Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-03
Please Big Crowd Tuesday
Night at City Hall,
Kid Shea Outpoints and Out
Fights Tommy Furey.
Geary Knocks Out MIIIlken.- -Goode
Wins from Gilbert.

: Three fast and cleverly contested
boxing bouts drew a big crowd to
City hall Tuesday evening and Pro-
moter Elden Hanks, who has in the
past nut on some swell bouts, can feel
TINS morning as if he has at last pleas
ed all hands. That's going some.
Tommy Furey of Attleboro. Mass.
and Kid Shea. the local favorite, had
Ihe1r second bout within a month and
half and Furey. who had slightly the
better of the last bout, came back
looking for easy picking. To say that
he was surprised would be putting it
MILDLY. Shea outboXed and outger1er-
aisd him in every one of the rounds.
That Shea holds q becoming respect
for the dope Wallop packed in either
nit of Furey's was evidenced by his
cautAousness, but his caution did not
slow him up in the least. Time and
again Furey swung his heavy blows
and if one of them had landed on a vi
tai part of Shea's anatomy he would
have taken his place in the discard
Furey'S swings were wild and ILL
timed. showing poor judge of distance
He meant well, however, and his at
tempts to get in a knockout punch
were spectacular if not very effective
The first bout would have been
awarded to Shea If a decision was al
lowed, but his advantage was very
slight, as F'urey's aggressiveness off
set in a large measure the hit and get
away tactics of Shea. The second bout
between the same boys. however. was
Shea's by big margin. He opened
E'llraU'c loft n ho h;r1
once sent him to the floor. This was
the only knockdown in the bout Furey
slipped to the floor several times. but
it was the force of his wild swings that
put him there.
A rally by Furey brought the crowd
to it's feet in the fifth round of this
bout, but Shea remained COOL covered
up, and, although Furey landed one
terrific wallop. the Kid weathered the
storm and came back with series of
left and right swings that evened mat
ters UP. In the sixth round both boys
went in to win and they slambanged
each other in way that kept the
crowd bowling. The gong stopped the
bout and all hands started for home
satisfied in their own minds. Many
thought F'urey entitl ed to a draw. but
the superior cleverness of Shea should
certainly be considered
Each of the prelinlinaries was a star
bout in itself and each of the four box
ers. who performed did good work The
knockout of Young Millillen of Gardi-
ner by Joe Geary Of Boston in the
fourth round was clean and easy
Geary Outweighed the Gardiner boy
and also showed his superior knowl-
edge of the game in his manner and
way of boxing. Milliken. however,
showed himself to be as game a boy
as ever donned the gloves and when
he stepped from the ring after being
knocked out he was roundly cheered.
He fought strong and cleverly until
he forgot to remove his jaw out of the
way of an approaching right swing.
That's all
Bobby Goode and George Gilbert fur
nished the first bout and Goode had
something of an advantage. The bout
was Il four-round affair and while no
great amount of cleverness was dis
played by either boxer it furnished
lot of amusement to all Goode has
net been seen in the ring for nearly
two years, but now he intends to take
up the game again and get on some
bouts with other Maine boys. He easily
outpointed his larger opponent Tues
day evening and showed good form.
From beginning to end the exhibition
was clean. clever show and all
hands got their moneys worth.