Arizona republican., 1913-02-23
Harlem Tommy and Elk Champion Ad Battle But Are Each Unable to Place a Sleep Producer on Opponents Jaw
JOE RIVERS KNOCKS
 OUT "KAYO" BROWN
Los Angeles Lad Solves Lefty Work of German and Places Rights to Face All Through Ten Hot Rounds
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1 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.-"Har- | lem Tommy Murphy and one time champion Ad Wolgast fought them | selves to a standstill this afternoon !! in the Daly City open arena and the | best either could gain for his efforts
 was a draw verdict. Murphy had the | better of the first half of the twenty round session but Wolgast during most of the late fighting landed so l frequently and with such great force on Murphy's body it seemed the lat ter surely would go under. Both were considerably worse for wear. | It was remarked Wolgast- provided
 the best battle since his operation for appendicitis.
 | When the gong rang at the end of the final round both were ready to ! drop from weakness, so fast and 1 furious had been the pace. and ! Referee Griffin unhestatingly called the contest a draw which met the acclaim of the spectators.
 Wolgast was freely acknowledged i by ring experts to have fought the | best battle since his illness two years | ago, but it was also freely acknowl- | edged his old time dash and Stam- 1 ina are gone never to return. Right ! and left drives to the body after hav- | ing through the first ten rounds milling showed up his opponent con- | siderably and enabled Wolgast to 1 earn division of honors, which | seemed to please the assemblage packed in the arena.
 1 Throughout the fight there was lit- | tie if any idle time. Murphy took i the offensive at the outset and it was not long before he had batter ed WOlgast's face almost to pulp. | His rapid fire of right and left 1 facers, delivered at close range sell 1 dom went aWry. When the contest was half over the Harlemite seemed 1 to be winning. Meanwhile Wolgast | seemed content to husband his
 strength although he more infre- 1 quently landed punches mainly de- voted to the body, which carried i greater force than those of his op- 1 pOnent
 | Wolgast finally realized his only 1 hope of victory lay in this direction 1 from the tenth round on and devot-
 ed his attacks almost exclusively to | Murphy's mid section. Time and again after being Worsted in heart | breaking rallies which all but carried | the men outside the ring, he would reach the pit of the stomach with i powerfully driven right and left | smaches.
 Try as he would Murphy could not | escape these onrushes. although they 1 served only to accelerate his fighting i spirit In the nineteenth round Vol i gast, fighting viciously, landed so | frequently on the stomach Murphy welcomed the sound of the bell, while 1 Wolgast smiled at his friends about l the ringside the best he could l through his puffed face and split | lips The last round itself was
 question of the survival of the fit | test Science and all else was for | gotten The fighters battled all
 around the ring, head to head, shoul- der to shoulder, slugged away at one another as if the fight had just be-
 gun, with Referee Griffin frantically essaying to pull them apart Three minutes of this work found them on ! the verge of a collapse, with only the rope strands saving Wolgast from dropping for sheer exhaustion and ] Murphy eagerly watching for the
 final bell. Without hesitation, Grif-
 fin raised the hands of both men | aloft and the crowd stood on its feet
 and cheered itself hoarse Both pre- scented battered appearance as they were hustled to dressing rooms after
 one of the most stubborn contests between lightweights ever fought in Daly City arena.
 ! LOS ANGELES, Feb 22.-A deadly | right swing four times repeated ended 1 the scheduled twenty round bout be- l tween Knockout Brown, the New
 York lightweight and Joe Rivers, of Los Angeles with victory for the Mex
 ican before the end 6f the tenth round.
 It is the first defeat for the German | whose sobriquet was earned by the
 I manner in which he won scores of
 ! fights and it was decisive. Five times
 Rivers sent Brown to the mat with d
 vicious right swing and the concluding
 1 round three times for the count of nine. The fifth time the referee stopped
 the fight without counting. It was a
 sensational finish of a furious encoun-
 ter in which the Mexican and Teuton
 l battled viciously from the opening
 | gong. Browns awkward style of mill ling due to the fact that he fights left