The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-15
HAD A BLOODY BOUT
c. SHEEHAN AND KID HEN
WING LOOKED LIKE INDIANS.
BLOOD FROM JENNINGS EYE
D,sTRIBUTED ITSELF OVER THE
BODIES OF BOTH LADS.

port Went to Henning After the
EIexenth Round-Sheehan's Hand
Had Been Hurt-Savannah Lad
IND the Better of 1t Through the
seventh Round, But Then Began
IN Grow Weak and Lose Steam.
HenninG Took Bracer, and Ii
Lacked as Though He Would
Nave Won Anyway-Pretty ,Wrest-
ling Bout Between Kid Long and
Young Roeber.
lack Sheehan put up a stiff eleven
round fight against Kid Henning at
Labor Hall last night, but the Wash
,ngton lad was too strong for the game
uttIe amateur. Even at that, how
ever. he might have stayed for the
fifteen rounds the bout was scheduled
"a 90 had it not been that he hurt
his hand and had to quit after the
eleventh.
The first seven rounds were great
snort for Sheehan. Everything was
coming his way, and at the end of
each round he was picked as the win
IN the neAL- hSpI Ills
nerve. though, despite the punishment
he was receiving from the Savannah
lad. and his harder training, wider
experience and superior judgment told
in the end, turning the tables on Shee-
han and having him weak and wind
ed toward the last.
Not much of a Nrowd saw the bout.
The few that gathered for it lacked
The stamp of the element that assem-
bles in the choice seats about the Sa-
yannah Athletic Clubs ring to watch
the best fights that are pulled off there.
A noisy roofing, discordant and out-of-
place assortment of youngsters formed
part of the crowd, and the police would
have done well to drive out the devo-
tees of the game, who had not even
blossomed forth in that semblance of
manhood that is loaned by the first pair
of long trousers. Material for a dis
course" might have been secured by
any preacher who thinks it worth while
to occasionally lift up his voice against
the pugs.
An interesting preliminary put the
crowd in good humor for the star
event of the evening. The prelim. was
a wrestling bout between Young Roe
Der of Philadelphia and Kid Long of
Savannah. Greco-Roman was the hold
decided on and both men showed cler-
erness. Two out of three falls were to
decide the contest, but the first was
never determined, as the ten minutes
were up before either man had put
down shoulders and hip. The next fall
was won by Roeber in eight minutes
and the third by Roeber in five min
utes, and his man was landed each
time by the hammer lock.
Tommy Corcoran refereed the wrest-
ling bout. and was also in the ring
with Sheehan and Henning. The fight
ers mixed it up from the first jingle
of the brass, and before the round was
over Sheehan had sent Henning to the
floor with a swing that left him there
until after the referee had started to
count. 1t didn't take Henning long to
find his feet, however, and then the
boys were at it again.
Henning had advantage in weight.
hight and reach, besides professional
experience. Sheehan is only seventeen,
and his development as a fighter dntes
backs over a period of only a few
months He is able to take care of
himself with a man like Henning,
though, and he had the Washingtonian
looking much to the bad for seven or
OISil IOuuUS.
BY the sixth round Sheehan had
sent Henning down three times, and
the bout looked as though it could have
10 other ending than to go the Shee-
nan. Things looked even more that way
alter Sheehan sent a jolt to Hennings
lett eye that put that organ out of
business completely, splitting the eye
oroW and sending the claret streaming
over his face and body. SheehaA kept
Admmerlng a his man, and soon one
was about as bloody as the other. Hen
mnSs gore distributing itself copiously
over Sheehan.
fleming was glad to hear the gong
CoSe up the sixth, for that gave him
cnahce to get to his seconds and get
we plunged eye fixed up a bit. 1t had
syupped bleeding by the time the gong
SSounded for the seventh, but Sheehan
I,n.ed on the sad optic time and
Ssaln' and like red Indians they
fought Blood filled Henning's left
eye and he had but one to serve him.
Sneehan looked winner, but mis- steam
pesdn to give out just then Things
were not so bad with Henning as they
utooEed' for, finding he could stop Shee-
nan weak leads for his eye he began
uoNs some forcing, and it was seen
Slldt It was only a question of how
iloHs Sheehan could last. The Savannah
ooy got more to the bad each round,
am Ut was a relief when Corcoran an
iIOuhced that he had hurt his hand
anu could go no further Henning,
therefore, got the decision.
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