The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-24
BERNSTEIN BEATS CONROY.
A Clever Bout and a Queer Decision
 The Others

A Clever Bout ana queer DeClSlon- The Others.
 The faithful were on handtin force last night for the Bernstein-Conroy bout at the polo rink The entertainment opened with a few preliminaries that were the worst ever seen, barring none, but the star attraction made amends for all shortcomings and the crowd left satis- fled with everything but the decision in the last bout, of which more anon.
 The first bout was between two news boys of assorted sizes. They donned bright, new gloves-thlrty-e cents, marked down from fortyfour. The gloves lasted for nearly three rounds, when the excelsior flew out of three, and as the oifiy glove intact belonged to the smaller man, the referee de- clared the bout a draw
 Young Brady of this city and "Kid" Lewis of New York were scheduled for six rounds. They went almost one, when Louis was disqualified for fouling'
 Paddy Rich of Paterson and Danny Duane of New York went on for fifteen rounds. Rich wearied in ill-doing early in the third. He collapsed ostentatious ly without Just cause or provocation and was meekly counted out. He re- vived from his swoon long enough to walk to his seat and then formally went out again, apparently in accordance with the schedule he had studiously followed. As fighter he was not a startling success. As an actor, Nat Goodwin is far and away to the bad in his class.
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 The brothers Maroney then did the first meritorious boxing of the evening. It was friendly but fast and scientific, lasted four rounds and pleased by con- trast in not being premeditated.
 Kid" Conroy and Joe Bernstein shook hands for the main bout at 10:30. A wrangle over the rules ensued. Queensbury rules were agreed upon, as Bernstein's manager wished Conroy was good enough to hold his own for the first round. Bernstein got straight hard left to the body twice and pounded Conroy's kidneys in the clinches. Con- roy's face too, suffered from an upper cut from the left in one clinch The kid got a hard right to the jaw early in
  periority in the clinches.
 Bernstein's left went to the body again as the fourth opened and he sent it later to the face. There was some roughing on the ropes, and both men seemed 8 little tired. The kid put a hard left to the plexus and right to the jaw in the fifth, but stopped hard righ with his jaw in breakaway. Both men fouled in the break in the sixth, and Conroy's mouth bled profusely as B result of a terrific punch delivered then. A left to the same spot did not help him, but he kept coming and rose for the seventh in good condition. He put a hard right over the heart and tucked out of danger cleverly at times. | Bernstein showed nQ damage at this stage. Joe stepped back out of the reach of several straight left leads in the eighth, and continued to rap the | sore mouth of his antagonist. Conroy kept up his attack on the body. He got | ] good right to Joe's heart early in the | ninth, but hard left to the mouth met | lm, and he swung wild for time. An :, Upper cut in clinch jared his head pack in the tenth and a hard right | swung to the ear later disturbed him a | ittle He continued to lead pluckily, however, and seemed more willing dur l ng all the eleventh, but failed to mark | The twelfth was Bern