The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-14
MISKE AN EASY VICTOR IN BOUT
 WITH BEARCAT

New York, Nov. 14-Jack Dillon, once regarded as a contender for the heavyweight title, last night received the severest thrashing of his career in the ring of the Broadway Sporting club. Dillon narrowly escaped a knockout at the hands of Billy Miske, the St. Paul aspirant to the light heavyweight championship.
 Had 7Miske dropped the Hoosier Bearcat for the count it would have been the first time that the rugged young giant from the banks of the Wabash had been treated in that manner. Only the sullen courage and vitality of Dillon saved him from being put to sleep,l and the manner in which he stood up under the bonn bardment of the Minnesota mauler was a matter of wonderment to the crowd that packed the big club house.
 Only once in the entire ten rounds was Dillon on the floor, and that was A stiff right handler dropped Dillon on his side, but he sprang to his feet before the referee even counted one.
 A1ske Real Tornado.
 Half a dozen times during the com- bat Dillon, helpless, with his back against the ropes, covered his head with his gloves and stood there while Miske rained blows on body and jaw. Only once did Dillon land a blow that seemed to have any effect on Miske.s This was in the second round, when during rapid exchange Dillon shot a vicious right to Miske's jaw that sent the St. Paul boy spinning against the ropes in neutral corner.s
 Dillon naturally was trying during the early rounds to get, home to the chin with one of his deadly right hooks, but for the most part the blows went wild of the mark or Miske cleverly avoided them.
 But Miske seldom missed a blow that he aimed at his opponent, the first shot of the bout in the opening round, a right handler, landing flush on the Hoosier's jaw. Dillon here thought he saw a chance to bring Miske down, but the swing missed by a foot. Then Mdske started in on an offensive that was irresistible and car ried Dillon about the ring like a ship under bare- poles in a gale.
 One round was a copy of the pre- ceding one. Miske would lead left to the jaw and hook the right to the same spot. Then he would vary by hooking the right to the body, which is Dillon's tender spot.
 Dillon made his supreme effort in the third, when he stood toe to toe with Mislee and swapped punches at close range. Dillon could not stand the fire of his opponent and finally backed away.
 In the fourth round Aiske drove Dillon all about the ring, landing ter rife body and face blows, cutting Df1- Ions lips, and raising Jumps over his eyes. In desperation Dillon swung a heavy right, but 1t circled the Min nesotan's neck and did no damage It looked like a finish for Dillon in. the fifth, when AIiske drove his man against the ropes and had him shaI1y from a series of heavy rights to the jaw. Dillon covered and bent over to keep his body away from the terrific blows that Miske sent in. After Is seconds of battering the Hoosier broke away and getting to the centre of the ring clinehed.
 Dillon was against the ropes again at the bell taking heavy punishment. but he kept on his feet. DiIlon's steam was all gone when he came out for the sixth and his only hope was to stay the limit. He took a fearful beating in the seventh. eighth and ninth and was sent to the canvas at the beginning of the tenth.
 Dillon was getting a terrible beat ing and was reeling all about the in- closure when the bell ended the com bat. Dillon declared that the weight he made. 1S7 pounds. weakened him.
 Mske scaled at 178 1-2 pounds, K. O. Circus, a Pittsburgh feather weight stopped a novice named Young Duffy in the second round, af- ter which the P5ttsburgher lived up to his name and turned two hand- springs.