Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-10
FIGHT IN UNION SQUARE.

FIGHT IN UNION SQUARE.
 New York, Sept 1o-The fact that the policemen in the vicinity of Union square take one hour each day for din-. ner made possible the holding of a real prize fight there yesterday. The purse was $25 cash, the contestants were Dutch" Leonard, former pugilist, and Abraham Lavinsky, wouid-be prize fighter. The men work in a fac tory in Thirteenth street, near Broad way. When the noon-day whistle sounded they went to restaurant with fellow workers, and after watching the others eat-they did not satisfy their own hunger--"Aswlt to the grass plot called park" The benches were thronged with factory hands, while others stood in circle, preventing those on the street from seeing the! affray. At 1920 time was called. and for three regulation rounds MT Lavin- sky was harshly treated Although there was no animosity in the encouu ter. it being simply for the purse, the third round. which was scheduled to be the deciding one. Leonard shot a hard right to the jaw, sending Lavin- sky's thoughts heavenward and hls head groundward. The victor was given the cash as soon as the custom dry count of ten had been Finished. There was no shouting from the spec tators, everything was conducted in an orderly manner, and when the D ice- men sauntered back to their beats they were aStonished to hear of the mill"
 V T. Gr~t< Jimmy Gardner of Lowell, Spike SulIi- van or any other lightweight in the game, at 135 pounds.
 Harry Forbes, the x-bantamweight champion, will make his first appear ance in Boston tonight, meeting Kid McFadden. the San Francisco boxer, for ten rounds at the TaImmany A. c.
 Matchmaker Morris Levey of the Hayes Valley A. c. of San Francisco is anxious to get heavyweight to meet Jack Johnson for fifteen rounds the night Eddie Hanlon and Bennie Yan- ger fight. Johnson was scheduled to fight Hank Griffin, but Griffin refused to have anything to do with the colored man. Levey will give a good purse for any man to take Griffiu's place.
 There will be two fights decided to- morrow night. The men who will meet are Aurelia Herrera, the Mexican fighter, and Jack McClelland of Pitts burg, and Charley Sieger of Hoboken and Rufe Turner, the colored light weight of California. Herrera and, McClelland will battle before the Pas. time A. c. of Portland, Ore, while Seiger and Turner will clash at Seattle, Wash. Both contests are scheduled to go twenty rounds
 Billy Madden wants to wear a big badge and be chief of police. Verify, the finger of time has habit of poking holes in the routine of things. Mad den. who has been very largely identi- fled with pugilism-he was John T.. Sullivan's first manager-for over twenty years, is in California, where he has Denver Ed Martin, the colored heavyweight, matched to fight Sam, McVey on September 15. A few days, ago Madden called on Lucky" Bald. win and applied for the position of chief of the police force at the new town of Arcadia, Gal.
 Jim Jeffries says he learned his fearful stomach punch when he was T
 green boxer at Los Angeles. When" said the champion the other day, II was putting on the gloves up to the old Los Angeles A. C.-raw young In dian was then. but strong as an ok I got up against John Brink: He spared with me one day and caught me a frigntful wallop in the stomach and it hurt me. It hurt me bad. never got a poke like that before, and I says to myseIa. that's the punch for
 me- I licked Fitzsimmons with
 one, ana I put Corbett away with the same thing. It's like ready money
 that punch is."