The San Francisco call., 1904-02-27
CHESTER BEATS
BIG JIM FOX IN
FOUR-ROUND co
Joe Carroll Is Given Decision
Over W. Leonard Amid
Kisses From the Spectators
LUNDIE BESTS MCCARTHY
Second Night Of the Boxing
Show at Olympic Club Is
Exciting and Interesting
IUNDIE BESTS MCCARTHY

Show at Olympic Club Is
Exciting and Interesting
The big gymnasium of the Olympic
Club fairly echoed with the sound of
rebounding blows and the atmosphere
about the ring was all but mixed with
gore last night before the final contest
of the amateur boxing tournament had
been decided. 1t was a gala night for
the lovers of the manly art. AS fast as
two boxers had gone through the for
mality of punching each other another
pair was ever ready to step into the
ring and do likewise.
In all seventeen hot scraps were on
the card. Fighters of every class and
fighters of all known styles wed with
one another for honors in the roped
arena. On the whole, the representa-
tives of the winged "O'' were success
full. Harry Chester captured the main
event of the evening in the light heavy
weight class from James Fox after "a
mill that was replete with sensational
going.
Fox started in at the Olympic Club
lad and seemed to be cantering home
with victory when the tall youth took a
hunch, and then the scrapping was fair
ly we'll on. Chester was groggy when he
made his final stand but the shouts of
the crowd encouraged him and he sailed
into Fox and landed swing after swing.
This all happened in the second
round. In the third Fox came up strong
again, and it was wallOp for wallop,
with both men all in and ready to stay
on the carpet If they happened to fall
An extra round was called, and Chester
was the king of this one. He forced the
fighting ell the way, and although
groggy at the finish was declared the
winner.
CROWD KISSES DECISION.
Joe Carroll the jabbing jd from the
Occidental Club, wrested the honors. in
the 125-pound class from Billy Leon
ard, the Olympic Club man, after an
extra round had been reeled off. It was
an unpopular decision, as Leonard
forced the fighting from the tap of the
gong and was willing to take two
punches in order to land one. Carroll
would not mix it and insisted on stay
ing away and pegging with his left.
1t was even after three rounds had
been gone through, and the judges re-
fused to give a decision. In the fourth
Leonard maintained his rushing tactics
and seemed to have Carroll on the road
to the land of the groggy The judges
decided against their own club man and
the crowd Kissed and hissed and said
many unkind things.
Tom McGreal, the tough looking mid
dle-weight, lost and won. He beat
George Murray in the first go, land
ing at will and making a good show
ing. Murray was afraid of McGreaPs
wallop and was also wild with his
swings, so the decision was McGreaPs
by a length. The latter went UP
against Frank Smith in the final bout
OF the night and Smith was beating
him so badly that Referee Graney stop
ped the fight in the third round Nc
GreaI seemed tired after the first round
and, though game to the core, never
had a chance with Smith
Bob Lundie was given the palm over
Jack Mccarthy in the main lightweight
go of the night and this made the spec
tators angry. 1t was a real tough bat
tie and an extra round had to be called.
Lundie forced the fighting all the way.
but Mccarthy was clever and did some
good work. At that LundIe had him
all but out in the last round
YOUNG FIGHTS TWICE.
Al Young was on for two bouts. His
first was with Bert Marsh. The latter
did not have look in and the bout
was stopped in the second round. 1t
came nearly as easy for Young in the
other bout, for his opponent, Charles
Cooper, was helpless and the fight was
stopped in the first.
Cooper in the meantime had out
pointed James Young James Nc
Cam went to the carpet for keeps in
the second round of his go with James
Ryan and Joe Sharkey was not as fast
as his namesake, for Willie Wolfe took
all the fight out of him in a round.
Chic little Willie Dwyer, the
feather, lost to Eddie Carroll in three
rounds after having beaten Joe Leahy
nearly to death in the earlier part of
the evening. Willie fought well at
that and seemed to be winning till the
third round. Then Carroll came
strongly and his many leads won him
the fight. Carroll was also the hero
of two engagements. winning his first
go of three rounds from AL Ridge
Bob Cairns mixed it with Frank
Flores and won after the mill had
gone the limit. Flores was not wise
and commenced to get in his good
wallops when it was too late. Cairns
showed his usual carelessness, and if
Flores was only possessed of little
more solid ring sense Bob would GER
tainly have taken a trip to dreamland.
Harry Tenny and Barney Driscoll
came through with the best fight
among the little men. Tenny won
the decision, though it was close. Both
boys fought hard and were ready and
willing to take any kind of a chance.
George Finnegan nearly scared Eddie
Smith out of the ring before their
bout was a minute old and it had to
be stopped. Clever Jack Lenahan