The times., 1897-08-31
BATTLE OF LIGHT WEIGHTS
Jack Eyerhardt and Kid McPart.
land Meet in New Orleans.
DRAW AFTER TWENTY ROUNDS
Mcfarland Takes the Lead Early
In the Fight and Does All the
Rushing After the Fifth Round
Vast Crowd in Attendance
The Management Bad.

New Orleans, Aug. 30.-The fight be-
tween jack Everhardt, of New Orleans, and
Kid Mcfarland, OF New York, before the
st. Bernard Athletic Club tonight was
witness ed by ten or twelve thousand per
sons. Tne arena of the club stands in st.
Bernard parish, just below the New Or
leans line, SO as to avoid any interference
by the city police.
The fight was for twenty rounds. u
was declared draw. Such all immense
crowd poured into the building that it
began to creak and settle, and TO look
as though it would fall In, and number
OF persons, believing it unsafe, left An
iInmense crowd of 5000, who could not
get in, stood in the street outside, and
prevented ingress or eGress to the build
ing. In consequence of the crowd and
the confusion, the fight did not begin
until an hour after the time scheduled.
Professor Duffy, who refereed The tights
before the Olympic, was chosen referee and
a. z. MarmengeL timer.
Everhardts corner men were Sutherland,
Pick, Charles Everhardt Professor Wallace
and Dave Casey, timekeeper Mozart
lands seconds We're Herman, Dousnerty
and Dunn, and Billy Chrisuand, time
keeper.
The Two men entered the arena about
1O:40 They watched each other for an
opening, but did little fighting. Ever
hardU had slightly the advantage and
forced tie fighting, getting in two good
body blows Two Of the beams OF the
building bro ke during the round, the noise
causing Ianic in the crowd, and 500
people ran out, but no one was hurt.
In the second round honors were about
even, there being good deal of sparring
and no heavy blows struck.
In the third round the men mixed it up,
andit was hot TOR time. Mcfarland took
the lead and drove Jack into his corner.
rushing him. Jack recovered his wind and
landed right and left on the Kids cheak
and rushed him To the end OF the round
which was decidedly in Jacks favor.
The fourth round was about evenly
divided, but Everbardt began to show signs
of being winded.
In the fifth Mcfarland forced the fight
and got in uumter of heavy blow on the
| neck and chest. Everhardt began 10 look
a little groggy.
The next round was still more in the
New Workers. favor. He landed right AMI
left on Jack and the latter clinched TO avoid
punishment.
Seventh round MCFARLAND, sun well
in the lead, gave Jack several hard punches
In the stomach Jack tried to land on
the head, but failed
Eighth round McP artland landed fire.
quently on Jacks stomach. The latter
showed the effects OF the punish hment and
did little fighting, trying to keep out Of
the way of his opponent.
Ninth round McP artIand kept Everhardt
going, tie latter clinching to avoid punis
ment.
Tenth round-The same tactics were fol
lowed. Mcfarland stnl punching Ever
harlG.
The thirteenth, fourt eenth, fifteenth and
siXteenths rounds were about the same,
Mcfarland doing all the fighting.
In the seventeenth, Everhardt rallied a
bit, and got in a couple of blows on
McPartland's cheek.
Nineteenth round-McPartIand knocked
Jack down; Everhardt came up and
knocked down his antagonist with a neat
! right handler.
Twentieth round-McP artland did all the
fighting.
The fight was declared a draw
The management OF the fight was ex-
ecrable. Nearly half the crowd left before
it was over, as the building was consid-
ereG very dangerous. The club got half the
gate receipts, the pugilists dividing the
other half.