The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-05-02
.OPENING--BASE BALL.
ISLAND PARK.
Wheeling vs.. New Castle.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
MAYl, 2 AND 3.
Admission PIC. Grand CfDnd In
admission CSC. GRIND Stnnd l5e.

Eicsly In n break. Although EddI. ran
into punches. he kept right after him.
y Both forced matters In the next
round. Jack jabbed Eddie with left and
followed with right. He went at Eddie
hard this round. Eddie blocking nicely.
Eddie placed 4 stiff right on stomach
that counted next hound. But Jack
kept hamnerins away with his left,
following 1t up with rights. all for the
head, but they hadn't too much steam.
Jack drove Eddie across the ring to the
ropes by his punches. Eddie swung an
other on stomach, which Seemed Macs
vital point. Ja-a,
Both were apparently fresh. They
mixed It lively in the next round, and
Jack chopped Eddie's face effectively.
In this round he swung hard on Jaw.
but Eddie remained strong and one of
his blows in return eQualled the doZea
Mac gave him. The round was trotted
at 2. fast clip. z
Jack started the next with left labs
for. face. Both fought In low crouch
Ing attitude, Eddie trying for body
and while his face caught q hurricane
he blocked manf and many one. HIS
work excelled what he did ut the start.
Cllnching featured the eleventh
round and Striking with one arm free"
added to the excitement. Then they
started mixing In the centre OF the ring
and Eddie was punished hard, yet his
strength and endurance kept him Oh
his feet aud his noble stand cnthused
his friends.
The twelfth was tanner. McClelland
started to punish Eddie with VEN
geance In the thirteenth. and he swung
and jabbed without return. He could
drive Eddie back but the little fellow
was soon back at him for more and he
had to take lots OF medicine. His face
was putting TIP In Jumps. This round
wns all McClcland's. ~'i.+r ;.
Warm clashing In the centre. ensued
In the fourteenth. Jack landed fire.
quently. but It was the old story OF
Eddie back at him with an occasional
stiff counter. And the minutes rest be-
tween rounds allowed him to recaper-
ate. Eddie did better In the fifteenth,
for his blows had more steam. But
jock staggered Eddie with q left on
jaw Just before the gong ung.
Jack rushed ut Eddie like flend
when they came up for the sixteenth.
His rush was short lived, although he
plastered Eddie right and left on the
face, and his glove had smack to It
when II landed. Eddie was caught In
q corner and Jack soaked him against
the ropes, Eddie getting ont In the
clinch. Jacks blows hadn't the knock
out ring. singing as they were. He
punished Eddie against the ropes again
In the seventeenth.
Eddie slipped in avoiding punch In
the eighteenth. but was I'D In a mo-
ment. He found Macs body a few
times, but retreatcd from hail Of
swings at his head. Then Eddie set the
crowd wild with an upper cut THAI
nearly hoored Mac. following Il by
swinEa and raps that sent Jack rceling
across the ring. Mac was weakened
and he looked distressed.
Mac came up Cocky In the nineteenth,
and they started ut each other clinch-
Ing and smuggling. 1t was alleged that
Jack tried to choke Eddie In the
clinches. and Gavin had time sepa-
rating them. Jacks rush was soon
over and Eddie kept him going. Jack
fetched him n stiff upper on the Jaw
that had good effect. Eddie was groggy,
but the gong saved him. The round
was fought hard for the decision.
The last round found the crowd on
needles and It was tho corker nnticipa-
ted. Eddie was dizzy when they
shook hands and his defense lacked
the strength of former rounds. Mac
couldn't lind right to put Eddie ont,
and Eddie's ducklng was saving him.
Eddie would certainly have stayed the
round. but Oscar Jumped into the ring
to save the knockout he feared. Eddie
leaned up against the ropes and smiled
at Oscars Intervention. Referee Gavin
accordingly gave McClclland the decl-
sion he would have certainly got.