The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-18
SINCLAIR LUCKY
To GET A DRAW
Peanuts Boxes Kid Davis and
Is 0ntpOinted During
Three Rounds.
REFEREE HARDY DOWNING
MAKES SPEECH AND ERROR
Declares Intention to Give
Hair Line" Decision, but
Fails to Do SIS.

Four OF the five bouts put on at the
Manhattan Athletic club in Conservatory
hall last night were disappointihs' puS
the nfth 90 between Peanuts Sinclair ana
Kid Davis made up for all deficiencies
Announcing this headliner Promoter
and Referee Hardy K Downing said lie
would give a ''hair line decision, mean :
ing that II either boy had a shade the
better OF IL that boy would be declared
The winner. In the face OF TINS oeclara .
ton Referee Downing declared tne Poe ooeN
nuts hackers knew that Davis eorheo
tho decision.
Davis was the aggressor from the start.
AL in ALL he landed perhaps three DloWs
10 Sinclair's one. Sinclair, however, was
waiting for a chance TO get In Knock .
out blow Almost every time he led IL
ne could put into IL. Doubtless the REL
cree was Influenced by the fact that Da-
Wis hardly classes with Sinclair IN rcpu-
tation. but Davis, beyond the shadow OF
a doubt should have been declared the
winner.
Capacity for Punishment.
Sinclair demonstrated again his capac-
ity to take punishment and come back
fresh at the end OF every round ne re
fought the. last two rounds Wlth oloo9
streaming from his nose, but he seemed
lust as cool and as confident as Wnen ne
entered the ring.
The crowd made the big hall reveTber-
ate with cheers throughout the bout
Both boys got an ovation when they
climbed into the ring and from that
time on cheering was Vociferous.
The bout was four rounds. stralSn'
Marquis OF Queensberry rules. which
meant that each boy should protect hin-
self at all times while on his feet
Davis started with a rush lanains
face and body blows so rapidly that Sin =
ciair's friends were amazed. They had
never seen anyone treat Sinclair, quite
so roughly at the very start sinclair
made Intellectual efforts TO retaliate win
his left but the round was all III favor
OF Davis.
In the second round Davis started with
The same tactics, but Sinclair LANDED
right that jolted Davis little They
fought all over the ring, much or the time
in clinches. III which Davis seemed 10
have the better OF the .nhghting, TO
rallied and gave his hackers reason TO
hope that he would do something after
all Just as the round closed DAVIS
landed on Sinclair's nose: s,.a,a, s,o,nod
Davis more effectively than at the start
He stepped inside of a swing and Land !,
ed a stiff right on Devis's jaw I'D
came back with a left that touched SIN
clair's sore nose and started II 10 bleed
ing In earnest. Davis swung his right
again and once more Sinclair stepped
inside and put his right to the jaw. I hese
blows were at such short range, hoy
ever. they lacked steam.
Stamina Saves Sinclair.
Davis then began slugglng, catching
Sinclair on the body and face. Everyone
expected TO see Sinclair go down, as he
was forced back into Dayis's corner but
Sinclair's wonderful stamina asserted H.
self and he landed a left on Davis
face just as the gong rang
tators when the fourth round began thai
he must put Davis out or lose the de-
cision. Davis had so much the better ct
the bout that everybody thought nothing
but knockout could save the decision
for Sinclair.
Pandemonium prevailed when the boys
shook hands for the final round. The
whole house was cheering, but above al
could be heard cries:
Put him out. Peanuts.
Davis was a little more wary at thu
beginning. but presently he went at Sin.
clair hammer and tongs. Sinclair landed
right overland swing on Davis's jaw
but II merely made Davis's face little
redder After a miXup. In which there
was a lot Of nhghting, it was seen tina.
just as game as Sinclair. They exchanged
blows without much advantage eithe
way until the final gong rang
Nobody said much when Referee Down
ing held UP the arms OF both boys. XIX
Davis grinned little. but Sinclair wa,
50 bloody Sof that ,at1S wha5eyer expression hi
Preliminaries Are Tame.
The first bout ON the programme wa
between u, Midget and Young Reddy
Midget, Notwithstanding his name, wa
larger than Reddy and knocked hin
down three times in the first round
Reddy WIS game and jumped 10 his fee
without resting He was clevercr box
er than Midget. but the latter was TO-
strong and got the decision at the en-,
Of the fourth round.
Swede Swenson was one OF the falls
alarms OF the night. He came on for
go with Dud Bailey colored but 1T tool
only couple OF blows to make Swenso,
lie down The first round was not hal
over when Bailey was declared the win
ner.
The next bout was between Cyclon
Lefty and Kid Stan or Starr, he wa