The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-06-07
CELT VERSUS SCOT.
McTavy Fought to Such
Purpose That Sloane
Was Laid Up.

Stripped to the waist, two Hoboken
longshoremen fought with bare knuckles
for nearly half an hour last evening, A
knockout blow laid one of the combatants
low. while a crowd of several hundred
cheered the victor as he was borne about
on the shoulders of his comrades. The
defeated man was so badly used up that
it was an hour before he revived and he
was placed under the care of surgeon
to be patched up.
The mill was held on the Riverwalk,
near Seventh street, to escape police in
terference. Private watchmen guard the
property in the locality and the police
have seldom occasion to visit it, Charles
McTavy, Scotchman has always been
regarded as the best pugilist among the
longshoremen on the Savannah pier.
James Sloane, an Irishman, got job on
the pier and began to get in McTavy's
way.
The anticipated outbreak came yester-
day. McTavy in slipping a moose over a
cask to be lowered into the hold of one
of the big ships, accidentally or otherwise
hit Sloane on the head with the free end
of the rope. The men agreed to have 1t
out that very evening. They began pre-
pairing for the fray with ibations OF
mixed ale procured in tin kettle from
Dutch Jake" When the evening whistle
blew both were buoyed up for the en-
counter and no time was lost.
A ring was marked off in the middle of
the dusty roadway and the men, after
divesting themselves of useless garments,
took up positions facing each other.
go at it We divels' ordered the referee,
who did not believe in wasting time in
preliminaries and sat it, the men went
with a will. They made their own rules
as they fought. No respect was paid to
those of the Marquis of Queensbury or
the London Prize Ring. Every time a
man was knocked down the referee called
a round and the crowd cheered frantically.
In the first ten rounds the blows were
pretty evenly distributed. Both men were
cut about the face and in the third go
McTavy had one of his optics closed.
This maddened him and soon after he had
the satisfaction of inficting a like pun
ishment on his antagonist.
The rounds were, of such infrequent
length that they were hard to keep track
of, but it was about in the sixth that the
end came. Sloane's Irish blood was at
torrid heat and he went at his man in
mad rushes. With nasty right hand jab
he sank his knuckles into the Scotchman's
mouth, cutting both lips and making
very CORY mess.
McTavy returned the compliment with
smash on the Celt's stomach. He follow
ed this up with a swinging hook right on
the point of the jaw The blow was well
directed and did its work.
In falling Sloane's head struck a sharp
stone which inflicted an ugly scalp wound.
Sloane lay limp in the road while Nc
Tavys friends carried him around on
their shoulders and screeehed and howled
in delight at his victory.
Later the insensible man was taken be-
hind a pile of lumber. He did not regain
consciousness until an ambulance arrived
and conveyed him to Police Headquarters.
Patrolmen J. Kruse and J. Schneider had
been attracted by the shouts of IMcTavy's
friends and they summoned the ambu-
lance.
Police Surgeon William Arlitz worked
for half an hour over Sloane before bring
ing him around. He ,apsed into uncon-
sciousness- in the ambulance and COM
planned of pains in the head and spine.
His face was badly disfgured. McTavy
was arrested
When arraigned before Recorder Ed
ward Stanton today both men were sorry
spectacles The Magistrate sentenced
them to ten Gays each in the County Jail
as disorderly persons.