The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-21
FLAHERTY AND ERNIE.
They Fought Bloody Battle in New
York Last Night.

New York, Feb. 20.-Martin Flaherty
of Lowell, Mass, defeated Frank Erne
of Buffalo in a 20-round bout at the
New York Athletic club tonight. Erne
put I'D a game battle under tremen-
dous difficulties, as his left eye was
cut open in the fourth round and bled
in a terrible manner all through the
fight Flaherty was the aggressor and
had not mark to show at the finish.
In the Lowell man Erne met harder
game than he had even with Dixon.
The spacious gymnasium of the club
was crowded to the very doors when
the opening bout, set for ten rounds al
III pounds, between Bobby Wilson OF
Jersey City and Frank Smith of Call
fornia, was put on The judges were
c. Coster and E. w. Kearney of the
New York Athletic club and the
referee was Arthur Moore OF the New
York Athletic club.
Wilson had his man practically out
in the seventh round. The referee
stopped the bout after two minutes and
fifty seconds, giving Wilson the decis-
ion. Smith sprained his ankle badly
going down under a right swing and
had to be carried from the ring.
The second pair-Joe Youngs of Buff
falo and Johnny Hannigan of Pitts
burg-were announced to box ten
rounds at 122 pounds. Youngs had the
best of the bout throughout, but Han
nigan put up a game fight. Youngs
had him groggy for the last three
rounds, but was too tired to put the
Pittsburg boy to sleep and the latter
kept on his feet to the finish The
Judges agreed on Youngs as the win
ner.
Erne and Flaherty got into the ring
at 1920. They had weighed in at 125
pounds. Erne had the best os the
opening round, but his blows were
light. Erne put a stiff left on the
body and crossed right TO the jaw, in
the third. He met Flaherty's ruShes
with both hands, and had the best of
the round. Erne ran into a hard right
on the eye, cutting it, and they had
fierce miX-up.
In the next Erne put hard swings on
the body and got away cleverly.
Flaherty had a trifie the best of the
fifth with a couple of hard swings
that shook Erne up. Flaherty chased
his man to the ropes in the sixth and
planted a left on the nose that drew
blood.
The seventh was also Flaherty':
round. He put a hard right on the
mouth, drawing blood, and just as the
bell rang. shot left to the eye, cut
King it afresh.
Erne opened the eighth with a great
rush and landed right and left
Flaherty sent a terrible left hook to
the bad eye, but the Buffalo boy came
back with a couple of hard swings,
and honors were fairly even.
Flaherty made a mark of the bad
eye in the ninth and Erne was covered
with gore.
A couple of heavy swings to Erne's
left ear in the eleventh made that
member add to the supply of blood
He countered Flaherty sharply twice;
but the Lowell man had all the best
of the work
Erne rushed in with a storm of blows
on the body and head in the four
teenth, but the Lowell lad clinched
and then forced Frank to the ropes
In the sixteenth Flaherty landed with
terrible force five times on the dam
aged eye and on the jaw, and Frank
was very near Queer street when the
bell rang.
Flaherty put an awful left on the
good eye in the seventeenth and had
Frank badly punished, but just as
the bell rang Frank sent in a right and
left that floored Flaherty, who was
caught unprepared.
The nineteenth was all in Flaherty's
favor. IN the last round Erne stayed
on the defensive until the bell rang,
without any further damage. Thu
judges agreed on Flaherty as the win
ner, and the decision was received with
applause.