The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-05
STOPPED BY AN INJUNCTION.
The Excuse for Not Pulling Off the Nc
E'adden- Fla herty Fight Last Night


The Excuse for Not Pulling Off the Nc
Fadden- Flaherty Fight Last Night.
The boxing exhibition given by the
Miami Athletic club of New Haven a
the Savin Rock grounds was stopped af
ter the second bout and the principa
bout between George McFadden of New
York city and Martin F'laherty of Low
ell, Mass, was called off. The first, 6
ten round bout, between "Diclx" Marc.
ney of New Haven and Johnny Keogt
OF New York was won by Marooney
| Keough is known as Young Jeffries.
Round 1-Maroney tented and sent
| left to the New Workers body. Tried
for the same place and was blocked
Jeff sent left to the face and the
youngsters clinched. Maroney sent a
hot one to Jeffries' face. Jeffries retail
lated with a stiff jab to the body. They
closed the round sparring.
! Round 2They mixed things at the
start, Jeffries having apparently the
best of it. Maroney sent in some hard
| of nasty jabs in the face that made him
bleed near the close of the round
! Round 3-Maroney showed fight with
| the stroke of the gong and forced his
man all around the ring and sending in
his left to Jeff's heart sent him down.
Jeffries rose at five but q push put out
his lights.
Just as Frank Bradley of New York
and kid Conroy Of New Haven step
ped into the ring the announcer, Joe
Humphreys stepped forth and brand
ishing an imposing looking document
stated that Manager Kirk had been
served with an injunction and the
Flaherty- McFadden match could not
go on; that the $500 posted with Richard
K. Fox would be forfeited to the two
men, and that Kirk could not make up
the balance of the promised $1,000 purse
necessary to be paid at the opening Of
the bout. He did not say who sued out
the writ. He explained that the club
had acted in good faith etc, etc.
Examination revealed that this in
junction was issued at the instance of
Clarence e. Thompson of the town of
Orange, signed by Justice George w.
Adams and approved by City Court
Judge Dow and served by Deputy
Sheriff Spiegel. 1t recited the issuance
of the hand bills. tickets, etc, the ar
ticles of agreement between the princi-
pals and described the whole affair as
subversive of good morals and against
the peace of the borought, and prayed
for an immediate enjoining of any con-
test, but it was not served until after
the second bout had been finished
When this was announced angry spec
tators demanded a return of the money.
or at least ten rounds of the scheduled
twenty. The manager for McFadden,
both fighters having now appeared in
the ring, explained that the men We're
there for money alone, and no money
Forthcoming as agreed his men would
not go on. Seats were sold for 81, 81
and 49, many Of the spectators having
come from a distance 1t looked to
them very much like a repetition of the
Bridgeport Al Woods fasco. There
were between 1900 and 1000 people pres
emit. The referee was Joe Eckhardt.
George johnson, a colored fighter from
Galveston, Texas, appeared and chal-
lenged any 160-pound man in the state.
Button Bunch" Matthews of New Ha-
ven challenged the winner of the second
match, preferably Kid Con-
roy.
The second bout had as one principal
another New Haven boy. Patsy Con-
roy, his opponent being Frank Bradley |
of New York. The go was to be for ten |
rounds at 124. Conroy was seven |
pounds over weight and the New York
err two pounds light. Bradley decided |
to go on regardless of this handicap. |
Bradley, although a superior ring gem
eral, was early tired by Conroy's blows !
mad did extremely we'll to get draw
from the contest as Conroy was very
aggressive and showed wonderful i'm
provement in form since his last contest.