The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-18

istic education in the Cream City OF
Milwaukee, returned to his towns |
people last evening and made his debut
here in the rOped arena. Not only was
he received with open arms by the ad-
miring followers of the game but he
came fully up to their expectations and
won the decision from his most worthy
opponent, Dick Fitzpatrick, after ten
rounds of terrific fighting.
DECISION TICKLED THEM.
When Malay Hogan, the referee,
held up Clabby's hand after the fight
as token that the Hammond boy had
won his first victory in the good old
home town of Hammond, it seemed as
though the hundreds of people who
were crowded into the dimly lighted
Mikas hall would go wild with JOY.
They cheered themselves hoarse.
Many of them mounted the stage and
| lifted their hero to their shoulders.
| Jimmy took their demonstrativenes
calmly and laughed. just as he used
to do when he knocked out a home run
in the days, not so long ago, when he
was known only as star on the Joe
Long Junior baseball team.
FITZPATRICK WAS GAME.
| But the crowd was .eminently fair
| The spectators realized that Dick Fitz-
patrick had put up a magnificent fight.
He too was congratulated even though
he lost the bout, and it is safe to say
that there has not been a more genie
manly fighter, and one who took his
medicine with a more pleasant smile.
than Dick Fitzpatrick.
The main bout was not put on until
after IL o'clock. The management
failed to hurry the program through.
as more experienced promoters would
have done, and the crowd was pretty
tired of waiting. They soon got on
edge, however, when Malachy Hogan
was introduced as referee and the
principals entered the ring in their
bath-robes.
HOW THEY COMPARE.
The referee gave the fighters their
instructions and they went to their
respective corners. Both Clabby and
Fitzpatrick seemed confident. C1abby
smiled as though he was making a
nightly appearance on the vaudeville
stage and did not seem to fear the re-
suit of the bout.
Fitzpatrick was a little shorter than
Clabby and was more stockily built. In
fact, Clabby looked pretty lank as he
. entered the ring and shocks hands with
, his older and more experienced oppo-
nent To glance at the two men il
would seem that Fitzpatrick had a lit
tie the best of he argumen Clabby
did not seem to be more than boy.
I. The first round failed TO give the
? spectators much of a line on the fight
1 ers. They both seemed to be trying
e each other out and were cautious. The
: second round began to bring out some
/ of Clabbys strong points. 1t was dis
covered that the Hammond man got the
best of the fighting in the clinches. Tn,
second round resulted in a division o.
; honors.
CLABBY FORCES FIGHT.
1t was in the third round that tn,
. spectators began TO realize that. il
CIabby. Hammond has produced one o
a the greatest in-hghters that the coun
: try has ever known. Fitzpatrick wa
: badly pummeled in the face and Will,
f none of the blows were heavy enough
j to put the Chicago man out, they wer
e hard enough to worry the Hammont
mans opponent.
. 1t was along about the fourth roun,
: that Clabby began to force the fight
ing. It then became apparent tina
C1abby had a great many untried trick
I in reserve and also that he had tn
e strength, the endurance and the clever
ness with which to carry the fight ag
= gressively into the enemies territory
D In fact at no time during the fight di
the Hammond man seem to be the Ieas
bit worried about the outcome of tn
contest.
USES THE SCISSORS
III the fifth round Clabby used
punch which is known as the scissor
= punch" with great effectiveness Thi
/ blow is struck in the clinches whe
both men are close together. 1t
IS struck by holding the adversary O
with the left hand and then punchin
his face by striking a blow with tn
right under the guard.
While there is never a knockout i
50 one of these punches, it is effectiv
enough to worry a fighter great dea
e 1t is estimated that Clabby sent TIL
e. punch home scores of times and ever
time F'itzpatrick's head would go bac
with a jerk that indicated that he ha
run into a good stiff punch.
4 FIGHT BECOMES WARM.
re The sixth and seventh rounds WEI
DIT about even. with both boys followin
t the tactics they developed early in til
game. Fitzpatrick was the aggressc
part of the time and Clabby was tt
=
III boys were both clever enough so ths
b. this kind of lighting was most intel
t esting.
an 1t was in the ninth round that Clai
c. by began to force the fighting
though he was after a knockout. +
covered himself well and escaped tt
:" vicious punches of Fitzpatrick and the
gave a good account of himself whe
he took the battle into the enemie
go camp
The last round was furiuos. It b,
+ came apparent then that neither of tt
as fighters could take the other into can
~ by the Knockout route and they bega
=, a terrific onslaught on each other
~ the hope that they could make GOO
impression on the referee and win IL
decision.
ne MULKERN Is PLEASED.
ms Clabby had the best of the last roun
20, however, and when Referee Malacf
lg Hogan announced Clabby the Wet,