New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-25
BOXING FANS JAM RINK
Are Disappointed When Kline
Fails to Appear.
TY COBB BREAKS ANKLE
Leach Gross Gets the Better
Of Tommy 0'Keefe in a
Whirlwind Bout.

Boxing fans" who crowded the 81.
Nicholas Rink last night met double
disappointment. Patsy Kline, OF Newark
was to have met Johnny Dundee In tho
second bout OF ten rounds. but at the
eleventh hour the first named found II
impossible to appear. whereupon the man.
agenent substituted Young Ty Cobb,
Of Philadelphia.
The boys had only been boxing about
a minute In the first round when Cobb
suddenly fell 10 the floor apparently In
great pain. He could not rise and upon
being carried TO his corner physician
was called. An examination showed that
the fighter had dislocated his left ankle.
Up TO the time Of the accident he had
been holding his own.
4 cOmmotion followed the announce
rnent that Dundee had expressed will
ingness TO fight any one else. but the
management was unable TO find an op-
ponent thousand offers were then
hurled from the gallery, but no ono APP
peared
The crowd took the old rink BY storm.
Before the first OF the prelminaries was
put on, a line extended from the en-
trance up 10 Columbus avenue, and I'M
ally the space above the entrance became
50 damned az TO make II next to impossi-
bic 10 move Probably four thousand per-
sons were inside the rink by 10 o'clock.
IN the final bout OF the night between
Leach Cross. tho East Side dentist and
III 1aa
crowd saw a whirlwind affair. With
vicious rights and lofts Cross soon had
the Philadelphia lad bleeding al the
mouth. O'Keefe had trick Of Warding
off his opponcnt's left leads in manner
that puzzled the local fighter for time,
but as the contest progressed Cross
gradually got to his man.
For n moment II looked as II tho sixth
round might be O'Kecte's last as Cross
landed heavily with stiff rights and let's
The Philadelphia lad weathered the storm
however, and IN the next round Fought
back desperately. From thence 10 the end
the boys went at each other fiercelv' ana
IN the last three minutes Cross gave the
other a severe lacing. IL was Cross
bout by fair margin.
Action, fierce and furious. marked every
minute OF the bout between Phil Cross
and Battling Hurley, OF Passaic. the
last named covered up more than usual
and this caused the Cross admirers 20
howl their approval. Hurley. however
shot out rights and lefts. that had the
FJa at Side lightweight worried.
in the fourth round Hurley cut his OPP
ponent's right eye. and from that time
10 the end It gave him trouble. Both
were fighting hard at tho end II was
good draw.
The curtain raiser brought together
Micky Dunn, introduced as the paper
weight champion OF Great Britain, md
Jim Easton. OF New York. These boys
only went six rounds. but that was quite
long enough for Easton, who received
bad beating.
After a conference with James Cofroth
in San Francisco yesterday. Abe Attell
reconsldered his previously announced
determination 10 cancel his twenty-round
bout with Harlem Tommy Murphy on
August 8.
Johnny Dohan. the rugged and hard
hitting Brooklyn lightweight, will face
kid" Graves. Of Wisconsin, In the main
bout of an all-star card at the Royale
Athletic Club in Brooklyn next Monday
night. Dohan Is now training at Sleeps
head Bay, where no has gained host CT
friends. According to his new manager
who makes him attend strictly to bust
ness Dohan is In perfect condition.