Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-03
Con|ey and Sawyer Play
Rough House.
To Such an Extent that the
Police Stop the Bout.
Other Features Of More or Less
Interest to Sports.

hall. between Larry COnley of South
Boston and Dave Sawyer Of Rocklihd'
of which much had been expected,
proved To be about as nearly fiZZle
as anything that has yet been present
ed in Augusta in the way of pugilistlc
and was 4 disappointment
from. start to finish.
\ bad flavor was manifest in the
finish of the semi final, when it was
learned that Mr. Conley, after having
agreed, according to Il statement mace
by Manager Hanks, to box for 80 per
cent. of the receipts, had decided that
the crowd present was too small to
furnish the necessary cash to war
rant an exhibition of his prowess, and
therefore declined to go on. THIS
caused a delay for which some of the
crowd knew the cause and others
didn't, but when the facts in the case
We're announced from the ring the
crowd-some of them-went into their
Jeans and whaclied up Suftlclent casn
to tempt the Boston youth to don his
lighting toss and appear in the ring.
SAWYER was already there to meet
him, and after the usual prelminaries
the fight was on-or the crowd thought
i: was.
The entertainment of the flfst part
| of the evening had been i'll the man
| a trifle mild, but when at 1915 the TWO
principals in the star attraction came
| together with rush like two freight
| trains the somewhat droWsy audience
| began to sit up and take notice.
| The fight was short and sweet and
| one of the most impressive features
| thereof Was the two tableaux given by
| Sawyer in the pose Of the dying glad
| ia1or The style adopted by the two
men was that known as the whirlwlnd
and everybody thought that the fight
was to be q record breaker. Conley
| knocked Sawyer down and Sawyer
| chung to Conley's foot as if he wanted
it tor a souvenir, and when he had
finally restored il to its rightfui own
er and essayed to regain his feet Con-
ley fOuled him by hitting him when
he WAS on his knees. Sawyer lay down
| once more and seemed very content to
remain where he was.
Conley'S act was the source of much
agitation on the part of the audience,
| but calm was restored by Referee
Jimmie Corners and the management
and the 1nen were sent to their corners
| until the second round. This was the
| same style as the first. Sawyer rushed
| Conley to the ropes and was appar-
emily trying to break him in two, but
the Boston lad was timber and would
not break He also demonstrated that
he was one of the swiftest boxers that
ever entered an Augusta ring. and had
the fight been carried on by him With
l. 8 cp,r ! y
have been good to see. But when in a
clinch the men went to the canvas
Conloy. the first to rise, pushed Saw
ycr'S head back with a whack on the
floor, and the fight gave every evil
dence Of being nothing more than a
"roush-house." City Marshal Fetch
er and his men entered the ring and
the fight was off. No reflection should
be east upon the club on account of
the outcome of the bout, for the pre-
vlans exhibitions have always been or
derry and we'll conducted. but the man
| agcment was unfortunate in this in
stance in the selection of material.
| Previous to the main bout George
Gilbert and Kid Vance went six, g0oG
, rounds for a preliminary, and kit
Stringer ana Young McCurdy followed
but the bout was flat and uninterestins
except for the last round or two, bott
Of which We're decidedly in favor OF
McCurdy The best bout of the evening
; was the Semi-fnal between Percy Hill
of Gardiner and Jim Coyne of Halo
well, and although COyne had the ad
vantage Of height and weight Hill pu
M n rafting good argument through
| out the game.