Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-12-07
SPORTING NEWS
BOXING.

The Badger Athletic club of AIilwau-
Schlitz park on Thanksgiving day
and the attendance was the larg-
est OF the season. The show WAS
good on the whole. but the main bout
between Jack OLeary and Andy nc-
Zenah was not as good as might have
been expected. Jack clearly showed that
he is not the O'Leary of two years ago,
for he could not get going at his old gait
and allowed Bezenah to gain lead i'll
the early rounds that he could over
come by rallies in the latter part of the
fight.
The boys weighed in at 100 pounds
and appeared i'll good shape, but Jack
was drawn too fine. For the first three
rounds the boys mixed i'll pretty good
shape, but after that O'Leary began Gov
erlng up and would not come out of his
shell except at intervals. This was what
cost him the decision, for when he would
mix matters with the Cincinnati boy he
more than held his own. In the eighth
and ninth rounds he showed flashes of
his old speed, but not enough to going
right. In the tenth he started in with
a rush 70 mix. but 1t came too late, ana
the decision went to Andy. which was
right
The bout between Rudolph Unholz,
the South African champion, and Mark
Anderson of CHICAGO was more of Il
over six feet taH and so lanky that I'M
holz had hard work getting to him. I'm
hOlz is short and chunky like Charlie
Ncary and the differences i'll size between
the two boys was funny. Unholz demon
strated one thing-that he can fight He
Is strong and active for Il boy 50 well
built and had he been able TO get ut An
dcrson without jumping and losing the
strength of his blows i'll doing SO he
would have put the Chicago man away
inside OF three rounds. AS 1t was the
bout went the limit of eight rounds, with
Unholz winning easily. Against a man
OF his own size Unholz would put UP
Il nasty battle and it will take Il pretty
good man to defeat him. He has the
goods with him and says he would like
nothing better than to get Charlie
Neary into the ring with him.
The prettiest bout of the day was be-
tween Young Fitzgerald and Glenn Den
ming of Chicago. These boys put up
fast and clever bout for six rounds and
Fitz got the decision from Referee Har-
ry Stout, which was good one and cor
rect There was some dissatisfaction
over the verdict some of the spectators
thinking Denning deserved n draw, but
there is no doubt that Eitz had the best
of the bout and earned the verdict. The
Chicago lad put up game and grand
struggle and for that reason had the
crowd with him, as the crowd always
admires game one, and it was only
natural that the feeling should get the
better of their judgment in some cases.
Fitz hit clean and hard and in the first
round he scored one clean Touchdown
and again sent Denning staggering
across the ring with a terrific right to
the jaw. Again in the sixth Fitz had
all the best of the exchanges and hit
the cleanest and cinched the verdict.
Manager Harry Gilmore stated after the
bout that Fitz had won the fight fairly,
but he said he would like another chance
for Denning just the same.
Reddy Halligan, the tough youngster
from Tory Hill, met a tartar in Jack
Redmond and lost the decision. 1t was
Il red hot bout from beginning to end
with Reddy taking the majority of the
blows. The decisions of Referee Stout
were good throughout.
Honey Melody of Charlestown won
the supposed weller weight champion
ship of the world from Joe Walcott of
Boston at the Lincoln A. O., i'll Chelsea,
Mass, Thursday. In the twelfth round
Walcott quit. He said later his left
arm became disabled in the ninth round
and that it was impossible for him to
continue fighting. With the exception
of Il couple of rounds Melody outpOint
ed, Outpunched and Outgeneraled the
Barbados wonder, and in the middle OF
the twelfth Walcott relinquished all
claims to the title by acknowledging de-
feat. Melody was looked upon as
certain winner at THIS stage, and it is
doubtful whether, even if the coIored
man had two good arms and hands, he
could have eyened mp the score enough
to enable him to even earn draw, as
he was constantly growing wilder, win
little or no steam behind his fAVOrlte
blows On the other hand, Melody was
getting stronger and faster as the bout
progressed, and he was cautious at all
times, easily blocking and marrying Wal
colts desperate swings, hooks and 1abS,
and his clever footwork carried him safe
ly out Of range of the former black
demons furious rusheS.
A few weeks ago the same boxers met
in the arena of the Lincoln club, and
the white boy was awarded the decision
at the end of the fifteen rounds. He
then claimed the championship, but as
the weight was 145 pounds Mellody's
claim to the championship was not con-
eidernd valid by students Of the game.
Thursday they weighed in at az pounds
at 3 o'clock.
Jimmy Gardner of Lowell, Mass, put
out Otto Sieloff of Chicago in the third
round Thursday at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Or. Krone of Chicago was referee. The
contest was at catch weights for ten
rounds. After one minute and twenty
two seconds in the third round jab
with q right to the jaw, following
blow on the head back of the ear, stag
across the lower rope. y shower OF
water half revived him, but he could not
stand erect. although protesting that he
was not out and that his seconds had
given up too soon. 1t was clear, how
ever that he could not last long under
the punishment he was receiving from
Gardner.
There is little doubt that Johnny
Thompson of Sycamore, H.. would have
beaten Lew Powell in few more
tenth round and given the ex-amateur n
Francisco. Referee Roche after Il long
delay and an examination by physicians
declared Powell the winner. Tbomp-
fighter and showed it all the way
through the contest He hammered
Powell hard and was getting stronger
rs the fight progressed. while Powell
was gradually akening under the rain
Of punches. He could not have stood
mp much longer.
1t was a case of the straight puncher
against the wild swing when Young
Erne faced Young Kennev of lawrence
Mass. ut the National Athletic clubs
matinee in Philadelphia Thursday ard
the former quality won the honors for
the Philadelphan. 1t was hard, fast
bout in every round except the fifth,
when neither man did anything Of note.
Erne scored two knock downs.
George Guenther at Chelsea. Mass,
Thursday only lasted three rounds
against Sam Langford. The kangaroo
was punished all over the lot by his
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