New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-26
AHEARN A BIT
TCOOEVER FOR
YOUNG WAGNER
Carries Off HonOrS in Ten
Round Bout at Cler-
mont A. c.
By IGOE.

Jake Ahearn gathered IN the price
Of Thanksgiving turkey yesterday
afternoon b. beating Young Wagner in
the main bout at the Clermont Rink, in
Brooklyn.
Jake won by dint Of brilliant boxing
throughout, though Wagner, a glutton
for punishment, gave Jake quite busy
time OF it ducking haymakers. At
times Wagner would bowl along, Hay
ing away from any old angle, driving
Jonn Bulls boy before him. Then II
was that the crowd rode Jake bit.
They logged his memory about the
coming fight with Mike Gibbons for the
worlds middeweight championship,
and when they did Jake got full head
of steam, and poor Wagner got all the
worst of IL.
Wagner had way of coming in with
arms and legs all out OF the standard
position. Jake had 10 guess then. lie
watched both Of Wagner's fists like a
hawk. but even this precaution didn't
save him from getting few stray hay
makers on the Jaw. He had Nagners
nose going from the second round on,
but Wagner didn't stop for repairs. lie
beat tattoo on Ahearn's middle in the
second round that had Mons. Mcket-
rick looking a Bit alarmed. The little
Legion Of Honor man urged Jake to
end IL quickly with a X. O., but 1t takes
a harder hitter than Ahearn to stop
Wagner.
In almost every round Wagner tried
70 hoodwink Jake with a series OF fake
groggy spells that were not bit Ike
( those occasionally used by Dr. Cross,
but they were not even good enough
for the movies. When Wagner put on
/ this little bit in zone" Ahearn SIMPLY
/ stepped back and pecked carefully at
Wagner. never coming close enough 10
get in the wake of one of his apparent
I Is healthy swings.
/ The best spot in the fight was the
third round. In that the pair mixed
it in good old Pier 8 style. Jake had
the best Of il when the dust settled.
In the seventh Jake went at Wagner IN
deadly earnest He stacked up punches
on Wagner's jaw in such rapid order
that the Wilkes-Barre walloper was
wabbling all over The pit. Jake couldnt
bring him down, however, and at the
end he was fighting strongly.
In the semi-windup frankie whitney,
the fighting carpenter, made his bow
against Walter Mohr. Whitney proved
himself TO be a game youngster. Mohr
beat him in ten rounds, simply because
Whitney was stiff and bit slow after
a five months layofr. He has great
left hand and as pretty right cross
as has been displayed hereabouts IN
some time.
Mohr had his hobnails on yesterday,
too. There wasn't thing in the art
Of rough housing that he omitted. In
the sixth round Whitney slipped in a
wet corner and went 70 one knee.
While he was in this position Mohr
cracked him on the jaw. 1t was plainly
a foul, but Mohr got away with il.
Jack Toland outfouGht Dave Kurtz
at the Broadway Sporting Club yester-
day afternoon in a great fight 1t was
nip and tuck for seven rounds, but
Toland came through with terrific
rush in the last thre rounds and COPIED
the cranberry sauce.
Allie Mack outpointed Battling George
Davis in ten rounds, and Harry Nelson,
the Bronx Bearcat, scored over Barney
Williams in the same number Of
rounds.
At the greensboro A. c. Mike Smith
defeated Sam Boyd in ten rounds. Tim
Murphy Knocked out Charley Dunn in
the seventh round, and the referee
stopped the fight between Young Cor
man and Johnny Grift in the seventh
to save Grift.