The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-18
MATTY MATTHEW'S WON.
Took the WeIterweight Championship
from Oily Smith.

NEW YORK, April 17.-At the Broadway
Athletic Club tonight the weller weight
championship of the world changed hands
from Mysterious Billy Smith to Matty
Matthews, of New York. The New Yorker
solved the hitherto unsolvable mystery
with right hand punch on the jaw in the
nineteenth round. sending Smith to the
land of dreams. Matthews won from the
first sound of the gong. He outpointed and
outgeneraled his opponent. and. although
his blows were not so hard as those of
Smith, they were cleaner and always went
to the mark. The fight was fast all the
way and was witnessed by fully 1000 spec
tators who cheered Matthews wildly at
the finish. Before the fight the betting was
lively, Smith being the favorite at 100 to 60.
In the first round Matthews was forced
to the floor with right on the kidneys,
and later went down from a clinch in his
own corner Matthews had the better OF
the fourth round. meeting Smiths rushes
with stiff lefts and rights on the body.
Matthews kept leading his left to the face.
but Billy's kidney blows had his body al
most raw at the close of the fifth round.
Smith kept forcing, but Matthews met him
repeatedly cautioned for unfair fighting.
When they came out for the ninth Matt
news swung his right to the jaw and fol-
lowed with two more for same and Billy
began to look serious. In the eleventh
Matthews rushed and three times landed
right on the jaw and both fell tothe floor in
clinch. Matthews's work had the crowd on
its feet cheering when the bell rang. Matty
was after him fast in the twelfth and time
and again swung his right TO the face and
jaw. Smith was bleeding from the mouth
but fought back like fend and drove
some terrible rights TO Matthew's body
Left labs started Smiths nose to bleeding
in the thirteenth and worried him con-
siderably.
Both landed heavily with rights on the
head in the fourteenth and
Billy's left eye was cut and bleeding from
Matty's jabs. Billy cut out the work in
the fifteenth and pounded Matty hard
about the body. A left swing on the jaw
and a shove forced Matthews to the floor
but he was right up and finished strong.
Matthews showed the effects of Billy's body
punches in the sixteenth. He was much
slower and did not seem SO willing to mix
it UP. Just before the bell he swung his
right to the jaw, but Billy only smiled.
1t was Smiths round. 1t was even up in
the seventeenth, Matty landed hard with
his right on the jaw but ii did not seem TO
bother Smith who countered with his right
under the heart. Matthews looked very
tired. They went through the eighteenth
with little done. Smith having a trifie the
better of it.
Smith was the aggressor in the nine
tenth and at close quarters beat Matthews
hard about the boy. In the clinch he threw
Matty TO the floor. He was UP at once
and Smith apologized and shook hands.
Matty then swung his right to the jaw.
Smith was up and clinched. Matty threw
him off and twice more landed the same
punch, the last one dropping Smith clean.
He was unable to rise to the count and had
to be carried to his corner. Time Of round,
% seconds.