The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-03
DIXON GETS THE DECISION.
~rsrs WILLIE CUHLEY IN A TWEEN
rY-FIvE-RoUND CONTEST.
r-~,ishman Proves Himself q
clever, Game Boy, bst the Col
n.~d F~ntherweig Was Just
Little hit the CleveFer.

rrr YORK, NV. Z.-C;eorge Dixon.
,.a,bsrusight champion Of the world, more
- hsl6 his own tonight against Willie
&C. o. England. and after Fighting
,xarfv.fys rounds many q when were
..h.r tame The American vas declared
a. winner and no che complained.
f,,tley Is = clever. game boy. hut Dixon
a. = iftl. BIZ cleYerer and none the less
80 Dtxons vi-tory was we'll earned.
- ~ nix eeseat Of Curiey be re-esJab-
rssss what has always besn claimed. that
= b the super.0- ~ Jordan. Palmer ana
- TnglIsfrnea VINO have forfeited 70 Cur
Ia Cugsey has 10 Y use 70 maze tor ms
sefsa; ton.ght other tnan that re VAS Out
ssa.ssA Dixon was q zig .aTottte. a. nIcn
- 10 n 81 being wagsred Oh him.
Before the Eagiisnmau donned the
ssgyes no aenanief an assurance that the
1,srse Of q 80 guaranteed
r. the opening round CuFiey shot two
49, Iatts into Dixon mouth. Dixon
syung lefts or body and head.
There we're Ign exchanges IN the second
,a.snh and IL The third curiey mad The
he,ter Of the tght.ng though Dixon was
ths axsressor at The opening. Curiey
pante,l terrific right straight over
tixon's heart
e,lrlsv vas very clever In lodging his
assaults, and Cu.iey's blocking was almost
The nth round was Dixon's. He brought
f-urlsv N his t.ptoes with A hard left in
H. gtornach Curley weakened and Dixon
hored In villa 4 right Gu tie Jaw. Curisy
elinchsd bit Dixon fought him OF. send
tnx Ia hard caes on the WIND ana WAS
forcing CURLY all round the ring when the
soEg sounded.
Dixon continued bis rushing in the aixth.
landing hard right over the ear Curley
landed right On the body. right on ths<Tiba.
and Just before the bell put left swing
on Dix0ls head.
Dixon bored in In the seventh. landing
left on the Jaw and right on the wind Cur
jsy blocked preitily. but landed only once.
left on the body.
A straight left and left hook sent Cur
sys head back In the eighth Curley MAS
cautioned for ''nuggiag" In a cllnch. Nsar
tLs end Of the round Curiey put straight
lsfls on the face and sent his right on the
law In the breakaway.
In the. ninth Curiey pat his left TO
George 3 eye and landed a triple chopptng
blow the chest. neck and head Dixon
rushed. and met with right on body. left
and right on face and right on wind. Cur
lsy was cautioned Az in for 'mugging."
Curley opened the tenth with n right 10
TIE ribs and a left chop on the ear. Dixon
Put q hard left on the stomach, which
made Cufley vince. Dixon landed several
asht body blows. and Curley put hard
.Hht on the eye.
Dixon failed 10 land In the eleventh until
tss hell rang and Mas evidently willing to
trt LtFff} IRE himself ~ CONTINUOUS iGlG-
ng c0riey landed a right Jolt on the
body.
George opened the twelfth with a sting
Ing lett swing on the ear. Several lis,lt
exchanges followed. and IN close quarters
George planted right en- the body and
hooked his left 10 the head dropping Cur
lsy 70 the floor The Engllshman struggled
& regain his feet but the bell saved him
aft. three seconds
c!rley came up grogEy IN the thirteenth
hnd Dixon fought 10 finish him. but Cur
ley improved fast. HE put "A left on Dix
ems face ana body and right over thc
heart, and Was Ia good condition al the
bell
Ia the fourteenth Curley pat a straight
itft - Dixon's face and George put TWO
rights 70 the Jaw.
Curiey opened the fifteenth with a left
q the tace aud Dixon tabbch left IA cur
leYs right eve which was swollen from
tlfieg fail in the twelfth. Dixon land
81 hafd lcft 0u the stomach that seemed
70 cause turley great pain
. lac exchanges In the sixteenth were
Nsht. tufley struck Dixon from i cIinch
bot Immediately apaiuglzed
ihe seventeenth, eighteenth and nine
ieanth rounds Mere tame. Both mon were
uInd, tHrleE more 80 Than Dixon
turley made an effort IN the twentieth
getting his ter - the body. and though
IHsoh KEEP going 10 his man. his efforts
Mere Ineffective.
Dixon had shade the better OF the
twenty first, hut Curiev par a left hook To
The taw ihht woke Dixon up.
tGfieN beg fan The invent v-@eSon,i with n
fsht dfiN" - I'iNon-s body Dixon looked
angry h4' hts expression did not scare
zee tf'iipn. whn blocked and guarded
,fF'Tlf. lie chopped n loft to pixons
''e ana George sent a right 10 ne body
II the fWeufy-third 1'uriey got his right
o.fr t. iiiN"p'~ iaw hart hut after This
fseft his '"f"n7r weakened ~ the close
q n" r"9rt btKot fAnaeti Il hlnw in the
- 49, mat mas" turlc} voTnit "a he went