Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-15
HARD GOES
MARK GARD
AT CABIN
LANGFORD AND BARRY GO TO
FAIR DRAW
HAIRLINE DECISION MIGHT FA-
VoR WHITE BOY
One Knockout Recorded, Other Battles
Being Close and Even-5est
Evenings Sport Ever
Seen Here
BY J. G. GRIFFIN

and one knockout. accounted for the pest
evenings sport in the ring that the local
fight patrons have ever had chance TO
witness ana If Manager McCarey can
only spring another like it the success
of the ten-round shows at the cabin is
assured
The Langford- Barry mill was slated as
the main event of the evening and turned
out to be anything but a pink tea. Barry,
sore at the negro, but keeping his head
nevertheless. opened up in rapid fashion,
and made the fifth round dicisively his
Langford came back with a few points
in his favor, and all the way through the
men kept alternating for the advantage.
In the eighth and ninth rounds Barry
fought like a demon, but he slowed down
at the end and about the best than can
be said of the affair is to declare honors
even Any slight shade should be given
Barry.
Barry was sore at Langofrd before they
began, and when the men came to the
center of the ring to open hostilities ne
refused to extend the usual courtesy OF
touching gloves. Jim tore in like whirl-
wind, and in the first clinch threw Lang
ford to the mat This got him nothing
with the crowd. and he was hooted when
the bell changed.
In the fifth round more trouble started
Barry, sore from the body punches Lang
ford handed him toward the end of the
period, kept right on fighting after the
bell. and Sam was there to keep him
company Eyton got in and separated the
men, and no damage was done save to
excite the audience to expect Knockout.
After the final bell both men went on
smuggling and Eyton again got between
them. There was no stopping two infuri-
ated big fellows, however, and a squad
of police had to help before quiet was
restored Later Barry went over and
talked to Sam, but what he said was NOT
known.
Barry Won't Shake
The fight opened with Barry refusing
to shake hands and tearing after Sam
after scant preliminary fiddling. They
came to a clinch and Barry lifted Lang
ford off his feet to heave him to the car
pet Sam was up at once and the round
ended with no damage being recorded.
The second round started with fierce
mix, honors being even. AS soon as Ey-
ton had separated them the fighters went
into another embrace, Langford pound
ing Jims kidneys in close quarters. All
the way through the fighting was fast
and furious, Langford having slight
shade at the call of time.
No advantage could be found in the
third act. qualified by some more furious
work on both sides. The fourth was slow,
as compared TO those which went before.
no decided lead being established and
honors still resting with the negro.
Barry evened things up by scoring the
fifth act as his by shade, making Sam
stall little for the first time The sixth
found Langford fighting at his fastest
pace and making the round his beyond
question OF doubt. In the seventh, work
at close quarters held sway, Barry hav-
ing a slight advantage.
The eighth was Barry's beyond ques-
ton of a doubt and he evened up for
what Sam had slipped him in the sixth
Barry hit Langford repeatedly in and out
of the clinches, and Sam lost his smile
and haunting air for the first time when
he half slipped and half fell to the floor
1t was the most open round. of the fight
Barry refusing to clinch and doing more
long range work
Both men were as strong as ever in the
ninth, and in the first half Jimmy had a
nice lead Langford came back before
the close. however, and it would take
strong man to separate the merits oil
the two.
Barry decided to take the proffered
glove at the opening of the last period,
and then tore loose in time to take left
on the head Sam followed this up by
slipping over a right cross that nearly
put Barry down, but Jim managed to
come back StronS anu HillSH AL So'N
order,
The bell sounded, but neither men
minded it, and the police force-of which
there is always an abundance-hopped
through the ropes and parted the irate
foes.
Laneford in ciinches
Barry's forte all through the battle was
to retreat before Langford's feints until
against the ropes, where he would break
out with a rush. In the clinches Sam had
all the best of it, pounding Barry's body
with punches that hurt. At the end the
men were both on their feet and ready
for more, and only the ten-round limit
stopped one of the most grueling fights
the local fans have ever had chance TO
witness.
Kid Tex and Bubbles Robinson had
fierce engagement to keep prior to the
main event, and while a hair line de-
cision could have been rendered favorable
to Bubbles it was in every way a fair
draw. Tex, by his very aggressiyeness
and bulldog tactics, kept Bubbles, clever
ness under cover to a great extent, and
the little negro was forced to his best
pace to get what he did.
The first two rounds were slow, but in
the third Tex got in with some of his
close work and hurt Bubbles a little. The
latter kept jabbing his opponent away,
but Tex bored in and had Robinson busy
every minute of the period. The fourth
again saw Tex with a slight advantage.
but in the fifth Bubbles evened up for all
that had gone before, forgetting to TN
CON and fiehting as hard as his OPP