The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-01
HANLON- YANGER BOUT.
Game Little Men Fight 20
Rounds to Draw.


of the twentieth round, Referee Eddie
Smith being unable to choose a winner
between the game little featherweights.
The fight was one of the fiercest ever
seen in this city. Both men fought with
vim from the tap of the bell in the
first round until the referee gave his
decision So hot was the fighting dur
ing the first stages of the battle thar
1t seemed to fOretell a quick victory Tor
one or the other of the contestants. but
neither was able to seriously injure the
other and the contest lasted the limit.
After the contest, Johnny Hertz,
hangers manager, stated that his man
disabled his right hand in the seventh
round OF the contest and was obliged
to tight a strong and clever little man
with but one hand. Hertz offers to
match his man again with the Califor-
MAN and states his Willingness to bet
$4,000 on the side that Yanger will he
declared the winner.
Hanlon was seen in his dressing room
after the contest and stated that Yam
ger was the strongest and toughest lit
tie man in the world at his weight and
the best fighter he has ever met in the
ring. Hanlon says that at no stage was
he at all uneasy or hurt, and that he
will be glad to meet the Chicago boy
again before the club Offering the best
purse.
Round 1-Yanger missed a left to the
face and HanlOn tried with left. Ham
Ion adopted his famous crouch. Yam
ger missed two light left hooks for the
head. Hanlon bored in and put left to
the body and hooked Yanger to the
head with left. He then jabbed Yam
ger to the face with left and missed
another for the same place. Yanger
was puzzled at Hanlon's peculiar guard
Eddie drove left and right to the body
and Yanger put a straight right to the
head. In mixup the Californian put
right and left to the stomach. Break
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hard twice to the jaw and Yanger
countered to the face with a straight
left Hanlon had shade the better
of this round.
then pushed in two light lefts to the
face. Hanlon missed right and left for
the body and blocked several jabs for
guard to the jaw and Hanlon put right
and left to the body. Yanger got in Il
straight left to the face and tried a
right uppercut, but it went wide. Han
lon missed right uppercut for the head.
Mixing 1t, Hanlon sent in right and left
to the body. Yanger crossed with right
to the jaw and put light left, to the
face. Yanger put hard right and isfr
to the face and Hanlon fought back
desperately. landing right and left. to
the face The bell rang with Yanger
the fresher of the two.
Round 3-Yanger led with left but
was short. He missed right swing for
the body. Hanlon whipped left to the
body and Yanger rebuked him with two
rights and left cross to the head.
Hanlon sent left and right to the head
and then worked a hard right uppercut
to the jaw. In a nixup both exchanged
hard rights and lefts with Hanlon
fighting a trife wild. Yanger hooked
Hanlon to the jaw with right and es-
capped a counter. Eddie put right to the
kidneys twice without apparent effect.
Yanger uppercut Hanlon with right to
the jaw and moment later repeated it.
forcing Hanlon to clinch. Yanger jab-
bed with left to the face and Eddie put
right to the body. AS the gong sounded
Yanger swung right to the head. Han
lon went to his corner smiling, but
Yanger had the better of the round.
Round 4-Yanger bored in with left
twice, but was blocked. They then
clinched. Yanger tried with left three
times and Hanion brought his right
twice to the body and missed two right
uppercuts and a left swing. Yanger
drove in short-arm right to the ribs
and Eddie put left and right to the
head. Yanger then cut loose with a sue
cession@ of rights and 1efts to the face
and head, which Jared Eddie. Eddie
got in a smart left to the jaw Yanger
whipped in right to the body and Han
Ion sent right to the head. They mixed
1t with honorS even. Yanger drove right
to the ear and followed it with right up
per cut to the jaw. Yanger shot his
right hard to the kidneys and they
mixed it very roughly as the bell sound
ed. Yanger again had a shade the bet
ter of the fighting.
Round 5-Yanger led with right and
sent left to the face. He caught Eddie
with a right to the head, and Eddie par
TALLY blocked a hard right for the body
In mixup Yanger uppercut to the face
twice with right and Hanlon swung
back ineffectively. Yanger crossed with
right to the jaw and followed it with
right to the body. Yanger blocked
beautifully. He jabbed Hanlon twice
with left to the face. and Eddie swung
right to the head. two rights to the kid
neys and good left to the face. Eddie
planted his left to the jaw and received
a left jab to the face in return. Just
as the bell rang Ha1lon lunged out with
right and caught Yanger on the head.
The latter slipped to the floor, but was
up quickly.
Round 6-Hanlon missed left swing
for the head and tried a left for the
face. rangers right went through Han
Ions guard and caught him on the head
Yanger. jabbed with left to the head and
swung right hard to body Clincn.
Yanger sent a straight right to the jaw,
and Eddie eountered with left to the
head. Emerging from a clinch, Han
lon sent left to the body but Yanger
fought back hard. AS the bell rang
both were engaged in a fierce mix up.
1t was give and take, and they failed
to hear the gong. They were parted by
their seconds.
Round 7-Yanger ducked a left swing
and missed a straight left for the face.
After a clinch Yanger cleverly evaded
right and left for the head and shot a
straight left to the face. Yanger drove
right to the body. Eddie chased Yam
ger to corner, but failed to land effec-
lively. Both exchanged rights to the
body. Yanger sent in a vicious right
to the body that made Hanlon vince.
Yanger put a left to the head and Han
lon caught him with a stiff punch to
the head. Yaneera opened Hanlon's left
eye with vicious right and the gong
found Hanlon hammering away at Yam
gers body without success. 1t was
hangers round.
Round S-Hanlon missed left for the
head and they clinched. Yanger was
very cool. He missr I right and left for
the head and then put a vicious right
twice to Eddie's sore eye. Yanger was
so quick that Hanlon could not locate
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