The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-15
POLICE STOPS FIGHT
Chief Hilton InterfereS in Sixth
Round.
BOUT DECLARED 4 DRAW
FRANCIS GOES DOWN SIX TIMES
IN LAST ROUND.

What was scheduled as a twenty
round boxing contest at Clark and
Lsnge's club last evening was ended
near the close of the sixth round by
Chief of Police Hilton. who stepped into
the ring and ordered the principals to
cease fighting. According 10 the chief,
prize fighting is not allowed i'm this
city, and according to the same official
last evenings bout reached a stage
where it resembled one more than
boxing contest and for this reason he
stopped it.
The two principals Dummy Rowan
and Jim Francis. had signed articles to
box twenty rounds and after about IF
teen seconds of the sixth round had
passed the Dummy" landed a full
right hand swing with open hand,
thumb toward the face, squarely along
/ the Jaw of the cOlOred man. According
/ TO all prize ring ethics, Francis should
have gone down like a felled OK and
stayed there at least a half hour, but
I the wonderful vitality of the cOlOred
man asserted itself and after wavering
on his feet for few seconds, he grad
ually succumbed to the force Of the
. blow and sank to the floor.
Went Down Six Times.
Francis was completely dazed and
slowly arose to his feet before the fatal
ten had been counted, only 10 fall again
on account Of being too weak to stand.
Again he arose and gamely tried to de-
fend himself from the PUSHES Of the
Dummy and again he went down
more from the force Of the contact than
from any blow received Three times
more this was repeated and as many
times more Francis went to the floor
in completely dazed condition. gamely
refusing to give up, making a total of
six times in the one round the COlOred
man went down for the count
At this point Chief Hilton stepped
/ into the ring and stopped the fight
! Referee William Holmes called the bout
draw, as both men were on their
feet when the police interfeTed. Many
of the spectators declared a L this point
that the round had gone more than the
allotted three minutes and claimed that
Francis had gotten the worst of the
deal by the extension of time How
ever. Young Christy, the club time
keeper, stated that the round had not
closed by three seconds when the chief
stepped into the ring, which was appar-
emily satisfactory to all disinterested
I persons. Had the fight continued Fran
els, although in a dazed condition, was
rapidly recovering and would have
lasted the three seconds until the call
of time and would have toed the mark
for the seventh round and no one could
have told the final outcome
Lively Work
The Dummy" was the aggressor the
greater part of the fight. but seemed
unable 10 land many effective blows on
account of the clever duckiHE and
blocking Of the coloTed man. In the
first round the Dummy" did the lead
ing, with Francis on the defensive all
the time. the round ending in the
''Dummy's favor. In the second Row
an again forced matters at the begin
ming, when Francis landed a stiff right
over the eye which caused the DUN
my to stagger for the rest Of the
round. Had Francis had the necessary
steam behind his blows at this point he
would have won the fight, as he land
ed right and left at viii wherever he
pleased. From this point on the fight
belonged to neither man, Rowan being
the aggressOr. doing the most of the
leading, with Francis apparently land
ing the most damaging blows Both
men were tired at different stages of
the fight and at any moment a stiff
punch would have done the business in
either case. There was a large crowd
present and a majority were well salts
fed with the outcome