South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-30
Smith Explains How Hoosiers Won First PennantTae 18th Victory
"Knockouts"
BY Ed. W. smith.

one Of the strangest knockouts
ever seen in this section of the coun-
try was pulled off one night down on
the SAND dunes Of Indiana, just over
the Illinois line 1t was during the
time that Dominick O'Malley of New
Orleans had his Columbia Athletic
club in operation just outside of the
old ROdy race track during the
worlds fair in 1898.
There were several strange hap
penings at Robey. one of which, the
knockout of Johnny Griffin by Solly
Smith 1 already have described. But
an equally interesting knockout,
though the persons concerned were
By no means as prominent, came in
the meetings between Joe Goddard,
the barrier champion and one OF the
greatest fighting men ever turned out
of Australia, and Willis Kennedy, a
husky negro O'Malley imported from
New Orleans with a big reputation.
The battle went only two rounds.
The first was devoted TO some fancy
footwork by kennedy. who seemed
deadly afraid OF the vicious looking
barrier man. Goddard got busy in
the second. He moved in. cornered
the black man and shot over the
right TO the naXilliary region.
Kennedy sagged in the middle and
sat down on the lower rope of the
ring. The upper rope was under one
armpit and he hung there, exactly
balanced. his feet off the canvas. He
swayed like a schoolboy lettering
while Referee Silver counted him out
He seemed paralyzed all over the
punch and when they tried TO extri-
cate him from the ropes he fell as
Imply as a wet rag.
Ii was in this same ring that Peter
Maher then trying his best to re-
deem himself for his crushing defeat
at the hands Of Bob FitzsimmOns, put
Val Flood under the steam roller. Val
came from Australia and was thought
TO be quite an addition in an artistic
way TO the American fighting colony.
He gave a good imitation for three
rounds but Peter got him in the
fourth. over went that ole Betsy
Ann of the Galway man, crashing on
TO Floods jaw.
Flood spun around like a top be-
fore hitting the ropes Still whirling
like a derVish, he bounced across a
corner Of the ring diagonally and hit
the strands on the other side. He was
out standing up but he didn't stand
long. The second impact with the
ropes robbed his body Of its momen-
tum and the collapse came. He
fumbled blindly for the ropes missed
them and fell on his head and the
subsequent proceedings interested
him not in the least.
Did you ever hear Of a man being
talked into a knockout?
Wei. it happened one night in
fight in Davenport, Ia, between Kid
Farmer the original, and Joe CALI
gan, an Italian newsbOy. of this city,
who was one of the hardest hitters
the ring ever knew.
o. F.T
low. much inclined TO be upset men
tally at least by an untOward hap
pening about his corner before or
during 81 scrap. Kid Herman. anoth-
er lightweight who was in Farmers
corner, knew of this trait and started
To work on it.
Go over and look at his ban
Farmer just before Galligan was
ready to slip his hands into the
gloves.
over sauntered the Kid and picked
up his opponents right hand. Her
man followed close by.
Gee, you've got heavy bandages
on began Farmer. That was the
opening for Herman.
Let him have them" he said to
Farmer. he needs brass knuckles to
lick YOU" and he smiled pleasantly
into Galligan's angry face.
The scheme worked Up sprang
Galligan from his chair and aimed a
heavy punch at Herman. lmmedi-
ately all of the seconds closed in and
split them out. 1t was Galligan's I'M
doing. Trem bling with rage he
started the battle with blurs before
his eyes. Farmer. cool and careful.
measured his man and knocked him
out in the first round.
There are lots OF little tricks about
the fighting game and "A smart chap
can usually find a way 10 Outfigure
the duller opposition.
Take the case Of the Sullivan twins
fighting men from Cambridge, Mass.
Jack was the larger of the two. being
around 15S pounds. Mike was small
er and usually could do las. In a
certain spot one time Jack found
himself in a pickle. He had a for
felt up to make a certain weight and
after a long railroad journey with
Brother Mike. discovered il would be
impossible for him to get inside of the
limit There looked TO be no chance
10 give the other side an argument
and get away with IT,
So desperate measures had to be
taken. When II came time TO weigh
Mike appeared, got on the scales in
his undertaking, didn't move the
beam stepped off replaced his street
clothes and walked out of the place.
And there wasn't word said,
either for nobody knew the differ
ence. The trick wasn't discovered
until long after the fight took place,
too.