The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-18
Furnished by the Box
ing Bouts.
LARGE AT TENDANCE
Boston Pugilists Showed
Ability Over Local Men.

The tournament at the rink last eve
: ming furnished a clean exhibition OF
IN the main, scientific boxing. to at leas
800 persons.
The attendance was fully as large a
the management had expected, tn
bouts were pulled off according to tn
program, there were no waits and n,
disappointments.
1t was easily the best series of bout,
offered in this city this season. Instead
OF depending upon local talent of onl1
Inocsrste ability, the committee il
eharge branched out and brought IL
this city some Of the best amateur tai
enc In the state, the men who are win
hlng the championship bouts in Boston
and vicinity.
me result was that every bout was
nara and fast. At the same time MOI
the slightest bit of hart feeling or any
| lehoency to secure knockout blow was
1ianlFest 1t was all clean boxing, con.
quoted purely upon boxing lines.
! squad of station1 officers, at the re-
quest of the promoters of the tourna
Hlent' We're present in the rink, but OF
o9urse, their services We're not requir-
ca. Chlef brennan sat in the front row
and beside him sat Chief Vaughn OF
the nre department, somebody remark
ing that Vaughn was there to quell the
bouts when they got too hot for the
| police. Next to Chief Vaughn sat Clerk
Coffey of the board Of health. but he
was not present in an official capacity.
Ine exhibitions took place upon the
stage, Which was elevated about three
1eel, and was located on the east side
( OF the building. Within the floor of the
rink wei four or five rows of reserved
seats, capable of seating about 400,
while on the other side of the netting,
Wnlch serves as the protection in bas-
ket ball games were the "bleachers'
the seats that went With the admission
price. Smoking was not tolerated, and
order was maintained with no difficulty.
mere was not the semblance Of a dis
turbance at any time during the even
ing.
The greater part Of the rounds were
between the Boston men, and it must
have been a trifie CALLING to the local
boxers 70 find that their Boston hreth-
rem were by far the better men, and
furnished the best bouts of the even
ing. The two Sullivan brothers, Mike
and Jack. and they look enough alike
to be brothers, figured in two Of the
besl exhibitions on the card. The An
derson- Whalen bout was a tribe tame,
and there was nothing to enliven the
spectators during the Lawlor-Lee go.
The only exhibition between local
men comparing favorably with the
work of the visitors was that between
George Bolles and Fred Dinsdale.
Bellies is down to fight Sammy Meyers
20 rounds in New London next month,
and is very generally rated as far su-
perioF to Fred Dinsdale. He may be
il downright fight, but in a boxing
exhibition Dinsdale surely does the
more effective work. At least, that
was the case last evening, for Dinsdale,
time after time, got in some good hard
raps on his opponents nose, while
Bolles only occasionally landed with
the slightest effect. Usually Bolles'
drives Went wide Of their mark
The bouts began trifie ahead of
schedule time, and the first one an
nounced by. John f. Moakley, who act
ed as master of ceremonies, was be-
tween John Anderson of this city and
Martin Whalen, also a Worcester boy.
In this bout two men, each possessed
with more than the ordinary amount of
science, met each other. The bout was
tull of science, intermingled occasion
ally with blows that savored of real
hoHine. For the most part, however,
II was kid-gloved contest, and failed
to arouse the enthusiasm of some of
TIN bouts that followed.
Then Tom Lawlor and Frank Lee APP
peared in the ring for three round go.
l4aWlor adopted his old hit and get
away tactics, and Frank Lee seemed
W1lllne to take as much punishment as
LoWlol was willing to infiict. At the
ehd CT the three rounds, it was evident
TO every man in the house that Lawlor
was the chverer man-but that is not
saying a great deal
DICK Butler and Tom McGrath, two
more local celebrities, followed. In
ehelr three rounds there was far more
ian than science. The movements of
the two men, their motions in actual
warfare, We're hugely amusing. Nc
'frath mad sort of rabbit series Of
TAPS directed at his opponents head
mat cid not always take effect, and
even when they did, they did not al
ways hurt. The crowd at the end of
this bout applauded more from the fun
than for the science shown.
The Sullivan brothers were the next
attractions, but they did not appear
togelher Mike Sullivan came first,
ana ne met Billy Berkeley for three
rounds. while his brother Jack went
up against Jack Fitzpatrick, his spar
ring partner, in an exhibition of equal
duration. The second bout was per-
maps the faster of the two But both
were SOOd.
The closing bout Of the evening, the
one IN which the most interest was TAX
en-, was that between Bolles and Dins-
dale. Each man had his friends in the
crowd, and each was given a most cor
dial welcome when he stepped upon the
three-foot elevated platform to don his
gloves and hear the last words of adj
vice from his seconds"
1t did not take very long, after the
men had shaken hands, for them to get
together in most approved fashion, Dins-
dale tapped Bolles about the face and
every time Bolles shook his head and
lodged away before Dinsldale could get
in a second one. Bolles' friends ex
pected to see the young fellow take a
decided brace in the third and last
round and outpoint Dinsdale. But
nothing Of that nature was forthcom-
ing. 1t may have been that Bolles did
not wish to uncover his form prior to
his New London meeting. At all events
in the bout last evening, he was clearly
unmatched by Dins1ale.
The Boston boxers, as well as the
party OF sports who attended from that
city, returned to the Hub on the 10 90
o'clock train last evening.