Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
Events That Occur in the Camp
 of the Boxers.

Joe Bernstein and Young Griffo Give
 a East Exhibition-Be Bernstein Gets
 the Decision, Which Was Unsatis-
 factory Suicide of an Old Time
 Boxer-Spike Sullivan After All the
 English Scrappers-Other Fighting
 News
 Baltimore, Md, Aug 23.-The Eutaw Athletic club was well filled last night the main attraction being twenty round bout between Joe Bernstein, the well known east side boxer of New York, and Young Griffo.' Both boys had trained faithfully for the go, and when they appeared in the ring their condition could not have been better.
 Before they put up their hands three prelimfnaries were decided, the first being between two featherweights, Hary Scraggs and Lou Weiss. John Daly was the referee. Scraggs went right out after his man and after ten seconds of fighting in the second round Weiss was put to sleep.
 It was nearly 10 o'clock when Bern stein and Young Griffo'' got into their corners. Behind the east sider were his manager, Charles Horan, Joe Norton and kid" Lewis. "Grif- fo's' seconds were the Texas June Bug" Tommy Love, George Owens, Bobby Royal and Tom Daily. Jim O'Hara was the referee.
 In the first round there were some sharp exchanges, but the gong sound ed without either man doing any dam- age.
 "Griffo" forced matters in the sec ond and made a vicious left hand swing, but Bernstein cleyerly ducked. "Griffo," however, got q left on neck, but received a hot one in the kidneys. Bernstein found "Griffo's" face ,a1ld then the round closed in q clinch.
 Tn the third round. after q few light exchanges "Griffo' got home the hardest blows ofthe fight, right on Joe's jaw and a left on the stomach. The fourth round was replete with inr fighting, but little apparent damage was done.
 Matters were even up to the seventh round, when s.Griffo" showed signs of weakening. Bernstein was not slow in discovering this, and as the wind up to the round he planted a hard right on the ribs. "Griffo was fresher in the next round and had all the better of the work done.
 In the ninth round Bernstein was hissed for hitting in clinch, and in retaliation "Griffo'' landed hot one on the body. Joe was evidently wor- rfed at the end of the round
 Bernstein came up greatly refreshed in the next round and gave as good as he received. Both were cautious thereafter. but no opening was expos ed that they did not take advantage of. 1t was pretty even struggle to the last round, when ssGriffoo fought his man all oyer the ring.
 "Griffo's" fine work. however, was of no avail, for the decision was given to Bernstein. It proved to be an unpopular verdict. tss
 Cincinnati, o, Aug Young Cor bett, with his manager and trainers, arrived here yesterday to look for his training quarters. 1t is probable that he will choose the place on Price's H5ll where Jeffries trained for his fight which was enjoined there.
 ssSpike'' Sullivan has offered to fight any man of his weight in England. He has been after scrapper named Maloney, fairly clever lightweight, but the latter wants to make the con ditions too rigid.
 The National Athletic club of Lon don, England, has secured an excel lent attraction for next month in q twenty round bout between Harry ware and Andrew Tokell, for the ban tamweight championship of Eng land
 There have been numerous cases of typhoid fever in Bayside and vicinity, and among those stricken down is Mrs Corbett, wife of James I. Cerbett, the pugilist. Mrs Corbett has been taken to private sanitarium for spec ial treatment.
 After many months of quibbling, Joe Tipton, the Baltimore feather weight, and Harry Lyons, probably the cleverest negro lad of his weight in the country, have signed to fight twenty rounds at Baltimore on Sep tember for purse to be divided on a 75 and % per cent basis.
 Charley Johnson, who committed suicide by swallowing chloroforTnl at his home in Philadelphia, had the dis tinction of fighting about 100 battles in the ring without being knocked out. HIS proper name was charles A. PaI- mer, and he was born in St Paul, Minn, May 25, 1871. He began his boxing career at Dayton, O., in 1889 by knocking out Louis Bezenah in if teen rounds, and his last fight was with Charley Golf at Hot Springs, Ark, to whom he lost the decision In 1895 Johnson visited England, where he was adjudged a loser on very questionable decision with Arthur Val entine. While in that country he de- feated such cracks as "Cock Robin" George Crisp, Dick Ambrose and was for ten weeks the ssparring partner of Ted Pritchard, England.s premier middleweight. He was always ready to put on the gloves with any one and met everybody in his class, and many that were too big for him. But some how he never was popular with the public. He was a fierce and aggressive in the ring,and the majority of the spectators seemed to be anxious to see him beaten This often happened when the matter of points scored were alone reckoned.
 Kitchener Brain-Fever.
 A woman recently entered an om-