The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-04
THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TUEsDAY. OCTOBER T. 1898.

left jab in on Smiths jaw and in the
clinch that follows Smith hammers
Judges side with is right. Judge making
no effort to retaliate in kind. Judge land
ed several blows on the head, but they
are offset by Smith furnishing him in tho
ribs.
Round 2-Smith aggressive and going
for Judges wind. Judge mainly fights at
Smiths head. Judge makes weak at
tempt to emulate Smiths inhghting but
is glad. evidently, when the clinch Is at
an end
Round 3-Smith misses a vicious right
hand swing. Judge begins working his
left hand jabs and several times sends
Smiths head back.
Round 4-Judge lands his left fun in
Smiths face Smith retaliates at the ribs.
Judge returns to his jabbing and succeed
| Ing in keeping Smith off for n time tries
and succeeds in landing two left swings
on the head. Smith towards the close Of
the round is kept busy taking left Jabs
and left swings followed by hard plunges
with the shoulder ptoperly aimed.
LANDED HIS RIGHT.
Round 5-Judge Keeps on japbing with
| his piston-rod left. Smith is laying back
| n little to take another survey of things
and Judge encouraged a little thereby
lands his right for the first time. At
the close of the round Judges friends
were expecting great things.
| Round 6-Judge begins leading his left
| for the head and his right for the body
| and does some very effective work. Smith
| lands q vicious overhead blow on the
| back of the neck while Judge is ducking
| and in the succeeding clinches pounds
Judges back and sides repeatedly and
| with force.
Round 7-Smith gets the best of a
| fierce mix-up. Judge lands n hard left
jab and Smith works on Judges back.
Round S-Both men fighting. Smith
| lands his first clean right hand swing on
| neck. Punches Judges ribs hard, while
Judge is clinging about his neck.
| Round 9-Smith forcing in-ightng and
| getting the best of it,
| Round 10-Both men strong. Smiths
right lands viciously on Judges ribs.
Judge swings his left on the jaw.
| Round 11-Smith's right again chops
| Judges ribs. Judge lands right and left
on Smiths face. Smith administers some
| severe punishment on two successive
| clinches and sends Judge to his knees
| with hook on the jaw. Judge takes the
| limit and the bell sounds as he springs
up.
Round 12-Judges left eye begins 10
| swell. He lands beautifully left and right
on Smiths face. Smith gives him in re-
| turn an awful arm swing in the side.
Judge fails to follow effectively with his
| right.
Round 13-Smith gets the worst of a
| succession of long armed exchanges and
the round closes with the champion re-
| solving to the trick of pressing his arm
viCiously against Judges windpipe and
pressing his head back.
| Round 14-Judge lacks steam in mis-
| short arm attempts. Even exchanges.
Smith started to rush things and was
stopped twice by Judges left. Cheers Tor
Judge mark the close of the round.
Round 15-Smith resumes his efforts to
| bring matters to a climax. Following
Judge into a corner he deals him vicious
upper cut and while Judge is hazy
pounds him hard about the head. 1t was
the beginning of the end
Round 16-Smith makes tiger-like Jumps
past Judges guard and lays into Judge 5
wind. Judges efforts are confined to
ducking to save himself
Round 17-Judge lands q strong left
swing, but after a succession of rushas
into Judges wind, the champion lands
Il staggering right on the jaw. The gong
sounded none too soon for Judge.
Round 1S-Smith calmly punches Judgt
right and left with comparative ease.
Round 19-Smith misses an upper cu'
that was intended for a finisher. Judge
rallies and stops some rushes with his
left.
| Round 20-After a minute of fairly ever
exchanges, Judge goes down on han 1.
and knees from Il right on the Jaw II,
waits for mine and jumps uD. Smith
pounds him at will, almost, and final,
after left lead for the stomach give:
Judge quick right handed clip on tn,
point of the Jaw that sends him back
ward and down on the floor like a log
| His seconds carry him to his corner auC
II requires two minutes for him to com,
to.
John Coates a colored boxer from
Baltimore, got the decision over Milk,
Kane, of Minooka, in a siX-round pre-
liminary. 1t was a regular hammer
and tongs affair with every blow al
intended finisher and every blow land
| ing.