The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-27
WHIPPED BY WALCOTT
GEORGE GREEN KNOCKED OUT IN
THE EIGHTEENTH ROUND.
Furious, but Rather One-Sided, Fight
at San FranciscO-BlOOdy" Mill"
at Greenfield, Ind.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26-Joe Walcott
knocked out George Green in the eighteenth
round tonight after one of the fastest
fights ever seen in San Francisco. 1t was
rather one-sided however, Walcott leading
in every round, with perhaps the exception
of the second and twelfth. Green showed
none of his old-time dash and vim and
seemed to be utterly at sea in meeting and
guarding against the sturdy little coOred
mans rushes. Green is essentially body
fighter, but tonight he, did not land
half a dozen good body punches
during the entire eighteen rounds. Walcott
took his opponents left-hand jabs with
smiles and paid him back with right cross
counters on the head and jaw. Green fought
against time. Several times he was groggy
and hung to the colored man in the
clinches. The eighteenth opened up about
the same as the half-dozen preceding
rounds. After about a minutes fighting
Walcott landed right and left on Green's
jaw and a clinch followed. In the break
Walcott brought his right across and
knocked Green up against the ropes in
Walcott's corner, helpless with his hands
down. With a well-directed right-hand blow
on the jaw, Walcott knocked the Calfor
MAN through the ropes into the negro
his foot on the ring platform until he was
taken out. Green was carried to his dress
ing room by his seconds.
From the first to the sixth rounds the
fighting was fast and furious, Walcott rush
ing and Green avoiding his blows and oc
casionally putting in body blow or a jab
in the face with his left No damage to
either had been done when the sixth round
opened
In the sixth Walcott knocked Green down
three times and Green only saved himself
by clinching and going down. However,
Green came up fresh and strong and stood
Walcott off during the seventh in spite of
the Negroes rushing efforts to put him out
In the eighth round WalcOtt went at his
man right and left, landing nearly every
time. Green fought back, but was appar-
emily no match for his more able oppo-
nent. Green saved himself frequently by
clinching.
In the ninth Walcott again tried to fin
ish the Californian, but Green fought back
and when he got in a stiff body blow the
crowd yelled with delight. Walcott landed
a swinging left on the jaw, but George
stood up and delivered a rib rooster with
his right over the heart and the round
closed with Green in better condition. The
tenth opened with rush by Walcott, but
Green punched the negro in the stomach
and stopped him. WalcOtt kept at his man
and landed right cross on the jaw. Green
dropped but got up in time. Then George
went down again, but was once more. up
in time. A third time Walcott sent him
down and third time Green staggered to
his feet. All the while Green was receiv-
ing fearful punishment. He was on his feet
when the round closed.
In the eleventh round Green got up some
what revived and got in right over Wal
constantly, but George kept out of harms
way. Walcott swung right and left on the
jaw, but Green kept his feet. Waleott
Green's good condition enabled him TO re-
cuperate rapidly and he came up briskly,
only to receive a right on the jaw that
shook him George his left q
couple of times, but missed. Walcott went
in to finish him, but could not land the de-
Gliding blow
In the thirteenth Walcott went at his man
like a cyclone, delivering his blows with
wonderful rapidly. Green got in a left
blow of the fight He landed several good
ones Green's round. The crowd went wild
with delight at Green's wonderful exhibit
In the fourteenth Walcott rushed as usual,
but Green stood him off with stiff leads in
the stomach. Green's right eye was closed,
but he fought gamely. Green played for
Walcott's body and took some Of the steam
out of his antagonist. In the next round
WalcOtt went after his man and landed
right over the heart. Walcott's favorite
blow was a right cross on the jaw, and his
short-arm jolts did great damage.
Walcott went in to finish his man in the
sixteenth and rushed him into the corner
Green was tired and could not keep away
Green landed occasionally but could do no
harm. At the opening of the seventeenth
Walcott was considered a sure winner and
the crowd began to melt away. The negro
could not knock his man out and, beaten
as he was, Green fought viciously. A lead
on the jaw staggered Walcott and there
was howl of delight in the benches.
Walcotts inighting during the clinches
was very damaging. In the eighteenth he
landed q short arm right and staggered
Green. Another on the jaw sent Green to
the floor for eight seconds. Green got up
grOggy and Walcott knocked him against
the ropes and put him out with a succession
1F ir1f he Snx a~v~fZ1
from the ring unconscious and it sew
eral minutes before he regained conscious