Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-03-06
KELLY AN EASY ONE.
Makes Poor Showing Before Kid
Herrick at Turner Hall
Last Night.
OUT IN THE SECOND ROUND
Exhibition Develops Several With
the Orange Streak
Five Bouts.

Five bouts were put on i'm the box
ing carnival at Turner hall last even
ing. Three of the participants prov
ed to be cutters and what was meant
to have been the main go was Il fiasco.
but there was one contest that made
up for the deficiencies of the others.
Kid Rod. of this city. and Zeb Werth-
man. of Davenport. went five fast
rounds To a draw and theirs was the
match of the evening. Rod has made
4 reputation for himself as stayer
and he was we'll matched.
The first contest was between
Young" Green and Young" Jack
Gregg, both local striplingS. After
taking one round Of pummcling and
part of another Gregg turned to the
crowd and announced i'm satisfied
tone, Hes too much for me. mem"
Then ''Susky" Bowman. of Iowa.
and Frank Travis. of this city. two
colnred heavy weights, took to the
boards. Bowman was the heavier
man and Travis was afraid of him
from the start. 1t was to have been
five rounds. "SuSky" led off easy with
side swipeS with the open mitt. but
knock Travis head first into the
bucket Of ice wafer and bottles kept
in the corner for the refreshment of
the pugiliSts. Soon after the muss
had been Strengthened out Travis was
forced back into his own corner.
where another pair of SlapS put him
to sleep. The match lasted about Il
minute and a half and Travis did not
strike a blow.
Ed white and Frank zimmerman.
both of this city. were sent ON for
ur.rounds of the exhibition variety.
zimmerman proved rather rough and
in the second round Whites second
threw up the towel.
Warns Up Crowd.
Rod and Werthman came next. The
latter had the advantage of about -
pounds in weight. but he WAS
greener fighter. The first round was
even and the crowd warmed up. Botl;
men were smuggling with all their
might from the scratch and when
they went to their corners they were
warmly applauded. There was heavy
work i'm the second ana third rounds.
both men landing some hard punches.
but neither securing a kuocll-lown.
The fourth WAS rather in favor of the
Davenport boy and ON two occasions
he had Rod going. The latter. how
ever. did not lose his head and several
times saved himself from severe pun
ishment by clever ducking. Rod was
strong at the end. In the fifth there
was nothing to decide the game. Both
men were wary and no telling blows
were struck. The go was pronounced
draw.
Spider Kelly. of New York. and Kid
Herricll. of Rochester, were expected
to hand up the real article. Before
doing SO, however. they demanded to
see the color of the price and il was
necessary for Manager Harris To do Il
little personal soliciting in the
crowd before the coin was forthcom-
ing. The sports shelled out literally
for they expected to see a good thing.
Agony is Brief.
Kelly was lean and lanlly. while Her
rick was we'll proportional, and there
was much speculation ON the contest
before it began. The speculation end
ed i'm very short time after the gong
sounded. IIerrick was plainly not try
ing to iutiict any great damage upon
his man. although he went after him
with Il series of fierce rushes and
famed his wind with considerable
freedom. Kelly hadn't the steam to
push good stiff arm and before the
first round was over he had about
quit trying to do anything but defend
himself. The second round was Il
repetition of the first till IIerrick. by
some chance. stepped upon one of
Kelly's corns. That settled it. Kelly
made wry face and soon afterward
went down on a body punch. He took
time and came up only to GO down
again and be counted out.