The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-27
EIGHTEEN ROUNDS OF HARD
FIGHTING WITNESSED AT
SAN FRANCISCO.
THE BEATEN MAN WAS GAME,
KNOCKED DOWN REPEATEDLY
THE CALIFORNIAN KEPT COM
ING UP FOR MORE.
wALcoTT HAD HIS HANDS FULL.
In Effect the Match Was for the
WeIterweight Championship
Great Interest Taken.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Aug. 26-No
attraction in the pugilist line since the
Fitzsimmons-Shar fiasco in this city
last November has caused so much
commotion among the patrons of the
ring as the meeting tonight of George
Green and Joe Walcott. The fight was
practically a championship affair.
Green has been acknowledged to be at
the head of his class since Tommy
Ryan has outgrown the welters and is
now taking on middlewe1ghts. Green's
victory over Mysterious Billy Smith at
Carson last March, after Smith had
given Ryan such a close call in New
York a few months previous, placed him
second to Ryan among the welter-
weights. Walcott's well known record
as a hurricane fighter and his long
string of victories in the East led the
public to believe that a memorable con-
test would be the outcome of the meet
ing. Woodward's pavilion, holding 1000
people, was damned to the doors The
betting tonight was 10 to 71a in Green's
favor. Jack Wilson acted as referee.
Application was made to Police Judges
Lowe and Wallace today by Jacob Hal
pin for a warrant for the arrest of the
principals, but both refused to issue
them.
The fight from the time the men
were called up was one of the fastest
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
utterly a nd
guarding against the sturdy little col
ored mans rushes. Green is essen
tally body fighter, but tonight he
did not land half a dozen good body
punches during the entire eighteen
rounds. Walcott took his opponents
light LEFT hand jabs with smiles and
paid him back with right cross-coun-
tiers on the head and jaw. Green
fought against time after the sixth
round. 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 minutes fight
Ing Walcott landed a right and left
on Green's jaw and a clinch followed.
With we'll directed head blow on the
Jaw Walcott knocked the Californian
through the ropes in the negro's cor
ner. Tom O'ROurke held Green I'D
with his foot on the ring platform until
he was taken out. Green was carried
to his dressing room by his seconds.
From the first to the sixth round the
fighting was fast and furious, Walcott
rushing and Green avoiding his blows
and occasionally putting in a 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, Waleott knocked Green down
tnree times and Green oily saved himself by
cl1nching and going down. However, Green
came up fresh and strong and stood WaIcott
OFF during the seventh, in spite of the negro's
rushing efforts to put him out. In the eighth
ieft, landing nearly every time. Green
fought back but was apparently no match
1 tor his more able opponent. Green saved
himself frequtntiy by cIinehing
In the ninth Waleott again tried to finish
the Californian, but Green fought back and
when he got in a stiff body blow the crowd
yelled with delight, Walcott landed swing
ing left on the jaw, but George stood up and
delivered 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
ana landed right cross on the jaw. Green
dropped, but got up in time. Then George
In time. third time Walcott sent him
down and third time Green staggered to his
feet, all the while Green was receiving fear
full punishment. He was on his feet when
the round closed.
In the eleventh round Green got up some
what revived, and got in a right over Wal
colts heart. The negro kept at Green con-
stantly, but George kept out of harms way
Walcott swung right and left on the jaw but
Green kept his feet. Walcott eased up bit
in this round
him to recuperate rapidly, and he came I'D
briskly, only to receive a right on the law
that shook him up. George swung his left
couple of times but missed. WaIcott went in
to finish him, but could not land the deciding
blow.
In the thirteenth Wa,eott went at his man
like cyclone, and delivered his blows with
wonderful rapidty. Green got in left
swing on Joe's stomach, his first effective
blow of the fight. He landed several good
ones. Green's round. The crowd went wild
with delight at Green's wonderful exhibition
of gameness. In the fourteenth Walcott
rushed as usual, but Green stood him off
with stiff lefts on the stomach. Green's right
eye was closed, but he fought gamely Green
played for WaIcott's body and took some
of the steam out of his antagonist
In the fifteenth, Waleott went after his
man and landed several times, and Green re-
taIiated with a right over the heart Wal
colts favorite blow a right cross on the
Jaw. and his short-arm jolts did great dam
age.
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.
Walcott was now considered a sure winner
when the seventeenth round opened, and the
crowd began to melt away. The negro could
not knock out his man, and. beaten he was
Green fought viciously. A left on the jaw
staggered Walcott, and there was howl of
delight in the benches.
In round eighteen, Walcott's mitigating
during the c.inches was very damaging. He
landed a 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 succession of jolts on
the jaw. Green was carried from the ring
and it was several minutes be-
fore he recovered consciousness.