Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-14
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
Joe Cans Puts Kid McPartland Out in
 Five Rounds.

Five Rounds.
 Fort Erie, Ont, Oct 14.-Joe Cans of Baltimore, the lightweight champion. added another leaf to his wreath of fstic laurels in the arena of the Inter national A. c. last night, when he knocked out Kid Mcfarland, the New Yorker, in the fifth round, after fast fighting. The ep-producing punch was in the form of a left-hand solar plexus punch, we'll aimed ond sent with terrible force, Just as Mcfarland at tempted to land his famous left swing of the body and head. It was a vic tory well earned by the dusky lighter. Mcfarland was dead to the world an instant after that punch landed. He was on his back squirming around ap- parently in great pain while Referee White of New oYrk counted off the ten seconds. McPartland's seconds jumped into the ring and with the aid of the referee they carried their man to his corner A few seconds of rest enabled McP Partland to recover sufficiently to cross the ring and shake hands With Cans. He appeared to suffer not a lit tie from the after effects of the punch ing that put him out of the running.
 Cans outclassed his opponent from beginning to end He fought cau- tious battle, always holding his right guard high in the air warding off Me Partland's left and occasionally send ing it into the body. Cans by his clever footWork and ring tactics man. aged to elude rush after rush made by McPartland. In the early part of the bout Mcfarland displayed much of his fighting ability of old. He seemed trifie nervous and was inclined to take altogether too many chances with a man of Gans's caliber. McPartland would feint with both hands, and when he thought he had his opponent at sea, he would swing his left for the head. Cans would elIher duck away or block the blow, then he would counter with both hands hard. Not once did the New Yorker get to Cans with telling effect The negro was in and away, landing at will, and as slippery as an eel He bewildered Mcfarland by his cleyerness.
 After the third round it was only question of how long it would take Cans to land his knockout punch. Me- Partland seemed to lose his steam to. ward the latter part of the fourth round. He came up fresh for the fifth round and fought with bulldog deter imitation which brought forth rounds of applause from his admirers. When an opening came in the fifth round Cans took advantage of it like light ming, sending his left in so fast that many thought Mcfarland had slipped to the floor instead of being knocked out.
 It was announced that both were be- low 135 pounds at 6 o'clock. McPart- land wore bandages. Al Herford, Her. man Miller and Curly Supplies were Gans's seconds. Phil Si1verberg, etc Kuhne and Tommy Hogan acted for Mcfarland Matty Matthews of New York issued a challenge to the winner to weigh in at 135 pounds at 3 o'clock.
 Warren Seurbrick of Buffalo and Herman Miller of Baltimore came to- gether in the preliminary bout scned- uled for, ten rounds. Seurbrick out fought his opponent, winning on a foul in the seventh round, when Miller was in an apparent helpless condition.
 Several lovers of good boxing saw Sam BoIan and Jim Haywood, the Brass City Kid, have six round try out yesterday down at J. H. Lawlor's club house on South Main street and the pair put up quite a lively bout. BoIan is in training for his match with Willie Gardner, which takes place in New Britain on Thursday night. He is in fine condition and will give the sports of that city a good battle. Haywood is working off some of the superfuous fat and will be in trim for any of the good ones in a weeks time. He is very anxious to get on return match with Willie Lewis and efforts are being made now to get Bill Crowley to bring the two together in one of the prelimin- aries for the Corbett and Rice match. Lewis was matched to meet Fitzger- aid, but the latter has declined to face him and the Brass City Kid may get the job of again trying out the white lad. There are many who believe that the Kid can whip Lewis if they ever meet again. When he was put out by Lewis in this city he was hold ing his own before he ran into the punch which laid him low. He has profited by that experience and feels certain he can lower Lewis colors. A match between the two would please the Waterbury sports.