The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-04
MAHONEY WINS.
Tie Defeats Eyerhardt Mt tho COney Island
sporting club.

sporting Club.
Young Mahoney OF Philadelphia a very clever
boxer. got a decision over Jack Everhardt OF
New Orleans at the end OF twenty-five rounds
at the Coney Island Sporting Club last night
Mahoney is a light hitter and very fast on his
feet. Everhardt did more than half the work
at that. and was entitled to draw.
There was not a very largo crowd In the
building whom Eugene Rowan OF Philadelphia
and Eddie Sweeney OF Brooklyn got into the
ring for ten round preliminary at 1875 pounds
Dan Hickey was the referee and sparrow"
Robertson the timekceper Sweeney was
q slugger and Rowan a clever. scientific
fighter who could hit n bit. too. In the
fourth round Sweeney was bleeding from
the nose and from a cut above the
left eye. Sweeney took desperate chances
in the fifth round. hut Rowan literally
cut his face to pieces. Sweeney was blinded
with blood but he wiped it out OF his eyes and
kept at his hopeless task gamely. In the
eighth round. after two minutes OF hot
fighting. Sweeney fell in heap to tho
floor. There were cries OF Foul" and the
referee seemed In duandary Sweeney
groaned and placed his hands over his groin.
II" refused to get I'M, and the referee decided
that Rowan had committed foul landing
mitted HE seconds to carry him to the dressing
room. Rowan said that Sweeney had quit ana
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night and that the decision was unjust There
was quite a difference Of opinion in the crowd
ana rowan was l1mHy ~ lthHeHh whri, 6S re.y
There was tirssomc delay after his bout.
caused by wrangle between the principals In
| the star event because Of the fact that
over aysHv wceht wn H%aTt o5G scat at
well received Mahoney would no, 60 on until
| he had received n certain amount OF cash
! MbhOupy flSOr,tp at 10 TO 4, HIS seconds
TTete steve Lla"3gan Jim f%snn d,nd
TWENTY-FIVE rounds al 1873 pounds. but
S meet at rs ST noGais. George EdNarIs Of
Yomkers was the L"isree,, The mo, mo-,
a crowd Of SPORTS. said t! b" rom lonkrrs and
friends Of his, ran around with wads Of money
TyerGa rdts handers objected to EIwarIs.
with tho result that Owen IicGier was chosen
instead
They agreed to fight under straight Queens
berry rules with no hitting on the breaks.
Mahoney showed extreme cIeycrnrss at once.
! Iie feintinE was beautiful. but he did not seem
In the nrst round Mnh9ney scored ed, a number
from Everhardt's PUSHES with a swttness
! OF foot that made the crowd applaud.
t;v"rhardt landed q heavy swinms IN tn" Jaw in
Mahoney. put in. Mahoncys cleverness in
third nok TOr'h s%nE his su nS
tcr'' than love taps, EyerharIt was
the Quaker with fruitless PUSHES The nth
| developed the fact that Everhar1t would have
to go TO his man and mix things in order "a
win. for at long range Mahoney was clearly
the master Of The situation.
Everhardt rushed in the sixth and landed
one solid right handler on the side OF the head
| Mahoney got away from the other attacks with
remarkable leg work and also continued TO
forced the fight in the next two rounds. and
Mahoney did some sprnting. 4 corking left
raised a lump under III" rhIaa"phta man $
right eve as the eighth ended. The ninth was
Fverhnrdt's and Mahoncy was on the run when
| the hell rang.
Before the tenth began Julian had it an
ner of the ,Erne-LavCnG fight Everhnrdt
| then proceeded to chas" his man around the
ring. Mahoney not caring To chance it al close
quarters. Mahoney sprintHd all through the
landed some effective smashos on the head and
ribs In the twelfth and thirteenth rounds
neither did enough leading to makes even
| break
Evcrhardt did the bulk Of tho work in the
throwing in counters that wouldn't hurt fly.
Mahoncy did a little real ilghtnE in the six
teenth but he wouldn't keep it up after get
ting hard belt on the nose.
At the end Of the seventeenth round some Of
the spectators were kissing and others wrGc
not footrace. Mahoncy actually consented
to take a chance in tho eighteenth. but
the round was tame 80 was tn" nineteenth.
about five real blows being struck; The
twcnty-third was FAST and furious, with hon
nrs even. The twcnty-tourth was slightly
| in favor of Mahpncy. hut he did no harm.
Everhardt did al the work in tho Inst roHnd
honey. although II draw would have been more
sat- stactory. Everhartt's right hand was found
To have been broken when he took of his