Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-25
RIVERS TRIMS SULLIVAN

RIVERS TRIMS SULLIVAN
Sullivan came early to avoid the
rush, and sat around in the center of
the ring before Rivers crawled through
the ropes The boys had made 122
pounds at ten in the morning, and
looked strong enough to go fast pace.
Almost with the first exchange Sui
liyan crawled into a crab-like posture,
but Rivers opened him UP with some
nice uppercuts. frankie missed a hard
right and Rivers countered with vol
lev to the head and a hard one to the
stomach. In neutral corner Rivers
showed Sully up in a nice exchange.
Sullivan went to his corner bleeding at
the mouth.
frankie came out with a rush for
the second, and had Rivers bleeding
profusely from the first punch on the
beak. Rivers retaliated by TusnlIS
Sullivan to the ropes. A hard nght
coming out of a clinch shook Frankle's
knees. Both boys were bleeding free
ly. but it was the little MeXican's
round by a gene1 Gus shade. Rivers
opened the third with clean left TO
the head, and some fierce milling fol-
lowed, with both boys doing good work.
In his own corner Rivers peppered his
Snent with a series to the head.
s wan missed with right and nearly
fe Through the ropes. 1t was a fast
round, with Rivers taking the honors.
Rivers let Sullivan try half dozen
ineffectual punches before he started
to work in the fourth. A rush carried
Frankie to the ropes, where he was
the recipient of a generous bouquet of
rights and lefts. IL was another pc
riod for the Mexican youth Rivers
let Sullivan do all the work in the
fifth, being content to pepper his man
and keep from being hit himself.
Half way through the sixth Sulli-
i Al. Ii
beating Rivers had been handing him
all the way making him deplorably
weak. 1T was an awful period for
Frankie In the seventh Sullivan
wrestled Rivers to the floor, and the
little Mex came up with blood in his
eye The best fighting of the day fol-
lowed, Sully apparently taking on new
life and bringing the crowd to its feet
with his rally.
The eighth found frankie pressing
the pace, but Rivers refused to get in
barn's way and peppered his opponent
to maintain his lead. The clever Mex
lean kid missed several Well meant
wallops, and showed signs of being
tired through his own efforts. Sulli-
van was knocked almost off his feet
with a clean right to the point, and
with Rivers pressing his advantage
the referee, acting on advice from the
ringside, mercifully stopped the
slaughter. 1t was a move that might
have been made several rounds earlier
to please the better element in the
audience.
DOUGHERTY BEsTS OCONNELL
The two opening performers, Hobo
Dougherty and Jeff O'Connell, came
along to play their parts shortly after
2 o'clock. In the first and second
rounds Dougherty used a straight left
with good effect, and soon had the
Britisher bleeding and rather rambling.
The third had a similar appearance,
but in the fourth OConnen made a
trally and in the early part of the Pc
s-iod held his own, only to slow up
again toward the end. Dougherty used
4 nice right swing to the head in the
fifth, and O'Connell apparently did not
IKE the going Both boys showed eff
fects Of the pace in the sixth.
Some busy fighting, featured all the
way by Doughertys aggressiVeness,
cropped out in the seventh. OConnell
was wobbling on the ropes on several
occasions from Hobo's we'll directed
swings, and went TO his corner show
ting signs of wear The following ses-
sion was very hard on OConnell. Hobo
III the way in the ninth Dougherty,
Sho all the way had the fans yelling
lr him, queered his good work by
.cking out his hands at the opening
the tenth and Jast round, and then
-nefnging one over when O'Connell was
elePecting to touch gloves. However,
this did not prevent him from keeping
O'Connell on the run and he was given
we'll earned decision.
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