The record-union., 1899-05-24

NEW YORK, May 23.-After twenty
five rounds of vicious fighting at the.
Lenox Athletic Club tonight Kid Nc
Partland was given the decision over
Spike Sullivan. Going into the fight
on the short end of the betting, Nc
Partland completely upset the calcula-
tions of the sports. He bested his man
at every point of the game, and admin
istered to him the most severe punish
ment that he has ever received in his
pugilistic career.
While the margin between the show
ing made by the two men was very
wide, there was several times during
the contest when Mcfarland was on
dangerous ground. Despite the terrible
punishment which he received, Sulli-
van showed remarkable recuperative
powers, and often came back surpris-
ingly strong.
The men fought under Queensbery
rules, with the nderstanding that each
must protect himself in the breaka-
ways, and as a result the referee work
ed almost as hard as the principals. The
men clinched repeatedly. and constantly
sought to hit in the clinches.
Mcfarland won the fight by the use
of his wonderful left arm. 1t was SER
viceable from every conceivable posi-
ton, and often after planting it straight
from the shoulder he would withdraw it
and whip it in at close range. While
he was not at all times the pacemaker,
he seemed always anxious to go to his
man.
Sullivan. on the other hand demon
strated in the earlier rounds of the
fight that he intended to end the con-
test with one punch from his right. He
swung it, crossed it and hooked with
it, but either failed to land with it or
1t was ineffective. Later in the fight
he brought his left into use. and twice
it came near winning him the contest
Sullivan was terribly punished. His
face was badly cut. and he had Jumps
over both of his eyes. MCFARLAND, on
the other hand, showed very little pun
ishment, and came cut unmarked and
comparatively fresh.
Sullivan attempted to claim the fight
on a foul in the tenth. He asserted that
he had been struck in the abdomen. His
claim was disallowed and disproved by
the activity he displayed a few mo-
ments later
The first round was a feeler Near
the close both missed swings that car
ried them off their feet
In the second Sullivan made the mace
They clinched repeatedly, and then Sui
hvan put a good right on the Jaw.
The third was a whirlwind. Both tried
the left at the same time, both landed
and both went down, but Sullivan SEEM
ed to have taken the hardest punch.
The fourth opened very roughly. Sui
livan forced Mcfarland into his cor
ner, where the latter slipped down. and
when they were at it again MOZART
land rushed Sullivan across the ring
and on to the ropes on the other side.
The fifth was vicious. The Kid found
Spikes face with his left, and upper
cut him with his right in a clinch. Sui
hvan came up out of the clnch bleed
ing badly Sullivan landed his left and
then his right on the neck, and then
rushed his man about the ring.
They both roughed it in the sixth
seventh, eighth and ninth
sullivan was on the dowm grade in the
tenth Mcfarland beat him all over
the ring, and sent him down twice
Sullivan got up crying, and declared
that he had been struck in the abdo
men, but White ordered him to his COR
ner.
The crowd was UP and yelling when
the eleventh opened. Sullivan was still
crying. and demanded the decision of
the referee. but when the Kid came at
him he fought back viciously.
Mcfarland held the lead in the
twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and ff
teenth
In the sixteenth Sullivan began using
his left, and put Mcfarland down.
The seventeenth. eighteenth and nine
teenth Were McPartland's
Little was done in the twentieth.
twenty-first and twenty second.
In the twenty-third, after a series of
very trying rounds. Sullivan rallied. and
nearly won the fight. He landed a, left
swing that dropped Mcfarland. and
the latter took the limit. and hugged
to save himself when he came up.
Sullivan also had a chance in the
twenty fourth. He raised his man with
a left on the jaw, but Mcfarland rail-
lied, and had the best of the last end of
the. round
The twentyfifth was all Mcfarland
Everybody cheered the result
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