The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-17
FIGHTING DICK
GETS DECISION
After Twenty Rounds of Rough
House Milling HyIand's Az
gressive Tactics Win.
HAD 1T BY A SAFE MARGIN
THOUSAND SALT LAKE FANS
VISIT OGDEN TO SEE FIGHT.

After twenty rounds Of fighting. du-
ring which time neither man Stunned his
work. Fighting Dick Hyland was given
the decision over Cyclone Thompson, in
the Grand opera house at Ogden, last
evening. as Referee Jim Williams held
aloft the glove hand of Sammy McCIin-
tlcs fighting machine. The vast crowd
cheered to the echo.
when one considers that Thompson was
apparently the favorite, the reception Civ
Jority-
Hyiand Was Leader.
1t must be admitted that Hyland had
the better Of a far greater part of the
fight He showed the class. He was the
aggressor. and landed twenty punches to
ThOmpSon's one True, some of them
were not damaging, but, nevertheless,
every punch counts in a fight and il is
the punches that win decisions.
But One Knockdown.
One Touchdown was scored and Thomp-
son was the unlucky man on the receiv-
ing end. 1t came ia the twentieth in a
fierce m1Xup. Both were swinging wild
and right from Hyland caught the cy-
clonic one square on the jaw. He slipped
at the same time and the combinatiOn put
up in an instant, and at Hyland, who
promptly smothered him with blows.
Plenty of Infighting.
One continual round of cIinches. wres-
ting and infighting, tells the story of last
nights battle. Both are mixers and both
like it, and it was at this style of milling
that Hyldnd Was the superior. Had
Thompson remained away at all times
and kept up a continued volley of those
left and right, half iab, half swing, to
Hylands jaw, there might have been a
different story Thompson surprised all
by MS ability to take punishment. In sew
eral rounds he went to his corner, appar-
emily groggy- After the minutes rest it
was always Thompson who rushed to the
center of the ring. new man, ready to
to a ciinch. where Hyland's short in
fighting jabs to the jaw. stiff right to
wind and haymaking wallcps to the kid
neys won him the decision.
Dick Has Shade at Start.
Hyland started to get the shade in the
third round. From this inning until the
eighth Hyland increased his lead by a big
margin In this round it looked as if the
end had come Hyland rushed his man
with rights and lefts and the first claret
of the fight flowed from Thompson 8
nose. The cyclone one went to his corner
and the wise ones settled back with the
thought that the fight was over.
To their surprise Thompson came back
strong. He was given the same in the
ninth, and again came back in the tenth.
Up to the twelfth it looked as If the fight
might end at any time in Hyland'S favor
with a knockout. Then came four rounds
of wrestling. Hyland forcing ali the tina,
and Thompson stalling.
Thompson Gets Busy.
Thompson suddenly woke up and start
ed after Hyland- Dick was taken by sur
prise, and in the first ten seconds the
ruby red began to flow from a battered
nose. Tho crowd began 20 cheer, and
Thompson smothered Hyland with rights
and leftS. Dick staggered under the beat
ing and became wObbly as he walked to
his corner. 1t was ThompSon's round by
a big margin. In the eighteenth Thomp-
son again hammered Hyland. but near the
end of the round Thompson. forcing il
every inch of the way. became tired, and
both were tired at the gong.
HyIand Tries to End 1t.
In the last two rounds Hyland saw it
was close, and fought for the decision
In these two rounds the battle again
turned Dicks way, and Thompson seemed
to stall to save himself When the final
end came, Hyland was swinging wildly
trying TO end the fight.
Delay at Start.
The fight was q pleasing one, especially
to the loo fans from this city. But
never has a contest been pulled off with
such a woeful lack of management. II
was 1915 before the main bout started.
and the restless audience was not bit
backward in voicing its disapproval.
When the meal ticket brigade went in for
the preliminaries, it was discovered the
club had no gloves, and the crowded
house had to wait until some one went
out and borrowed a pair of pillows.
Kid Herrick and Kid West boxed four
rounds. It,was good and no decision was
given.
Kid Bernstein knocked Kid Bray out In
the fourth round of their CO.
Sammy McClintic, willard Bean and
Red FItzsimmons were in Hyland's cor
ner and Rawhide Kelly, Hamp and Gel
ger acted for Thomson