The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1901-01-15
Contestants Showed Tendency IA
Lay Down.
Would Do Anything But
Fight.
Time and Money Wasted by
Those in Attendance.

Those who gave up their good round
dollars last evening and went TO the Port-
lapd theatre with the expectation oil see
ing a sparring exhibition carried out on
scientiiic principles, went home dissatis-
lied and with good reason. too. Inc
sc b sdulsd bouts for the most part were
made fakes OF the purest kind by the
sttalent' who were invited to be present
and alfo who no doubt promised the
man agement that they would do their
rest to make the events interesting to the
lovers of the manly art, who turned
out In goodly numbers. There was,
however, one notable exception, that
being the four round Ego" between the
bantams, Donahue and Conley OF this
city. They put up a very lively, In
tsresting set.too. Donahue prov ed him.
self to be clever, shifty sparrer and II
his could have got more steam into his
blows might have got a decision. bis
opponent was a little too ttocky FOR him,
but the blows of the latter were neatly
duoked and CoDlsy managed to jab him
frequently and used his isft quite etfee-
lively. Both boys went at 1t In the hvli.
est kind of way and kept 1t up in good
earnest Tor the four rounds and were
appIauded for their good work.
PhaIen of Portland and Kingsbury OF
Bath were advertised to appear next on
the programme, but Savage of Bath came
as a substitute for kingsbury. Trouble
began in the first round when Savage's
repeated dropping caused the gallery to
cry cut MAKE him stand up" The
shouts had no effect upon him what
ever, and he kept up these tactics to the
finish OF the tout in the second round
when the referee gave the decision to
Phalen on foul.
While On his fest In justice to Savage,
1t should he said that Ire made some
wicked swings, playing for the body and
upper cut at times quite effectively,
which seemed TO tell on Phalen. At one
time he caught him on the jaw and made
Phalen Vince. he latter landed coca
sionally and at times showed up in good
form and in the end was given the de-
cision by an VI per cut which he received
from Savage In a clinoh.
The last event OF the evening, between
Arthur Cots of Biddeford and Jack Mo-
keever of Bath, was short one. and
discreditable as 1t was short, made so by
the queer antics OF MoKeever, who soon
after the sizing up lost bis head and at
the end of the second round the decision
also. McKeever soon started in to throw
his opponent over the ropes and evidently
was determined to make the contest as
short as possible for he persisted In foul
ing in the cIinches and did so four or
five time until at last wearing out the
patience OF the referee the unsoienbito
BUSINESS was brought to close by
declaring Cote the winner. This Ego"
was marked by some short arm fighting
and Cote did some good swinging with
mis- right and left. Larry Mccormick
acted as referee, and Mr. MoGinty, who
was master of ceremonies, by way OF
apology before dismissin9 the disap-
pointed crowd, reminded them that the
management had done the best it could
TO secure good men and II the latter had
not met expectations 1t was not the fault
of those WHO arranged the bouts. The
crowd moved out quietly, saying moth
ing, but evidently was doing q heap of
thinking.