Gilpin observer., 1911-02-16
OWL CLUB SMOKER.

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hall Tuesday evening, under the aus.
pices of the Owl club, drew a good
ly number Of sports from the several
towns Of the county. The program of
events was good and varied one and
the fight fans were given their mon
ey's worth.
The first preliminary was a three
round bout between Harry Shelledy
and John Smock of Central. 1t was
e. lively go from start to finish with
honors about even at the conclusion
OF the third round. Smock, however,
had slight lead in point of science.
A catch as catch can wrestling
match between Will Flynn, of Cen
tral and John Waldhart, of Black
| Hawk, called for skillful exhibition
| OF strength. Flynn got the first fall
on Waldhart, but the other two went
| to the Black Hawk boy. The second
throw was about as clean as is ever
seen in contest of this kind. Wald-
hart picked his opponent right off
| his feet and laid him on his back.
A three round bout between Tony
Ferganchich, Of Nevada, and Red Nc
Manus. of Denver, was the swiftest
preliminary of the evening. The men
weighed around 100 pounds. For a
time it was thought that the Denver
man was too much for Ferganchich,
but after the first round it was ap-
parent that the Nevada man had his
antagonist bested on mitigating and
when the men would clinch, Red re-
ceived some wicked blows in the
stomach and kidneys that wore him
down. Had the bout gone more than
the three rounds, Ferganchich un-
oou5tedly would have scored knock
out
The main event of the evening was
| 10-round go between Ike Bolsinger,
Of Nevada, and Fred Warne, of this
city. The fight fans looked forward
to this go with fevered anxiety, hop
ing to see something out of the or
dinary. And perhaps they did, but it
didn't come about in the manner they
anticipated. Bolsinger weighed 20
pounds more than Curly" and with
this handicap the majority thought
that Bolsinger would have a walk
| away. But it was just the reverse.
The boys went at it hammer and
tongs the first few seconds and after
that there was no fight left in the
Nevada boy. vicious blow to the
stomach trimmed him of the handi-
cap weight and once Curly had
him down to his size there was
bacon" He rained blows on Ike with
such rapidity they sounded like hail
en- tin roof. Bolsinger made no at
tempt to block the rain Of blows the
Central boy was landing on the head,
jaws and face. Not once did he make
q move to cover up" He took the
fearful punishment until relief came
through a knock-down.. He staggered
to his feet only to receive the knock
ont wallop, which came in the form
of an awful swing on the jaw. While
the referee was counting off the sec
onds in funeral time, hackers of Boil
singer urged him to get up. He made
a feeble attempt to arise and rolled
over on his side-gone. 1t took some
little time for him to come to. Just
one minute, according to the watch
Of the time-keeper, was required for
Curly" to take Ike's measure.
| Money was offered on the Nevada
boy of any amount from $500 to
10000. but there were no takers for
this on account of the wide differ
ence in weight in his favor. Had the
money been covered 1t would have
been a shame to take the winnings.
d. E. Sherer, of Russell. refereed
the main bout, and L. ]. Rachofsky
of Central, the preliminaries.
B. B. Vivian, local representative