The record-union., 1899-10-07
KID" lAvICNE
PUT TO SLEEP.
The Former Champion Lightweight
Pugi|ist of the World
Knocked Out In the Nineteenth Round by
George McFadden.
The Fight of Sensational Charac-
ter, Prolific of Hard Hitting and
Clever Ring Work-McCoy and
Choynski Fight a Six-Round
Draw, Though the Former
Clearly Outpointed the Latter.

NEW YORK, Oct 6.-George Nc
Fadden of this city knocked out George
C'kid'O Lavigne, ex-lightweight cham
pion of the world, in the nineteenth
round before the new Broadway Ath-
letic Club tonight. They met at 133
pounds, and put up a fight which was
as sensational as it was prolific OF
hard hitting and clever ring work. Nc
Fadden's blocking of the Kids"
rushes and leads was phenomenal, and
toward the end of the bout he had the
Saginaw boxer very raw and sore. AT
the opening Lavigne was the favorite,
but after the twelfth round odds OF
100 to 80 were freely offered on Nc
Fadden.
Lavigne was we'll battered, and sew
eral minutes elapsed before he real
lied what had happened to him. Me-
Fadden left the ring virtually without
a mark.
McFadden fought carefully at the
start, stopping Lavigne's rushes. To-
ward the close of the fourth round he
staggered the kid" with left ana
right on the head, and in the fifth he
Kids" wind and stopping the latters
rushes in a way that set the spectators
cheering. In the sixth Lavigne, un-
able to reach his man, seemed to have
lost his temper and fought wildly.
In the seventh the Kid came out
slower than usual, and seemed tired.
McFadden landed twice on the jaw and
again on the face, and the kid"
rushed again, but Macs guard was
perfect, and the round was McFad-
denis, who landed hard on the face
and jaw again and again.
In the ninth Mac landed a left and
right on the face and body, and seemed
very fresh and strong as he stopped
the Kids" rushes.
Lavigne kept on leading ineffectually,
and getting smashed in the face, but
in the eleventh, soon after a clinch, in
which the men fell, Lavigne nearly
put Mac out with a left swing to the
pit of the stomach.
When Lavigne came uD for the
thirteenth round his left eye was al
most closed. He still rushed viciously,
but Mac got much the better of the
exchanges.
In the fifteenth Mac sent the kid"
down, and staggered him again with a
right moment later.
Lavigne took heavy punishment in
the sixteenth, and was evidently going
down hill.
Both men were a bit wild in the
seventeenth, with Mae forcing his
man. Lavigne went down with a
t1xy
and got a left and right on the head.
Toward the close of the eighteenth
round Lavigne fell from left Jab and
a push with the hands. He got up in
two seconds, only to go to his knees
from right uppercut as the bell rang,
and he went to 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 Sec
onds. He got up reeling and tried to
clinch but was sent down twice more
with similar blows. Each time he took
almost the limit to get up, but it was
beyond doubt that he was unable TO
cope with McFadden. who stood wait,
kid clinched as he got up, and the
referee separated them. Then Mac
nailed Lavigne with a left back of the
ear, and the kid" went down Tor
nearly nine seconds. a left to the body
floored Lavigne for the fifth time. He
got up only to go down again, TINS
time from a clinch, with McFadden on
top.
McFadden jumped up at once, but
Lavigne rose slowly. He staggered
across the ring, with McFaGden not
after him. Mac rushed his right To
the head, and uppercut his left to the
chin Lavigne went down again, but
got up within the limit. He stood in
dazed condition McFadden measured
him carefully, and with a left swing
this time sent him down and out. Time
of round . minutes ) seconds
Before the principal event Jimmy
Hayward of Chicago defeated Eddie
Daily of Baltimore in twelve-round
bout, in which the white man was
pretty throughly used up, though Won
derfully game.
MCCOY OY-CHOYNSKI CONTEST.
CHICAGO, Oct. 6.-"Kid' Mccoy and
Joe Choynski fought six rounds before
the Fort Dearborn Athletic club TO-
night Both men had agreed to a draw
in case they were on their feet at the
end of the sixth round. and that was
the decision, as both were not only on
their feet, but comparatively fresh.
Mccoy, however, clearly outpolnted
the Californian, and scored the only
knockdown of the fight, putting Joe
to the boards with a left hook to the
mouth in the third round.
The Kid made a careful fight or IL.
He took no chances whatever, content
ing himself as a rule with jabblng
Choynski with his left. He used MS
right but seldom but it generally
counted hard when he did put 1t IN
operation. Choynski scored many
times, bringing the blood from
McCoy'S nose in the first round, and