The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-24
SMITH WINS FROM
MANTELL BY DECISION

The following from the Salt Lake
Tribune gives an account of the fight
on Monday last, at Ogden:
After twenty rounds of the hardest
fighting that has been seen between
Chicago and the coast in the welter-
weight class, RUDE Smith of Denver
won the decision over Frank Mantell
of Philadelphia at Glenwood park
here and was declared the winner by
Referee Tom Painter of Evanston,
Wyo. While much money changed
hands, there was no voice of dissent
over the decision. At the end, Man
tells face was badly Scared and
swollen, but the only injury that
Rube Smith sustained, aside from the
tapping of the claret from his nose,
in three of the rounds, was a badly
sprained right hand and wrist.
Prior to the main event there was
ten-round preliminary between In
dian Joe and Arthur Collins, colored.
Joe was much the bigger, but Referee
Billy Hughes awarded the fight to
Collins, much to the dissatisfaction
of the audience, though the Indian
showed himself most skilfull fight
er and was not put out.
In the first round of the main event
both men went into exceedingly act
i've work for weller weights and
fought as fast as light weights, and
the small audience that attended
knew at once that they were going
to get the worth of their money.
Smith was the agressor in the start,
but Mantell came back apparently
just as strong and at several stages
of the game, when it looked like
Rube had Mantell going, he would
always come back in the next round
strong and fight viciously, but Rube's
upper cuts seemed to be ending Man
tell, together with right and left
swings to the head. Ben Smith and
Cyclone Johnny Thompson were in
Smiths corner and the seconds for
Mantell were Peter Sullivan, who is
to fight Cyclone, Tom Gleason, Kid
Harmon and Bob Watkins.
In the third round, Rube was fore
inng the fighting and Mantell was
coming back as best he could. He
fought well and for every upper cut
he got from Rube he would come
back with good left and right jabs
in the face. Rube fought to the head
and body alternately and inflicted
terrible punishment on Mantell.
In the fourth round it was hammer
and tongs, give and take. without any
defense on the part of either. In
the fifth round, the honors were even
but RUDE was confident. There was
but very little variance from that
time until the eleventh round. In
this round, Rube had him going with
right and left to the head, hard jabs
to the body and upper cults to the
face, and only the gong saved Man
tell that round. He recuperated rap
idly, however, and from then to the
end of the fight he made a magnifi-
cent showing for man who at sew
eral stages in the fight had seemed
groggy. From then ON until the sew
enteenth round there was no choice
between the men, but Mantells
clinching and hanging on to Rube
was loudly condemned by the aud
fence. He would would strike Rube
in the face at times, but with no force
and always got right and left on
the head and an upper cut in return,
but he was game all through and
fought hard. In the eighteenth round
out, he became aggressive and put
up fight that had Rube going until
the end of the round. 1t was the
gamest exhibition ever seen in the
ring of man who was apparently de-
feated in one fight. In the nineteenth
round, the audience knew that there
was no chance for a Knockout, and
neither man had the best of it.
In rOl1n6 tWantV tho fina1 P,,ho
came up strong with determination
to end the contest. Mantell fought
back with the same force that he had
INDUCED in all through the fight, but
his blows were weak. Smith, on the
other hand, was strong and one time
in that round it looked as though
there would be a knockout, but Man.
tell came back again with new vigor
and fought it out to the end though
he did not hurt Smith at any time.
Tom Painter awarded the fight to
Rube Smith and Mantell went over to
Smiths corner and shook hands with
him, saying: well, I gave you
hard fight. anyway CHATS what
you did, Frank" said Rube, you are
good goer and | wish you better
luck next time
At the end of the fight Rube's
right hand was found to be broken
and his wrist sprained. He had no
other marks, but Mantell's face is
badly bruised as we'll as his body.
The unfortunate feature of the fight
was the small patronage of Ogden
people and for that matter of Salt
Lake. The same fight in Frisco or
IN Los Angeles would command a for
tune.