The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-04-30
DEFEAT FOR
JACK DAILY.
McKeever Wins Over Him
at the Arena Last
Evening.

~ Chas. McKeevor bested Jack Daily, in
six-round bout at the Philadelphia Arena
last evening. For five rounds DAILY took
Eno chances, backing away continually as
kMcKeever advanced. In the sixth round
there was lively mix-up, In which Me
| Kesver came out best, he twice staggering
DAILY with singing face blows.
| Both mon sacrificed strength to speed,
and as result 1t was very fast bout,
with little damage done. Mckeever
seemed willing to fight and took chances
I by continually boring in, bnt DAILY kept
Ton the retreat, except tor an occasional
headlong plunge for his opponents
stomach, which were often so low as to b.
foul. DAILY would olinch almost every
time McKeever lod SO thero was little
fshortarm fighting.
The boxing was fast from the outset
McKeever being the first to load 1t wa'
left and right, and DAILY tried TO counter,
[but failed. There were whole lot of harm
Hess mix-ups which loo,ed pretty, but
(which amounted to nothing Toward the
END of the round DAILY in attempting to
Gross McKeever, got his glove behind his
Opponents neck and, giving quick pull
drought him to his knees.
! Both men were clever and cautious in
the second, and lot ofmissing occurred.
}Then McKeever caught DAILY right
khander on the jaw, and moment later
sent his left to the stomach. Daily clinched
land hit three quick blows with his right,
all taking effect on MeKcevers neck. Me-
Keever missed Days jaw with hard
right.
Mckeever opened the third round with
q clean left in the face. There was lot
Of missing and both landed body blows.
The fourth round opened with Mckeever
still forcing and after backing DAILY a nd
p while caught him enc on the jaw with
his right and repeated the blow moment
later. DAILY plunged in head first butling
FMcKeevec In the stomach Daily ran into
o left and then again butted McKeever in
the stomach. DAILY worked his lefthund
chop blow, catching kcKeever in the face
but got left and right in return. Just
: before the round ended Mckeever forced
DAILY to the ropes and landed singing
left on the jaw.
The fifth round was unevsntful. No
Keever landed lot of light blows and
DAILY fought back in the clnch. DAILY also
tried to butt Mckeever i'll tho stomach
couple of times
When the sixth round was about half
over DAILY stood his ground for the first
time and the fighting was lively. Nc
Keeyer landed right in the face and Daily
hit for the ribs In the clinch. DAILY twice
missed McKeever with hard right hand
swings for tho ribs and then Mckeever
caught him fair on the point of the chin
with his left, staggering him. As DAILY
went to straighten himself Mckeever
caught him on the jaw with his right,
and then it looked as though DAILY was 60
Ing But Mckeever failed to land another
effective blow, and just before the round
ended DAILY landed couple of hard rights
on the ribs. The men looked evenly match.
cd rs to size and weight and hire was
probably not two pounds difference.
The best of the preliminary bouts wa,
between Pat Sullivan and Pat Mcconnell,
OF Wilmington. 1t was McConuelrs tght
from start to finish, and it took all that
Sullivan could do to stay the six rounds.
Mcconnell got in soak on Sulivan's jaw
In the first that shook Pat up pretty badly.
He dropped Sullivan in the second with
punch on the jaw, and did the Tick again
In the fifth and sixth