests on
the card and all satisfactory. AL King
acted as referee in all the events
Jack Burdett acted as time-keeper for
the club and Sam Hughes held the watch
for ZeigIer, while Jack Welch did q like
service for the young Californian.
Joe Choynski. Hugh Kennedy and Car
keek were behind the Philadelphia youth
and Bob Macarthur, Frank Foster ana Alex
Greggains looked after Green's corner.
The betting was 10 to in favor of Zeigler.
The first round opened with both men
feeling for an opening. Zeigler showed
poor Judgment in measuring distances as
all his blows were short. The round was
tame.
Zeigler had slight advantage at the
close of the second round. He landed on
Green's eye at the opening and smashed
him twice in the face, and Green tapped
his opponent lightly on the eye and was
| careful not to get in the way of Zeieler's
| swinging right. Green's eye was bleeding.
Green seemed to wake up in the third
| round and forced the fighting. He fol-
lowed Zeigler to the ropes and kept him
pretty much on the run. Zeigler got in a
clean uppercut and landed several times
| lightly on Green's face. but the latter re-
taliated severely and when time was allied
| In the fourth round Zeigler had lost much
| of his gayety.
| Green reached Zeigler's wind several
| times in this round and inflicted severe
punishment on his antagonist.
Zeigler, on the other hand, jabbed Green
with his left several times, and honors
were about even when time was called.
The hghtlng was nearly even in the
fifth, sixth and seventh rounds, Green
playing for Zeigler's heart, while the latter
effectively wo led his wicked left.
There was some heavy fighting in the
eighth round, Green almost flooring
Zeigler twice. The fighting on boht sides
was spirited. Green was the aggressor
| have been fouled, but it was not allowed
and the round closed in Green's favor,
amid tremendous cheering and kissing.
The ninth round was uneventful. Both
men showed weakness. There was a no.
| ticeable lack of force to their blows.
In the tenth and last round Green was
groggy and Zeigler landed at will, having
much the best of the round and being the
fresher of the two men when time was
called.
| The decision of the referee was at once
| announced, but it was not unanimously
approved by the spectators.
| J. Reilly and j. Sullivan entertained the
audience with an excellent exhibition.
They entered the ring at 119 pounds. 1t
was one of the best contests of the even
ing. The decision was fairly won by Sulli-
van.
| Dal Hawkins of California and ]. A.
Mckinley of Australia fought from the
start. Hawkins had everything his own
way. The Californian was in every way
superior and led MCKINLEY pace he could
not follow.
In the fourth round Hawkins knocked
mckinley down three times in succession,
and punished the Australian so hard that
the crowd would have been glad to have
had the fight stopped. McGinley, how
ever, showed good grit. He was knocked
out in the sixth.
T. Van Buskirk and w. g.. Walker.
heavy-weights, amused the multitude by
the manner in which they slogged each
other. Van Buskirk won in the second
round.