The age-herald., 1899-10-07
GEORGE M'FADDEN
 DEFEATS LAVIGNE
The Ex-Champion Knocked Out
 in Nineteenth Round.
FIGHT WAS SENSATIONAL
The Kid Was Well Battered While His Opponent Left the Ring Virtual ly Without a Mark-The
 Mill by Rounds

New York, October 6.-Geo~gc MoE72a1e,i of this city knocked out George c'Kid'D Iavigne, ex-light weight champion of the
 world in the nineteenth round of the new Broadway Athletic club tonight. They met at 133 pounds and put up fight which was as sensational as it was prolific of hard hitting and clever ring work McFadden blocked the kids rushes, and the leader was phenomenal. Toward the end of the bout he had the Saginaw boxer very raw and sore. At the opening Lavigne was the favorite, but after the twelfth round odds of 100 to 80 were freely offered on McFadden. Iayigne was well battered and several minutes elapsed before he realized what had happened to him. McFadden left the ring virtually without a mark
 McFadden fought carefully at the start, stopping Lavigpe's rushes. Toward the close of the fourth round he staggered the kid with lefts and rights on the head, ana in the fifth he took tine aggressive, getting in on the kids wind and stopping the lat ter's rushes in way that set the specta- tors cheering In the sixth Lavigne was unable to reach his man and seemed to have lost his temper and fought wildly In
  usual and seemed tired. McFadden landed twice on the jaw and again on the race ana the kid rushed him to the ropes. In the eighth the kid rushed again but Mac ouard was perfect and the round was Me- Faddens who landed hard on the face ana jaw again and again. In the ninth Mc- Fadden landed left and right on face ana body and seemed very fresh and strong as he stopped the kids rushes.
 Lavlgne kept on leading Intellectually ana getting smashed in the face, but Tn the eleventh soon after clinch, in wnach the men fell, Lavigne nearly put McFadoeh out with left swing to the pit of the stomach. When Lavigne came up TOT the thirteenth his left eye was almost closeof He still rushed viciously, but McFaooeil got much the better of the exchanges. l9l the fifteenth McFadden sent Lavigne down and staggered him again with nara ragiht a moment later Lavigne took heavy pun ishment and punches in the sixteenth and was evidently going down mill. Both men were a bit wild in the seventeenth, with McFadden forcing his man. Lavigne went down from a right on the jaw, but got un instantly to get a left and right on tine head. Toward the close of the eighteenth Iavigne fell from a left jab and push with hands. He got up in two seconds only to go to his knees from right upperl cut as the bell rang, and he went to hisf corner groggy.
 McFadden went right to his man in the nineteenth and had him reeling With right and left swings on the head. A right swing on the jaw put Lavigne to the floor, where he lay for six seconds. He got Up reeling and tried to clinch, but was Sent down twice more with similar blows. iEach time he took almost the limit to gef up, but it was beyond doubt that he was unable to cope with McFadden. who stood waiting to give him favorable blow McFadden asain nailed Lavigne with left back of the eSr, and the kid went dowr. for another nlne seconds rest. A left to the body flored Lavigne for the fifth time He got u) only to go down again, this time from z clinch, with McFadden on top. McFad- n jumped out at once, but Lavigne rose 8 owly. He staggered across the ring with ! cFadden hot after him. Lavigne rushed tD a clinch. When the referee broke them A.cFadden swung his right to the head and uepercut his left to the chin. Lavigne went down again, but got up within the limit. He stood in dazed condition Mac meas ured him carefully and with left swing sent him down and out. Time of round 3 minutes seconds.
 Before the principal levent Jimmy Hay ward, colored, a Ahjkgo. defeated Eddie I,aily, of Baltimore, ia twelve-round bout, i,i which the white man was pretty thor oighly used up.