The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-24
FAST AND FURIOUS FIGHT
Mcfarland and Sullivan Go at It
Hammer and Tongs.
IN TWENTY-F ROUNDS
Both Mon Were Bent on Winning and
Made It Vicious Battle - Sullivan
Claimed Foul in the 10th but
It Was Disallowed.

New York, May 23-After 25 rounds
of fast, vicious fighting at the Lenox
Athletic club tonight, Kid Mcfarland
was given the decision over Spike Sulli-
van. Going into the fight on the short
end of the betting, Mcfarland COM
pletely upset the calculations of the
sports. He bested his man at every
point of the game and administered to
him the most severe punishment that
he has ever received in his pugilistic
career.
While the margin between the show
ing made by the two men was very
wides there were several times during
the contest when Mcfarland was on
dangerous ground Despite the terrible
punishment which he received, Sullivan
showed remarkable recuperative pow
ers and often came back surprisingly
strong. The men fought as if they mad
a grudge. Each had reached a point in
his pugilistict career where victory was
very dear to him, and they fought hard
and viciously for it, It was a contest
replete with sensations, and the large
crowd that filled the auditorium of the
club house was on its feet yelling half
dozen times. Mcfarland was a big
favorite with the crowd, and they
cheered him on to victory with a parti-
sanship that was often unfair.
The men fought under Queensbury
rules with the understanding that each
hi,
and as result the referee worked al
most as hard as the principals. The
men clinched repeatedly and constant
ly sought to hit in the clinches. Sulli-
van seemed to keep his elbow up close
to McPartland's mouth and MCFARLAND
often had the appearance of hitting
his man while holding him. The ref
cree was kept dancing around and be-
tween the men throughout the contest,
and it was only by the greatest care
on his part that the men We're kept
from making their fouls more palpable.#
Mcfarland won the fight by the use
of his wonderful ieft arm. 1t was SER
Viceable from every conceivable posi-,
tion and often &fter planting it straight
from the shoulder, he would withdraw
it and whip it in at close range. While
he was not at Sll times the pacemaker,
he seemed always anxious to get at his
man.
Sullivan, on the other hand, demon
strated in the earlier rounds of the
fight that he was going to end the con-
test with one punch from his right He
swung it. and hooked with it, but
either failed ITO land with it or it was
Intellectual Later in the fight he
brought his left into use and twice it
came near winning him the contest
Sullivan was terribly punished His
face was badly cut and he had Jumps
over both of his eyes. Mcfarland on
the other hand, showed very little pun
ishment and came out unmarked and
comparatively fresh from the ring. Sui
Ivan attempted to claim the fight on
a foul in the 10th. He asserted that he
had been struck in the abdomen. Ills
claim was disallowed and disproved by
the activity he displayed few mo-
ments later.
The first round was a feeler. with the
men as active and 1.-THE as eats. Near
the close both missed swings that car
ried them off their feet. Sullivan began
the second by making the pace and
forcing MCFARLAND around the ring.
They clinched repeatedly and then Sui
livan cut good right on the Jaw. the
third round was whirlwind. Both tried
theleft at the same time, both landed and
II.
have taken the hardest punch. They
clinched and hugged and wrestled and
the referee had to break them away re-
peatedly. 1t looked like McPartland's
round.
The fourth opened viciously. Sullivan
forced MCFARLAND into his corner,
where the latter slipped down and
when they were at it again Mcfarland
rushed his man about the ring and
and onto the ropes on the other side.
Sullivan landed a fair right on MOZART
lands stomach and Mcfarland put a
left on the jaw. The round was an
even break.
The fifth was also vicious. The kid
found Spikes face with his left and up-
percut him with his right in a clinch.
Sullivan came up out of the clinch
bleeding badly. sullivan landed his left
and then his right on the neck and then
rushed hisman a bout the ring and
tried to use his right They exchanged
stomach punches and clinched. They
were fighting at the close. They both
roughed it in the sixth, Sullivan setting
the pace but no effective work was
done
In the seventh Mcfarland had
clear lead He put Sullivan on the
ropes with a left on the face and stand
ing against him swung repeatedly at
him. Sullivan worked his way out.
however, ana was lighting Wnen the
round closed.
Sullivan was the aggressor in the
opening of the eighth. They exchanged
lefts and the kid avoided a terrible right
hand swing and was up in time to put
a left on the neck. Another series of
clinehes followed
Mcfarland came near taking the
fight in the ninth. He felled his man
with a left on the face and then went
into finish him. Groggy and bleeding,
Sullivan clung to his man until he re-
covered and before the round was over
was back in the fighting. Sullivan was
on the down grade again in the 10th.
Mcfarland beat him all over the ring
and sent him down twice. Sullivan got
up crying and declared that he had
been struck in the abdomen, but White
ordered him to his corner. The crowd
was up and yelling when the 18th open
ed Sullivan was still crying and de-
manded the attention of the referee,
but when the kid came at him he fought
back vfciously and at the end of the
round was making the pace.