The age-herald., 1899-05-03
MAYER AND RUHLIN
 FIGHT A DRAW
The Former Seemed to Have Best of the Bout.

New York, May 2.-Peter Maher and Gus Ruhlin fought twenty-round draw before , the Lenox Athletic club tonight Maher was the favorite at 100 to 60. Six thousand people saw the fight. Maher weighed 161 pounds and Ruhlin l9O At the tap of the gong Ruhlin went right to his man and landed right smash on Maher which al most closed the optic.
 In the second round R lin had all the better of the argument, sending straight lefts to the face, while Peter played for , the body. The third round was of give and take order, but Maher outpointed his man on leads and sent some very hard damaging blows on the wind and head. Peter crossed his right to the head ire quently, the blows landing too far back of the mark to be effective. Honors were even in the fourth and fifth. Maher forced the fighting in the sixth, sending left and right to the face and neck It looked for moment as though Maher was going to knock Ruhln into the land of dreams, but Ruhlin woke up unexpectedly and fought back so cleverly that 1t was anybody's fight at the sound of the gong.
 Both of Maher's eyes were well bunged up when he toed the mark for the seventh
 
 visible impression on Ruhlin's eoun- tenance. In the eighth Ruhlin sent his right up under Maher's chin, but there was not sufficient force in the blow to count Toward the end of this round Run lin sent a hard left to Peters eye, drawing the blood. and the Irishman went back with both hands, swinging on neck and body. A straight left to the jaw from Ruhlin in the ninth staggered Maher.
 Ruhlin forced the fighting in the twelfth round, landing both hands on race ana chest with vigor, while Maher played con- tinuously for the body At the oeginnlng of the next round Ruhln was Tar the stronger but he was very careful. He ducked into a clean uppercut from the leit of Maher. Maher had the call at the bell.
 A right swing on the face at the begin ming of the fourteenth round from Runhn almost put Maher through the ropes, but the Irishman was game and came Dack without a falter Maher forced the pace sending his right to the body and an occa- sional left to the neck and wind, but Ruh- lin was also very much alive and gave an account of himself. A rapid exchange Of rights opened the fifteenth round and Ma her hooked his left three times on the face and sent his right to the kidneys. Maher had all the better of this round
 In the sixteenth the pace which had maintained up to this time was evidently having a serious effect on each of the fighters and Maher, contrary to all pre- diction as to his staying qualities, came out of the mill at the close of the round by far the better of the two
 Ruhin was by far too slow when the men met in the seventeenth round and Maher sent the blood flying from nose and mouth with lefts and rights on the face At the close of the round Maher was still on the aggressive and had Ruhlin in neutral corner. Beginning the nineteenth round Ruhlin jumped out of his corner like a kangaroo but Maher evaded his rushes. Ruhlin then tucked into a left hand hook which bled his right eye. In round twen- ty .Maher led, but failed to land. Ruhlin landed right on the head and Maher countered on the stomach. Ruhlin tried a left hand for the head but missed and Ma her got under, countering on the wind He was willing to rush matters, but Ruhln stood off his rushes and the referee de- cided the bout draw.