Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-12
GHRDN[R N LOUISVILLE.
MORE ABOUT us DEFEAT IN THAT
CITY BY DAVE SUI
LHvAA.
coNING BOUT WITH RYAN
at the metropolitan Club Promises
to Attract a Good Sized C~rosyd-An
Excellent Preliminary arranged.
Result of BOWLING Games last
Nighf-NationaI league Games.
O4her Sporting Esatters.

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Oscar Gardner's sensational defeat
at the hands Of Dave Sullivan Monday
night was the subject OF all the con
~vefsatien in local sporting circies
yesterday. The contest was conceded
to have been one of che greatest ever
held in any ring by little men or big,
and it will take a long time before the
sports finish talking about it.
Gardner left the city yesterday with
no excuses to offer. He goes 10 Cieye-
land to fight twenty rounds with Kid
Broad, a very tough proposition, and
then goes to Chicago 70 meet Ole Ole
son Saturday night. Both these are
hard matches ana his manager, Frank
Hart, will have to patch him up con-
siderably for hiEa 10 gain a decision II
either battle, says the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
There is no yellow about Gardner.
He is a game, true little fighter OF the
first class, and there is not the bone OF
a coward in his entire BODY. He did
not quit because he WIS being punish
ed, for in the fourteen rounds thai were
fought he received more than ordinary
fgn&aas usually get in a lifetime.
The writer believes that Gardner SIM
ply realized that he was up against
it good and nard, and, knowing til2t
the crowd had enjoyed such a run Tor
IT'S money rs no notwithstanding
crowd ever before received, 0 the
first opportunity which presented Itself
to quIt and save himself fcr the hard
battles which are to come tnis week,
next week and the week following, lof
the Omaha Kid is a very busy little
man.
Gardner tried every conceivable
method known 10 to the boxers art 20
Dat Sullivan away. and when he had
exhausted his wonderful repertory
time AMI again, he realized that Dave
Sullivan, at least or Monday night,
was his master.
Whether Sullivan can beat Gardner
any time as he did Monday night is
open to debate. This IS stated with
the realization and fun appreciation Of
S%ullivan's wonderful. exhibition night
before last. But Gardner is very close
to the championship. lie has been
fighting veek in and week out for
years, earning something like S2o,OO0
a year, and 1t is nc wonder ne struck
Louisville not quite up TO the brulslng
battle that Sullivan expected TO give
him. He had beaten Sullivan before IN
the seventeenth round, and probably
thought ne could repeat the dose With
out much trouble. AS a consequence,
he was a little stale, and not as fast as
he usually is when he is freSh-When
he has not fought for several weeks n
has trained hard for one especial
match.
But Sullivan had prepared especially
fer Gardner. The Omaha Kid had
beaten him once, and he wanted 20
retrieve that honor. Wnen he stepped
into the ring at Music Hall he was ID
a physical condition second to none
who ever climbed through the ropes.
And he gave Gardner what was his.
He beat Oscar good and plenty, and de-
serves all the credit for it. He fought
like a champion, apd put up by long
odds the most wonderful hstie exhibit
ton ever witnessed in this city. He is
several pounds a better boy than
when Gardner knocked him
out in the seventeenth round
last January a year ago, and
when he meets Terrible Terry" Nc
Govern in this city in the latter part Of
this month, he will give the Brook
Ign Terror the hottest, argument he
has had since he mas been out OF the
preliminary class, ...