Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-10
His Headwork Too Much
For Young Nixon.
Boston Armory FaVoriie Barely
Saves Himself from Knockout.
Fine Bouts Put on By Manager
Hanks at City Hall.

George Alger OF Cambridge had
somewhat the better Of Billy Nixon,
the Boston Armory A. A favorite in
the main bout Of the boxing exhibition
ct City hall Wednesday evening. Alger
had Nixon going IN the final round of
the exhibition ana if the Boston lad
had not aVail"d himself of every OPP
portunity to hang onto his opponent il
is doubtful if he you'd have been able
10 finish. Alger and Nixon are both
clever lads and their good work mora
than made up for any deficiencies
there may nave Seen in The rest OF he
program.
Al least 800 people We're in the hall
when Referee Sears called the first
event ~ @.3O. This was To have been a
three round bout bet Wrcn Young Ira
tanau Of Augusta and Young Deiaire
Of Montreal but il lasted bllt q minute
and a half. Both performers started
n smuggling at the sound of the gong
Delaire went down twice bul came up
before the count was finished and
struck out at his opponent but With
out effect and before the round was
hardly over a third swinging blow
from tho Augusta lad took Dclairt. on
The jaw and this time he went down
and out for keeps.
Kid Stringer Of Augusta and Shad-
OW Mccormick of Lewiston appeared
IN siX-round bout, which was by no
means the best that they could do.
StrinGnr was the aggressor throughout
the bout and had a decision been Civ
en- it would certainly have been in his
favor. Mccormick did some clever
blocking in the third and fifth rounds
but the greater part of the bout was
decidedly tame.
The much heralded battle Of the
heavvweights failed to be the strong
number that The participants mad led
Manager Hanks to believe that it
would be. Like the first event 1T last
ed quick " The stage names of the
performers We're Giant McClusky of
Bangor ard Young Curran of Chelsea.
1t is doubtful if two more awkward
men in the ring or two more lily
matched could have been got into the
ring anywhere. The two men flung
their arms wildly about after they
came together and the big Bangor chap
tlOOred the Chelsea man before the first
round was fairly under way. When
Curran came up again McClusky's
right landed sqaarely on his jaw and
sent him to Sunderland, and that is
all there was to the heavyweight bout
The main bout, or rather the two
main bouts, was what gave class to
Manager Hanks exhibition and caused
all who attended to go away satisfied
The two men in the first bout appeared
to be very evenly matched, with Alger
having a grain the better in the last
bout. Nixon led the fighting through
ont the first bOIt bat his blOWS-did not
secm to haV" any great effect when
they landed and Alger was all the
while ready to close in when he saw
an opportunity to get in punch that
would tell with either left or right The
bout started in mildly and was not at
any stage Of it Of the WhrlWind va
ricty. but there was some clever boxing
all through it. one Of the most telling
blows that ,Alger landed in this bout
was iuSt as the gong sounded in the
third round whom he found an opening
and landed Il pretty left handler on
NiXon's Jaw
The a'l''i"i.a" was nightly pleased
after tho tizzle of tie hoavyweights to
earn that after being examined by a
physician and found To be III proper
rhVsical condition Nixon and Alger
mad ieriG"d to go another siX-round
bout, This second bout proved even
more interesting than the first one, for
II was here thu. Alger showed his su-
perior genora!,hlp and demonstrated