Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-31
POOR DECISION is
GIVEN ON FINAL
LAUDER NOT ENTITLED TO WIN
OVER KNIGHT
Abdul Gets His from Cooley, Webster
Defeats Riley, and Dalton and
Ford Fight Good
Draw

Tommy Walsh dropped all pretensions
to ever becoming a first class referee
| at the tryout card in the Maud Junction
ring last night, when he decided that
Leonard Lauder won the last event on
the card from Phil Knight. Allowing
for all LADDERS cleverness and ring
generalship, and also for his repeated
jabs, none but the most partisan could
figure where the local lad was entitled
| to anything better than a draw.
1t cannot be said of Knight that he
can honestly claim an iota of cleverness,
but his aggressiveness and occasional
sound punches in the face of LADDERS
wonderful evasive tactics won him many
friends, and toward the end of the mill
those who had been decidedly in Leon
ards favor switched their dope and were
holering for Knight.
But the noise of a crowd is usually
poor basis for a decision, as the Gus
toners in the gallery who are not close
enough to the ring to see blow struck
are usually the ones who raise it. 1t
was knights all-round work that should
have won him an even break and not
the boosters or knockers.
While he was not entitled to a verdict
Lauder showed that no lad who has
ever appeared in the Maud Junction
arena has it on him, or can even touch
him when it comes to footwork. Time
and again the local boy worked himself
out of corners where knights fierce
rushes had carried him, and had he been
one whit less nimble or sure of foot
it is certain that the San Francisco
| fighter would have copped.
| From the first bell to the last the
| fight bore a sameness which caused the
spectators to liken it to the late Burns
O'Brien funeral. Lauder occasionally led
Knight into something that resembled
real punch, but on the whole the
visitor forced without any return, ex-
cept a jab to the face. That he was
unable to hurt Knight at all was ap-
parent and while he gave a most splen-
did exhibition Lauder did no real fight
ing.
Fierce Draw Battle
| Jim Ford and Kid Dalton put up the
real slaughter fest of the evening and
their ten rounds of fighting were fast
and fierce enough to keep the crowd
on it's feet all the way. In the first few
rounds Ford was the cautious kid, and
let Dalton fight his own battle, but the
change came before the end and evened
| things up
De Witt Van Court was in Ford's
corner and it is due to his efforts that
| the San Francisco man got q draw In
the second round Ford fell for a cut lin.
and before the end of the fight he was
| bleeding from every part of his face.
his beak running blood like a river.
Along about the sixth round Van got
Ford going right, and soon Dalton was
back at his old tricks-letting the other
man make the fight. The local scrapper
was game and willing enough, as he
| always is, but when it came to manning
out plan of battle he let Ford fix II
all and followed the lead like a good
| Indian.
The first seven rounds of the mill
| were fast and furious, with Ford's face
spouting claret all the time and Dalton
nursing cut right eye. Both were
strong at the end, and the referees
! decision of draw was really nice.
Abdul the Turk got his from a husky
young man who came down from Frisco
| and sported the name of Fred Coolev.
| For a long time the sports have been
| looking for a man who could match tbe
| Turk in awkwardness, and they found
him in Cooley. In fact Cooley is a little
bit more to the elephant than the Abom
| Unable, but that didn't prevent him from
| coping the pride of the harem In tho
eighth round
| AS usual the Turk was there with his
fancy work, and the imported Roouefort
| also tore off a few clever limitations of n
| boxer. In the second round Cooley went
out after the Turk. and it looked like a
| snort act, Dut the SWarthy one was there
at the end, and was even stronger than
his opponent, who tired when he battered
Abdul in series of fierce and clumsy
/ rushes.
End Comes Suddenly
In the eighth spasm the Turk was an
parently going along with fair chances of
an even break after the tenth when the
end hove in sight They opened the
round with fierce rush, and for almost
the first time in the fight Cooley was
forced to back up and give ground be-
! fore the onslaught of the Turk. Abdul