Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-08

paign for the midsestion, but George
Strengthened him up and poured in hard
chops that hurt Frank. Memslc is
outslugging Picato.
The boys came up fresh in the last
round. Picato closed and pounded
Memsic's kidneys, but the blows did
little damage. Both fought viciously,
center. They exchanged damaging
short rips to the wind and head Head
to head, they slugged out an even
round, both closing full of fight.
Barnes on the Bit
In the first event of the evening Mike
Dalton and Kid Barnes appeared for a
scheduled siX-round meeting. Hardly
had they shaken hands when Michael
started for his man, and the fans saw
the fiercest three minutes of mauling
any two preliminary lads have put up
in year. Hugging with one hand
they swung in the air with the other
glove, and the first two rounds were
wild affairs, Barnes evincing a desire
to come to close quarters. Neither man
possesses a particle Of science, but both
are roofing roughers Barnes had Dali
ton tired in the third and in infighting
pounded the lIiddO's kidneys until they
Redeemed. Barnes had punched Dali
tons face into a mass of blood at the
end Of the fifth, but Mike showed great
gameness. Barnes was hardly marked.
In the sixth Dalton almost went off his
feet with a hard right. They finished
the round with exchanges of hard
swings and both were tired from the
fast pace. Barnes clean work entitled
him to an easy decision.
Jap Loses Poor Bout
Jap Oyama and Herb White appeared
for the second six-round mixup The
boys were evenly matched, and owing
to the known gameness of the oriental
fighter the fans anticipated a hot mill
White found the Jap a tough customer,
although he backed up in the first
The first two rounds were slow, al
though White, owing to his evident su-
periOr knowledge, had a slight lead, but
neither did much hard fighting, and
their blows lacked steam. In the third
they livened up, and Herb jumped close,
uppercutting to the stomach and face
and fighting the Jap wild The Jap
kept dancing away, with White hitting
him at will, and had Herb possessed
the instincts of fighter he would have
finished him in short order.
In the fifth White kept after the Jap,
but landed few hard blows The sixth
was slightly more energetic, and the
Jap scored with swings in the mixing,
but White earned the decision, although
with a little more experience the Jap
could make a monkey out of the white
boy.
O'ConneII and Cleveland Draw
Curley OConnell and Kid Cleveland
then entered the ring for their six
round return bout. This bout was by
far the prettiest of the evening. 1t
was a repetition of the last battle of
the two, in which they slugged it out
in mixed boxing and hitting affair.
In the first both fought cautiously, but
as the bout progressed they warmed
up. Kid brought blood from Curley's
mouth in the second and third, and
outboxed the clever white boy. Cleve-
land met Curley's leads with nice
blocking and returns, and the latter
had to bore in to save his face. Though
Curley outweighed the colored boxer
several pounds, having tipped the beam
at 112, Cleveland had a lead at the end
of the third. Cleveland's cleverness
smothered several of O'ConnelPs best
punches, his right cross, but toward
the end of the fourth Curley landed a
hard left to the wind that worried the
lighter boy. Three times Curley set
himself and shot over a hard right to
the ear. A fierce slugging rally fol-
lowed Curley's neat placements into
Cleveland's heart. in which the honors
were signify IN OtCOnnelIS favor. In
the sixth the honors were fairly even
and the fight having waged back and
fourth it was an excellent draw.
Reilly Wins Joke Affair
Al Rogers and Joe Reilly were next
on the program also for six rounds
Rogers showed all his old-time clever
ness and speed. To the middle of the
second round Rogers had not landed
blow, Reilly outboxing him easily
Reilly danced out of the way of his
wild Iunges, and when the third opened
the crowd yelled to the referee to make
the men fight. AS Al was coming in
Reilly poked over a right to the chin
| that nearly toppled Rogers over. About
all the fighting Rogers did in this
period was with his left foot, which
he pounded on the canvas as he
jumped in. wasting his punches in the
atmosphere. Joe waited and caught
! his man coming, landing several hard
uppercuts to the wind. Rogers smile