The San Francisco call., 1898-12-31
.CREEDON WAS
 SLOW ID HIT
 AND PUNISH Green Won in Twenty
 Rounds. IA DECISION ON POINTS CLEVER AND SCIENTIFIC BOX ING FROM THE START. Neither Pugilist Appeared Anxious for Knockout, Although Both Did Some Pretty Foot
 Work.
CLEVER AND SCIENTIFIC BOX
 ING FROM THE START.

contest which took place in WoodWard s
 Pavilion last evening. Jack Kitchen Of
 the Reliance Club of Oakland acted as
 referee, and under the rules of Queens
 berry he considered that Green had the
 better of the fistic argument. Still there
 were several good judges of boxing pres
 ent who thought that Kitchen would
 have won a great feather in his cap 1T
 he had ordered both of the men out of
 the ring long before the twentieth round
 was reached, as neither pugilist tried very
 hard for a Knockout.
 AS an exhibition of clean boxing, side
 stepping, ducking, etc., the contest was
 assuredly a success, but when the affair
 is looked at in a serious light 1t smacked
 very much of the hippodrome, as Green
 cannot, apparently, disguise his style of
 fighting. Time and again he swung his
 left around the neck of his opponent
 when he could have planted the glove on
 Creedon's ear or jaw. Then there were times during the game when George per
 mitted excellent openings for rght-hand body punches to pass him unnoticed. Then there were those motherly embraces and little smiling chats between the fstic acts which did not impress the spectators seriously as to the genuineness of the contest.
 Creedon acted like a man who had
 grown muscle-bOund from sack-lifting. SlIl there IS not any mention ln ms record of athletic exercises where at any time he assisted to load a tramp steamer with California grain. Be that as it may, CreedOnS s arms were very much tied and slow last evening. It may have been that they were not out to win. At any rate, Australian Dan is a very much over rated pugilist or else he held back his fire on Green, as he certainly had many excellent chances of planting his auc- 1 uoneer where good returns would follow But if CreedOn had had an understanding friendly | with his opponent prior to the game, then 1t is not to be supposed that Dan s harm.
 Occasionally during the contest Creedon planted some good swift right-hand punches in Greens ribs, which were an evidence that the muscle-bound tactics he employed were simply to deceive the 1 spectators. His manner of guarding and Wardfng-On blows is very pretty and his footwork is faultless, but his style of hit ting, as shown last night, would cause a San Francisco Athletic Club amateur boxer to blush for shame Green certainly landed the most clean blows, and the de- cision in his favor was fair, surmising that the referee really thought that the fighters had done their utmost to please
 Green was the first to enter the ring exactly at g;3o-accompanied by his sec
 Patsy Corrigan. Creedon followed di- rectly behind him. with his seconds, Al Smith, Tom Tracey, Frank Mcconnell and Jimmy Riley, Green was introduced by Announcer Billy Jordan as hailing
 from San Francisco. and Creedon from Australia. Both were greeted with an equal amount of applause, and the adhe- rents of the men throughout the fight were about equally divided.
 Jack Kitchen, the popular boxer of the
 Acme Club of Oakland. was chosen ref cree
 Announcer Jordan also stated that Jack Bonner of Philadelphia had telegraphed
 challenge to the winner of the Green Creedon bout
 The men agreed to breakaway without hitting in the clinches, and with one or two accidental exceptions both kept this agreement to the letter throughout the
 When the men stood together in the center of the ring arrangipg the details, a comparison of their physiques was pos sible, and it was apparent that Creedon was slightly taller and somewhat heavier
 than Green. But the fight afterward de- veloped the fact that Green had a much
 more free use of his arms, and conse- quently a longer reach.
 Throughout the fight Creedon's aim
 seemed to be to corner his man and then punch. Green showed much clevernesS
 in getting out of these tight places, some
 times by ducking and again by rushing ended this way. In the opening round
 Creedon had Green dancing in the four corners of the ring at different times, but
 the willy Californian, by fiddling and duck ing managed to get away, only to be forced into another corner.
 Both men fought with extreme care and seldom left an opening, due as much as anything to their cleverness. It would be fiddle, duck, counter and clinch, repeated time and again. Occasionally each would
 essay a rush, which was generally blocked by the other. Green made many a wild left swing and vicious uppercut, but none of these blows ever landed. His
 most effective punches were at close quar- | ters when he would plant his left or r;c hor rI intn often made the Australian vince, but he
 was game and ready for more.
 It was anybody's fight up to the elev-
 enth round, with not much damage done,
 but in that round Creedon scored dis
 tinct lead over Green, batting him about | at will. At close range the Australian
 was at his best, and he swung his short | arms and chopped and planted straight | leads into Green until the Californian was | obliged to clinch. Of course, in such a
 mix-u Creedon did not get off unscathed, | but another round like the eleventh would l have finished Green.
 At no time did the fight border on the l sensational. Toward the end both the 1 fighters and the spectators were warmed up and the men took more chances with | each other, Spurred on by the cheers of | the crowd. But even the last two rounds | did not amount to much, although Cree
 don had the best of what there was to | them. He opened the nineteenth with a 1 well-intended rush, but did not land.
 Later he landed light straight left on l the mouth, and then followed it with an- l other Green rushed, and Creedon met him with right swing on the head
 Green rushed again, this time getting in a
 stiff left on the body and his right on | the head. Creedon ended the round by
 planting his left hard in the stomach. Green commenced the last round by | rushing at his antagonist, swinging his
 left around Creedon's head. Creedon was
 right there and rushed Green into sev- erai corners, from which he escaped by
 clinching. Green then rushed into Q | straight left flush on the mouth. Cree
 don rushed, swinging his left low into the
 stomach. Green rushed Creedon across l the ring, landing his left in the body and
 receiving a stiff right counter on the face
 Green missed a left swing for the head,
 and tried an uppercut and missed. Cree
 don landed stiff left on the face at the | end.
 l Creedon nearly lost the fight on a foul
 in the seventeenth. He tried a left upper
 cut, and 1t landed way below Green's s
 belt, the latter yelling "Ohi" in pain The
 crowd cried Foul" but the referee did
 not allow 1t. and Green was soon fighting
 as fast as ever, mixing it with Creedon | as lively as could be wished for