The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-30
Corbett Gets First Blood.

straight lefts and upper-cuts did not seem to do much damage
 Corbett Gets First Blood.
 Round 3-Corbett tried with left several times for the face but could not get in. He strengthened Hanlon out with a right upper-cut, and they mixed 1t, both land ing good lefts to the face. Corbett sent a straight right to the face and Eddie nose began to bleed. -Corbett upper-cut with right twice to the face. Corbett missed vicious right upper-cut for the face and moment later sent three rights to the face, ear and jaw. Ed bored in and .Corbett sent right upper-cut to tpe chm and a hard right swing to the ear. ln- fighting followed without result. Corpett planted right and left on Hanlons race as the bell rang It was Corbett's round. The pace was very fast.
 Round 4-Corbett came up smiling ana proceeded to chop away at Hanlons race They fought fercely in a mix-up, poth landing left and rights to the body. Han Ion planted right to the kidneys: The champion appeared to be slowing down a bit He sent in a right quick as a flash to Eddie's face and followed 1t quickly with a hard right to the ear. Corbett sent light straight left to the face ana protected himself cleverly from a return. Corbett tucked vicious right ana gave Eddie rip with right to the jaw. Cor bett missed right and Hanlon drove a hard left to body. In-fighting followed, Corbett protecting himself. Corpett rushed as the round closed, but failed to land.
 Round 5-In a mix-up Corbett uppercut to body. In the break Hanlon landed hard right on head. Corbett then sent Ed back to the ropes with clean right to the jaw, remarking, How do you like that?" Hanlon got in a right uppercut to the body, Corbett struck very low and was warned by the referee to be caretul. Both missed several straight lefts and they came to clinch.
 Both Men Talked.
 Round 6-Both men did considerable talking Hanlon stopped the champion talk with a succession of rights and lefts to the jaw and complained to the referee that Corbett was holding. Furious in- fighting followed, Hanlon doing better work Corbett was apparently anxious to mix it at all times but when Hanlon went after him, right and left in Cor betts anatomy, he still found the Den yer man more than willing to meet him. Plugging was noticed to great extent.
 Round Round Ed put left to the face. Corbett countered a hard right swing to the ear Both men gave remarkable ex- hibitions of blocking and protecting them- selves. Graney once more cautioned Cor bett for hitting low Corbett got in good right to the head and followed 1t with two lefts to the ear Corbett swung right and left to the head and evaded Hanlon' s attempts to counter. Hanlon put two short arm lefts to the face, and swinging hard with left sent the champion to the floor. He got up instantly and fought back hard, Hanlon sending right and left to the head. Hanlon lashed out and caught Corbett clean on the point of the jaw and foored him. When the gorT sounded both men were fighting furiously
 Round S-Corbett was more careful and the smile had gone from his face. Hanlon followed him around the ring sending straight lefts to the face and a right to the jaw that staggered Corbett. Corbett swung wildly and got another left on the jaw from Hanlon that hurt him. In a fierce mix Corbett put in several hard rights and lefts to the face with force enough to knock out an ordinary fighter. but Hanlon smiled
 Round 9-After some mix-ups Corbett landed hard left swing to the Califor- nian's jaw, tried left and right swings. but both were blocked. Another vicious right for the jaw was blocked. Finally, Corbett recovered. This time he sent a right to Hanlon's chin but missed an- other try Hanlon blocked hard right swing for the face and then got inside of right and left swings for the body Ed put a light left to the face and they clinched. Corbett got in a terrific right uppercut to the chin that only made Hanlon the more vicious.
 Hang to One Another.
 Round l0-Corbett missed fierce right uppercut for the jaw. A moment later he sent a right uppercut to the chin and they hung to each other Both men be-