The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-30
A DECISION FOR DIXON
Twenty-Five Fast Rounds With
the Omaha Kid.
1T WAS NEARLY A DRAW
One OF the Cleverest and Cleansst Bouts
Ever Fought IN New York-0ard-
nsr Met the Champion
Cleverly.


the colored featherweight champion
pugiiist, fought s5 fast rounds with os-
car Gardner. The Omaha Kid" before
| the Lenox Athletic club tonight and
Referee Dick Roche decided In favor
of the champion. The decision did not
please a great many of those who wit
messed the fight.
Dixon did nearly all the leading. but
Gardner met him cleverly and coun-
| tered very forcibly nearly every time
they came together. Dixon found
| Gardner a very awkward opponent to
get to. and many of his well meant
| blows failed to land. through the clever
lodging of the Omaha Kid.
1t was one OF the cleanest and clev-
crest bouts ever seen in this or
any other club. and IL the referee had
not picked n winner, but called the
bout a draw. every one would have
been satisfied. The attendance was
1000. The men scaled 122 pounds at 3
o'clock this afternoon. Dixon was the
| favorite In the betting at 100 to so. Tom
O'Rourke and Tom Sharkey were In
Dixon's corner.
Round l--Dixon cut the pace from
| the sound of the bell and kept on rush.
ing and leading. Gardner contenting
himself with invariably countering on
| the body with his left. Dixon had the
better of the in-fighting. pounding
Gardner's ribs with his right at close
quarters.
Round 2-Gardner was first 20 lead.
landing his left on the neck. Dixon
whipped a hard left into the wind and
| hooked his right on the head. George
kept on leading and Gardner met him
with hard counters on the body.
Round s-Gardner planted hard
right over Dixon's heart. Dixon led
his left for the wind and got in his
| famous right hand double punch on
| ribs and head. Gardner drew forth n
great deal OF applause by landing a
left on the wind. which he followed
with a right swing on the head.
Round 4 opened with three lefts on
| the head and neck from Dixon. and
Gardner countered with lefts on the
body.
Round 5--Gardner opened. with a
straight left on the face. Dixon
rushed with a left on the head. Oscar
| countering hard on the head. Gardner
was then the aggressor and got to the
body heavily. Dixon sent back stiff
lefts on the head and neck.
Round 6-Dixon began with a left on
the neck. Gardner countering. Dixon
| then rushed. planting a left swing over
the kidneys, Gardner. in going back.
| fell to the floor from a clinch. with
| Dixon on top. Dixon helped Gardner
| TO his feet. Gardner planted two
straight lefts on Dixon's face. sending
the latter's head back.
1 ubuktu nutuOtT
Of Dixon's left swings for the head and
sent his left to the face three times
Dixon ripped a hard left to the wind
and Gardner sent Georges head back
with left hook.
Round s-Dixon hooked a left to the
| pit of the stomach and swung his left
over the kidneys. Gardner rushed
things and sent a hard straight left on
the mouth. Oscar sent a light right to
| the head and Dixon swung his left on
the neck.
Round e-Gardner sent straight left
| To the face and Dixon got the body with
his left. The colored lad. in a rush.
hooked his left twice into the stomach.
! sending Gardner against he, ropes and
doubling him up. Oscar almost went to
the floor. but recovered without falling
Round 10-Dixon sent his right over
ed over the heart. Another OF Georges
rushes was met by Gardner with hard
/ rights over the heart.
Round 11-Dixon forced the pace.
| landing left on Oscars jaw after the
latter had placed his rieht on the head
Dixon rushed Gardner to the ropes.
landing a hard rioht on the wind and
Oscar clinched. bending very low.
Round 12-Dixon opened with a series
| Of lefts for the head. Gardner counter
ing with his right on the breast or
neck. Gardner ducked into a hard left
uppercut anu DiAon sent MS risht over
10 ,ne neaa'
houna is-Dxon cut tne pace WIN
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Round 14-Dixon won a good deal Of
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hacL wi,b a straight LEI, D,xon reniy-
Inc Win n verv hard ief, on the hsar,
D,xon whinned his IeSt into tha Wind
and upnercut Gardner on the face with
the ,efi when Oscar ducked
Round Is-DIxon onened with n stIry
right hook over the heart then landed
his double punch on the ribs and the
head. Gardner met George with two
straight lefts on the face. Dixon hooked
his left to the head and sent a left up-
percut To the face, Gardner in the