The Portland daily press., 1900-04-24
GARDINER WON.
A Lively Boat at oasco Athletic ciub
Last Night.


There was q good sized crowd In at
tendance last evening at the rooms OF the
Casoo Athlstic club on Middle street 20
witness the contest tetween George Gar
diner OF Lowell, Mass., and william Han
rahan Of New York. Tbess two men
have more than local regulations and &C.
oordiuely no IittIs intert s. had been man.
ifested In their mseting. GArdinsr IL
the champion middlewelsht Of New Eng
land, and 10 al respects seams to be a
nrst-vlass man In the ring. Hanrahan
aIso came to town bearing excellent re-
ports OF bis ability. BIZ managers ststsd
last evening that ne was below bis rs1ai
weight.
During the first part OF the evening
there were two cont, SITS Of minor impor-
tanoe, AID interest. First. the Madison
brothers of Boston, gave an exhibition
boxing bout, wish was well appreciated
By the crowd. Then George Phalen Of
Boston was stacked up against young
man named George Aieta Of Halloweil.
This contest was aur ourosd to be for
SIX rounds, but vas concluded a. the
end OF the second when Phelan proved
These prsliminariss over, the crowd
was all ready for the p, incipsl- bout
There was q delay Of some time, however,
before the contestants presented theU-
selves. During the interim the plano was
brought into service and a srilfun p'aJ-
Or ran on q numhsr CT stirIi Ing tunes.
Then rs some Of the crowd hegan to
grow impatient ut the s!owness Of Gar
diner and HAnrahAn showing up, Man.
ager Fraser came out aud explained that
the men would soon ts at hand. Mama
ere Fraser added that this was to be
gocd exhibition aad In order that
full Justice might be assured both men,
he had sslectsd two outsiders from the
crowd to Gsnst in living t1e decisions.
The bout was sat down for IS rounds.
Finally Gardiner and Hanrahan came
forth from their dressing room and as
they ascended the platform were CRESTED
by applause from their friends Both OF
these men are Ia -ge and powerful chaps
spd are undou BITE dly the test looking
pug lists in point of physioue that have
been seen In q CONTEST In Pcrta1d for a
ioog time. They got down to work
round Referee Brassr was several times
obliged to caution each man to break
az ay. The referee was also called upon
to quiet one noisy enthusiast who was
in the crowd on the platform directly
back of the arena. Gardiner and Han
'rahan were very active and when the
gong was rung at the end Of the initial
round is was question as to which WIS
the better man of the two.
in the second round Hanrahan was
pushed up against the ropss by his oppo-
nent and the contest began to get inter
sstirg. The third round was CLOSE ana
exciting while In the fourth there came
the first applause Of the evening when
Gardner landed q heavy blow on Han
raaan, From this time for the rest Of
the round the work Of both men was very
shsrp, each getting In soms swings, al
though number Of them were Wild.
Hanrahan WIS again pushed against the
ropes In thu fifth round and the gro wd
began to realize that they were seeing
good Il lag. In the following ROUNDS
Care iaer's left swing proved effective
and In the eighth Gardiner plainly
showed that he was fast getting the
best Cf the fray. Hs was firing out
Hanrahan, who seemed to be tagged
when the gong was sounded.
The ninth round decided the BIT siness.
Gardner continued to aIs7me the sg-
grsesivsness with which he had started
ort during the last I'VE rounds and when
he pushed Hanrahan up against the
ropes 1t IVES seen that Gardiner was the
bsttsr man and the bout was given to
hun. Hanrahan was none the worse for
his part in the affair. Throughout the
crswd was orderly and quiet and the
two boxers showed themselves to DO
very clever men.