The record-union., 1899-04-26

NEW YORK, April 20.-Neally O,OUO
sports assembled at the Lenox Athletic
Club tonight in the hope of seeing Q
rafting bout between Joe Walcott, the
negro boxer, and Dan Creedon, the
Australian. They were matched to go
twenty rounds at catch weights, but al
though Creedon weighed fully twenty
pounds more than his opponent, the ne
gro made short work Of him. With d
left and two right smashes on the jaw,
Walcott hoored Creedon thrice. The
third time the Australian went down he
was dead to the world and. Walcott
was declared the winner amid the
cheers Of his hackers, who won a po- of
money on the result
The bout lasted only minute and
fifteen seconds, and as the opening mill
was ended with a knockout also in the
first round, the club patrons had the
very unusual experience of seeing two
pairs of big boxers settling their ar
guments in about three minutes of
actual fighting.
In the opening bout Max Unger. an
Americanized German, and Carl Beck
of Germany, who are both noted as
strong men, We're the contestants.
Each is in the heavyweight class, and
neither had ever taken part in a pub
lie sparring contest. Both led for the
head and Beck landed a stiff left. This
was the only blow he struck, as Unger
rushed at him and foored him with a
right on the chest. Beck sprang 10 his
feet instantly, only to go down again
before another right. He stayed down
three seconds this time, and sprinted,
but Unger who was hot on his trail,
swung his right to the jaw. Beck fell
in a heap, and it looked as if he were
out, but he got up with surprising alac-
rity. He faced his opponent, who by
this time had sure thing" of it. A
few light passes followed with very
little damage, until Unger again swuc G
his right on Beck's jaw, and the for
eigner went down and out. He was
carried to his corner in a helpless con-
dition, and did not realize that he had
been whipped until fully five minutes
after Unger had been declared the win
ner. Time of round, l minute AZ sec
OndS.
NELL GETS THE DECISION.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-The
twentyround glove contest between
Tom Tracey and AL Nefn, under the
auspices of the Western Athletic Club,
at Woodward's Pavilion tonight, was
largely attended. Neiu was the favor
lite al odds of 10 to 8. Professor Walter
Watson acted as referee. The men
agreed TO break away in the clinches at
the word Of the referee, but this was
several times violated by Tracey, and
ultimately caused him to lose the fight.
The contest was give and take
throughout, each man in turn appear
ing dazed at times and again recovering
and administering telling blows. Tracey
was fioored several times, but he has d
habit of going down even when not hit
hard. and he always came up in an in
slant apparently none the worse.
At no time did the fighting lag, and a
more spirited contest has seldom been
seen here. Near the end of the TWEEN
tieth round, when the advantage
seemed slightly in favor of Neill, Ira
cey, disregarding repeated warnings.
struck his opponent in the clinch. Ref
cree Watson separated the men, dis
qualified Tracey for his action, and
gave the decision to NeiI
In the preliminaries Jimmy Lawlor
got the decision over Martin Denny af-
ter ten rounds of hard fighting
Billy Otis knocked out Charley John
son in the first round of what was to
have been a ten-round contest.
M'CUE BEATS NEEDHAM.
NEW HAVEN Comm, April 25>-
Martin McCue of New York got the de-
tision over Billy Needham OF ST. Paul
in ten-round bout at Meyers Hall to-
night.