East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-08-27
FARRELL WINS OUT
IN LAST ROUND IN
BOUT WITH NOSLER
NOT UNTIL FIFTEENTH Is LOCAL
BOY ABLE TO MAKE EF-
FECTIVE BLOW.

/ hO4 ABLE ~ M.AhE E4E-
FECTIVE BLOW,
Billy Farrell boxed fifteen rounds
with jumping-jack last night and it
was not until the fifteenth and final
round that he was able to make en-
ough connection with it to win vic
tory.
OF all the battles the little Irish
man has won, that one last night with
AL Mosler, the Jewish lightweight of
Seattle, will stand as his most diff
cult Never in any danger himself,
Farrell, whose boast has always been
that he has never met a man that he
could not hit, saw round after round
pass by with all of his deadly kicks
falling on empty air and the face of
the monkey-man he had for an oppo-
nent always grinning at him just out
Of reach. 1t was the most unique
fistic encounter Pendleton fans have
ever seen.
Mosler is a man with springs and
elastic bands for muscles and sinews.
Outside of that and some comedy
stuff that entertained the fans, he
didn't have anything. but almost he
didn't need anythin else TO get a draw
with Farrell Such punch as he had
was harmless to a man of Farrells
calibre, even if he could have landed
which he seldom did. He seemed to
know that the Irish boy had hard
kick in his two hands and to set for
himself the task of showing the fans
how futile is a punch when pitted
against catlike speed. He tried to
make Farrell look foolish and for a
time he succeeded, but he learned the
same lesson that the hare learned
from the tortoise, Maybe he placed
too much reliance in his own speed,
maybe he grew too eontemptuous of
the others swing and iabs, and then
again maybe his springs and elastic
bands got little tired and slowed up
bit AT any rate right when the
bout was near finish, he failed to
duck a swing or two, and that swing
or two was all that was necessary to
change the tide of the battle. He
wasn't knocked out but he came so
near it in the last round that there
isn't much about the sensation he
hasn't learned
MosIer's tactics might have won
against a less cool fighter than Far
reT. His sparring didn't amount to
so much, but for ducking, lodging, !
leaping, turning, spinning and trick
these parts. In the beginning of the
fight Farrell missed swing after
swing and jab after jab, the Jew boy
eIuding them with an ease that made
the local scrapper look like an anna
tour Had he been an amateur his
goat would have been got" His
own chagrin at his inability to con-
meet his best blows together with tke
taunts and jibes of this opponent
would have combined to make him
lose his head and wear himself out
beating the air
Not so with the Billie boy, how
ever. When he saw how things were
stacking up and that he was wasting
his haymaqers, he steadied himself to
wait for te opportunity which he felt
sure would be coming along, It be-
gan coming in the 18th. Whether fa-
miliarity with close shaves breeded
contempt of them or whether he
needed his seconds Illogical advice to
mix it, Mosler got his head in the
way of a wicked jab in this round
and he was groggy for a moment. Be
fore the round ended, however he
was bouncing around the ring again
and many thought he had only been
stalling.
In the fifteenth, his African dodger
proclivities were on the wane and in
a whirlwind mixup, he received a
blow that sent him to one knee for
moment He was on his feet in
stantly and. in shifting rapidly duck
ed into one Of Farrell's famous up
percuts. He was knocked clean off
his feet and hit the floor with
thud. When he arose he was dazed.
Farrell rushed at him with all his
remaining steam and endeavored TO
put him out Mosler held on and
covered up until his head cleared and
the end of the fight saw him still
/ dancing around and still smiling
through the blood that trickled from
! his nose Referee Hyberg held up
Farrens hand when the gong rang
and Mosler. like the game fighter he
is, took his defeat gracefully and ac-
cepted the outstretched hand Of his
victorious opponent.
Throughout the fight, Mosler pull
ed off a good deal Of comedy stuff,
both in words and action, and even
Farrell was forced to smile at times.
Mosler made many friends by his ax'
hibition last evening.
The main bout was preceded by a
four round draw between Young
Sweeney and Young Guyll and by a
four round flyweight bout between
Kid Dozier and Young Sloan. Dozier
was given the decision, having much
more science than his opponent Joe
Farrell refereed these two bouts
A fair sized house greeted the box.
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