Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-26
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
SCENE Of PRETTY BOUTS
charley Mitchell, Sullivan. Corbctt
aud iitnSitnTons Have
Fought in e..
JESS MAKES FIETu SHOWING
Willard Is Familiar with Battle
Grornd-SIoran Also Has Had
Some Hard TusSlcs i'm il BEFORE
Present Engagement.


Madison Square Garden, whcr. Viii
lara and Moran boxed las, nl.ht. hus
provided battle Hround Cor many
famous pugilsts. /; was i'm thc old
Garden, under low roof. ,hit John /.
Sullivan met Tug Wilson. Charley
Mitchell ierb"rt Sladc. the Maori. Pro
f"Sspr lohn NJ. I.ailir and Aft Green
Held. Suiiiran's SCRAP with Wii.on oc-
CURED on the night of July -. 1882
, WILSON aa understood Erclishnan
managed to stay four rounds hy hug
cling Sullivan or dropping to The floor.
y great crowd saw the burcsulc and
7 Wilson "ot $1,000 Tor his uli"s tioonbI
i'ht. i"hn J.. tackled Mitchell III d
/ four round bout in the historic am
, phi'h"ater on May II, 1883 Mitchell
I scored q knockdown in tho frg; round
bu, when sullivan WAS Ut the act OF re-
deeming himself il the ;hird round
Police captain Alexander Williams put
AN Gnu 20 the milling.
Slad., the Maori who yas , hi..
"kward chap. was cn,nparativclv ,osy
\ Tor sullivan. who beat him II, three
! rounds on August 6 Of The Same year
! Professor Latin faced Lohm J.. or, No.
Nemh"i 10. 1854 and also WAS beaten
\
polio. stopped SuiliVa,'S hattie with
/ tlf Greenfield. an EngIisIl fighter. i'm tho
second period Tho Garden was re-
! constructed in 1891 and 4 year later
Jim torbctt. matched to ish, Sullivan.
MAD" his first appearance there when
u" easily whipped Hn SpllinGs Bob
iCufcy ana Joe L;tnuan IN rap!d sue
c"SSi"n ;he same evening
| The next Important glove contest In
| the Garden was q four-round affair he
tween Gcorg" Dixon. the fcathcrwcight
champion. aud Riliy piilnracr Of Eng
land. II was strictly science all tho
way. and tn" referee. steve O'bouucu
! Of Australia. declared Plimmrr had
won on points. This contest took place
on August 80. 1898 and three wears la
Ter Dixon boxed a siN-round draw with
3 'cdler Palmer. another clever little
! Triton The police th"n intcrfercd with
- iicAt between Frank = Siavii. an
, Australian h"avywciSht. anu Peter
Mahc" after they had cntercd the fourth
round
RoNing in New York was prohibited
W thc authorities after ,hat untB the
Horton law went into effect. fEut the
iardtn wasn't uscd again as fight
CIV wu'il lN@? The WalCott- West
fakc. described last week was proh
abs the most important bout In the
biz arena prior To the memorable fight
in which Rob tit2si!nmons knocked on,
GVS i;uhlln ia six rounds on the night
,"f August 10. 1900 Three weeks after
that affair Corbcti and Mccoy partici-
patod in another sham battle in which
Mccoy took the full count in The ffth
round. That was the las; biz: elov"
contest decided in the Garden until the
Frawlty Laws was enacted in 1911. for
the reason that the Horton statute was
wiped ont OH September |, 1900
RECE:NT GARDEN BAT"TLES
UNDER THE PRESENT LAW
willard is the FIRST heavyweight
champion seen in the Garden since
John l.. Sullvan's time corhctt. il u
true. appeared at Suliivan's benefit in
the Madison square arena In 1895, three
Mars after Gentleman Jim had won the
iItle a; New Orleans. But COrbctt ana
sullivan merely boxed -four rounds III
the fricuGii,st way. Jcffrics Never put
up his hands i'll the Garden and t'itz
simmons. when he stopped Rubin
there. wasn't the champion.
willard, under IN. present law, has
boxed four times in The Garden I'm the
ten round bouts with the late Luther
McCarty. Arthur Pelky ana Carl Nor
r,s. also with soldier kcarns. who was
stopped in cinht rounds Morans only
appearances in the Garden ring were
ia bouts which resulted in two knock
outs for Jim Coffcy The first battle
III tho Garden. under the f'raw!ey law,
brought together *. -. brown and Matt
$4,000 in gate receipts. tircman Jim
Flynn handed a terrific heating TO Carl
Morris in Tn. same ring later on.
l'roba big the most exciting scrap of
recent years in th" Madison Square
ring was that between Bomba rdi n
: Wells. the British heavyweight cham
pion. ana Albert ial%cr Wells almost
scored y knockout at The outset. but he
. was ti.aliy put 70 sleep IN .hc third
round. Wells also was sent into
drcamiand IN Two rounds by GUnboat
smith som" time after the go" with
l I'aiZer. Another sensational event was
Eddie McCoorty's victory over Dave
. Smith, the Australian n1iddieweight
champion. in The first round.
!. MrGoorty also stopped lack Harri-
y son, OF England, in less than y round
: in subsequent fight IN the Garden
! but Tho former soon ios; prestige in
:, uuc"r-loolinr tcu-r"Und bout with
I: Mike Gibbons. Jack Di1lon's bout with
: Frank Klaus in the Garden was a raw
= piece Of crude work, but other mat chrs
\. save general satisfaction. notably tho
p, Mcfarland Bri;Iuu, Ritchic- Cross. Me
Y Farland Wells. Cofcy-Rcich, Dundee
Richie aud Freddie Wcish's tuSslcs
$ with Charley White. Eitchie and Shu-
rruc.