The San Francisco call., 1907-03-27
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Referee Welsh Giues "Cyclone
Credit for Aggressiueness
BY r. A. Sr11ytt1

in the first round it was evident that
Thompson had planned an aggressive
campaign. He was right after Hyland
and tried left to the head There was
clinch and Hyland brought his kid
ney punch into play at once. After
landing this several times. Thompson
tried to get away from it by guarding
with his left elbow and twisting his
body slightly out of range Thompson
opened the second round with left to
the head and right to the body, both
OF which were hard blows. Hyland
shot left and right to his opponents
guard and repeated it almost imme-
diately They clinched and wrestled
all over the ring Near the end of the
round Thompson landed hard left to
the head and Hyland walked into
right.
The third round Hyland tried often
with his right to the heart and num-
Der of the blows found the mark. Hy-
land worked left shift cleverly in the
fourth round and landed a singing
blow to the body. Thompson was badly
punished about the body in this round,
while in return he started Hylands
mouth bleeding. The fifth was the
fastest round up to that time. each of
the boxers paying particular attention
20 the body. The sixth round was all in
Hylands favor He landed little pop
right to the jaw coming out of clinch
and staggered Thompson with J left TO
the head.
Thompson caught Hyland as he was
coming in an staggered him with
right to the head. He followed this UP
with two big right swings. to the jaw
and another to the heart. Hyland,
however, had all the best of the last
thirty seconds of this round. The
eighth round was decidedly in Thomp-
sons favor as he kept Hyland's mouth
bleeding badly. The ninth was an easy
round for both men. In the tenth Hy
land was roundly hissed by the spec
tators for hitting after the bell.
Thompson was very tired in the elev-
enth round, in which both slowed down
noticeably. The Cyclone could hardly
hold up his hands and all his attempts
to hit fell short. The twelfth round
was Hyland's, although there was more
wrestling than hitting. Thompson put
up great finish in the thirteenth
round, landing one w:id right swing to
the head which hurt. The fourteenth
was one OF the few quiet rounds.
Both were tired in the fifteenth, but
this was plainly Thompson's round. He
had Hyland staggering at the finish.
Hyland picked up in the sixteenth and
punished Thompson severely. He also
landed many blows in the seventeenth.
ing he had recuperated. The eighteenth
round was marked by great rally, in
which both boxers abandoned their de-
Tense and stood swinging right and
left for the jaw. hoping to land a de-
cisive blow. Thompson tried all he
knew in the nineteenth round, but was
unable to stop his opponent. He land
ed a straight right to the jaw which
nearly put Hyland down. Thompson
was desperate in the last round, when
both men fought as though they had
just started on their long journey.
Neither asked for any quarter, but
tried to win with a knockout. They
were so anxious to win that neither
heard the bell which signaled the end
of the hard fight.
Neither man was knocked down
throughout the fight, although many
of the blows were hard enough to put
the ordinary man down. Hyland
was the fayorite in the betting at all
times. AT one time he was a to 10
public choice. but when the men en-
tered the ring the prevailing price was
6h to 10. The men weighed in the
ring, Hyland wearing his trunks and
socks, while Thompson weighed In
stripped. Among the notables intro
duced by Announcer Billy Jordan,
who, by the way, was in excellent
voice, was. Tex Rickard. who was her.
aided as the napoleon OF Goldneld,
honest Tex Rickard-'
The Congo Coon stopped Caesar Attell
IN the sixth round. The fight was first
stopped in the fourth round by Referee
Jimmy McDevitt. Attell objected to
this and then McDevit. said that Attell
had asked him to stop the fight. The
Congo Coon had left the ring ty this
time. but he came back to the evident |
dismay of Attell. who had to go one
or two more rounds and take consid-
erabie punishment before the end
finally came.