Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-01
Kid Farmer Takes Sweet Re
venge in Pounding Up
Pittsburg Fighter
SAENGERfEST HALL
Two Thousand Fight Fans Witness ar
Unusually Good Program Well
Put On.

some SO rounds of it-and all fast and
interesting. The program opened
promptly at o'clock and lasted till
after IL, and there was not a single
hitch. 1t started with well chosen pre-
liminaries and ended with climax
that did justice to the bill Incidental
ly, Grover Hayes added another to his
long string of victories by winning a
decision over Eddie Tancel, and Harry
Tibbetts, better known as Kid Farmer,
got some private revenge and took a
step nearer the championship in his
class by knocking out Paddy Nee in
the 18th round
Though Hayes and Tancel have been
highly touted and their work was salts
flying, neither appeared in the class
with Farmer and Nee, whose battle
was war to the death from the first
clang of the gong. They furnished the
last end of the windup. Farmer was
evidently out for revenge for the knock
out that he sustained at the hands of
Nee in Davenport early in the spring.
And he used a better head than in the
previous contest. He did not attempt
to stand up and exchange wallops with
his stockier and more enduring antag-
onist, but waded in like fiend and
then ran away, and when he was going
the Pittsburger could not get within
mile of him.
Had Too Many Friends.
There are those who say that Nee
was not in the condition he was early
IN the spring: that he has made a num-
Der of friends in Davenport who have
been too good to him, or at least. too
entertaining, and he has not taken
care of himself. Certain 1t was that
Nee was slower last night and seemed
utterly unable to come out of it after
Farmer had added him with a few
hard jolts on the jaw.
For two rounds Nee was able to take
care of himself in good shape and kept
the Peorian on the defensive. He had
speed and landed vicious rights and
lefts that shook his antagonist percepti-
bly,. But in the third round Farmers
cleverness and speed got in its work
and several swings on the face started
the claret and also put Nee on Queer
street From that on till the finish the
rounds We're repetitionS of the third
with slight variations. Farmer would
always close in early in the session
with a furious series of punches. run
away and circle around his antagonist
while he got back some of his wind,
md then set in to finish his man. Up
10 the 11th however. he was unable to
deliver the goods, for Nee took vast
| amount of punishment.
Finally the latter gave way under a
| rain of blows in the 18th and the Peo-
| rian made a chopping block of him,
pounding away without any resistance
| till he himself was almost out of steam.
At last. when it began to look as
| though the bell might save the Pitts
burger after all, he began to wilt and
| finally toppled over. all in.
Hayes Easily Superior.
Grover Hayes showed himself a
shifty and aggressive fighter and plain
| ly outpointed Tancel. who was handi-
capped in reach and height. Tancel,
| too, had but one style of fighting in his
repertoire, backward crouch with his
left perpendicularly in front of him,
| that increased his disadvantage. He
kept on the aggressive from the start,
but Hayes continually handed over
good, stiff punches and got away. His
blows Jared up the little man consid-
erably and at different occasions ii
looked as though he might land a sleep
producer. Tancel however, always
came out of it by ducking and block
| ing. Tancers offensive work consist
ed of raking his opponent across the
| face with left swings that left their
marks, but did not constitute any real
menace to his equilibrium. AS a result.
Hayes nose was bleeding throughout
the battle and he came out pretty much
marked up, while Tancel did not show
a scratch. The justice of the decision,
however, was not questioned.
Won on a Foul.
Prior to the Hayes-Tancel bout Packy
Mcfarland of Chicago won on a foul
from Kid Brewer of Ottumwa in the
third round Mcfarland was much the
| cleverer In the first round he felt his
opponent out in a very teasing manner,
leading him on and then covering up.
In the second he did the same thing.
but when the Iowa man came in he
gave him few to remember. Piqued
| by this sort of proceedings. Brewer sew
eral times resorted to rough work in
the clinches, but it was overlooked.
Finally, in the third, after getting the
worst of it in an exchange, Brewer
found Mcfarland under his arm, where
be had gone in cleverly ducking heavy
right and left swings. Taking advan-
ltage of the opportunity to vent his
spite, Brewer picked up his adversary
bodily and slammed him down at full
length on the canvas. Referee Abe
Pollock Immediately awarded McFar-
land the victory. This decision restor-
ed the official to full popularity, part
of which he had previously lost in Civ
ing Tom Mcnamara of Davenport the
decision over Kid Powers of Clinton.
Both were willing and mixed fiercely
till entirely winded and neither had