The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23

tO listen 10 them and insisted upon
taking a chance to save their money
1t was long. gruelling fight OF seN-
enty-four rounds, with ouds SreatlS
against the American Champion, VINO
suffered agony durin gthe four hours
and fifty-eight minutes that ne was III
the ring. but he never showed the
slightest inclination to stop. Finally
the New York gang broke into the
ring and Frank Stevenson declared the
fight a draw For years afterward NC
Auliff tried to induce Carney 10 meet
him either here or in England, but the
t3,.itisber. who was one of the quickest
fighters that ever lived, positively re-
fused all propositions. so that McAu-
Tiff was unable 10 prove which was the
master IN,
Tommy Ryan, the retiring hlu4le-
weight champion, was another wonder
fu1 fighter. with a world of gameness-
In 1881 he took part in one of the hard
est battles in ring history Wneh ne
went seyentv-six rounds with Danny
Needham at Minneapolis His remark
able courage was also shown in flYe
terrific mills with Mysterious Billy
Smith while the same quality was
disDIayed when Ryan was unexpected
lv beaten by his pupil. KID MCCOY, at
MasDeth. Mccoy made Ryan DelieNe
that the match would be fake. Ryan
as a result. did not train properly,
while Mccoy got into the ring fit to
fieht for his life Ryan discovered the
trick as soon as he put up his hands
hut if was too late to quit, so he TOOK
a fearful beating for eighteen rounds
and was literally cut into ribbons. II
was because of a great loss OF bloou
and complete exhaustion that Ryan
sank helplessly to the floor, one OF the
worst butchered pugilists ever seen III
ring.
1t was the phenomenal grit OF George
CKid) Lavigne that enab led him TO peat
| The Giant Killer. 'Walcott, in the most
| sensational ring battle on record. They
met at Maspeth in a fifteen-round bout
viii, the condition that WalcOtt had &c
! weigh 1873 pounds ringside and also had
/ 10 knock Lavigne out to win. 1t was d
wicked fight from the start, ana La
viene took such a lacing in the flrsl
eight rounds that his left ear was hang
| ing nv a thread. He had broken nose
and was actually bathed IN BLOOD. MANY
| short-haired experts were so snockee
| that thev wanted the referee to stop the
slaughter. but Lavigne soon showed
| that he was full of gameness, for ne
rallied later on and administered sucf
a beating that Walcott, eroggy ant
bleeding. wanted to quit in the fifteenth
round. and would have done so mad D
mot been for the threats OF his mana
ger. Tom O'Rourke Lavigne's game
ness won a barrel of money for thos'
who had the nerve TO bet against OiC
| Black Joe.
of all the men who have figured con
| spicuously i'm the ring not one ever pos
sessed more courage and enourahc
than John Morrissey- When yer!
young man Morrissey came down IRON
his home in Troy one day and visited
saloon i'm Center street where Cotene
Rynders, Dutch Charley and othe
rough and tumble fighters held forth
Morrissey, after few drinks declares
that he could lick any man in IN
crowd. He was double banked the
and there. but ne made such deter
mined stand against his antagonist
that he was sent to hospital izz
Lazarus. a competent Judge of fightln
men. who saw the battle royal. declare
there wasn't a man in all New for
who. singie-handed could whip Morris
sey with a hickory stick in half houl
few years after this row Morrisse
became a professional puSilist and wa
anxious TO win the championship froT
t, Tom Tver. who held the title at tina
time Each man had desperate crow
of thugs behind him when they cam
together Among the Hyer gang wa
still Bill Poole who enjoyed the Tepu
tation of being the best rought n