The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-23
REFEREE AND POLICE
 CALL BOUT IN EIGHTH Interference of Mel miss Stops Main Fight In
 Its Climax. DOHERTY-RILEY MILL Bunny Ford and Bobby Tickle Fight Draw; Other
 Go Cancelled.
DOHFRTY- RILEY MILL
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In the eighth round, when one on two more punches from the powerful right of Jeff Doherty would have put Willie Riley of South Boston down and out, Referee Heck" McInniss stepped between the two fighters and announce ed that he would call the bout If the crowd did not stop their yelling end coaching, His separating the two boys and saying he would stop the bout when the bout was then in it's climax, was in the first place unnecessary and in the second place a movement a It. tie beyond the power of a referee. This right lies in the hands of the police and when the police did not complain or in terfere why should the referee? For nearly fifteen seconds McInniss stood between the two boxers, pushing first Riley aside and then Doherty. His ac- ton was not at first recognized by the police, but his continuance in separat- ing them caused the police to take ac- ton. Sergeant Tighe stepped into the ring and stopped the bout, He at first was inclined to arrest the referee for his apparent crooked work, but he changed his mind and dropped the matter.
 For six rounds the two boys put up the cleverest kind of an exhibition Ril- ey then began to weaken not under the amount of blows received but from the well directed and forcible punches of Jeff" Willie Riley came in with his left jab and hook. At times his whole body going with the punch, but these were few and far between after the sixth.
 Jeff" continued his rain of body and face blows during the seventh and was not met quiet as forcibly as in the pre- vious rounds. That Riley was weaken ing was apparent when he went to his corner at the end of the round. During the round he had that characteristic smile which might be termed only an outside glimmer of coolness and deter mination He fought hard but he was up against it. Jeff" was his stumb- ling block and the coming rounds held his fate
 The eighth opened with Doherty fore ing Riley. The latter still held the smile, even though he was steadily los ing strength. Jeff landed two clean rights to the face. a crossover and 8 left, and Riley staggered Riley re- turned with his right to the face and cut Dohertys eye. Not staggered il the least, Jeff rushed on, bound to finish the fight there, and would have done il only for the timely Interruption of Me Innis. The mob. which did not amount to more than six or seven hundred yelled and asked for square deal They did not get it, however as McIn- his called to the police and a sergeant came to the front and stopped the fight Referee McInnis then announced tha the fight was draw.
 The first preliminary bout betwee1 Bunny Ford, of this city, and Bobby Tickle, the bantamweight champion o Rhode Island went ten rounds to { draw. This bout was a corker. botl boys fighting all the time and giving the fans their moneys worth
 The other preliminary between Will lie Mango, of New York, and Jimm! Murray, was cancelled owing to tn small crowd. The crowd was excep tionally small for the excellent cart which the Nutmeg club offered, and tn, size of the New Haven theater oni! added to the apparent smallness il number of the ringside fans. The maii bout was made ten rounds instead O fifteen for the same reason.