Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
DAILY FAST WORKER
Chicago Scrapper Finishes Jim
Brennan in One
Round.
FIRST OF CAL HARRIS SHOWS
Program of Warm Events Pulled on
at Turner Hall Last
Night.

Night.
The first of a series of fistic tour
naments advertised to be given in the
three cities under the management
of Cal Harris's Tri-City Athletic as
ISOLATION, took place at Turner hall
last evening before a roomful of real
sports. Previous to the show n re-
port had been circulated that the
thing was fixed" but after it was
over there were no cries of fake"
and as the crowd filed out discussing
the various events there were heard
many comments commendatory of
the management.
In fact the temper of the audience
may be pretty accurately judged by
an episode that took place just be-
fore the main bout between 'Chica-
go" Jack Daily and Jim Brennan, q:
st. Louis, was pulled off. The pre-
liminary bouts were undertaken by
the principals for car fare and a few
toilet articles used during the mill.
but the main 90 was for 90 pcr cout
of the gate receipts. Before the last
event was put on Manager Harris
stepped out in the ring and invited Il
voluntary contribution 10 the cause
on the ground that there WIS Cniy
enough money in the boN office II
square with the principals the infer
ence being that the total gate re-
CeiptS amounted to only 60 per = ut.
Paradoxical as this may appear ii
was borne out in the number of
deadheads present and the crowd APP
preciating the fact sweetened the
pot TO the extent of 1915. In all the
four mills given during the cfening
the principals went after each other
as though they needed the money,
which was highly satisfactory. so far
as the spectators we're concerned.
Benson Wins on Foul.
In the first two contests the com
batantS were of the younger fry. Kid
Bell and Kid Benson went three
rounds when the latter was awarded
the victory ON a foul. Then George
Gibson and Tom Welch had four
rounds of desultory fighting, the lat
ter showing the more skill AMI bet
ter staying qualities and scoring
clean knockdown as the gong sound
ed for the end. 1t was declared Il
draw.
The next one wlS more Interesting
1t was between Kid Rod, of Rock.
Island. and Frank Fullmcr. If Free
port. and was to he six rounds to -
decision. 1t was hot and heavy from
start to finish. Fullmer was in
rather the poorer form of the pair.
for, as he said afterward, he had
been training with 'dubs." This
training appears to have consisted in
bad beating he received soon after
hitting town a few days ago, when
some of his associates BACKED his
eye and tore his clothes just to make
him tough. as they afterward eN-
planned. Rod saw his advantage and
kept after his opponents wind, hit
ting him i'm the short ribs in the
clinches and at every opportunity.
In time il told. and when in the
fourth round he landed an unusually
stiff punch i'm the region of the belt,
il was all over with Fullmer and he
was carried to his corner after being
counted out. During this go the eN-
citement grew so intense that Chief
of Police Darnell had to make
speech between the rounds to bring
about a strict conformation on the
part of those present to the tenets
of law and order.
Before the main fight Manager Har-
ris invited challenges and was re-
warded by hearing from two parties
who thought they had Rods meas
ure. These are Jimmy Shannon. of
this city. and Rufus Phoenix, of Mo-
line.
Brennan Put to Sleep
DAILY and Brennan went on at 13S
pounds. Jim Graham was Days
second and George Odin stood in
Brennan's corner. while Harris ref
creed this, as the other bouts. 1T
was to be 10 rounds to- a decision,
but il did not take that long While
not possessing any apparent phys
zeal advantage, Daily quickly showed
himself the more experienced tighter,
wasting no motions, but going after
! his man on the tender spots. There
were a number of rushes and clinches
in which both acted very much as
though they meant business. and
finally. in one of these. after the first
round was only little over hair
gone, Daily closed in and handed over
a short. stiff right hook that caught
the point of Brennan's jaw and the
latter went to sleep in approved
fashion with number of seconds 10
spare. Then Daily offered to fight