Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-22
FIGHTS AND F|GH1[RS. ,:
Joe Walcott Proved Too Much
 For McKeever.

The Dusky Demon Hammers the
 White Mans Body Without Mercy
 The Sixth Round Saw McKeever Go
 to the Boards for the Count-George
 Mulligan Makes a Great Showing
 Against BurgrThe Latter Was Dis
 qualified for Fouling-The Other
 Bouts.
 Waterbury is all right. That was the comment that was heard from the sports who came here last night by the hundreds from all over the coun- try They were surprised at the large crowd that assembled in the auditori- um and they were also surprised that the country village they expected to sec was filled with more enthusiasm and more lovers cai good athletic con- tests than half the cities in :ne cou:,- try. There have been many eXhibi- tions in th;S city Of the manly art Of self defense. but there was none that could surpass the one Of last night. !n the excellence of the management as well as the bouts. There were no hi.cnes to mar the success of the cS-- hibition. the boxers were on hand to take or give their medicine. the money was i'll sight and lois of it to pay off the contestants. and, in fact. there was nothing that could be discovered to prevent a great exhibition, and great it was from every standpoint There mus. have been at least 2.OGO people present before the principal bout of the evening between Joe Walcott and Charley Mckeever. The lowest priced seat was S1 and the highest S3. and thc management after paying all bills will have q nice tidy little sum to hold aS reserve for the next contest ic was too bad that some of the members of the Law and Order league were not present last night: they would have witnessed one of the cleaneSt eXhiDi tions with the gloves that has ever been given in any arena. They would have consulted with themselves as to the reason boxing was being con- demned while football was allowed. They would have changed thir minds probably as to the advisability of ask ing for control over prize fights and would have made q demand to be ap- pointed supervisors of the game of football as it is played to-day. Man ager Moe Harris had made every en- deavor to make the whole affair q suc- cess and there was but one thing lack ing that he had advertised. perhaps there were two. One was the failure of Johnny White to appear to referee. He was detained at home through ill., ness. The other was the absence of Charley Mitchell, who was evidently reSltlng to some of his admirers in New York the story of his go as you please match with the only John l.. Sullivan. Outside of those two things there was nothing wanting from the program as advertised, and these were not missed very much
 There were many present from around the country who had never seen the beauties of the city of Wa ferbury before and they were wrap ped i'll wonder as we'll as cigar and . cigarette smoke when they entered The auditorium. Among those present were Charley Harvey, the announcer, Tom o oRollrke, the. manager of. Joe Walcott, the black demon" of the ring. George Dixon, who lost his title of champion to the fighting machine Terry McGovern, John Pollock, the timekeeper, who keeps himself busy trying to write sporting news for the New York World, Jack Rose, he of the hairless head, ex-fght promoter, ex-baseball manager and a lot of other exs; Len Wagner. Billy Leeds. George Howarth, all of the above from New York. New Haven furnished a pretty good contingent, but it was hard to dis tinguiSh them all, but there could be seen such men as Edward Tobin, and his friend Mcfarland, Tom Me Gowan. who breaks the scales at some thing like three hundred, but who trippedlacrOsS the stage like feather weight as he took his corner to second Frank Hallett, Jack Adams was also there from the Elm City. The Bridge port delegation was headed by Fred nrr1vo %1,o Charley Allen, Jack Whiting, Harry Kelly and several others who could not remember their names. The Hat ting town. Danbury, furnished con- tingent lead by Bernie Burke, the $ popular hotel clerk; Joe Faucher, who rides trestles when he is not doing anything else. Winsted furnished Joe Chisholm and Dan Kelly. From Tor rington came a big delegation headed by John Connor, who claimed that Kid Brown was the fighting wonder of the d2yy. before the battle took H:acc
 Tar above tl.c heads oe tle specta- tors cOGlL Ee observed the heads Of two women who took an occasional peek through one of the yentilating windows on the roof. They were 8 little bashful during the preliminary bouts, but when Walcott and Me KeeFer got down 10 business they pushed themselves through the win dow and were as earnest in watch- ,uig the battle as though they had paid the full admission. From time to time an occasional word of en- couragement broke from their lips for the. white man but when they saw him go down in defeat they fell into zeach others arms and wept floods of ! tears. which. falling on the face of , the defeated McKeeter. helped to re- < five him
 sy When half, past eight arrived-erery- .5hing was ill readiness for the trouble flo begin and it did. r'The officials took their places. Charles Harvey as an i0uncef, Johnny Foflock as time Keeper, Moe Harris ais referee and a squad of policemen for judges of the bouts
 The first battle was six-round go ? between Kid Lee of this city and Kid Brown of Torrington. Brown was nervous and looked very much afraid as he looked across the ring at his sturdy little opponent. Brown had