The San Francisco call., 1897-07-24

| ond round. 1t opened with clinch, and
when the lads broke apart Dixon came
| back with rush, but was neatly blocked.
| Hawkins then tried to land that famous
left hook OF his, but Dixon was on the
alert and cleverly headed 1t off with his
| elbow.
Hawkins then drove his man to the
ropes and landed a good left on the
| mouth, but when he tried to follow 1t up
with another he missed awkwardly, ana
II was only his good luck that saved him
from return that would have made rou-
Bile Tor him. They Indulged IN little
sparring, and then Dixon rushed and
landed savage right jolt over Hawkins
heart. This round was about even.
80 were the third, fourth, fifth and
sixth. The same tactics were followed by
both men right along, and neither were
damaged to any grave extent, although
both were landing hard and often. In
the seventh Hawkins distinguished him.
sell. He stopped Dixon's initial rush
win sharp rap on the nose and i'm me-
| dlately caught him another, this time
flush on the cheek, blow that for the
| moment staggered the stranger.
Dixon was against the ropes several
times during the round, but was fighting
all the while and was rot at all daunted
| by the roars OF applause and encourage
ment that went up for the San Franciscan.
ra D on the jaw that reminded him that
there was more than one man in the fight.
But it was Hawkins round, nevertheless,
Dixon returned to his rushes and drives
for the jaw in the eighth and ninth
rounds and more than evened up the
score for his losses in the seventh. He
landed on Hawkins repeatedly, and, while
the blows were not OF the disastrous kind,
still they hurt and kept Hawkins on the
defensive.
Then Hawkins had another inning in
the eleventh round, landing severa
vicious body blows on his opponent and
causing him to grunt again and look dis
tressed.
Honors continued about even from this
time on until the nineteenth round. when
Hawkins again took the ead for awhile.
1t was fast and hot fighting all along
toward the close, with Dixon continually
rushing, shifting and clInching and Haw-
kips countering on the head and body
and waiting for decisive blow-the blow,
though, that never came.
The last round was of the cvclonic Or
der. The boxers shook hands before they
engaged in the final collision, and then
they went at it hammer and tongs.
Hawkins assumed the aggressive and
landed sharp lett upon the colored lads
cheek that sent his head back.
Dixon came back with an ugly left
swing for the head, but missed. The San
Franciscan took advantage of this slip
and shot his left into the Boston boys
mouth, drawing the blood again. The
crowd was now nearly wild with excite
ment.
Naturally the bulk of the attendance
was enthusiastic for the local man, but
there were plenty of howlers there for the
dusky little visitor. Dixon spat the blood
out of his mouth and rushed Hawkins to
. l. -
ever, for Hawkins countered him on the
nose.
Dixon would not be denied and rushed
again. this time placing lightning lett
upon Hawkins right ear. Hawkins then
took lurn at rushing; swinging both lett
and right, but landing only the former.
Dixon was looking serious and was
plainly worrying about the possibilities
of the decision. He rushed desperately
at his opponent, landing twice on the
head and once on the body-all three of
them wicked blows.
Hawkins took the humping gamely
and returned to the assault with a series
of lett swings. Just as the gong sounded
at the end of the fight he popped one of
them on Dixon's mouth.
you are good little man." said Tom
O Rourke when Hawkins stepped across
the ring to shake hands with Dixon.
The decision OF a draw gave universal
satisfaction.
While the preliminaries were going on
there was 3 heated wrangle in Dixon's
dressing-room between the principals of
the great feather-welght battle.
1t appears that Dixon wanted to follow
the out-and-out Queensberry rules as they
We're interpreted by Referee George Siler-
that is, permitting hitting i'll the cnnches,
whereas Hawkins and his hackers argued
for fair" break. The latter style was
finally agreed to.
The first "real thing" of the evening
was what was billed to be a fifteen-round
contest between George Allen OF Australia
and Billy Elmer, the actor pugiIist.
1t shouldn't ave happened. Certainly
nothing easier than Allen could have been
picked up without calling at the old SOL
diers' home.
The diagnosing doctor proclaimed that
he could find no ''weak spots" in the
Australians Antony, but it only took
Elmer l minute and L seconds TO find
several of those kind of spots.
In short the actor only let out four blows
and didn't have to draw upon his reserve
stock.
The second of these laid Allen out on
the resin for eight seconds and the last
finished him. 1t was easy money for
Elmer. Alien had no business in the ring.