Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-08
THE PUGILISTs.
O'BRIEN IS
 THE WINNER
Gets the Decision Over Young Peter Jackson-N No License for Britt Q White -MCovern All In

ley White awarded the decision 10 Jack O'Brien in his third fight with Young Peter Jackson, under the aus pices Of the Eureka Athletic club, in the Fourth Regiment armory here last night
 The decision pleased the great crowd, for it was generally admitted that the lightning work of the Qua ker middleweight entitled him to the verdict
 In their first fight, on the Pacific coast, Jackson had won with knock out in the thirteenth round, and in the second, fought here two weeks ago, OBrien won on foul, after Jackson had knocked him out during clinch in the second round.
 Last nights victory was sweet re- venge for the fast Philadelphian.
 Bill McCarney, Joe Hagen, Joe Reilly and Jack Eagan looked after Jack O'Brien, while the wants of the negro were attended to by Al Her. ford, Harry Lyons and Kid Walker.
 Last nights rules allowed the men to box until ordered to break by the referee. The first round was even, with few minutes of clever sparring at the start, followed by heavy slug ging at the close. Both landed few hard blows on the head.
 The second round opened with q clinch, and in breaking out, O'Brien landed q quick, swing to the jaw, fol lowed by another to the ribs. This got the coon mad, and he landed a left, right and left to the jaw in quick succession, amid cheer from the chocolate delegation upstairs. A fierce miXup followed in a neu' tral corner, with the spectators stand ing on the chairs in excitement. A few wild swings by Jackson and q straight left or two on the face by O'Brien, and the round ended even up The fast work continued unabated in the third. Jackson puts short arm jab to the wind and gets eau tion for hitting low. Pete blocks q fierce uppercut, and keeps covered III while Jack tries a few hard swings for his jaw. From then until tht bell O'Brien landed several hard straight jabs, and had a shade on th' round.
 There was nothing of moment up tt the fifth round. Up to that time Jackson had q good lead although h' lost ground by striking low for whicl offence he was warned. In this rOun( | the negro dealt out some severe knocks and O'Brien retired to his cor ner pretty groggy. OBrien got evei in a way in the sixth by bringing th' blood from Jackson's nose and mOutl with left jabs. But Jackson was no disturbed, boring in as though h. liked it.
 O'Bren was wild in the seventh an' lost several chances to get home dc ciding. punch. In the eighth roun Jackson with wicked left spli O'Brien's cheek and had him in ba way. But in the final two round O'Brien was dancing all around hi man and landing blow after blow Jackson was willing to mix it up, bu got the worst of it. The going wa so rapid in the last round that severa of the spectators got up in their seat and cheered. There was little bettin on the result, O'Brien ruling favorit at : to on.
 NO BRITT-WHITE PERMIT YET
 AS yet San Francisco has issued n permit for the fight between Jimm Britt and Jabez White.
 CoffUth, who brought the boys to gether. has been having all kinds q trouble getting the April permit. | was generally understood that h should have the plum, but all sorts q objections have been raised. and
 general mess of politics and jeal lOus among the fight promoters has prt vented him from getting his prOpe papers from the police commissioner and board of supervisors at Sa Francisco. Tn. matter hasn't bee settled yet.
 If CoffrOth fails to get the permi for San Francisco he will have to pu the fight off in some other place. Co ma has been suggested. and it wi not be surprising if the lightweight meet there.
 The articles of agreement call for
 twenty-round go. The weight is to b I33 pounds. weigh in at ? o'clock. figure easily within the reach of Brit and likely to he of advantage White as well. Whites manages Charles Mitchell. suggested tn . weight. It will probably let his ma into xlc ring with several pounds a, vantase.
 One interesting part of the agree
 ment is that which stipulates that tll men must break at the order of tll . referee. This was probably put . because White has always fougl that way in England. of course. bo, CTS in this country are supposed break at the word when fighting III der straight Queensberry rules. \ 7 a matter of fact. the rule is not ofte , carried out by the fighters. and mo referees let it % at that and pry tn men apart.
 White had the article put in tl