Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-23
Won OUT ON A FOUL.
SAM BOLEN, OF NEW YORK, GIVEN
THE DECISION OVER LOUDEN
CAMPBELL, OF PITTSBURG,
IN THE FOURTEENTH ROUND
Last Night Before the Metropolitan
Athletic Cuba Crowd of Eight
Hundred People Witnessed the
COntest-Campbc1l Sustained His
Reputation for Foul Tactics-A
Very Clever Preliminary.

After one of the hardest fought bat
ties ever witnessed in a local prize
| ring Sam Bolen, the clever lightweight
| colored boy, of New York, won in the
/ 14th round on foul over Louden
/ Campbell, of Pittsburg, before the Met
| ropolitan club in Fulton last night.
The men fought at 126 pounds. AS US
ual Campbell sustained his reputation
las a foul fighter, while the colored boy
!, worked in his usual clean manner of
going. The fight should have been
| given to Bolen in the 4th round A
crowd of 800 people witnessed the con-
test. Oscar Gardner was the referee
For the preliminary bout Walter Bur-
go, the local man, and Frank Boyle,
| of Pittsburg, mixed, in what was to be
a six round go to a decision, straight
Marquis of Queensbury. 1t was hot
! one from the start, both boys working
hard. In the third round Burgo put
his man out with a right swing to the
| jaw. Boyle went down hard.
At about ten o'clock both men were
| in their corners. After consulting an
| nouncer Murphy gave out that the men
| had agreed to fight straight Marquis
of Queensbury rules, allowing hitting
with one arm free. In Bolen's corner
was Hughy Arnold, George Sadler and
Walter Burgo. In Campbell's corner
, were John Cavenaugh and Red Mason,
of Pittsburg. Solly Stroup, OF Pitts
burg, was introduced. He challenged
the winner at 100 pounds. Bolen ac-
cepted in case he won the bout. A
challenge was read from Squirrel Fin
nerty, of Youngstown, 0. The betting
on the bout was and Clio against
Bolen, but after the third round 1t
dropped to even money.
Round 1-Bolen opened with left
jab to stomach, Campbell countering,
sending left to jaw. Bolen drove his
right hard on the same place. Camp
bell sent right to jaw and followed
with right to the heart. Both men
swung hard but missed. Bolen sent
left to the heart twice, drawing first
blood. Campbell reached Bolens jaw
just before the bell.
Bolen opened with a left jaw on faca
and cleverly ducked stiff right j2D
Campbell sent after him. In the
clinches that followed Bolen had all
the best of it. playing for the body.
Both men worked hard. Campbell sent
his left to stomach. Bolen sent left
to stomach and clinched whipping his
right hard to heart. In the next clinch
Bolen chopped his right hard on the
kidneys, putting Campbell dopey.
Round 3.-Bolen rushed his opponent
crossing Campbell twice on the jaw
with his right. Bolen whipped his left
to the face. Campbell reached the jaw
with his left. The men clinched to-
wards the end of the round, both
punching until they were tired out
The bell parted them.
Round 4.-Bolen forced the fighting,
both working hard and fast. Campbell
sent left to stomach and followed with
stiff left to the jaw. Bolen crossed
Campbell on the jaw, with his right
and clinched. In the clinch, Campbell
fouled, grabbing Bolen low. Referee
Gardner did not see it or the fight
WOuIu nave DSeu OIL.
From this on the fighting was all
Bolen's, the colored boy landing blow
after blow on the jaw, neck and heart
without sustaining any punishment in
return. In the latter part of the sew
enth round Campbell fouled again,
striking with his left below the belt.
The referee warned him.
Round 8-Bolen sent left to stomach
Campbell countered with left to face
twice. Bolen sent right and left to
face hard. In a clinch Bolen landed
three hard rights on the kidneys. b.
len landed rights and lefts hard ON
jaw. Before the bell Bolen whipped a
right uppercut into the jaw and hooked
his left to jaw, putting Campbell
groggy.
Round 9-Campbell came up Won
derfully strong for the punishment he
had received and opened the round by
sending left to stomach. Both men
whipped rights hard to heart. Bolen
sent left to face. Campbell sent left to
face and followed with another foul
below the belt. Gardner again warned
Campbell. Bolen chopped his right
hard on neck before the bell.
Round 10-Campbell sent right to
the heart as the men came up. Bolen
sent right and left repeatedly to the
face. The men clinched again and in
the breakaway Bolen whipped stiff
upper cut to the jaw. Campbell sent
left to face. In a clinch Campbell
caught Bolen around the knees, trying
to trip him up. The referee warned
him again and the crowd Kissed. b.
len had his man groggy, sending rights
and lefts to face and neck up to the
bell
For the next three rounds the fight
ing was all Bolen's, landing as he
| pleased during that period. He had
Campbell proper for the fourteenth.
Round 14-Bolen forced the fighting.
chopping heavily on the kidneys. The
| heavy punishment began to tell and
| Campbell was forced to hang onto Bo-
len to save himself from dropping to
the carpet. Campbell began to wrestle
| and dropping his hold to the knees
threw Bolen with him to the floor en-