Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-01-30
THE PUGILlSTS
FAST BATTLE
IN NEW YORK
Jim Donovan and Willie Lewis
Biff Each Other = More Fight
News Of Interest.

Willie Lewis won by slight mar
gin in his six-round set-to will
Professor Jim Donovan at thu
Sharkey A. G. last night, and 1000
members saw an exhibition of skill
and cleverness they will not sooI
forget.
Lewis had a safe lead in the frs
three rounds, using with telling
effect a righthand punch to the body
that took the steam out of Donovan
and had him in bad way. In the
third round especially it looked bae
for Donovan, who sickened when
terrific jolt landed over his stomach
and heart. 1t was an awful wallop
Donovan in the fourth came vi
strong and grew stronger as the bou
went on. He reached Lewis many
times with stiff rights and lefts tt
the face and came within an ace Of
turning defeat into victory.
Donovan did the forcing al
through the struggle, excepting in
the third round, when he got thai
jab in the stomach. That was
enough to make any man slow up d
bit
In the fifth and sixth rounds
Donovan had all the best of it and
repeatedly poked rights and lefts
into Lewis face that, had the affair
gone another round, would have
overcome the victor's lead and
changed the final result. 1t was a
great exhibition and this verde
giving the victory may be question
ed by some-but it is fact, and ii
goes.
Owen Moran, the English pugilist
is suffering from an attack OF
pleurisy, which may cause him to
cancel his theatrical engagements
for week or ten days. Despite the
illness, however, his manager
Charley Harvey, has renewed his
challenge to Battling Nelson to fight
Moran at 1873 pounds. When Nelson
was helping Abe Attell to train for
the Moran battle the Dane boosted
that he could fight at the above
weight. Harvey at that time offered
to match Moran against Nelson at
12S, but the Battler Immediately
left for Ogden to tackle Jack Clifford
and has not as yet replied to Har-
vey's challenge. So Harvey now
says that if Nelson will agree to
fight at the stipulated limit he will
accommodate the Dane with an un'
limited side bet. Nelson has just
declared that he is out for an active
campaign in the ring, so that Har-
vey feels that Nelson has an excel
lent chance to meet one of the best
pugilists at the weight and also can
get a big purse from one of the
California clubs for the match.
That Packey Mcfarland, the Chi
cago lightweight, is not a powerful
hitter was the opinion of ring fol-
lowers who saw him in six round
battle with young Loughrey at Phila-
delphia on Tuesday night. McFar-
land demonstrated pretty clearly
that he possessed unusual cleverness
and in that particularly he out
classed his opponent rather easily.
But the experts said yesterday that
If Mcfarland had been able TO hit
with the power of Cans or Nelson he
would have put Loughrey to sleep
before the limit of the bout was
reached. 1t was a fast fight from
start to finish and on several occa-
sions 1t looked as If Mcfarland
would score a knockout, but at these
critical points the Chicago boxer
weakened perceptibly. Loughrey
was down for the count in the sec
ond and third rounds and went to
his knees a couple of times in other
rounds, but he always came back
in good physical condition and at the
end was swapping punches with his
clever antagonist.
In fact, when the bout ended
Loughrey jumped out of the ring
and ran TO his dressing room, appar-
emily as fresh as when he started
the mill. Mcfarland when he failed
to stop Bert Keyes in Boston In a
twelve round contest a couple of
weeks ago also created the impress
sion among ring sharps that he was
not a hard puncher, but was mere
Iy a scientific boxer with cool
head. Because OF this apparent de-
feet. therefore. IL is not generally
believed that Mcfarland Is made of
real championship material. Both
Keyes and Loughrey are second
raters who would probably be easy
marks for Cans. Mcfarland came
east with a great reputation, but
so far. the sports say, that he has
not lived up 10 it,
Tommy Burns will sign articles
for a bout with Jack johnson as
soon as he lands in New York" said
Burns's wife, who arrived in Detroit
the other day from London. He'd
never fight johnson If The matter was
left to me, for be promised me when
we were married that he would
never meet a negro. But Tommy is
sore over what has appeared in the
about the match with
Johnson and intends to sign up as
soon as be gets back. This will be
welcome news to johnson, who is
waiting here to get first crack at
the conqueror Of Gunner Moir.
Burns to Fight Palmer FEB. 10.
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