The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-13
CALLED IT A DRAW
NEITHER LENNY NOR CALLAHAN
COULD KNOCK THE OTHER OUT.
CALLAHAN REFUSED TOWEIGH
so LENNY FOUGHT AT CATCH
WEIGHTS, WITH A DECISION
BARRED.

The Men Among the CIeverest That
Have Ever Been Seen Here-Sd
Evenly Matched That Referee
ZeiGler Would Have Been Puzzled
to Give "A Decision on POints-BOut
Preceded by Preliminary Between
"Holy City" in the Ring and Is
Rewarded With Much Coin.
The bout between Tim Callahan of
Philadelphia and Ed Lenny of Chester,
Pa, went the limit last night and re-
suited in a draw. Callahan refused to
weigh-in in the Afternoon and Dougher-
ty, Lenny's manager, agreed to let his
man meet Callahan at catch weights
with the understanding that for eth
er to win the bout must result in a
Knockout should both be on their feet
after the twentieth round, it should be
a draw. 1t was well that such an ar
rangement was made for the men were
SO evenly matched the greater part
of the bout that it would have been
difficult to make a decision on points.
Throughout the bout the work done
by each man was exceedingly clever
SO nearly evenly matched that it was a
toss up to pick the winner, or that
either man would win under the pre-
scribed conditions. Towards the end of
the bout. particularly during the last
four rounds, Callahan had slightly the
best of things, for in the mix~ups that
followed each clinch, he used his right
for short jabs at Lenny's kidneys and
made these jabs so effective that Len
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clinches as often as possible to prevent
this punishment.
Callahan had clearly the better of
his opponent both in hight and reach:
and, it is thought, because of his re-
fusal to weigh-in, that he was heavier
also To offset these advantages Len
ny showed remarkable ability in duck
ing and blocking, and his foot work
also was exceptionally fine. Also he
was game through and through, so
that there never was a time in the en-
tire bout when he was not at his OPP
ponent, even though he received some
terrible punishment from Galatians
left.
Lenny Hard Hitter.
Lenny is a hard hitter, too. SO the
other man got all that was coming to
him in the way of punishment, and
more than once did the hot foot" to
get away from the other man.
The first round opened with Lenny
the aggressor, Callahan doing little
more than defending himself. not ex-
erting himself to do even that. and ap-
parently trying to draw Lenny on or
get a line on his tactics. In the
second round, though, he woke up
sent his left hard to Lenny's breast,
followed it with another to the left eye.
and landed again on the breast as
they came together in a clinch. In the
third round Callahan again seemed to
have slightly the best of it. The only
good one that he landed was another
left to the breast, though he continued
to land short jabs on Lenny's eye.
which, under this punishment soon be-
came badly swollen and was practi-
cally closed by the end of the bout.
In the succeeding round Lenny woke
up and went for his man in livelicr
fashion than he had doneN before; he
landed. too, getting in straight jab
to the face that sent Callahan's head
back, exchange rights TO the neck ard
making things generally lively. CAL
lahan in the next round, again sent
his left in for a straight punch to the
breast but Lenny landed hot right
to the chin, ducked vicious left swing
and landed a hard left to the head.
In the clinches each man did a little
body punching that as yet affected
neither. In the sixth round both men
landed Lenny good swing to the
neck, and Callahan a chop blow in
the same place: the crowd cheered
J.enny but honors were about even,
and the succeeding round was cl@srly
Galatians.
Began Telling Work
1t was in the eighth and succeeding
20 Io1. III
on the other mans kidneys, though he
did not then make them his special
point of attack as he did later in the
game. At this stage he put in most of
his time punching at Lenny's eye; he
landed often, too, but at no time hard
enough to be effective. 1t was at the
end of this round that both men be-
gan to show for the first time the hot
pace that they had kept up.
So, throughout the entire remainder
of the bout, the men kept at it, each
doing as clever fistic work as has ever
been seen in Savannah. Callahan be-
ing especially clever in ducking and
Lenny in blocking. In the tenth round
Callahan ran away from Lenny, for
the first, though not the last time, and
the crowd, that seemed to be mainly
Lenny sympathizers cheered and
laughed.
In the thirteenth round the pace was
one Of the hottest of the bout. Lenny
came up from his corner as fresh as
possible and tried a rush; he landed
both a right and left to the ribs.
which Callahan returned to the head,
and followed again with a hard left
straight jab to the breast. Lenny sent
a straight left TO the breast and made
a vicious right swing for the head but
IL was cleyerly ducked by Callahan.
The fifteenth round was another lively
one for both men then did the only
smuggling that was done during the mill
The round closed with honors about
even.
A Fair Fight.