The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-19
WAS TEN ROUNDS TO A DRAW.
FIGHT AT THE THEATER DREW A
DISHEARTENING CROWD.

Mamie and Mack Didn't Want TO
Fight nt First but They Finally
Decided They Would Go on for Ten
Rounds-This Was Satisfactory to
the Audience-The Men Mixed Ii
Up Well and Some Pretty Clever
Fighting Was Scientific Decision
of the Referee Was just What Was
Expected-A Slow Preliminary Be-
tween Local Aspirants for Fistic
Honors.
Savannahs interest in prize fights is
scarcely commensurate with the few spec
tators who witnessed the bout between
Pete Mamie and Eddie Mack of Newark,
n. j., at the Theater last night. The
caloric seemed to be accountable, and the
judgment of those who remained away on
that account was good, for it was certain
~ hot No rapidly-whirling electric fans
sent iced air streaming through the house,
az when the midsummer opera company
was here a year ago, but the absence of
femininity made up to very small de-
gree, and the men were able 90 divest
themselves of coats and the most irksome
garments.
For time ii looked as though the fight
wouldn't be pulled off. The fighters saw
they were up against it, and the few white
| chips left after the houses takeout, made
the gate receipts for which they were
supposed to be fighting, look like deuce.
1t cost SIS 20 get the house, and, if ever
there were pair of disconsola te-looking
ringers, those two were Mamie and Mack,
as they took peeps at the slowly-accumu-
lating handful that finally formed a rath-
er enthusiastic audience.
| At about 945, which was the fraction
after the dodgers had announced, the
preliminary was started going and that
was the queerest thing in the fighting
line that even Savannah has ever handed
| out. There was a chap seconding Elan
nigan who seemed to think he should
| have been in the ring himself, for his
| belligerent remarks narrowly escaped pre-
| cipita ting slight passage at arms be-
| tween himself and the referee, who also
| appeared to have his scrapping clothes on.
| Flanagan went up against Kelly for six
| rounds as preliminary, but neither of
the boys was in shape to stand the pace
they cut out at the jump and, before the
second round was done, both were tired.
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rather a relief when the preim. was over.
After wait that was punctuated pref
| ty freely with the kicks of the audience,
! Mamie appeared and took his corner. A
| little later Mack doomed in view and it
was seen that both looked rather f1t.
| Mack had already announced to the au-
| dlence, in a speech that would have made
| Chauncey Depew turn an emerald hue
from envy that he did not propose to go
for aOV twenty rounds that he had
| contracted to do it, but that there was
nothing in the fight for him. He promised
to give them the best he had in the shop
| for ten rounds, and the crowd seemed
to take to the idea pretty readily Mamie,
| it was noted, seconding the motion with
| some rather lusty applause himself. To
| tell the truth, it was awfully hot for the
| fighters to stand for a twenty-round 60
with nothing coming 20 them at the enc
of it but the honors, and the crowd was
on to this, and no kicking about Mack 3
| little spiel was heard
| When the Niger with the Ratchet bang
| ed out time" on the iron bar that was
| rugged up as a bell, when it was discovered
| that this very important adjunct of the
game had been forgotten, the men came
TO the front in good style and the fighting
was clever, well mixed-up and a pretty
even thing. Manzie's tactics were famil-
lar to the lovers of the fistic art who had
seen him before, but Eddie was a new
one, and they were interested in getting on
to his methods. He showed up pretty foxy
and had a clever dodge in his in-fighting
that was seen often, because the referee
was kept busy calling for break-aways,
which, by the way, the fighters gave him
| only when he pushed them apart.
No blood was floating about and stiff
punches were rather seldom. Mack did
a little more of the rushing than Mamie,
but there wasn't hairs breadth of ad-
vantage throughout that could have induc-
ed the referee to hand decision to either
man. His final announcement of a draw
was what had been expected.
The fiasco in the audience line that the
fight proved will probably put a quetus
on similar efforts until the cool weather
| comes. Nobody wants to engineer a bout
that would produce no more than last
| nights and any fighters thirsting for gore
and money will have to curb the desire I'M
til it gets cool enough to exist in such a
hotbox as the Theater in midsummer.
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