The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-28
BOUT WAS A DRAW
zEIGLER AND SULLIVAN BOxEu
TWENTY-FIVE HOT ROUNDS.
zEIGLER THE AGGRESSION.
THOUGH SULLIVAN LANDED OFTEN
Err AND HAD BETTER OF FIGHT.


Both Men Pretty Well Used Up-Zeir-
Ier's Eyes Closed and Lip ana
Cheek Cut-SuIIivan's Nose Damar
ed-Stomach Blow in Nineteenth
Round Sent Sullivan to His Knees.
ZeigIer Rushed Through Ropes
Twice-NOt Yet Settled which Will
Meet Bennett-In Preliminary Me-
COrmick Put Out for Not knowing
Game, and Flanagan. Sheehan,s
second Opponent, Disqualified.
owen H. Zeigler and Twin Sullivan
fought to draw last night twenty-five
of the hottest rounds ever seen in a
local bout. That it was the real thing
in the fight line everybody who saw it
is prepared to admit. Sullivan landed
oftenest and, as the majority of his
blows were to the face and head, their
result could be the more readily seen.
and because of this many of the spec
tators thought he should have been
given the decision, but on the other
hand Zeigler was the aggressor
throughout the fight with the execution
of two rounds and though he didn't
land as often as his adversary. when
he did send one home it counted. He
played chiefly for Sullivan's stomach
and several stiff punches that he put
there raised Sullivan to his toes. One
of these, an undressing in the nine
tenth round, sent Sullivan to his
knees for several seconds.
ZeigIer Landed often.
Zeigler also landed to the face and
neck often and with enough force to
start the blood. The honors in this line
were all Sullivan's though if the visi-
Bile results count, for in the third round
when the claret was drawn from him
he gave Zeigler bad left eye and a
round or two later SaVa him a bad cut
under the eye, one that repeated jab-
blnG kept bad shape during the
lest of the mil Before the fight was
half over both Zeigler's eyes were in
pretty bad shape, and in fact, his
whole face showed the marks of the
vicious punches that had landed.
sullivan had both hight and reach
on Zeigler, and in addition was faster
both at punching, especially in in-fight-
ing, and at ducking. In the clinches
Zeigler's stomach and head, and by
quick work jabbed the jaw a number
of times in the breaks.
Zeigler didn't seem to care for this
style of fighting, for he tried but little
OF 1t even when he had excellent open
ings. He likes a good, stiff swing or
punch. These he kept trying for all
through the bout. When they landed
they counted and results were what he
was looking for.
Had Best of Early Rounds.
Sullivan had the best of all the early
rounds, with the exception of third and
sixth. He used either hand equally
well and apparently with equal force
In the first round he put his left to
Zeigler's ribs and his right to the face,
and followed this up with other rib
blows in the clinch and with
right to the neck in the break.
Zeigler landed on the neck and
ribs.
In the second round Sullivan got
busy again: put a left to the face and
right to the ear; rusher Zeigler and
landed left swing to the face In a
break he landed again. Neither of
the men did anything special in the
following round, except that it was in
this part of the bout that Zeigler gave
Sullivan the punch on the nose and
Sullivan retaliated by closing Zeigler's
left optic.
In the fourth Zeigler landed a right
to the head and a little later sent
hard right swing to the stomach. Sui
livan got in one or two head punches,
and, as the gong sounded, a hard
right swing to the ribs. In the follow
ing round Sullivan began using upper
cuts. Many of them he landed and
they served to make still more sore
the bad eye and nose that he had al
ready given Zeigler.
ZeigIer Took the Sixth.
The sixth round was Zeigler's. Sui
Ivan started it by putting a hard
right to the head, but Zeigler sent his
left to the face, put a right to the
neck and again to the ribs, and after
Sullivan got in again on his ear sent
two hot ones to the wind. He then
got another swing to the neck. Let's
were exchanged to the head as the
gong sounded.
Sullivan took the honors of the
seventh. He landed hard and often
and began rushing. In one of these
rushes he carried Zeigler against the
ropes, and got in several hard ones
before Zeigler could recover himself.
He keptSat this rushing the remainder
of the fight, several times gettlng
Zelgler against the ropes IN aWhWfI u
places, and twice getting him through
the ropes. In the eighth sullivan
again landed oftenest. He put hard
left to the head and moment later
to the ribs, then exchanged rlgnt
to the head Zeigler, though his LETT
eye by this time was almost Closed
continued to force the game.
The Ninth. a Hot Mixup.
One of the hottest mixes of the bout
took place in the ninth round. ana
Zeigler got the worst of it. sullivan
did clever work again in the tentn
round. when, after Zeigler had put
one to the neck he sent three success
siye let's to Owens face and torceu
him to. the ropes He kept up the
hot pace ne had cut out in the next
round, also, for by quick snort Joits
TO the face and another rush ne sent
Zegler through the ropes. At the enc
Of this round Zeiglers eye ana nose
were so much to the bad that TO quot
Seabrooke. he "had a face that was
really unfit for publication. -.
In the twelfth round Sullivan cu'