The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13

Thirty-six-pound fighting dog. who has a
record of whipping two dogs his own
weight in the same pit and the same
night.
plant in South ST. Louis. Ounce is hard
scrapper. but there were several turns In
the fight. and there was some criticism of
the referees verdict. Finally Ounce set
tied the matter by Furnishing the other
dog so badly that he refused to scratch at
the call of time. Ounce was declared the
winner.
.One fellow who had bet OF the other
dog and who had brought his own dog
along. commenced to make remarks as the
fight drew to close. IT made me SO bad
that the moment Ounce was called the
winner yelled to him 10 Put his own dog
in the pit and see what he would do
against Ounce. I told him ] would bet
"He tried to back out and finally COM
promised by putting up only u.s. , which
he camed was all ne had We
him SO badly that 1 think he died soon
after the fight The fact that the cellar
6, cold and that Ounce had been h,
an hour before he tackled the second dog
made the affair all the more extraordi-
nary.
of the air being cold. We were fighting
in tho cellar of a brewery with big ice
box built into the wall alongside one end
vt %as the pt binding ing head s as , saas
one ss Yelled is P s9 cat sA' "A'A '--''
We'll. there was scattering ana no
mistake. Some Of the fellows went up the
got onto. the sidewalk 1 grabbed up my
dog. and. as there Is no evidence Of
fight unless two dogs can be found. 1
the door Of the ice box and threw him
inside; then We made break for the
door;
SO, then went back. Now, the little. dog
had been fighting furiously and had re-
ceived several severe cuts: The cold air
was dead when We opened the door.
Rose put up 9 game fight against an
In her first fight she fought for fifty-two
minutes against an old and trained scrap
per-. without ever turning. makes me
iss SHE she % e Ta%s ossr Big i. 5
young and will probably weigh Is pounds
when she reaches her full weight.
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the main event and preliminaries, Of which
two or three will be carded.
Andy Walsh may meet George Block
before this Institution, an offer having
St. Louis Tommy Sullivan and Jack
Keefe have finally been matched TO battle
ten rounds before the West End Club. De
cember II. Charley Haughton has put up
been agreed that all Of the money is to
Sullivan is the man matched to do the
fighting, but Frank Hart will have to do
q good part Of It for him. That IT, he
will have to teach the local man what to
Wild-headed youth who needs a strong
hand on him in the course Of a fight
However much fighting ability won his
remains Da so that the battle Woud have been
protracted had not Hart forced Sullivan
He switched his attacks from Hubers
head. at which Tommy was aiming ter
rife blows.
There's q nice, fat stomach on that
guy" said Hart in the intervals Of
round. suppose you 90 after that Tor q
The result would be history Of tho ring
il either boy had attained enough celeb
rity to deserve place in its annals.
the best this city has turned out Of late:
But. he needs some one to take him and
keep him from wasting his strength IN
the course Of every fight. II he would
him whole lot, also.
Andy Walsh and Andy Stevenson went
through a rough match at tho North Side
Athletic Club last Thursday evening. Ref
cree Moogs deciding that the affair should
be a draw. Walsh was really entitled to
the verdict, but in the general roughness
of the battle, the official probably thought
that he could best even things up by
splitting the verdict.
Stevenson showed reasonably good form
and reached Walsh's face fairly often
when he tabbed straight with his left. HIS
Shining
stirred up Kisses from the crowd, Wnicl
evidently had come to see him nght ana
not merely endeavor to escape getting , MI:
was due to the floor Of the ring being IN
padded and slightly. sloping toward the
i9otsh,s.he ring Is RitchMsa On Sot i.a Re
and Walsh clearly slipped accidentally
once or twice, It certainly appeared as ~
Stevenson went down repeatedly merely
through dread Of Walsh's blows.
while fighting Jimmy Handler at tho 81.
Louis Rowing Club. where the ring was
level and heavily padded.
.1peetaton. 'h inco SSas the manage
ment of the club deserves credit for the
programme it furnished. All the bouts
afforded entertainment. and the principe, i
event lost some interest through no fauit
Of Manager Mike Walsh.
Many boxing contests that have been
nOpeieS6ly loSt ana Wnere QeIeht eeeheu
the lucky punch" Other fighters have
won their battles before their opponents
fairly had their hands up.
OF the latter type the Sharkey- Rubin
fight at Coney Island IL an example. NO
sooner had the bell runS announcing the
beginning Of hostilities than Sharkey and
SBang" went sharkey's left hand swing
and down and out went Rubin before
even his own seconds had realized what
was up.
A punch Of this kind Is lucky. OF
course, Sharkey was given all credit for
the win, but way down deep in his heart
ne had no more idea Of knocking Rubin
become President Of this country. He
took a desperate chance, and the good
thing went through. as the race horse
A case similar to the Sharkey-Ruhlin
fight was the time Jimmy Elliott knocked
out Captain Dalton at the old Park Thea
ter in Chicago in q similar manner. Time
center. Elliott swung his right and down
went Dalton for q trip to dreamland ex-
actly seven seconds after the fltit began.
The above instances are chance blows of
one kind, and the second Myers-0ilmore
battle may be added to the list There
the Demgsey-Marins battle g en- iiiq,-
and winning as he pleased The odds
were 100 to that Dempsey would win.
and the spectators were shouting to the
Marine to quit. 40 he had no chance
Dempsey advanced toward him for the
flnai EFFORT. when. quick - dash. La
Blanche Wheeled ana delivered e pivot
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