The herald., 1898-11-23
PUGILISTIC PfRILS
TWO MEN ARE UNEXPECTEDLY =
KNOCKED COLD
BY SHEER CHANCE BLOWS
Tom Banks and Kid Chambers Find
Their Finish-A Slow Counting
Referee Did the Rest

Admirers of the manly art had an unusual
treat last night at the Manhattan club.
There We're two knockouts, and they were
as clean and complete jobs of the kind as
mortal ever witnessed. Both victims re-
celved rights" on the jaw, and somewhat
similar to Bret Hartes man, they curled
up on the floor and the subsequent proceed
ing interested them no more. The only
difference was that the fighters stiffened out
and 1t required at least five minutes in each
case to resuscitate them. Billy De Coursey
OF San Diego won the principal event of the
evening by knocking out kid" Chambers
OF Chicago in the third round, and "Kid"
Manguerina of this city administered a
knockout to Tom Banks, colored, in the
fourth round of their fight. The last result,
however, was fuke, and although the de-
cision was awarded to Manguerina, the
fight had been won by Banks earlier in the
round, for ne had knocked Manguerina
down and the latter remained on the floor
over ten seconds. The referee, however, was
ratified, and by failing to award the fight
as he should have done, allowed Manguerina
to win by the most astonishing chance
blow.
The first event was four-round prelim-
mary between Jack Davidson and Tom
Douglass, who is better known as tile "Yel-
low Kid"-when Hogans Alley is not in
town. The fight was quite lively, and re-
suited in draw. Tom Colon, the Gypsy
Kid" and Young Downey fought four
rounds. Downey did all the downing, and
outpointed his opponent, but as both were
well matched, the event was called draw.
1t was in the third preliminary that the
big surprise occurred Tom Banks, weigh
ing lG5 pounds, pupil of Bob Thompson,
the light weight, was the favorite over Man
guerlna, white boy, who was somewhat
heavier. Joe Manning, "Old Joe," was
selected referee, and while Joe may be
authority in a certain line of sporting mat
ters, apparently he is shy somewhat when
it comes to refereeing prize fight. Joe,
it seems, lost one of his glasses from his
spectacles in the afternoon, which probably
accounts ior his inability to see
that Manguerina was put out in
the fourth round. The men were
to have fought six rounds Banks is
quite scientific fighter. Manguerina, from
his testimony, knows nothing of boxing, but
he managed to fight savagely and rushed his
opponent very hard in the first round. Man
guerina in the second round soon began to
show distress, the affect of hard body blows
from Banks, but the white man was plucky
and stuck to his muttons. He would rush
to clinch, and in order to save punishment,
would cling to the Banks. The latter struck
him below the belt several times, but as the
blows were accidental and did no particular
damage-Manguerina had not dined-the
referee did not interfere. At last Banks
planted hard, firm right on Manguerina's
jaw. Then did the white man seem to
be entranced. Several times he was knocked
down. In his rage he lost all control. In
stead of remaining on the floor for seven
seconds at least he would jump up and i'm
mediately start after Banks, with the re-
suit that he was knocked down once more.
The punishment was severe, but Banks was
willing. The third round belonged to Banks
also, although during the fight he received
several presents on the mouth and face.
In the fourth round Banks fought Man
guerina into his corner, and finally knocked
him through the ropes. Manguerina re-
gained his feet, only to be knocked down
again. He remained down several seconds
Then he arose. Banks went in to finish him.
The riparian landed hard right in the
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plexus. This sent Manguerina down to the
floor. The referee started to count, as did
the time keepers. The crowd was on it's
feet, yelling and shouting SO wildly that the
ticking of the watch could not be heard.
The time keepers counted the man out, but
Referee Manning had no watch and was
about three seconds behind. When the
time keepers had counted ten and out, Man
ming was still recording the eighth second.
The seconds of Manguerina rushed into the
ring and helped their man to his feet. Once
more the "kid" rushed toward Banks scarce
ly knowing whether he was going for the
other fighter or for the referee. But the re-
doubtable Banks landed two hard blows on
the head and body, which sent Manguerina
once more to the ropes. Everybody was
again on their feet, yelling to Manning to