The Portland daily press., 1900-12-20
Decision Appeared To
Suit Crowd.
Saxe's Cleverness Won Him
The Victory.

sTnsre was a large crowd at Portland
theatre last evening to witness q carnivA
of boxing. In the main everything went
of satisfactorily and the enthusiasts were
well pleased. ASIDE from few bolster
Gus sports who managed to make them
selves heard. good orter was maintained.
Larry Mccormick, the veteran sporting
man was the referee and OBLIGATED ac-
csptably. On stepping to the front ne
announced that some Of the best bouts
that had ever been seen in Portland were
TO be given. He said only scientific ex-
hibitions would be on the prog ramme
and that the Marquis OF Queensbury rules
would be followed.
1.-THE sport will be preceded by cur
tain raiser between a. couple OF bantams
from the 6 enderloin. explained Meteor
mick with q wave Of the hands. Ihese
bantams areH Marty Green of Gorham
Corner and Teddie Donahue Of State
street."
Green and Donhhue ars boys about
dozen years old and they gave very good
exhibition. They started at each other
rather flerceIy SO that Referss McCormick
was Obliged to pars them mira than once.
Both of the young fellows did good deal
OF feinting in the opening round. The
second was somewhat mora exciting
Grsen landed a sharp clip on his adver-
svry's Jaw. The third and last was sharp
all the way through. Green brought the
blood to Donahue's nose and there was
ali ~ Rnt III at hR-
fore the bell rang Donahue got even with
Grssn The contest was declared a draw
by the rsferse.
A brief intermission followed and then
IL was announced that Martin Ciougherty
and "Kid" johnson, both Of Boston,
would try CONCLUSIONS They ara boys
slightly older than the two preceding
contestants and they proved a disappoint-
ment. The crowd wss not slow to mani
fest it's DISCLOSURE Neither OF them
showed fighting qualities and at the END
of the first act the crowd Kissed. Then
Mccormick advanced and said; Leave
this to me, gentlemen. II they don't hoz
bettsr, | will fix 1t at the end"
But the second was no improvement
over the first. The rootfrs did some hiss
ing, McCorm ick at the end of this round
said: "The management has advertised
to give good bouts / don't think 1t II
right to stand for this fake 1t was Their
decided 10 cut out the rest of this contest
Next came the announcement that Ton
Ouincannon and Nell Donnell would box
six rounds fer the heavyweight champion
ahKr of porfJauh nOnpall ia fPnn fhf
West End, and although hsmpersd by the
loss OF the index finger ON the right hand
he quite easily proved to be the best man
He showed his superiority right at tht
start Quincannon pursued unsportsman
ike tactics, foulipg several times ano
not hrssking squarsly. In the second
round Officer Qlinn jumped into the
arena and separated the fighters. Ths
third started off savagely and had moi
progressed minute when Officer Quinn
was again obliged to take hand. With
Referee Mccormick he parted both meI
and then this contest was called draw.
Donnell stepped to the front and wa
heartily ohesrsd, He stated that he wa
willing at any time to meet QuinoannoI
In fifteen rounds or to finish.
The concluding bout was the event o.
the evening, Morris Rosenberg of Boston
meeting young SAKE OF New YORK. Be
fora 1t was called George Phelan of THU
city announced that he would be- willing
to meet the winner OF this contest or any
1875 pound man in New England.
This was a fine exhibition. SAKE is &
lighter man than Rosenberg, and onll
his cleve rness enabled him to stand VI
against Rosenberg as successfully as hi
did. SAKE did great work and had th'
good favor of the crowd from the start
Rosenberg surely experienced great sur
prise party in meeting this sturdy young
man.
The ii rat round ended with the contest
ants showing up very evenly. Rosenberg
was the same spry man as when in Port
land last year SAKE started of in tht
second By landing good body blow
Rosenberg attempted to play for the
body, but did not prove very successful
In the third SAKE did some hard lef
hitting. The fourth was about even
SAKE landing light one on Rosenberg
jaw. In the fifth SAKE caught a fierce on
IN the neck from Rosenberg. The latte,
went az his opponent In the sixth whici
was the most exciting mp 30 date.
ended with honors even. Rosenberg dis
played great aeRressivensss and bad tirs'
SAKE when the end OF the seventh round
But SAKE recovered we'll in the eight
ana stood his ground. Both spared To-
wind in the ninth. In the tenth Rosen
berg continued his good work. Tn
cries OF foul" when Rosenberg hit sax
on the ear while SAKE was holding hi
glove. But this was not allowed by Mo
Cormiok. Even work and good blows en-
changed by both were tns characteristic
Of the twelfth round. SAKE held his owl