The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-25
OLYMPIC CLUB
THE Scene Of
SPIRITED BOUTS
Ed Johnson of Oregon
Meets Defeat.

The Olympic Club gymnasium was
crowded last evening with members and
sportsmen, who gathered to witness the
finals of the series of boxing contests and
a special bout between the middle-weight
champions Of California and Oregon.
special prize was offered for a six
round contest between E. Johnson, the
champion middle-weight boxer of the
Multnomah Athletic Club of Portland, Or,
and ]. Mcdonald, middle-weight cham
pion of the Olympic Club.
George Green and Bob Macarthur sec
onded Johnson and ]. F. Mccarthy and
De Witt Van Court looked after the in
terestS of Mcdonald. In the first round
Mcdonald used foul tactics by holding his
opponents hand and then landing on
Johnson's neck with the right. He was
cautioned by Referee Smith, but repeated
the offense several times during the
round Johnson stopped cleverly several
leads for the stomach, but failed to
guard swings aimed at his head. Nc
Donald had the best of the second round
landing quite frequently on Johnson S
neck, but he could not resist engaging in
foul play, much to the disgust of the
Oregonian, who appealed to the referee.
Johnson, who is a six-footer, had evil
IDENTIFY been sparring with some one who
was his equal in height, and Mcdonald
who is a stocky built fellow, assumed a
crouching position and easily ducked
Johnson's blows, which went sailing over
his head. Then again, the Olympian
would dash at his opponent, who stood on
guard waiting for the attack, and smash
Johnson a left on the jaw and retire with
out return blow.
Johnson's failure WilS owing principally
to his method of fighting. He invariably
waited for the attack and instead of up
percutting his antagonist when the op-
portunity arrived he stood posing, ant
while thinking what was best TO do witt
a man less his size by several inches he
invariably received a left hand smash
in the face, which upset all his plans. Ir
the fifth round Johnson was sent to the
canvas by a Highlander on the jaw
where he remained eight seconds. He got
up only to be sent down again, and then
the timely gong sounoed the end Of the
round.
The seconds of the Multnomah Clubs
champion, seeing that .Johnson's fight was
hopeless, signaled defeat and amid wild
cheers Mcdonald was declared the victor,
johnson, however, put up game fight.
w. j. Leonard of the Olympic Club de-
feated William Hoskins of the Excelsior
Club in a six-round bout Ileonard's body
punches knocked the steam out of Hos
kins, who fought gamely to the end.
Doc" Flynn of the Excelsior Club got
a decision over ]. Kane of the Liberty
Club, but it must be said with all credit
to Kane that he suffered defeat only by
the very poor judgment displayed by the
judges, who received well merited CEN
S. Carter of the Olympic Club and Frank
Cerini of the Reliance Club of Oakland.
The results of the rounds fought We're:
In the first Kane scored most points.
The second and third were evenly con-
tested. The fourth round was Kane's be-
yond a question of doubt In the fifth
Kane sent his opponent to the carpet and
had all the better of the argument. The
sixth was fairly even although Kane had
a shade the best of the round. How the
judges could have figured otherwise is a
mystery even to the boxer who was
handed the championship belt. He GER
tainly will not condescend to wear it as
an emblem of victory.
A. Hellman of the Sacramento Athletic
Club lost a decision by his own foolish
ness. He thought that F. Asst of the
Manhattan Athletic Club was easy game
and started in at the sound of the gong
to mix things and win a quick and easy
victory. The first round was give and
take. Asst held his own with the heavy
hitting lad from the capital city, and In
| the second round after some hot ex-
changes Hellman ran bang into a right
hand cross which caught him on the jaw
point, and down went Hellman on his
| back. When he regained his equilibrium
he wanted to know what had happened
why, can't you see what is up?" asked
one of his seconds. Look across the ring
and you will witness the result. There
| is Professor Asst the jaw-smasher. try.
| ing on the Hermann Oelrichs champion
belt" Poor Hellman looked surprised
and wondered how he received the blow
that killed his aspirations.