The record-union., 1899-03-01
Has All The Best Of the Fight at Every Stage
Of the Contest.
Referee Hurst Stops the Battle,
Muller Being Clearly Unable to
Defend Himself, After Receiv-
ing Knock-Down Blow on the
Jaw.

AidSSy, the AUSTRALIAN, QeIedteQ FRED
Muller OF San Francisco in the tenth
round at Woodward's Pavilion tonight.
The men We're scheduled to go twenty
rounds at l45 pounds. The fight was
not particularly interesting, and Tracey
appeared to have matters we'll in hand
at every stage of the fight He fought
principally for the body, and in the
ninth round could have ended the fight
had he SO desired. Early in the tenth
and last round Tracey swung hard
with his left on Muller's jaw, knock
ing him down. Muller arose, however,
but was clearly unable to defend him
self, and Referee Tim Hurst stopped
the fight and gave the decision to Ira
cey.
| Cocker Tweedie of Australia was
given the decision over Jimmy Reilly
of San Francisco at the end of the fiji
teenth round.
Willie Cole of San Francisco knocked
out Eddie Alvord in the third round.
The best fight of the night was be-
tween Tweedie and Reilly. The two
youngsters set a terrific pace from the
start, and so evenly was the contest
carried on that at the end of the tenth
round, which had been set as the limit
to the fight, the referee called for an
extra round. The eleventh bringing no
decided advantage, the order to con-
tinue was made again and again, until.
at the close of the fifteenth round, the
referee declared Tweedie the winner.
The decision was popular, Tweedie nav
ing won the crowd in the face of their
| adherence to home talent, by his uni
formly clever work. Tweedie does not
possess great hitting power, however.
He was the aggressor throughout and
| several times had Reilly ratified but
could not administer the knockout.
WEST BONNER FIGHT,
NEW YORK, Feb 2S.-The Tommy
| West and Jack Bonner contest, which
| took place at the Lenox Athletic Club
| tonight, was brought to a sudden ter
| mination at the beginning of the eighth
round.
| During the intermission between the
| seventh and eighth rounds Bonner's
seconds used a fluid known as oil IF
| mustard, the fumes of which are
binding. The oil was rubbed on Bon.
| ners gloves, and the fumes OF it
blinded those who were sitting close
| by the ringside.
| AS soon as the men shaped for the
| eighth round West got a Whit of the
stuff, and when Bonner landed on
Tommys face the latter shouted: Hes
got some stuff on his gloves thai is
binding me-
By this time Referee Charley White
was similarly affected, and he began
rubbing his eyes, at the same time
| shouting to the men to go to their
corners.
| Meanwhile West was jumping fran
tically in his corner with pain, and mis-
seconds got through the ropes to help
| him. Bonner's- seconds also clambered
through the ropes, and began taking
the gloves off the big fellow The po-
| lice took a hand in the game at this
moment. Captain. Brown, with a couple
of Sergeants and a dozen patrolmen,
| got over the ropes. Referee White
called on the police to arrest Bonner's
seconds but Jacks handlers protested.
and said that Bonner's manager, Fred
Miller, had handed the bottle of oil
| to them after the seventh round, and
said it was a good thing to use.
| When White heard this he made
dash for the principal second, but the
police prevented him from striking MIN.
White then declared West the winner,
and there was a howl from Bonner's
| referees decision and those who had
laid money on the big fellow felt that
they had been wronged
During all this time the spectators
were standing on the chairs and
benches, clamoring to know what 1t
was all about. The master of cere-
monies, as soon as he could make him
self heard, explained the matter fully,
and when he announced the decision { f
the referee there were loud and pro-
longed cheers.
Just what prompted the handlers to
use the stuff was not made clear, but it
was evidently done to place West at
disadvantage, as up to the close of the
preceding round the New Yorker had
more than held his own.
Bonner's seconds were Johnny Cor
man. Billy Needham. Charley OBrien
and Jack Neville. Bonner was the IA
vorite in the betting. to l being
freely laid on him.
One man who had a box seat at the
ringside had an alteration with Man
ager Tom O'Rourke, and some blows
were struck. but the men were sepa-
rated Immediately. and the building
was soon vacated. No arrests were