Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-14
CHICAGO BOY TOO STRONG
Referee Gives Herman Decision Over Smith
in Fourteenth Round.
cOLORED LAD IS PLUCKY TO THE LAST
Outweighs His Opponent, but Herman
il the More Clever and ut the Same
Time Has More steam
chino His Blows.

A boy with a pale, scornful face and a
heavy, determined chin, gave Hatch Smith
the worst beating he has. ever known at
Blum's hall in South Omaha last night, and
after a minute of the fourteenth round had
elapsed Referee Jimmy Bardell stopped the
fight and declared kid" Herman the win
ner, because Smith was at that time merely
banging on to him and taking all that was
coming, being practically helpless and half
blind.
With a look Of hauteur on his boyish
features, the lad from Chicago advanced 10
meet Hatch for the first round before the
largest crowd that ever gathered in the hall.
The first minute made Herman the f~avorite,
because Of his cleverness, his lightning
speed and his terrible blows. He was
plainly a %glutton for punishment. Calmly
he set about the Job Of subduing the hard
headed colored boy, and never from start to
finish did so much as a flush mount to his
colorless cheeks. while his Jaw was always
set in a determined way. At the end ne
left the ring without a mark on face or
body, and he never even took advantage Of
the post behind his chair in the corner to
lean against It during the intermisslons.
With the plucky Smith it was a different
story. Game to the core. and fast and
fierce as we'll. he stood his ground fairly
till the twelfth, when just before the gong
Herman caught him a terrible ~left-hand
smash in the eye, closing IL up and SWELL
ing it out till Hatch looked like a chicken
with the roup when he came to the middle
for the next round. The Kid" merely
continued his work, landing smash after
smash in the thirteenth, while Hatch CROPPED
and clinched and stopped. thus saving him
self much punishment that was awaiting
him from plston-like arms. Unfaltering
Smith came out once more, but after Her
man had hit him three times in the four
teenth Bardell stopped 1t, saying II would
be butchery to let It go on, as Smith was
helpless with his one eye and outclassed in
any event.
Smiths much-vsunted righthand blows
seemed not to have the power that has
been ascribed them. Twice at least he
landed them square on Herman's jaw, and
the hearts of the talent trembled for the
little visitor. But he was not even Jared,
much less dazed. and came back with fierce
rights and lefts which were both stronger
than anything Smith could dole out.
AS a rafting preliminary Terry Mustain
surprised everybody by fighting Danny
Haley to a well-deserved draw in a smash
ing six-round go. Terry was outweighed,
but was the cleverer and quicker, and he
had a great bunch OF steam in both arms.
His work made q great hit with the crowd,
as in size he was outclassed.
As two more prelimanries Kid Jensen put
| George Black out in the first round at
light weights. Both are Omaha boys. Then
Marion Mcintyre of Lincoln laid Pete
Rooney on the canvas in the first round,
but Referee Bardell said Rooney was not
knocked out, although the boy insisted he
was, and Rooney was barred from a share
Of the money.
The announcement that Frank Collier
and Billy Rhodes will meet at Blum's hall
July 3 at weller weights evoked much en-
thuslasm, as no one was satisfied with their
last fight, which Rhodes Won on a foul.