The San Francisco call., 1903-09-30

Il liant victory over the hitherto
undefeated featherweight boxer,
A-S Benny Yanger, last night in Me-
chanics' Pavilion. The fight went
twenty rounds and for dramatic incident
and quickness of action has seldom been
equaled in this or any other city.
By some peculiar intuition the specta-
tors scented a fierce contest in the ff-
teenth round. They were not disap-
pointed, as it proved the most thrilling
round ever seen here. 1t had hardly got
well under way when Yanger was
knocked down with a clean right to the
head. He was dazed but up before the
count and then for nearly three minutes
a remarkable struggle ensued The spec
tators were all on their feet and fairly
surged about the ring, their tense faces
glistening in the glare of the powerful
electric lights.
Yanger was dazed and groggy, but his
gameness kept him on his feet and aided
him in withstanding the relentless little
fighter who followed him all over the
ring. raining blows on him 1t was this
method OF attack which lost Hanlon a
clean-cut victory at this point Had he
concentrated all his strength into one blow
Yanger would surely have succumbed.
At that Hanlon seemed the coolest man
in the house. He kept peppering away
at Yanger, who hung on at every oppor-
tunity. The Chicago man was stagger-
ing about helplessly when the end of the
round brought him temporary relief.
DISPUTE OVER TIMING.
HanIon's timekeeper claimed the gong
was sounded before the time was really
up. In his dressing room after the fight
Hanlon claimed that when Referee Smith
broke them out of the clinches he invari-
ably stood in the way. Hanlon said he
had to run around him in order to reach
Yanger. This gave the latter additional
respite.
The remaining rounds up to the twen-
tieth seemed tame in comparison with
the fifteenth Yanger came back fighting
and put UP a bold front although it was
seen he was tender about the body and
WINGED whenever a blow landed there
The twentieth round was almost a repe-
tition of the fifteenth. Hanlon was again
the aggressor and had Yanger on the
verge of going out. Yanger took an in
credible amount of punishment, but lasted
to the end
Referee Smith placed his hand on Han
Ions shoulder and declared him the vic
tor. The Californian was cheered and
cheered until the rafters re-echoed with
the applause. rush was made for the
ring by HanlOn's admirers but a Gordon
of police hustled them outside the ropes
a policeman had quite a struggle with
In putting him out the mans pistol
pocket was exposed and the laws de-
fender saw a shining object there A
look of determination spread over his face
as he took a frmer hold of the man and
proceeded TO disarm him. The deadly
weapon was secured and, much to the
chagrin of the patrolman and the amuse-
ment of the spectators, proved to be
small whisky fiask-and empty. No ar
rests.
THE BOXERS APPEAR.
Yanger and Hanlon entered the ring to-
gether. The former was attended by
Manager Hertz. Alexander Greggains
Billy Otis. Billy Roach and Charles
Seiger, With Hanlon were Harry Foley,
Joe Angel, Fred Landers, Toby Irwin and
Mike Short.
Billy Jordan introduced Yanger as the
'"Tipton Slasher' of Chicago Hanlon
was announced as the pride of California.
Charles Seiger and Jimmy Britt were also
introduced. A telegram was read from
Young Corbett offering to fight the win
ner.
With all the desperate fighting there
was but little blood spilled. Hanlons nose
was cut and bled slightly. His lelc eye
was blackened. Yanger's lips and nose
were puffed UP from the frequent vista
tions of Hanlon's gloves.
Hanlon seemed the fresher and stur-
dier of the two boxers, the years of
training Yanger has undergone having
undoubtedly taken some of the dash out
of him. His blows lacked the sting which
hurts. He landed repeatedly on Hanlon,
but the latter only shook his head and
rushed in for more. He took blows re-
peatedly with the idea of giving harder
ones in return and seldom missed He
kept boring In all the time and never at
tempted to hang on. He left all this to
ing himself in danger He fought more
openly than on previous occasions, at
times abandoning bis cFouching attitude
entirely. ~
After the fight Yanger admitted he had
a close call in the fifteenth round Man
ager Hertz said he would like to match
Yanger with Hanlon again to fight in the
East.