Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-29
CROSS DROPPED
IN al ST ROUND
"FIGHTlNG DICK" HYLAND WINs
BATTLE ON PACIFIC COAST
AFTER FIERCE 60.
PUGILIsT DENTIST GAME


lshment Characterized as Super
human. Was Sensations
al Mill.
San Francisco, June 28.-"EightinA
Dick" HyIand knocked out Leach
Cross Of New York in the forty-hrsi
round of scheduled forty-five round
battle Saturday afternoon. The flgh,
was one Of the most sensational Of
modern ring history and was charac
terized by the gameness and recuper
alive powers Of the New York pugilist
dentist. He was floored fully f1fteel
minutes during the contest and aftel
the twenty-f1fth round was practically
on defense only,
This was Cross initial battle on
California soil and the first time hs
had fought over ten rounds. Round
after round the gong saved Cross aft
er he had been terribly punished. He
displayed a gameness that was LITERAL
| ly superhuman.
Fighting Begins in Twelfth.
The first ten rounds saw little seri
GUS work. The twelfth was the first
round in which genuine fighting 90
Cured. In this round after savage
| assault in which Hyland took consid
| cradle punishment, Cross went to the
| floor for three seconds under
straight right. Hyland's face was bad
| ly damaged but he was landing damag
| ing punches at every opportunity.
The end Of the fifteenth round saw
| Cross worried and Hyland decidedly
| in the lead. The next five rounds
were fast enough, but both men were
little damaged and were strong.
In the twenty-first round left up.
percut in the jaw sent Cross to the
floor but only for an instant. Round
after round, Cross kept backing away,
trying to force Hyland to cover, but
Hyland never gave an opening.
Cross Floored.
In the twenty-third, Hyland swung
two Furnishing lefts to the Jaw. In
the next round Cross, still going
away, dazed the Californian with a
weighty chop in the jaw Round
twenty-five was rapid exchange Of
! vicious blows with Cross somewhat
distressed at the end.
| In the twenty-sixth, Cross was floor
ed by left to the Jaw and took the
count of nine. He was punished UNI.
mercifully before the gong saved him.
/ Coming up weakened in the next
round, he rallied after succession of
hard lefts and fierce encounter oc.
Cured, from which Hyland emerged
with blood streaming from his mouth,
| Hyland tried for knockout in the
twenty-eighth. Both men were tired
and a well-directed punch from either
would have done the trick. Both
4 fought savagely in the twenty-ninth, at
the end of which Hyland put hard
right to the kidneys, staggering Cross.
Both men slowed down in the next
round, with Cross continuously break.
ing ground. Hyiand forced the fight.
+ ing in the thirty-frst. Cross sagged
against the ropes, splitting blood. He
took the count of nine again in the
thirty-second, and the gong saved him.
Cross revived slightly before the
thirty-third round, but Hyland again
hammered him repeatedly on the head
and face.
HyIand chases Opponent.
| In the next round, Hyland continued
to chase Cross around the ring, try
. ing for knockout Cross rallied and
| fought gamely. In the thirty-sixth
: round Cross took the count of nine
5 The thirty-seventh opened with both
| men fighting viciously and Cross eX
hibition Of gameness excited cheers
Entirely on the defensive, he was
made the target for terrific punish
/ ment at Hyland's hands. In the thirty
eighth Hyland tried again and again to
| knock him out, and in the next round
knocked Cross through the ropes. HI
was pushed back into the ring ani
gamely met the punishment tina
awaited him.
In the fortieth, Hyland pushed hi!
: clinging opponent away, and eros.
i surprised the spectators by swinging
+ two hard lefts to the jaw.
!: In the forty-frst, Cross came vi
a. fighting. He was sent to the ropel
i. with a hard right to the jaw. H,
d dropped to the floor and remained TO
e the count of nine. He staggered to tn,
l. center of the ring and Hyland finding
? his jaw apparently an invulnerabl
7, point, suddenly changed his tactic
e and sent a terrible right into Gross
a stomach. He dropped to the mat al
o most lifeless and was counted out.
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