The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-06
POLICE STOPPED THE FIGHT
STAR BOUT AT HYPERION INTER- RUP7ED AFTER SIXTH ROUND.
George McFaddcn and Patsey Sweeney Were tho Principals-Three Boxing ExhibittOns-CrOwd of 500 Present. yInuntt VVS,,

Tho Preliminary Bouts Miller and
 HaiIett Win.
 The boxing exhibitions at the lily
 perion last night under the auspices of
 the New Haven Athletic club were en-
 joyed by a crowd of 800 people who
 were somewhat surprised when Ser
 geant Hayes stopped the star bout of
 the evening at the opening of the sev-
 enth round The contestants were Pat
 sy Sweeney of Manchester and George
 McFadden of New York, and during
 the first six rounds they gave a clever
 shed and it looked as though the men
 would have a chance to go the limit of
 twenty rounds. The men were evenly
 matched and were frequently applaud
 ed during the six rounds for the clever
 lodging and ring generalship they dis
 played. The people had seen two pre-
 liminary exhibitions between Tony
 Lewis of New York and Leon Miller of
 Bridgeport and Kid Conroy of Bridge
 port and Frank Hallett of this city, and
 they were just settling down in their seats to witness some lively boxing be-
 tween the stars of the evening.
 Sergeant Hayes, who was in charge of the squad .of twenty bluecoats that surrounded the ring, evidently thought that there might be some harm in let
 ting the men fight longer and when the bell rang announcing the opening of the seventh round he stepped into the ring and said That will do." Refere Char ley White then announced that the bout would be declared draw and the crowd filed out of the house, few giv- ing vent to their feelings by misses. Superintendent Wrinn was at the ring side and after the last bout was stopped he was asked what he thought of the contests and he said, smiling, They were all right, they were all right. Good sport" Of course there were many present who didn't think they got their moneys worth and some demanded that the men continue but the word of Ser geant Hayes was law and when he said That will do," it did.
 Assistant Secretary Prince of the Law and Order league occupied good seat in the pit of the theater and took copious notes on the preiminaries and the star bout. Many prominent city officials were there, but Mayor Studley was not seen among the spectators.
 There were sports present from all over the state and from New York and nearly all the prominent sporting men of New Haven were there. One spec tator who was recognized as Law and Order league man filed down the aisle just before the first bout and he was greeted with applause by few who knew him. Some thought that it might have been Young Corbett' or some such notable and "Who is it?" was asked on all sides. One witty sport an- nounced above the voices of all others that "He was de sporting editor of de Ladies Home Joinal.' Aside from the demonstration that this remark caused the order in the theater during the en- tire evening was of the best. There was no boisterous applause or yelling. The affair last night will act as test case" and its outcome was doubtless watched by athletic clubs" all over the state.
 A stand was erected at the rear of the stage holding three hundred and this was we'll filled, At the ringside there were over a hundred favored ones and the pit of the theater was pretty well filled. The first and second gal leries also contained a number of peo- pie and when the first bout opened at S:45 there were fully eight hundred in the place. The first bout was between Tony Lewis and Leon Miller, colored youth. The boys were to go ten rounds at 11S pounds. They boxed four rounds and Miller seemed to have all the ad- vantage. He was quicker than Lewis and did nearly all the rushing. Referee White gave the decision to the dusky youth after the fourth round
 The next contest was between Frank Hallett and Kid Conroy. These men were to go ten rounds at 133 pounds. Hallett was on the aggressive most of the time but was met in fine style by Conroy. The latter got in many clever jolts on Hallett's face and ribs and for points he was superior to the New Ha- ven fighter Conroy's blocking was the | feature of the match for five rounds, | but in the sixth he got on the receiv- | ing end of one of Hallett's hook blows | on the jaw and he toppled over He | was dazed by the blow and just then | the round came to an end. The de- | cision was given to Hallett.
 Then came the star bout between McFadden and Sweeney. The men | weighed 14o pounds at o'clock yester- day afternoon and both looked in fine condition. As usual McFadden did great deal of the rushing but was clev- erly blocked by Sweeney many times. The first and second rounds seemed to go Sweeney's way and in the third Me- Fadden had little the best of the fighting He landed hard on Sweeney's side and stomach but in return he was tapped by Patsys right until it became an even thing. The fourth Sweeney blocked many well intended jabs and was pretty much winded when the gong The fifth and sixth rounds the men got together in lively shape and the exchange of blows was about even again. McFadden did most of the leading in these two and clinches were frequent. Sweeney had a trifie the bet ter of the argument in the sixth round, 1 turing which McFadden seemed to tire When the bell rang for the