Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-10
ATHLETICS

and right hook to the jaw sent him to
the mat for the count of nine in the final
moments. Kid rallied in the last round and
tried to make a winning finish, but Turner
was too fast and aggressive for him and
easily had the advantage at the gong. Iur-
ner won the decision by a wide margin.
The second preliminary was another four
round bout between the Hoosier Kid and
Dick Bentley. Hoosier Kid is the boy who
stopped Montana Kid in two rounds. He
went after Bentley in a businesslike man
ner and stopped him before the round was
two-thirds gone He landed left hook to
the jaw that sent Bentley rolling across the
ring before the round was half a minute old,
and few seconds later he tumbled him to
the mat again with a right swing to the
chin.} At this juncture Referee Blake
stopped the bout.
Moss and Cullen Draw
Chester Moss, who knocked out Kid Ham
ilton in his previous out, and Dan Cullen
were third the program, being scheduled
for four-round session. They started off
the round with considerable sparring, but
soon settled down to getting their hay
makers into action, and both landed some
effective blows Cullen got started quicker
and scored effectively in the early moments,
but Moss came along like a stake horse at
the finish and easily held honors even for
the round.
The second round kept the fans in an
Isthusiastic state of mind and mouth, as both
did considerable effective walloping. Cullen
blood
eral lefts, but Moss always was on the JOB
and had than even break at
the gong. The third round repeti-
tion of the preceding ones, with honors
about even. Cullen excited the fans with
his peculiar attempts at a shift wallop that
he never got over. Cullen scored the only
knockdown of the fight in the fourth
round, when he hooked a left to the jaw,
but Moss up Immediately and while
unable to- more than even up the honors he
made a good finish. Cullen might have had
a slight shade, but all points considered the
scrap was a draw.
Creates Wild Enthusiasm
The fourth preliminary was another four
round affair in which Jimmy Andrews and
Frank Nelson were the principals. Andrews
| is negro but clever boxer and a hard
| hitter. Andrews had difficulty in hitting
| Nelson at will and the wonder of all was
| that he did not stop the white boy in the
round. He landed a clean right swing to
| the jaw in the last minute that put Nelson
down for the count of nine, but could not
| finish him. Nelson came back strong in the
| second round and made grand rally, end
| ing it up with a right and left to the jaw
| that put the negro down and out for two
minutes. When the knockout occurred the
crowd arose to its feet and cheered Nelson
with widest enthusiasm, no such brand Of
| joy ever having been exhibited at fight
| in Los Angeles. 1t was such a sudden
change in favor of apparently beaten
white fighter against a negro that the crowd
could not restrain its joy.
McGoVern Whips Cleveland
! The preliminary wtndup the four-round
| bout between Young McGovern and Kid Cleve-
| land. Cleveland is negro bantamweight
scrapper and has shown good form in bush
| bouts around Los Angeles. They went at 1T
| in rough house fashion from the first gong,
McGovern going the aggressive. They
| slammed each other fiarcely throughout the
round, but McGovern had a shade the better
| of the milling on his effectiveness and ag-
| gressiveness. McGovern rough housed the
negro in the second round and after several
| fierce exchanges he put Cleveland down with
| a wicked hook to the jaw and after the negro
| had taken nine and got up McGovern went
! after him again and was pounding him all
over the ring until after the gong rang, the
| seconds being required to separate them. The
negro went on the defensive in the third round
and did little else than try to protect him
/ self from the vicious assaults of McGovern,
| and there was little doing during the round.
! Cleveland bed freely from the mouth from
| the effect of McGovern's wallops. McGovern
! forced the fighting through the final round,
although Cleveland showed to improved ad-
vantage in this session and at the gong there
was nothing to it but McGovern, and he was
entitled to the decision by wide margin.
| The semi-windup really regarded with
! as much interest the fans gave to the
| main event. being the Introductory appearance
/ of Jack Burns, the young giant heavyweight,
1 in Los Angeles. He scheduled to go ten
rounds with Jim Cameron, the elongated negro
! heavyweight, who had been making such good
showings in recent months that he was re-
garded as being dangerous opponent for any
| heavyweight owing to his height, weight and
| remarkable reach. The bout was billed as
sem-windup but it made up, in fact the
| opening session of a double header card.
Cameron used up the round in sticking his
left into the face of Burns and using good
| footworI in avoiding Burns rushes. The
round was without damage to either, and
| honors were even at the gong
The second round almost ended the fight
| in favor of Burns, as he made such vigor-
| Gus and aggressive fight that the negro began
1 to back up early, and when he received a right
| swing to the jaw he went to the mat and took
/ the count of nine. When he arose he ran
| away and Burns could not get to him to
| finish him.
| Cameron rallied in the third. but was scared
| to death, and made only half an effort to
| fight back, although using a lot Of footwork
| in running away from Burns When he got
| into clinches he held on so tightly that
| Referee Blake hardly could separate them
Burns smashed him several stiff ones to hea 1
and wind. but could not get in close enough
| to put him out
Burns knocked Cameron down three times
| in the fourth and the negro took the full
| count each time, arising only to prevent be-
! ing counted out. He ran away so much that
Burns never could get close enough to finish
! him.
Cameron never offered to fight in the fifth
| round, being content to wait until Burns led
and then dodge into a clinch, in which he
/ hugged Burns tightly that Blake had dir
| fculty in breaking him away. Burns caught
him with a left hook to the chin few sec
onds before the gong rang and Cameron was
taking the count when the bell rang
The end came in the sixth round when
Burns swung left to the chin that. while
not hard enough to put Cameron awav.
scared him so badly that he stepped back.
turned around and went to the mat and
stayed there for the full count of ten. He was
not knocked out. but quit
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