The San Francisco call., 1899-10-07
IS
KNOCKEDOUT
BY McFADDEN
Very Sensational Fight With
Heavy Hitting and Much
Gameness Displayed,
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK. Oct George McFad-
den of this city knocked out George (Kid)
Lavigue, eX-lightweight champion of the
world, in the nineteenth round before the
new Broadway Athletic Club tonight
They met at 1913 pounds and put up a
fight which was as SENSATIONAL as it was
prolific of hard hitting and clever ring
work. McFaddens blocking of the Kids
Iushes and leads was phenomenal, and
toward the end of the bout he had the
Saginaw boxer very raw and sore. At the
opening Layigne was the favorite, but
after the twelfth round odds Of 100 TO 50
were freely offered on McFadden.
Lavigne was we'll battered, and several
minutes elapsed before he realized what
had happened 10 him. McFadden left the
ring virtually without mark McFadden
fought carefully at the start. stopping La
NIgnes rushes. Toward the close Of the
fourth round he staggered the Kid with
left and right on the head and in the fifth
he took the aggressive. getting in on the
Kids wind and stopping the latter 5
ruSheS in a way that set the spectators
cheering. In the sixth LdVgne, unable TO
reach his man, seemed to nave lost his
temper ana fought wildly. In the seventh
the hid came out slower than usual ana
seemed tired. McFadden landed twice on
the Jaw and again on the face, and the
Nla rushed HIM TO the ropes.
in the eighth the Kid rushed again, but
Mac guard was perfect and the round
was McFadden's, who landed hard on the
lace and jaw again and again. In the
ninth Mac landed left and right on the
face and body and seemed very fresh and
strong as he stopped the Kid rushes.
IaVigne kept on leading Intellectually and
getting smashed in the face, but in the
eleventh, soon after the ClinCh, in which
the men fell, LaViSne nearly put Mae out
with d left swing 10 the pit of the stOm
aCh. When LaviGne came up for the thir-
teenth his left eye was almost closed
10 rrr= nd 81 rel Nrrr To-
much the better Of the exchanges. In the
fifteenth Mac sent the Kid down and
staggered him again with a right mo-
mcnt later. LaVigne took heavy punish
menJ in The sixteenth and was evidently
going down hill Both men were a bit
wild in the seventeenth, with Mac forcing
his man. Lavlgne went down from a
right on the jaw, but got up instantly and
got left and right on the head. Toward
the close of the eighteenth LaVigne fell
from LEFT jab and push with hands. He
got up in two seconds, only to go to his
knees from a righ upperCut as the bell
rang, and he went 10 his corner groggy
In the final round MCFadden went right
TO his man, 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.
Each time he took almost the limit 10 get
up, but II was beyond doubt that he was
unable to cope with McFadden, who stood
waiting TO give him a final blow The
Kid clinched as he got up, and the ref
cree separated them. Then Mac nailed
Lavigne with a left back OF the ear, and
the KID then went down for nearly nine
seconds. A left TO the body floored La
Vigne for the fifth time. He got up only
70 go down again, this time from clinch
with MCFadden on top.
McFadden jumped up at once. but La
v!gne rose slowly. He staggered across
the ring. with McFadden hot after him
McFadden rushed his right to the head
and uppercut his left 10 the chin. La
j -
the limit. He stood in a dazed condition
NcFadden measured him carefully and
with a left swing this time sent him down
seconds.
Before the principal event Jimmy Hay
ward Of Chicago defeated Eddie DAILY Of
Baltimore in a twelve-rOund bout, in
which the white man was pretty thor
oughly used up though wonderfully game.