The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-12
FIGHT WAS A DRAW
NEITHER HOGAN NOR WHISTLER
COULD PUT THE OTHER OUT.
WHISTLER THE CLEvERER.
hut HOGAN, THOUGH HE DID NOT
PUNCH OFTEN, PUNCHED HARD.

The Men Weighed Within n Pound
of Each other, and In A1I-ROund
Ability Were Evenly Matched.
Hard Blows Were ohry Intermit-
tent, So That 10 Damage was Done
to Either Man-WhistIer's Clever
ness With Hands and Feet the
Feature of the Show-WiII Bet
$1,000 That He VIII Stay Ten
Rounds With Terry McGOvern.
The Whistler Hogan glove contest last
night resulted in a draw after Is rounds
of the cleanest, cleverest boxing that has
been seen in Savannah in years. The
men were in prime condition, weighed
within a fraction of a pound of each
other, 12S pounds, and were in the ag
gregate of their abilities as boxers evenly
matched. Whistler's obviously greater
cleverness with hands and feet were Off
set by Hogan's superior strength.
At no time during the fight was either
man badly punished. The actual hard
blows that were passed were too few
and far between to put either man in
danger of a Knockout. In fact, the whole
game resembled more a friendly sparring
match, so far as results went than it
did a contest for Knockout.
Whistler's work was so exceptionally
clever that had the match been awarded
on points he could have won easily. He
hit his man often, but his blows lacked
the force necessary to being effective,
Hogan on the other hand, though not so
clever, also landed frequently and hard,
httf Foil y ;e fnr
that matter even to worry him. The
only time during the entire match that
things looked sQually for either was in
the twenty-fourth round, when Whistler,
after a good deal of foot work and feints,
made rather an unexpected attack on Ho-
gan and landed three head bows that
staggered him for few seconds. Whis-
tier showed no apparent desire to follow
the game up and the gong sounding
shortly after prevented any further at
tempt to follow his man up before ne
had recovered himself.
| That Whistler is wonderfully clever
man no one who saw the bout last night
| will question. He has a style that is pc
cuaiarly his own; after sparring in a sort
of tentative way, side stepping. and duck
ing he will suddenly fare up and go in for
hot and heavy work that his adversary in
| the greater number of cases is not expect
ing and is hardly prepared for. He is ex-
ceptionally quick, and can, and does,
| make swings and recover his guard with
a speed and certainty that is almost be-
wildering. IS
Hogan, too. is clever and thoroughly in
| earnest. He was the aggressor practically
| all through the game, and this counted
| largely in his favor with the spectators
although Whistler was undoubtedly the
favorite. He is thoroughly conscientious
and his work would be considered quite
| clever had 1t not been eclipsed last night
| by that of his adversary.
There was very little in any one of the
rounds to make it different from another
except the incident mentioned in the
| twenty-fourth, and two falls of Hogan s
while mixing it up, and one of Whistler's,
| who went down through his own efforts
to punch and get away. In each case
when Hogan went down Whistler prompt
| ly went to his assistance and helped him
to his feet, an act that the spectators
seemed to think most chivalrous for they
applauded Justify. When Whistler went
down Hogan thought it was up to him to
do the courteous. stunt also and started
| over to Whistler to assist him, but Whis-
tier, who had bounded to his feet be-
| fore Hogan got near enough to proffer
assistance, got in a couple of punches
| to the face and skipped away before
| Hogan discovered what it was all about.
The bout was rendered the more en-
joyable because. of the clean breaks. A
full house greeted the contestants and
cheered its favorites at every opportunity.
Whistler was seconded by Owen Zeigler,
Tom Robinson, and Billy Veronee, while
In Hogans corner were Tommy Corco-
ran, Kid Davis, and Tony Moran. Shorty
Jenkins was the referee. He had little
to do, however, as the men showed no
disposition to act other than on the
square. jenkins decision also met with
the approval of the entire house.
Before the bout commenced a challenge
was read from Tim Callahan, who de-
sired to meet the winner. Also it was an
nounced that Whistler, if he won the bout
with Hogan, would hold himself in read
mess 10 meet any 100 pound man in the
world, and would make a side bet of 81 900
that Terry McGovern could not put him
out in ten rounds.
Between the tenth and eleventh rounds
a young man who was flashing Whistler
money in front of the audience, made him
self annoying, and a patrolman on duty
at the ring side took hold of him. Some
one had complained to the officer, and the
young sport with the long green was told
that he must get out. He was inclined
TO put up a side attraction and start a
scrap of his own, but was hustled out
by several officers. The Whistler enthu-
siast is himself a lightweight. while the
cop is veritable giant. The incident
created an uproar but the young man
was hustled out just as the gong sounded
for the eleventh round He was not sent
to police headquarters, but was kept out
of sight by the police.