New Britain herald., 1915-09-13
"A FAME ONE
 } EYEWITNESS
bloW and Packey Lacked Good Draw

Fork, Sept. 12.-This being
 after the night before, old
 Morse has put in his early
 Hit to the multitudes who
 Ight sat in the Motordrome
 Beach and watched
 cFarland and Mike Gibbons
 a $32,500 exhibition.
 # was boxing contest,
 nih, bout, or pure gymnas-
 9ne yet has decided. Sporting
 rora all over the country are
 ound the Hobbies of hotels
 Assing the affair with men
 seen them all from John l..
 lime, and before; but no
 s exactly defined Saturday
 ffornance by Packey and
 1le only conclusion reached
 InAt as a prize-fight there
 ouderful crowd present.
 tlae morning papers rem, 4 4ec1sipns, nearly # all different.
 Harded the bout to Packey,
 l31bpons. A few called it a
 \ N4the consensus. of opinion
 Those who term it a draw HE All the old timers, includ- { Qhs who refereed the con-
 III Favor of branding it D 8
 oe Jackson, one of the
 S7Qrting editors in the coun- I5 has seen every fight worth
 the past twenty-five years, naorning he believed the con- $ fairly even, so even that no td the advantage.
 "A Pretty Exhibition" |ithstandirig all the disgruntled kent the fight between McFar- ld Gibbons, it was a pretty ex- Naturally, with a battery of pictures trained on the fight st as at the Jeffries-Johnson in Reno in 1910, the crowd sd tho contestants were posing
 movies rather than fighting i'd fight. For seven rounds they and dance. around the ring,
 clinch, now in a feinting
 Wfthal it was pretty work, to look upon. And this added fact that the. two greatest and st boxers that ever put on the were facing each oher made 1t while. Mike Gibbons was per- 7 slow. He admitted this today lmed it on the fact that he had trough torture in taking off too weight. Packy was almost the of old, yet he lacked the and the only blows he rained ke's neck and shoulders were aps with the open glove. For eason the first, seven rounds by without any remarkable g, almost without action. Tn .e Secretary of the Boxing Com i. at the ringside, called to the and demanded action. After he fight really began. It was hat Packey shot his right into eye and opened up a goodly the crimson fluid somewhat ng the St. Paul Ghost. In re- ,n Mike sent a short hook to 9's left eye and there was more though not enough to cause Fighters Say Each Won. i fighters are of this opinion: y McFarland:-"Although Gib- s the best man I ever faced, I le better of every round" Mike ns, Packey was at his best, but "a shade the better of him in |round." Gibbons left for his last night in St. Paul. McFar- Till remain in the Big Town sev- avs as the guest of friends.
 A Mammoth Crowd.
 " exaggerated figures have ,iven out on the attendance at gft's bout. The guesses had from twenty to forty nd persons. The exact turn igures made public at the Athletic club show as follows: attendance. 26,092. Paid ad- ns, 24,S45. Total gate receipts 3. There were 4,437 purchas- $5 seats; 5,45O who paid $3; who purchased the $2 tickets, 1882, who got in at one dollar
 Disorderly Scenes.
 nine o'clock Saturday night the preliminary bouts went on olders of the one dollar seats, intent with their point of van lbout a half mile away from made a grand rush for places. 1t was a stampede ! herd of cattle on the western < the oncoming mob swept hing before it, knocked down lalI fences separating the and broke chairs and hats in wild onrushing. It is a wonder people were not killed, especially re were many women at the The one-dollar-b boys got their seats, the five-dollar-box seats Sid them from the rightfu1 owrl- any of whom stayed away until