The Portland daily press., 1897-05-20
SPORTS WERE PRESENT
At The Boxing Exhibition At Palace
Theatre.
STEVE TRAYERS AND ALLIE
BROWN FIGHT SIX ROUNDS.

Travers Had Best of 1t At First But Lewis
ton Man Took His Medicine Wei and
Bout Was Declared Draw-The Other
Bouts.
= The gentry assembled once more at the
Palace theatre last evening to witness a
boxing exhibition. 1t occurred after the
peroxide blondes and other vaudeville
artists had washed off their make ups and
abandoned the stage for the night, SO it
was after eleven O'Clock before the Eek
hibition' began.
A young lady with short hair had an
innings with piano, while the audience
was assembling and waiting for the bit
of Alpine scenery to roll away and dis
close the arena. She played her repertoire
of popular airs from beginning to end
and had commenced to work back
through the list when the curtain rolled
up and the referee introduced Charles
Cunning of Portland and colored
gentleman named sBrowning's Pic
cannie" as the first contestants. This was
a comedy in one act with Dunning in. a
minor role. Then occurred another long
wait while Billy Quinn of Portland and
Billy Mahoney of Lewiston were shedding
their every day costumes for trunks and
light shoes.
The young fellows were about the same
weight, but in the first round Quinn
showed himself by far the livelier. He
did about all of the leading and lodged
nearly all of the Lewiston mans blows.
Once in this round Mahoney succeeded in
landing heavily on Quinns neck, sending
the Portland youngster to the ropes. Then
occurred some more artful lodging on
Quinn's part until Mahoney got in left
hand swing and brought Quinn to his
knees. This ended the first round.
In the second round of this bout Quinn
delivered several heavy blows on the
Lewiston mans body and succeeded in
keeping out of his reach until the middle
of the round, when Mahoney got in an
other left hand swing and sent Quinn
once more to the ropes. Mahoney followed
up his advantage and got in two or three
staggering blows on Quinn in succession.
81 trying to dodge these Quinn stumbled
and fell down on his knees. Mahoney
fouled the Portland boy twice in sue
cession and Quinn left the ring in disgust;
amidst great excitement in the audience.
The referee awarded the bout to Quinn,
but Immediately afterwards withdrew his
decision and declared the bout draw
AS prelude to the event of the evening
Johnny and Mike Barry, two brothers
who are well known in Portland pugilistic
circles, boxed two rounds This was
somewhat of farce. as Mike was little
too much for his brother and made few
attempts to inf1ict punishment.
The final bout between Steve Travers
of Biddeford and Allie Brown of Lewis
ton was a very clever affair. Both men
were excellent boxers and the rounds were
all very lively.
Six rounds were boxed in all. In the
first round Travers delighted the audience
with the clever manner in which he held
off from the Lewiston mans drives.
Travers' guard was a regular stone wall
over which Brown could not reach while
the Biddeford man delivered many hard
body blows with telling effect.
In the second round Brown continued
to do about all the leading, but his wild
rushes at Travers failed to dem olish his
guard, and he only landed two blows on
the body during the entire round.
Travers upper cuts were continually
landed on Browns body, but the latter
stood the punishment we'll and continued
in his attempts to force Travers' guard
In the third round Travers clearly had
the best of it, and Brown received much
punishment. In the fifth round Travers
opened the ball by delivering three heavy
swings on Browns neck and head
Brown continued to force the Biddeford
mans guard and succeeded towards the
end of the round in getting in some very
effective body blows. Travers' head began
to show the effect of this punishment
when time was called.
The fifth round was rather tame
Travers' defense was not so effective and
many of Browns jabs at the body were
landed. But the Lewiston man began to
show the effects of the rapid work and
when time was called he seemed a little
groggy.
The sixth and last round was lively
Brown got through Trayers' guard at
last and three hard blows on the Bidde-
ford mans head seemed to daze him.
After that Brown had it his own way and
Travers was severely punished The
referee declared the bout a draw.
There were about two hundred present
at this exhibition and good order was
maintained.
LILLE kaIIMIHIPhI HOiIPE