The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-02
REILLY DEFEATED
BY DICK CULLEN
LOCAL CHAMPION LOSES TITLE
Large Crowd at Aloha Park Is
Delighted With Splendid
FiStiC Show.
Dick Cullen bested Charlie Reilly, Is
rounds.
Kid Terry knocked out Kid Franklin,
rounds.
Limey Richards and Jim Coyle, a
draw, rounds.
(From Sundays Advertiser.)

(From Sundays Advertiser.)
Outclassed at almost every point Of
the game, but brave and game as war
rior to the very end, Charlie Reilly
went down to defeat before Dick Cul.
len last night at Aloha Park. 1t was
far and away the best exhibition of
Marquis of Queensberry rules that has
been put on in this town and was GER
tainly on the level with the best of the
excellent contests that have been seen
here.
Reilly was badly seconded. He was
| encouraged to commit deadly mis-
take. When Cullen bent over and COW
cred his face with his gloves, Reilly
would stand off and swing wildly with
left and right to the head. Cullen held
his neck loose and the blows hurt him
just about as much as shower of
spray hurts a duck.
In every instance after the sixth
round, when Reilly tried these tactics,
Cullen would straighten up and rush
in with hard swing that landed, in
finitely worse for his opponent than all
| the head-shakers that he had previous
! ly produced. Reilly was putting from
exertion when Cullen landed, while the
latter was fresh from slight rest.
| For six rounds Cullen allowed Reilly
to play with him. He showed no
particular cleverness, although his
left shot in with keen precision at
times. But these first six rounds
, Reilly, apparently, had it all his own
way. Then Cullen loosened up in the
seventh and began to do damaging
work.
He started series of hard ex-
changes, always waiting until after
Reilly had tried his head-battering
| system. In every case he had the bet
ter of it, and though Reilly would
come back strong and attempt to ex-
change more swings, Dick covered up
and let the other man do the work.
| Saved by Gong in Eighth.
for all to see, that he was Reilly's
master at the game. There was flu
rious rally, lasting SO long that it
seemed impossible that human endu-
rance could stand it, then Cullen land
ed hard right swing on the jaw and
| Reilly went to the floor on his hands
| and knees He waited for the count
of nine and then arose, distinctly
| groggy. For the rest of that round
he was more than wobbly, but by
hanging on. he managed to stay out
| the round.
Both men rested in the ninth. Reilly
had revived in wonderful way and,
indeed, this was feature of the latter
part of the scrap. Reilly literally stag
gered to his corner in two instances
and yet came out and tried to make
the milling after the interval.
Reilly went down twice in the tenth
round. Once for a mere instant and
the second time from another terrific
swat to the jaw. Again he took the
count of nine. In the eleventh he went
to his knees but was up again imme-
diately. In the twelfth he again took
the count of nine but, with marvellous
gameness, almost made the thirteenth
round even.
Bad Round for Reilly.
In the fourteenth round it looked as
though Cullen would score a knockout.
Reilly rushed from his corner and be.
gan to make things hum. He landed
several long swings and Cullen backed
out of a corner just in time. Then
Dick covered up in the same old style
exertion. Then he Strengthened up and
landed one terrific right to the jaw
that put Reilly down for the count of
nine again.
Up came Charlie, groggy but de
termined. He made furious rush al
Cullen, but he was wild and he miss
ed every swing. Cullen looked for an
opening, but Reilly was still able to
protect himself by hanging on. When
the gong sounded, Reilly did the Dutch
roll to his corner, steering himself by
the ringside ropes, until he was taken
hold of by his seconds.
In the last round Cullen straighten
ed up and began to slug. All Reilly
could do was to block and dive into q
clinch. He was so obviously all in
and the game had been SO much in
Cullen favor, that there was no need
for knockout, and everybody wa:
glad that the game little lightweight
had lasted the limit.
Very Bad Seconding.
What possessed Reilly's seconds To
net the way they did is inexplcable
An oldstager like Bob Ross should
have known that Reilly was not hurt.
ing Cullen by his Wild swings and
that he was only firing himself. In
stead of encouraging him in this work,
he should have been told not to do IL,
and told pretty strongly, too, When
ever Reilly stood mp, spared with
those wonderful lefis Of his 20 the
face and waited for an opening, lac
was getting the better ~ u, Iiut the
moment he tried "a do the hammer
and lonps act II was all on
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