The San Francisco call., 1897-03-25
Champion George Dixon
Wins the Decision From
Frank Erne.
Colored Lad Cuts Out the Pace
All Through Twenty.
Four Rounds.
It is Give AMI Take in the Wind
Up-Erne Over Weight, and
Forfeits $500.

Erne of Buffalo met George Dixon, the
coIored feather weight champion, for the
second time at the Broadway Athletic
Club tonight. Dixon got the decision
without the shadow of cavil. Dixon was
himself tonight and he did all the lead
inc up to the twenty first round. Erne
stayed away and scarcely landed three
good blows until the twenty-first round.
Dixon fought differently from his
usual style. He was more cautious and
tried hard to get Erne TO lead, but the
Buffalo lad appeared afraid and sluggish
and he kept strictly away until after the
twentieth round. Then he made des-
perate effort to knock his man out, but
failed utterly.
The preliminary was to have been q
twelve-round bout between two colored
middie-weights. Lon Beckwith OF Cleve-
land and George Beyers of Boston, but
Beyers had his man groggy after two
minutes and eight seconds of the fifth
round and the referee stopped the bout.
There were 1000 spectatos present when
Erne and Dixon appeared. Dixon
weighed 121Z pounds and Erne scaled
1901 when they were weighed at noon to-
day. Tom O. Rourke wanted to call the
match off, but Dixon wished to fight and
Erne forfeited $500. The betting was
even. Dixon's seconds were Tom
ORourke, Joe Elms and Charley Miner,
while Erne was looked after by Brook
Sam CalIaghan.
Before tho men shook hands Tom
ORourke addressed the spectators and
declared, as manager of the club. that all
bets were off, as Erne was over weight,
but the referee announced that all bets
made after the weights were declared
stoOo.
There was little work done in the first
round. After a minutes sparring Dixon s
left found the eye, Erne countering on the
body. More sparring followed and George
led again, but Erne clinched. Erne's left
reached the jaw lightly in the second,
George countering on the heart.
George opened tue third with left over
the ear and moment later sent the left
hard on the nose and had the best of the
fighting that followed. Dixon rushed, but
was stopped with left on the body. Erne
swung left on the jaw, George counter
ing hard on the wind. Just as the bell
rang George sent a hard right on the
nose.
In the fourth George sent his left strong
on the nose and repeated it a moment
later. After lot of sparring George shot
his left TO the jaw. Erne stopped q hard
swing cleverly and they were sparring
when the bell rang.
George was fighting cautiously, but
doing ali the leading. Dixon knocked his
mans head clear back with left in the
i,fth and then put right and left on both
sides of the jaw. Dixon waited for Erne
to lead, but he would not, and then
George hammered him on the jaw and
body. Erne warmed up toward the close
and put a couple of straight lefts on
Dixon's face.
sive with light left, after which he
smashed right on the BODY and followed
with left hook on the neck. Then
George smashed straight left on the
face and repeated it a moment later, Erne
countering on the body. Dixon kept
cutting out the pace in the seventh and
did ali the work. Both tried swinging in
the eighth, but were wild. Dixon used
good straight left with effect and punished
his man on the wind.
Erne's left found the chin with great
force in the ninth. Dixon put hard lett
on the wind and swung his right to the
face. Erne led twice in the tenth but was
short on the first and the second went over
Georges head. The eleventh was mainly
devoted to sparring.
Dixon was bit careless on the opening
of the twelfth and just escaped fearful
swing for the jaw. The blow just grazed
and nearly staggered George. The colored
boy came back with telling force on the
body. Erne put good right on the body,
but Dixon retaliated with hard left on
the body and then came again with his
left on the jaw. Both were fresh when
the bell sounded half the journey.
George cut loose in the thirteenth round
ana landed a shower OF blows on body
and Jaw. Erne countered on the nose,
and after q mix-up George sent fearful
right on the pit of the stomach that
nearly doubled Erne up. The round was
all Dlxon's.
Dixon got right to work in the four
teenth with right and left on head and
body. Then George staggered his man
with a left flush on the face.
Erne met rush with hard one on the
mouth in the fifteenth, ana then Frank
shot left in for right on the neck. Dix
on shot hot left to the neck in the six