Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-01-18
THE GLOVES
Were Used BY the Featherweights
As Advertised "A Nice Clean
Contest.

Contest.
Thesecond of the athletic events of
the Marietta Athletic Club was pulled
off at the Auditorium Tuesday evening
and was very nice clean affair in ev-
cry respect. There was not a large
house, but those who were there en-
joyed every minute of the time when
the events were being pulled off.
Charles Conkle gave an exhibition
of his skill as a bag-puncher, after
which there we're two preliminaries
which furnished good deal of sport
but of course interest was deepest in
the big event of the evening between
the two fathrweight champions.
The first boxing bout was between
Kid Smith, of Belpre, and Jack Boyd,
of Sistersville. 1t was a five round go
and was decided in favor of Smith,
who had the best of it all the time,
landing often on various parts of
Boyd's antony. Boyd did but little
damage to Smith in any way.
The next was four round go be-
tween Harry Budd, of Parkersburg,
and an unknown, of Columbus, o. II
ever these two devotees of the manly
art have need to run to catch train
they will no doubt catch it, for they
showed conclusively that they were
sprlnters. The bout was an interest
ing and amusing one from every
standpoint. 1t was declared draw.
The two preliminaries being over,
preparations were promptly made for
the main event.
Chic Brooker arrived in the city
i tuesday morning in company with his
trainer, Joe Fronmel. He stated to the
Leader that his weight was about 95
pounds, and he didn't look that heavy.
Bruner, who had bee ntraining here,
was on hand and in fine condition and
stated his weight to be 1O7 or 1O8
pounds.
The seconds for Brooker were Joe
Fronmel, A. B. Curry and Robert
Smith,
The seconds Ior Bruner were Fred
Hildore, Chas. Conkle and Jim Gavin.
Charles Bailey was referee and Max
A. Rau, timekeeper.
In the first round there was con-
siderable sparring for an opening by
both men, they each them throwing out
feelers. There were a few exchanges
of compliments and little lively
lodging.
In the second round Brooker lands
on face and body and cleverly evaded
Burners leads for the face
The third round opened lively,
Bruner leading. They exchanged
light body blows and Bruner gains
two on the body Brooker by a left
swing brings first blood to Bruner's
nose A lively exchange of body
blows and Brooker forces Bruner to
the ropes, landing two more on the
face
After this round the fighting contin-
ued much the same, with honors
about even, but in the sixth round
Bruner brought blood to Brokers'
nose.
Brooker showed quite an agile frame
in his dodging and kept Bruner guess
ing as to where he would be next.
Bruner did good guarding and show
ed that he had excellent staying quail
les, in fact both men showed showed
good staying power and returned to
The fray each time at he sound of the
gong looking fresh and ready for the
work. After the fifteenth round the
contest was declared draw.
If the Athletic Club continues to
give the sport loving people of Mari
etta as good exhibitions as they have
done in the two they have had, they
will no doubt draw a large patronage
a sthat is the kind Of work to suit the
people who love the sport.