The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-18
DAILY LOST ON FOUL
GAVE BENNETT BAD BLOW IN
THE TWENTIETH ROUND.
BAD END OF A PRETTY FIGHT.
THE MEN SEEMED EVENLY MATCH
ED UNTIL FHE FOUL.


! one of the Best Seen at the Thea
! ter This season-The Men Fought
Hard and Honestly for the As
tendency Bennett Appeared
Lighter of Foot and a Harder Hit
ter, but Some of Days Work Was
Very Good-Feltz and Rice Will
Fight sept. 27-PoIice Had Orders
to stop the Fight if 1t Became
Brutal.
The boxing contest at the Savannah
/ Theater last night. between the two
| Jacks. Daily and Bennett. resulted in
/ the decision being awarded to the lat
ter on foul in the twentieth round.
This was an unfortunate ending to
one Of the most even, best conducted
and hardest fought fights that has
been seen in the theater since the re-
vivai of fistic amusement. The men
were evenly matched, and each was
| evidently possessed of a determination
/ 10 obtain the decision. There was no
| Sinking, and it was generally agreed
by the spectators that they had got
| their moneys worth despite the man.
| ner in which the contest ended.
| OF the two men. Bennett appeared to
be the heavier, was quicker on his feet
| and struck harder blow. Daily had
the advantage of hight and reach, aud
used both to advantage. Both men
showed good staying powers, and both
were apparently in fair condition until
the unlucky incident of the twentieth
I i
The house was one of the best that
has attended pugilistic event recent
| ly. About half the seats down stairs
were taken, the balcony was more
| than half filled and the gallery was
! crowded. The crowd appeared to be
: very evenly divided in it's favoritism
as to the two combatants, and the
applause alternated from one to the
! other as each scored an advantage.
The evenings sport began with
preliminary between Walter Heron
and Pat Flanagan, two young Savan-
nahians, with Tommie Feltz as ref
cree. The preliminary was slated for
| six rounds, but Heron was badly
worsted in the third and gave up the
fight.
Both Daily and Bennett were re-
ceiyed with applause by their friends
as they came to their corners. There
was a consultation between the princi-
pals and their seconds and Referee
Jenkins, in which the latter gave
| some very explicit Instructions
as to infighting in clinches
and fouls. Contrary to expectations,
| all fighting in clinches was strictly
barred and the fighters were cleanly
parted after each incident of this sort.
In fact, they usually separated, smil-
ing in the most friendly manner. Daily,
he got his nose cut in the sixth round,
after which he ceased to smile for sew
eral rounds. but regained his equaninn-
ity later on.
The fighters went at each other with
the sound of the bell. Both seemed
willing to work and there was lively
exchange of blows, with no damage to
either. In the second round both men
landed good blows, but Bennett got
the applause from the crowd. In the
third round DAILY chose the center of
the ring, which he continued to occupy
for a number of rounds following,
Bennett taking the circumference and
whirling about his antagonist with
great rapidity, occasionally making
fierce dashes in which he sometimes
got in good work. Bennett got a fall
in the third, when he missed heavy
swing, but was not hurt. Days friends
got very jubilant while their champion
got in some good blows on Benefits
neck. Honors were fairly even in the
fourth, but in the fifth Bennett got in
some good ticks on Days jaw with
that lusty swing of his.
In the sixth round Bennett secured
first blood by putting in a very stiff
punch on Days nose which brought
the blood freely. This was followed
by a fierce exchange of blows, with
the odds in Benefits favor, and Days
stock took a tumble. In the seventh
Bennett got in a light blow on Days
nose again, and Daily got several blows
on BENEFITS neck. In the eighth,
Daily did more neck work on Bennett,
and was so well pleased with himself
that he rushed his antagonist and won
the applause of the crowd. The NINTH
tenth and eleventh rounds were chief
ly devoted to Sparring. In the twelfth
DAILY got in some good work, and again
had the crowd with him. Bennett got
in a heavy blow below the heart in
the thirteenth. DAILY got in several
blows on the neck. but his blows did
not appear to carry sufficient force to
do real damage.
From the fourteenth on much time
was consumed in sparring for OPEN
ngs, though with occasional sharp
fighting, of which Bennett seemed to
have the advantage. There was fierce
! fighting in the seventeenth, and in a
heavy rush by Bennett both men were
thrown by the force of their own eff
forts but neither was hurt. The
eighteenth was unimportant, but In
the nineteenth there was a mix-up and
a rough-and- over the ropes, In
which both men fell. Bennett got in
some good body blows.
Both men came up in the twentieth
rather slowly and were evidently
weary. They began little slowly, but
were soon engaged in hot work There
was a firece rush together, an ex-
change of blows and then, suddenly,
as the men came apart. Bennett drop
ped to the floor and began yelling and
screaming, rolling the while on the
floor of the ring. The crowd was as
tonshed. Some thought 1t a trick.
others that he had broken his wrist in
his last blow on DAILY, which was a
good one.
Referee jenkins exchanged a word
with the PROSTATE man, and then
promptly announced a decision for
Bennett. The crowd demanded an ex-
PLANTATION and the referee announced
that Daily had fouled his man and in
iured him painfully. Some We're in
clined to dispute this statement, but
the majority accepted the referees
word for 1t.
Bennett was taken up and carried
to his room and physician was called