The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-10
FIGHT TWENTY
ROUNDS TO DRAW
Reilly and Flynn Divide HOnOrs
of Fast Bout.
LATTER IS MUCH HEAVIER
PRELIMINARY WINS PLAUDITs
FROM THE CROWD


rounds to a draw last night at the /
Grand theatre. Never during the en- /
tire fight did either man lose courage. +
They swung, jabb3d chopped and .
punched at each other hard and fast +
but both men took the gan IN the same (
manner that they gave it. lt was
fight that was a credit to both men,
Tut Reilly was the aEgressor and
showed beyond a doubt That he is the
cIeYerer of the two. His foot work was
faster and he blocked better but Flynn
was there with the mitigating and had
Reilly bested on that Both men had
a good punch and landed time and time
again. bat without any telling effect
The house was packed with a thou
sand persons, and long before the fight
begun they yelled and shouted. AS
the mill went on they stood on the
seats and poured out loud words Of
encouragement to their favorites, rush
ing ON to the stage at the end of the
twentieth round When the bout was
announced a draw by Referee Willard
Bean, the crowd Cheered i'm a body and
seemed perfectly satisfied with the de-
cision.
Flynn Fails to Make Weight,
I At the ringside it was announced that
/ Flynn had failed 10 make 158 pounds
/ al 3 O'Clock i'm the afternoon and for
/ foited his $3.50. When they entered the
/ ring Flynn looked like a heavyweight
/ having several pounds the advantage
/ of Reilly
/ During the first four rounds hOnOTs
W ere about even. and Reilly brought
/ first blood TO Flyun's nose i'm the second
round. Reilly used his left repeatedly
! and connected it with Hymns jaw.
/ D. q
/ and he bored into Reilly's body, land
/ ing some hard punches.
From the fourth round on the fight
/ was characterized by hard in-fighting.
/ and every time they mixed things
I Flynn seemed to have the better of the
/ round. In the ffIh round Flynn had
I a shade the better of it by rushing i'm
( when Reilly led out. landing hard on
[ his stomach In the closing part Of
/ the round Reilly sent i'm a good left
hook to the jaw and followed it up with
a straight punch to the face.
Inhghting in These Rounds.
After hard mixsFlynn sent a right
to Reilly's jaw that staggered him.
! They came 10 a clinCh and fast in
fighting followed. In which Flynn gave
the Californian some hard punishment.
The seventh WAS mostly indghting. but
Reilly blocked and covered himself
/ well and at the opening of the eighth
l round came up strong. HOnOrs were
.abOunt even i'm the eighth and ninth
} rounds, and both men landed stiff
punches which seemed TO take the
steam out of them.
The tenth was set al a terrific pace.
/ Reilly came uD with a smile on his
face and connected hard one with
( his left ca jaw. He repeated the dose
several times and staggered with a
g 100 l.n r- TrfE
ing followed, and Reilly broke away
{ , and landed a stif punch on Flynn S
/ chin which Jared him. Flynn rushed
Reilly to the ropes, but in the break
/ away Reilly held his own and the
round ended in his favor
Pace Begins to Slow
The pace slowed up in the eleventh
round. They showed the rate they had
been going The two clinched and
stalled, and but few clean hits were
landed. No damage was done IN lnt
twelfth round. The thirteenth opener
with vicious infghting. In the break
away both men missed swings 10 tho
: head and Reilly dUcked LETT which
/ 1 swung Flynn of his feet. Kelly pu
e a hard left to Flynu's jaw that stag
{ gered him, but be clinched ana Iast III
5 / fighting closed the round
E The three following rounds were torn
I ~
1 / showed the Welts from the puncne
{ / they received in the miX-ups. I'm TIT
r. seventeenth Reilly used mis- left ant
r ! chopped I'm on Flyun's jaw seVera
{ times. They mixed and Flynn lande'
! two hard ones which drove Reilly .
. the ropes and he tripped ana iei'
e FLYNN planted a straight punch owe
S Reilv's eve which made him sWeiNe
r When the gong sounded both men Wer
+. fighting. and Flynn. appeared IN
\. / stronger.
Z From the eighteenth until the gon
r. / sounded i'm the twentieth round DOT
e men mixed things and tried hard to de
y liver a knockout. Relliy was 1ue az
n / gressor and Flynn rushed repeatedly
v Unfxing things ia close range. Boz
It men were fighting desperately whe
y the last round closed.
It Preliminary Is Lively.
Il The. bout between 'Freckle- O. Brie
st and Young Tex was one or the oes
. preliminary events ever pulled on
: Salt Lake. ''FreCkie' O'Brieu failed
y mako 115 pounds and he looked TO
,r at least five pounds heavier ina
~ Young Tex They mixed Things D
II lively FOR eight rounds and the declslo
.e given i'm O'Brieu's favor by Eddie ROi
h iusou was greeted with an uDrod
r The crowd Missed him and called
rotten. The roaring ana MISSING idStt
fo~ i've minutes and after Robinso
uuieted the crowd he called the deelsic
a draw.
T., The fght was fast and cleve
Id / Young Tex was at once taVorl
with the crowd. He was cheered
al continuously through the eight round
"A In the first round Young Tex open'
no O'Brien's left eye with a hook an
he the round closed i'm Young Tex
favor:
TO After the fourth round O'Bri'
snaothered young Tex and stagger.
hlm with rights To the jaw i'm both q
ne / sixth and seventh rounds In q
eighth round OBrien had. him stain
nd and the latter part of the bout was
O'Brien's favor.
,5 Young Tex displayed some ia
work and the crowd was with him
gin account of tss showing he made again
the larger man. Although ne follow
us O'Brien around the ring. he alWa
waited for his opponent TO lead az
did some clever ducking and side ste
er ping, which won the sympathy of {
crowd.
Fight was Vicious.
st. Louis June 9-Jack CTUin) 81
nd Iivan of Boston received the decisi
tonight over Andrew Walsh of Br0o
Iyn al the end Of the fifteenth rou
i'd OF vicious fighting The men weigh
g., IN at 15S pounds. Except in the. min
-- and fourteenth rounds Sullivan "a
.ara f,Ir- Eea better. nf the fiahflf