The herald., 1897-11-19
THE sHARKEY-GoDDARD MILL
WAS VIEWED By POLICEMEN
AND USHERS
The Sailor Wins After an Unsatisfac-
tory Exhibition of Rough and
Tumble Scrapping
Associated Press Special Wire.

and Joe Goddard before the knlcker
booker club was not of special interes
to patrons of the ring in this city. Per
sistent rumors that the fight was fixed
together with a vivid recollection of the
methods by which Sharkey and his man
ager got away with $4,000 purse from
Titzsinmons, and the fact that Shark
ey's manager is also one of the proprie-
tors of the Knickerbocker club, prevent.
ed much betting. With those who did
risk their coin Sharkey was a 10 to
favorite.
And Sharkey won another question
able battle, his victim this time being
old Joe Goddard, the decrepit Barrier
champion. The fight. which was sched-
uled for twenty rounds, terminated In
the sixth, when Sharkey, after landing
stiff right on Goddard's jaw, rushed at
his man and knocked him to the floor,
literally by force of impact, falling
heavily upon him. Goddard's head
struck the canvass with an awful smSSh
which dazed him. He rose at the end
of three seconds and staggered to the
rope Referee Macarthur meantime hold
ing the excited sailor back. Amid great
confusion Macarthur awarded the fight
to Sharkey. The decision was just, but
Sharkey's victory is far from creditable,
it being the popular impression that
Goddard was hurt more by his collision
with the floor than from Sharkey' S
blows, which were at all times wild anu
miserably timed.
al. I, it,n a
of the projected fight was so slight that
q mere handful of spectators paid ad-
mission to the Mechanics pavilion
When time was called two small
wedges of humanity -culled from Shark
ey's partisans at Vallejo and Mare
island, huddled together on either side
of the gallery adjacent to the ringside
and family cheered the sailor. On the
main floor of the pavilion the ushers and
policemen almost outnumbered the Few
isolated occupants of the reserved seats
and boxes.
After looking after the house and
counting noses Goddard concluded that
it was not worth while to risk beating
for the meagre box receipts. The Aus
tralian was deaf to all entreaties. as
serting that he would not fight for glory.
Coward, coward" shouted the crowd.
The taunt was more than Goddard
could stand.
"I'll fight he shouted back. even
though l never set cent"
Sharkey was the first to appear, at
tended by his brother, Jack Sharkey,
Eddie Connolly and Spider" Kelly. He
was quickly followed by the Barrier
Nod he FTp6dV
Alexander Henry Baker and Jim Gal
lagher. Sharkey was apparently IN
his usual excellent condition, While God
dard looked drawn and low in flesh.
When time was called for the first
round the men came up and fiddled for a
few moments, Sharkey jumping about,
while Goddard waited for the sailor TO
lead. Finally Sharlley swung his right
catching Goddard squarely on the jaw
and the big Australian went down. Moth
ing was done for the remainder of the
round, Sharkey failing to take advan-
tage of his leads.
Before thirty second had expired Shar-
key put in another clean right and God
dard went down again. Joe made several
wild lunges at Sharkey, but the sailor
was quick in eluding him.
The second and third rounds were
series of wild rushes and cliches with
out any real fighting. In the fifth the
men did all kinds of fighting, a little
slugging and plenty of hugging, buttinS
and elbowing. The sailor was the
stronger and had little the better Of
the rough work.
The sixth round proved to be the last.
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u football player bucking the line. Cod
dard seemed disconnected at the sailors
tactics, and got the worst of the wrest-
ling. Finally in a rallNaa close quarters
Sharky landed q right somewhere on
Goddards features, and the big fellow
went down, his head striking the floor
with a resounding thump, Sharkey
tumbling on top of him. The sailor was
up quickly and waited for Goddard to
regain his feet. He was so much eX-
cited that the referee had to restrain
him from actually fouling Goddard be-
fore the latter had got up. Goddard was
plainly in no condition to continue his
fight, when, after several seconds, he
steadied himself with the aid of the
ropes and the referee very humanely
gave the decision to the sailor.
Like all Sharkey's fights, it was very
unsatisfactory affair. Goddard made a
poor showing and is not the man he
was few years ago, Sharky' methods
tonight were as unfair and rough as
could be tolerated without actually COM
mittng foul.
In the preliminary ten-round bout be-
tween Tom Lansing of Kentucky, form
nix yi1'' AIrCnN'G n
and Joe Kennedy of San Francisco,
Referee Bob Macarthur gave the decision
to Lansing in the sixth round because
of Kennedy's repeated foul blows.
Sheriff. Whelart today levied an attach
ment on the money deposited in the
First National bank by Danny Lynch.
the manager of Sharky, to secure the
payment of a claim due Marie O'Kane
for $S0.62, represented by>s judgment Sc
cured in New York court.
COMING MILLS
Peter jackson, the colored heavy
weight pugilist is now said to be likely
to secure a match with Choynsk in case
the latter succeeds in defeating JEFF
fries on the 30th inst. Choynski viii
leave Immediately for New Orleans after
his fight with Jeffries. as he is booked tc
spar Alexander Greggains ten rounds
before one of the boxing clubs of thai
city. This will not interfere with his
proposed contest with Jackson.
WALCOTT CHALLENGES
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 1S.-Thomas
C'Ttourke. manager of Joe Walcott, upon
hearing Sharkey's declaration, after the
fight tonight that he would meet any