The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-13
'SLASHING BOUTS
 BY LITTLE MEN
PhIlie wGoyern and Young Goldman Box to a Draw Wagner Gets it
 Over C0ster.

Phil McGOvern, TeTy'S brother, and
 Charlie Goldman, another Brooklyn bantam, fought ten slashing rounds to draw in Brooklyn last night. In an-
 other ten-round contest of equal inn portanee, Joe Wagner, of New York, fought Joe Ooster, of Brooklyn, to a standstill. At the end of this round Coster retired to his corner badly dam aged and badly beaten.
 The two contests were to furnish principals for another bout which will decide an opponent for Monte Attell in a battle for the bantamweight cham pionship of the world. Both of the bouts were of the slambang order. In the McGovern-Goldman contest the blows rained so fast at times that it was difficult to tell who landed them McGovern easily outboxed his adver- sary in the earlier rounds of their bout, but toward the end Goldman grew stronger.
 It was announced that Young Gold ern weighed 114 1-2 pounds at o'clock
 McGovern was the first to land the short left to the mouth and blocked as Goldman swung for the head. Phil showed great cleverness at blocking and side-stepping. Goldman landed a good one on the stomach, but McGov- ern's rushes earned him the honors of the round.
 Goldman tried desperately in the sec ond and third rounds. In each of these sessions he was hissed for holding. Me Govern forced the milling in the third and once he threw himself to the floor by missing left swing. Goldman of the third Phil staggered Goldman with a right clip on the chin.
 McGovern missed a hard left to the jaw and landed the right on the chin in the fourth. Then Phil chased Charlie about the ring; both flashing out with left and right with remarkable rapid ity. McGovern had a. shade the bet ter of the round.
 Goldman shot a hard right under the heart at the beginning of the fifth. but McGovern came back with a jolt to the jaw that shook Goldman. Then Goldman went after McGovern and stung his adversary with body punches. It was Goldman's round.
 Goldman staggered McGovern with a right to the jaw in the seventh and Phil retaliated with a left to the mouth that brought blood. Goldman had the better of the fast milling which fol- lowed. Goldman showed we'll in the early part of the eighth, but in the last half of the round McGovern hammered his man all over the ring.
 Goldman tried to save his strength in the ninth, but McGovern made him fight Toward the end of the round Phil slipped to his knees in his own corner. Goldman tried desperately to finish him, but McGovern blocked too well. Goldman had much the pest or the last round, for his opponent was dead tired in the last session, but his work was not enough to gain him the decision.
 WAGNER BEATS COsTER-
 Then Joe Wagner and Joe Coster came on. It was announced that both had weighed in under 115 pounds. They began cautiously when the bell started them on their ten-round journey.
 Wagner began shifting in the first and he kept up this style of throughout. He managed to land some racking punches for two but Coster had him solved in the third and made better showing. Wagner got to his man again in the fourth, and had him groggy in this session. It swung around in Coster's favor in the next round and both had bloody mouths at the end of the round. It was all Wagner's in the sixth round, for he again sent Coster to his corner groggy.
 .Coster came back in the seventh. but Wagner had him nearly out in the eighth. Wagner continued on the ag- greSsive in the last two rounds and the bell interfered just in time to save Coster from a knockout.