The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-09
WAS DURANE'S BOUT
JACK SHEAHAN BEATEN FIRST
TIME IN HIS CAREER.
A WHIRLWIND FROM START.
SUEAIIAN KNOCKED OUT AFTER
TWO EFFORTS TO QUIT.


Durane Entered Ring with Broken
| Ffnger-Father OF Durane Inter-
ested Spectator of BOut-Jumped
| Into Ring and Kissed Jack After
Bout Was Over-TwO Lively Pre-
Iininaries Given BEFORE Main
| Event.
In one of the fastest and most saw
agely contested bouts ever held be-
tween featherweights in Savannah
Jack Durane, last night, knocked out
Jack Sheahan in the sixth round of
what was to be a 20-round contest.
To be more exact, Sheahan made a
third and successful attempt to quit
after receiving worse punishment than
he had ever received before.
He didn't show the yellow, though,
until he had demonstrated that he is
capable of making it exceedingly in
teresting, not TO say dangerous, for
Durane and probably almost any other
man at his weight. In fact it looked
in the third and fourth rounds that
Sheahan was a sure winner. He would
have been. but for the clever ducking
swings that, had they landed, would
have put him out of the running in
short order.
Durane cut out the pace in the first
| round. As soon as the gong tapped he
made a Decline from his corner for
! Sheahan, who in crouching position,
was waiting for him, sidestepped and
slammed a wicked left into lacks
breast He kept up these running tao
| tics all through the round, and they
! puzzled Sheahan not a little. Though
| Sheahan likes to play the aggressive
himself, he was forced to go on the
other tack for the time being.
1t was a costly round for Sheahan,
| too, for while he was getting a line on
! his opponents tactics, Durane put his
| nose, mouth and left eye to the bad
| and landed one or two to the wind be-
sides. This decided Sheahan to turn
from hunted to hunter and he showed
| wisdom in this decision, for in close
| quarters his mitigating was much SUI
| perior to that Of Durane and took some
| Of the ginger out of that chap by the
| time the round was over. even though
the sailor lad was prepared to take
| whatever was handed out to him.
They Fought Like Fiends.
This round was so exceptionally hot
| that it became a dead certainty that
| something would drop" long before
the bout had gone half of the sched-
uled length. Before the gong sounded
for the close of it both men fell to the
floor as the result of clinch and mix
| up. The round following, the third,
was just as hot, and both began to
show the effects of their speed, not so
| much by any outward damage as by
| their shortage of wind and the lessen
ing force of their blows.
Sheahan seemed to be the stronger.
He regained much of his old-time con-
fldence and fought so savagely and
apparently so effectively that his ad-
mirers began calling, You got him.
Sheahan put him out" Sheahan tried
to follow this advice but Durane was
still very much alive, and though he
was not so aggressive as he had been
at first, his footwork in getting away
from Sheahan, and his ducking of fierce
swings, was good, and he landed oc-
casionally, too, though Sheahan had
the best of this part of the game.
In the fourth round the fighting was
quite as lively as any men who had
followed such a pace could make it,
and again it looked like Sheahan for
winner for Durane didn't put much
steam in his blows. Sheahan evidently
thought the bout as good as won, too,
for in the following round the grand
stand 'front.'" that he hadn't had time
to use before, was brought into play.
1t didn't last long. Durane pulled
himself together and began smashing
again at both long and short range
and Sheahan was kept too busy to
think of fronts"
Sheahen Had Enough.
1t was at this stage of the game
that he first discovered he had enough
of it, and so after breaking from a
clinch, he declared he had been fouled
and started to walk to his corner
Shorty jenkins, the referee couldn't
see it that way, and ordered the bout
to go on. Sheahan went back and
made it lively until the next round,
when, from light tap, he went to the
floor, but got up after seven counts,
during which the crowd had begun to
call fake"
He didn't stay long, though for in
few moments he was forced against
the ropes, and after Durane had put
a left to the neck and the right on
the jaw, he sided we'll into the ring
and allowed himself to be counted out.
1t was case of quit" said Referee
jenkins, Jack Durane and Owen Zeig-
Ter who was in Durane's corner.
There were mitigating circumstances
for Sheahan, though, for during the
bout he either broke or badly bruised
his right hand just below the wrist so
full and will be for some days to come
DGrane entered the ring with the mid
die finger of the left hand broken. the
result of boxing with Owen Zeigler the
day before.
AS soon as Referee Jenkins an
nounced his decision Durane's father
who had occupied a box at the ring
side, and was one of the most interest
ed spectators in the house. got into the
ring and Rugged and kissed his son.
Durane then went to Sheahan,s corner
and shook hands with him.
Before the bout Kelly, manager of
Danny Dot gherty, and who, like Dam
ny, has decided to remain in Savan-
nah, was introduced from the ring and
the announcement made that he wants
to meet the winner of the Durane-
Sheahan match Durane says he will
meet him if he will make any weight
from lis to 122 pounds, and further.
that he will meet anybody else in the
country who will make this weight
Durane, as has been before announced,
holds the featherweight championship
of the navy. This is the first time
Sheahan has been beaten.
The Two Preminaries.
This, the main bout, was preceded
by two very lively and clever prelim-
inaries, the first, for six rounds, be-
tween Kid Henderson and Young Mil
| Ter. Henderson had the better of the