The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-06-21
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III longest battle IN tho Metropolis
a, AIs,ory occurred last night, Char
| W thnson and Charley Burns going
|st,yerl rounds, their bout ending in
| 70 dc.slon being given. The contest
us ,i,hout an exciting feature. unless
N be he rough house. which prevailed
h. n..rly every round, and the contests
.,ly ha,uro was It's length. As neither
man VAS hurt after the three hours
,ork It would be putting 1t strong to
|sy he large audience was greatly
saad, for q good many were not.
18th men violated the rules by striking
!. clrches. unfair wrestling tactics.
|ic, md when ut the, end OF the forty
,lsh.h round Leslie Pcarce stopped tho
|,rry and declared II no contest, not a
,ace dts9eatGd.
Johnson and Burns couldn't draw q
,yrporars guard here again. While
|hey worked hard It was the methods
|,ed that chilled the crowd, and a repe-
|Iuon would do much TO kill boxing In
|his Vicinity. johnson was the greater
Inner, but Burns soon followed suit,
Sd IN ore round, becoming enraged ut
|asteree pelrce, struck him, but
|rompty apo,oglzed. Pearce twice eau
E5ned johnson for fouling. and said the
|hri oirense would result in the de-
s,Ioa being forfeited to Burns. This
I'D It's effect. and 1t was later that
suns came to the front, and one time
rhtu he threw johnson to the floor,
krItd TO strike the latter and everything
N sight. The audience, cried for u draw
,tter the th!rtieth round, and accepted
h at tho ctcse OF the torty-eighth with
mat pleasure. This came ut 1:3O
5tlock tbs morning.
There IL no better Informant In box
.s matters than Leslie Pearce. and no
Understands oil the fine points from
Aloha 10 Omega. But with all due re-
sect to che genial Leslie, he was not O
bowling SUCCESS as n referee In the ar
rament put up by Johnson and Burns.
though that same would have puzzled q
dCzes S!nrs. Pearce learned after forty
rourds wen. by that the best way to get
a clean break Is for the referee to walk
t,.ween the men, as Patsy Gavin used
10 do. ard when he adopted that meth
Id clearer work was the rule. OF
course, II can be said that the men
tould break when the referee calls for
|, break, hut better results are attained
yhen the referee helps the men out Les
Ne had tough Job on hand, and he was
handicapped by the liberal advice be-
rowed or him by many people crying
foul" often when there was no foulinS,
and these incessapt cries Of foul" help
\! to make q tedious contest drag oil
.he more.
Up TO the twenty-ffth round 1t was q
ame contest. Burns lead often. al
cost at Will, and it looked like john
9n's finish was due In the twenty-ffth,
su. he rallied and Burns failed TO pun
kh him hard after that. In the forty
sscond rom d the tide was turned, john
nn yisibly weakening Burns by q few
riff body labs and face punches, The
.u!ty-eIghth ended with both mem on
heir feet, very tired, and neither pun
shed much. Burns eye was cut slight
u, but that was all. Johnson was
FISHER than Burns and wanted TO con-
alue bad. hut It will remain debatable
question as to which man would have
EOn had they gone to finish. And 4
.s.sh at the rate they were going might
-ean mex. week. Summed up, Burns
aEded otter every round, but couldn't
b the required damage. while Johnson
SuIdn't lind when he :ried, and he tried
at very ykeldom. His game was to
year Burns out, ard he, almost wore
!Hself GU. doing 1t. A description Of
De battle by rounds isn't worth the
gace. Had 1t been for points Johnson
Touldn't have stood q ghosts show, for
:utns oItclassed him as boxer, and
rer; into trough house" just because
le had II with Johnson.
There was q large audience present,
I'D one o. the best things on the pro-
FAMINE was the six-round so between
Buzz" Auber and John Baker, which
Tas the tir est preliminary ever seen
round here. Young Clancy and lit
te Pete" also went a six-round draw,
AID S;raun won the wrestling bout, get
ing two falls out Of three from Flagg.
The Metropolitan club will have some
thing better when Oscar Gardner and
lack McCIelland meet, on the, S0th, and
tie club officials were no more Pleased
than the crowd with last nights, or
rather this mornings unsatisfactory
contest.
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