The San Francisco call., 1904-07-23
ONE KNOCKOUT
ENLIVEN'S THE
AMATEUR SHOW
Johnny Grove Hands Final
-Wallop to Harry McCloud
After. a Fierce Fight
COMIC AND TRAGIC JOIN
Seven. Bouts Are. Held, Which
Keep Spectators Between
Laughter and Enthusiasm
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Seven events constituted the monthly
San Francisco Athletic Club at Wood
wards Pavilion last night. AS a gen.
eral thing, the show was worth twice
the price of admission, and what it
lacked in pugilistic sense was amply
made up in humorous situations. Even
Alex Greggains, who was the official
referee, as usual smiled at some of the
funny stunts The attendance was
large, packing the galleries and occu-
pying more than two-thirds of the
downstairs seats. Captain Anderson
personally supervised the police con-
troll and saw that ticket holders were
promptly admitted and properly seated
The best event of the evening was be-
tween Johnny Grove, champion anna
teur bantam weight of the coast, and
Harry McCloud who is known as the
Little Sharkey." A gamer kid than
the latter never rubbed rosin on his
shoes. He was bested from the begin
ming by Grove, but he clung to the
game until one minute before the call
of time in the fourth round, when a
turned him completely around, and he
fell into Greggains' arms, completely
out. This was the only actual knock
out that was scored.
The special event between Dick Hy-
land and Jimmy Mcdonald, who fought
at feather-weight was rather disap-
pointing. Hyland was touted as the
goods and he secured the decision right
fully. At the same time he was obliged
to do more sprinting than fighting.
Mcdonald started once toward North
Beach for a getaway, and Hyland fol-
lowed him nearly three times around
thesring before he could manage to hit
him on the shoulder. He could have
saved four valuable seconds if he had
started in the opposite direction and
met his opponent coming the other way.
Jim Sweeny punched UP against a
hard chunk of wood when he tried to
cut Young Choynski down. Sweeny
was so bad in the third round that
Greggains mercifully stopped the fight
and gave the decision to Choynski.
Jim Hill, who is listed as Victoria,
b. c., pugilist, furnished the comedy
element of the night. Evidently he
mistook the terms of his agreement
and signed for a fight when he wanted
to go on as a ballet dancer. His mo-
tions were so unique and his smile so
captivating that Harry Tenney stalled
for the first round, fearing he had been
plotted against. In the second it was
curtains for Jim Hill. He got so way
ward in his think tank about the mid
die of the second that his seconds
tossed his multi -colored bath robe into
the ring to save him from instant
death. Experts claim that an old wom-
an could put him out with wet sock.
Mike Synfy and Charlie Dunn gave a
splendid exhibition for four rounds.
Synfy was much the cleverer, but Dunn
did all the forcing, and although put
down twice made a flying finish in the
last and had the Greek going. The de-
cision was a draw.
Harry Chester showed cleverness and
clean fighting in his bout with George
Curry and won the decision, but he
lacked the strength to make unanim-
Lous verdict by a knockout.
Joe Kelly won the decision over
George Henry in the opening bout.
The battle royal" participated in
by four negroes, failed of success be-
cause the supply of soda water bottles
among the spectators was insufficient
to keep the contestants on their feet.