The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-06-11
KELLEY THROWS
UPTHE SPONGE
GOOD PROGRAM OF RING EVENTS.
THE SILNA-HUIHUI CONTEST \
DRAW

Over a thousand people attended the
boxing tournament at the Orpheum
last evening and enjoyed really eN-
cellent program of fstic events the
main attraction of course being the
contest between Dave Barry and "CN-
clone Kelley, the last that these two
will have i'm Honolulu. As was cN-
pected Barry proved the victor. the
| fight lasting eight fun rounds. kplley's
seconds throwing up the sponge in the
ninth with their man on the floor
though not knocked out. Another
good event was a go between Joe Cas-
! tro "the Telephone Slasher" and g..
! Modlin of Camp Mckinley. a six round
affair i'm which the soldier was plain
/ ly the better.
| The first event was between Nigel
jackson and a native named kup1.
/ The men weighed i'm at 1913. The
| fight lasted four rounds Eupa show
/ ing a marked fondness for the mat
| lie went down from right swing ON
the Jaw in the fourth round and stay
ed down until the referee Dick o.
Mara, counted him out.
The six round fight between Castro
and MOdlin was next on the bill and a
rafting contest it proved. Castro
used an effective crouch and covered
up cleverly, saving himself a world of
punishment from the soldiers slash
ing blows but he lacked initiative and
was slow in cutting loose The boy
from Guam is a pluclly fighter and
with few changes in his style will
hp NJ hi. Ai,rIf :
an even thing for the first three rounds
and then Modlin began to force the
fighting. The fourth was all in his
favor and in the fifth he broke
through Castro's crouch several times.
The sixth saw Castro covering up to-
save himself from punishment and the
decision was quite properly given to
Modlin.
Silva 1.-THE Punchbowl demon and
Huihui were next announced for an
eight round fight but the event proved
a bowling farce. There was nothing
doing in the first round and referee
O Mara said that if the men did not
fight in the second he would call it
mo contest They did not fight and
the 90 was declared Off. They pro-
missed to do better and were given an
other chance but they merely slapped
each other in a ladylille way for six
rounds more and the fight" was call
ed a draw.
Kelley and Barry entered the ring
for the event of the evening with conf
mendable promptness. Both men
seemed to be in prime condition
| though in appearance Barry looked a
trife the fresher.
Joe Reilly of Boston came forward
and challenged the winner to meet
him at 1876 pounds, a challenge which
Barry said that he would accept if he
defeated Keney. Jimmy Fox took
the center of the ring, announced that
THE men had agreed to break clean and
the gong rang. Kelley led at once
but went short and few seconds af-
ter he went to the ropes from a
straight right of Barry's He tripped
and fell and for the rest of the round
seemed a bit worried. Kelley had tn
better of the second round. He forced
| the fighting from the opening. lie
! had Barry in distress the latter claim
! ing that Kelley had hit him below the
belt but the referee did not see it
that way and the fight went on.
Barry fully recovered in the minutes
rest and went at his opponent in the
liveliest fashion in the opening of the
third. He used a left hook with good
effect Kelley seeming to have no guard
for it. In the fourth Kelley went to
the floor from a clean left punch on
the jugular and he took the count of
four. From this on there was no
doubt as to who was to be the win
ner though in the fifth round Barry
hoored Kelley with a rip in the
stomach which was plainly too low,
though it did not seem to be inten-
tional. The referee did not see the