Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-02
THE PUGILISTS.
Jack O'Brien Is Still Past Master
 in the Ring

l &0 SA4S ALLIE
 Kid Carter is Given a Good Humping
 for Six Rounds-Joe -Choyinski
 Winds Up His Career in q Bad De-
 feat-Tommy Ryan's Battle Said to Have Been a Fake.
 Philadelphia, July 2.-"PhiIadelphia Jack" O'Brien had the better of the six-round bout last night with Kid Carter of Brooklyn at the Industrial A. c. The fight was hard, clean and fast from start to finish. Both men took much punishment but neither was badly hurt O'Brien drew first blood. He cut Carter over the eye in the first round, and later started his nose bleeding. The Philadelphian re- ceived most of Carter's blows on tho body, at which the Kid kept punching. The Brooklyn man put up a vicious fight, but O'Brien avoided his on- slaughts by clever footwork. O'Brien managed to dodge nearly a dozen blows any one of which probably would have ended the fight
 The first round opened in whirl- wind fashion. O'Brien landed first and soon had the blood flowing from over Carter's eye. In the same round O'Brien caught Carter on the jaw and the Brooklyn man was sent rocking across the ring. The second round also was in favor of O'Brien, but in the third and fourth Garter got in some good body punches which evened up the showing somewhat.
 Tn the fifth the tide of battle again favored O'Brien. He rained blows On Carter's face but none of them was hard enough to put him out. Garter was bit groggy when he came up in the sixth. O'Brien went after him with hard body punches and blows on the face. The Kid took them manful- ly and tried to land a knockout. The Philadelphian was fighting him so fast that Carter's blows went wild and he always went to a clinch.
 Hartford, July 2.-In the face of howls by Peter Drago's adherents Aus tin Rice the New London 'Iron Man." who refereed the boxing match last night, showed he had a good deal of sand as well as a sense of justice in calling the contest between Shorty Cans and Drago a draw.
 l About 300 people were present. Through his nregapnone the announcer said that Rice would referee the box ing owing to the on-appearance Of John F.. Willis. George Price was timekeeper. Henry Hayes was referee 1 for the boxing bout.
 / The boys for the preliminary were received with laughter because of the disparity i'm their weight and size. James Morgan was a. head taller and twenty pounds heavier than George Munroe. An experienced referee would have stopped the contest after it had gone minute and half, as 1t was seen then that Munroe did not 1 have any chance. He dropped to take the count, without being struck, sev- eral times, and the crowd shouted to have the Aout stopped. Then Mum ro's seconds were asked to throw up the sponge, but they did not have one. There were no police at the ringside and as nothing was done to stop the uneven contest some of the spectators | tried to coach Munroe and told him to strike body blows Rice finally stop | ped the bout in the second round and gave the decision to Morgan. ; A mat was spread for the wrestling bout. Austin Rices opponent was Harry Lyons of this city. Neither contestant appeared to know anything | about the game, but Rice was much the stronger. The style was catch-as- eatch-can with the strangle hold barred. Rice won the first bout in o9 seconds and the second in 1:27.
 The final bout was for ffteen rounds at catchweights. Drago Is taller than Cans, but there is but little difference in their weight. This bout went the limit and some good blows were land ed in every round Drago shot out an uppercut in the eighth round that would have sent Cans over the Velo- drome bank if 1t had landed, but he was lucky enough to back away rom it.
 Drago handed a good many blows in the clinches and punished Cans about the kidneys, but the black boy did not seem to mind it. In the early rounds Drago ducked a number of blows and Cans was short in his leads. In the fourth round he measured his distance better and got in some savage punch es. Drago had Cans bleeding in the ] lip in the last two rounds and he forced the fighting in the fifteenth, but was unable to do much damage. AS Drago had the most supporters at the ringside the decision was not a poptl- lar one, but from a scientific sand point it was the only one that could l be given.
 Butte, Mont, July 2.-Tommy Ryan got the decision over. John Willie of Buffalo at the Broadway theater Tues day night in four rounds. The bout was scheduled to go twenty rounds When the men faced each other it was at once evident that it was to be a fake.