The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-27
COULON WINS 1T.
Won Decision Over frankie
COnley at New Orleans.
The Pair Went the Limit of
Twenty Rounds.
ONLY TWO TO CONLEY.
KenOsha Lad Outclassed and
Severely Punished
But Fought Gamely and Hung
On to Finish.

New Orleans, Feb. 27-Johnny Coul-
on's title to the bantamweight cham
! pionship of the world was firmly es-
, tabl1shed Sunday when he won a clear
decision over frankie Conley, claim
ant, at the end of a 20-round bout al
the West Side Athletic club. Conley
was outclassed and only in two rounds
did he have shade the better of the
contest.
The men weighed in at 116 pounds,
three and half hours before the fight.
Six thousand people witnessed the con-
test Tommy Walsh of New orleans
was the referee.
The men were in frequent clinches.
here Coulon was superior and his
short body blows told on the Kenosha
lad.
In the fifteenth round Conley sprain-
ed his left wrist and after that the
Chicago boy had little trouble in land
ing telling blows.
The first opened with Conley the ag-
| gressor, but the two first rounds were
even with no damage done.
In the third Coulon shot a right
swing to the chin and in quick success
sion a jab to the face and right punch
to the stomac CHI, giving him a shade the
better of the round.
/ Honors were even in the fourth.
In the fifth Conley put three rights
to the ribs in quick succession and
took right to the face in return. Con-
| ley's round.
In the sixth CouIon was staggered by
left to the stomach. but came back
with a series of short, hard body blows
and the round was even.
In the seventh Coulon had a shade
the better in the final seconds, but he
took some punishment early in the
round.
The eighth was fast. -ConIey opened
with right to the jay. Coulon shot a
hard left hook to the stomach. follow
ed by hard left swing to the same.
place. Coulon staggered Conley with
hard right to the jaw. He followed
this quickly with a series of short lefts
and rights to the face and body and
had Conley against the ropes when the
bell sounded. Coulon pelted Conley's
face almost at will in the ninth.
In the tenth Conley's right to the
lace and glancing body blows were
repaid by two uppercuts to the chin
and a hard stomach punch.
The eleventh round was even.
In the twelfth Cou1on shot in sew
era1 short jabs to the stomach. In
| breakaway Conleys put a right to the
face. Coulon finished the round with
a rain of short body punches.
/ Coulon did some brilliant work in the
thirteenth, After taking several short
body blows Coulon rushed his opponent
and put rights and lefts to the face
with lightning rapidity. Cenley sent q
Hight right to the face and took a left
and right to the Jaw in return. Coulon
then sent right to the wind, lodged a
right swing and clinched.
| The fourteenth was tame =,
| The fifteenth was Con1ey's, but the
round closed with both men fighting
| fiercely.
| In the sixteenth Conley landed a
right to the kidneys. Coulon shot in
four rights and left punch to the
face and in a clincll sent tell right to
! the stomach. Cou1on's round
/ Coulon played with Conley in the
opening of the seventeenth and then
/ put four hard rights to the face. Con-
1 ley got in two light body blows and
| Coulon finished the round with re-
peated right and left swings to the
/ face and body.
| In the eighteenth Conley placed sew
| eraI good rights but Cou1on came back
/ with short lefts and rights to the head
/ and body.
! A hard right to the stomach in the
| nineteenth brought a frown to Conley's
! around the ring He put a hard left to
i the body, received q right and left to
i the wind and then quickly shot two
1 left stabs to the ribs. He missed two
/ right swings, but divided honors in the
I short jab interchanges before the bell.
4 The final round opened with a stiff
right to Coulon's face. Coulon came
back with several short body blows.
| Conley sent a short one to the face and
/ took a hard jab to the jaw in return.
/ On a breakaway Conley placed light
| left to the face. Coulon sent in a half
dozen blows to the face and body and
ducked three swings. Another clinch
and then Coulon shot over two more
| blows to the jaw. Conley sent a right
to the stomach and two light right
| jabs to the face. CouIon put three
more hard rights to the face and just
| as the bell sounded placed another on
Couley's law