The Alaska daily empire., 1918-03-11
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ment Although the country at large recognized the mighty power of Sulli
 van there were few who figured | that McCaffrey, in splendid condition
 might have a good chance with John l L.
 Sixteen thousand persons witnessed the Standardization battle which was put on in Chester Park, Cincin natl. John L., whose normal fighting weight was about 196 pounds ill those days, went into the ring beam. ing 210 McCaffrey through the early rounds hal no trouble in jabbing Sullivan's face and body, but eventually the | tremendous rushing of John L. back ed McCaffrey to the ropes. When ever the champion had McCaffrey so cornered he would send crashing right handlers to the head of his lighter rival, Through the third and fourth rounds the terrific hitting of Sullivan took much of the ginger out of McCaffrey and several times dur ing the fight Dominick went down
 There was much ill-feeling between Dominick and McCaffrey partisans in that fight and many freeafor-all fights broke out in the audience dur ing the progress of the six rounds. Some of McCaffrey's friends insisted that John l.. was using tactics not entirely in keeping with the Mar quis of Queensbury rules. McCaffrey's brother, who was acting as his sec ond, got into an argument in the center of the ring with Arthur Chambers, one of Sullivan's attend ants That was between rounds Their heated verbal clash which fol- lowed provoked a fist fight and the men furnished a side issue to the main attraction by going to it. They slugged away at each other and roughed around but before they were really able to get down to "business" other ring officials jumped in and halted proceedings.
 Many different stories have been told concerning the finish of that bat tie; some of them of sensational nature Most historians have it that the contest was halted when a series of free-for-all fights broke out in the | audience and some of the crowd be- gan gun play" It has been record ed that referee Tom Tate, of Toledo, jumped out of the fight and didn't render his decision until two days later But all such stories are wrong
 The bout was scheduled to go six rounds-and it did. At it's conclus- ion, Tate, moving over to the ropes, announced to the crowd: t.ss . q award the decision to Sullivan. 1 There was so much noise at the l time that only a few persons in the ringg;de seats heard Tate. Then Bill 1 ly Muldoon, acting as master of ceremonies, jumped into the ring and 1 told Tate to reiterate his decision. But bedlam still relgned in the crowd and only a few persons heard Tate, using his hands as mega phone, shout:
 T award the decision to Sullivan; {; he had 8 decided advantage all through the fight"
 After making the second announce nent Tate jumped out of the ring and went back to the city. Some of ha newspaper men had not heard his rllling owing to the commotion and the next day some stories ap- peared which stated that Tate had made no ruling. When such articles were brought to his attention Tate denied the, truth of the assertions and just to please the newspapers, ruled in his own handwriting;
 Sullivan won the fight on points"
 (To be Continued Tomorrow