The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-09-23
81. Louis Boxer Takes First Place
in Olympic Tournament
at Stadium.
SPANGER Is ANOTHER STAR.
Has Dual Victory in Three Con-
tests of One Day-Decision
of Judges Not Pleasing 10
Spectators.

The final bouts Of all classes Of the
Olympic boxing tournament were held at
the Worlds Fair Stadium yesterday after
noon The decisions in two OF the cases
did not meet the approval OF the specta-
tors
The Spanger-Lydon bou. was won by the
former. and the Judges were Kissed when
the verdict was announced This was also
the case in the Berger-Nayer bout, the
heavyweight anaI. the Judges deciding in
favor OF the Frisco man
II. C. Spanger OF Newark, ". J. was the
Individual star Of the bouts. and in his
three contests won two. che, however, be-
Ing by a very narrow margin. when he
had Joe Lydon OF this city as an opponen;
IN the Il5-pound class.
The first bout was between SpanSer and
Jack Egan. the Philadelphia boxer. to de-
eide the final of the 1s5-pound class Egan
had an edge in the first two rounds Of che
fight, but Spanser came strong in the last
period ami had Esan all bit out when the
gong sounded
Only two contestants appeared tor the
l5s-pound class-Charles Mayer OF the St
George Athletic Club OF New York and
Ben Spadley OF St Louis. The New Yorker
was easily the winner. He sent Spadiey
to the floor several times.
George Finnesan OF the Olympic Club Of
Frisco won from Miles Burke OF St Louis.
there only being two entries for this class,
and was final
Spanger then went on with Joe Lyion
in the I5-pound class Joe cid the lead
ing. landed most Of the time, was cleverer
than his opponent, and. although Spanger
hit hard when he did land. Lycon re
ceived the small end OF the decision
Some II the stand thought that IL was
not necessary for the announcement 10
congratulate the 81. Louis fighter for his
victory, when IL was announced that the
Judges decided in favor OF spanger.
Lycon clearly outfought and outboIec
Spanger. The latter fought one bout be-
fore his tilt with Lydon. and this may
have had some influence with the Judges
sPANGER LOST TO YOUNG.
In the anAI Of the Is-pound class Span
ger lost to Al Young Of Frisco By the
narrowest OF margins. This was Span
gers third bout OF the day. Young did
not have q wide lead at the end OF the
fight This xaye Young 6rst. Spanger
second and Lydon third in the liS-poVnd
class final
the bout which attracted the mos, at
,en;on o; the boxing events was the
the heavyweight final between Sam
Berger, the Pacific Coast champion. and
q 4 YsIt 81 sss s 81 i
a; 80 pounta while Mayer vas slightly
with this contrast in weights. the men
went on. and had the bout been judged
from q scientific standpoint, Mayer would
surely have received the decision BE WAS
clearly the better. and bit often. although
ten as much as his heavier Opponents
He was Handicapped by this great
weight. and IN the second round, when
Berger insisted on leaning on him in the the
referee ordered. the sympathy Of the
crowd was with the New York uls-l
Berger landed many times but in tho
majority Of the cases his blows were
blocked and he made several swipes at the
air that were side tracked by Mayer.
Had Mayer been about ten pounds hcav-
ist. be would probably have won from
fight Of the two. but Bersers great weight
began TO tell IN the last stages OF the
fishs: 49, .,,.., 49,.
noon was that between George Efnnegaa
Of the Olympic Club and Oliver Kirk OF
ST. Louis The latter won the event from
the fast Californian and battered his face
dercely throughout the bout
Kirk had slight advantage IN weight.
as did he in reach, and his repeated jab-
sinf az Finnesa1.s face Worried The latter
Kirk also won the final OF the lc5-pound
class, defeating Frank Halter Of Cincin-
natl, after hard tussle. Both boys were
fast on their feet and strong at the finish.
although Kirk was the stronger OF the
two
The summaries OF the results were as
follows:
II-pouad cla4s-GeorEe F1rnegan. San Fran
cisco. Srss: Miles J. Burke. 81 Louis second
Is-pound ciSxs-Oliyer XIX. St Louis nrst
George FfrEessn. San Francisco second
iS-poEnd ciass-OIiver Kirk ST. Louis. Hrxt:
Frank Halter. Cincinnati. eecond: Fred Gilmore
Chicago. third
IEoound ciass-H- C Stranger. Newark "
J.. first: Jack Egan. PHILADELPHIA second: r.
Van Horn. e. Louis. third
19-oound ciass-H c. SoanEcr. Newark S-s,
Al Young San Francisco. second: Joen L;don.
81. Louis. third
Ls-pound ciass-Cfaries Mayer. New York.
first: Ben SoadIcy. ST. Louis. second
Heavyweight cias-Sam Berger. San Fran
cisco. first; Charles Mayer. New York second,
william Michaels. ST. Louis. third.