Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-01-22
SHADOW BOXING
FEAT|UREDCARD
LAST EVENING
Hayes Hit Hay EARLY With
Headache-Crowd Sin
cerely Disappointed

Punk" said the crowd hast night
IN condemning the so-called h6ns
exhibition staged at the Metropolitan
theater. A large crowd gathered to
witness what gave promise of being
n of the fastest mills ever staged in
Grand Forks. They were, cnthustas-
tic at the beginning of the alleged
and the participants to the attic. with
things that are not wanted. condem-
ing the affair at it's close as Punk"
The crowd vas right.
The curtain raiser was a slow four
round affair to be borne patiently.
The next go was mo as long as 1t
lasted-about a round and . haf. Tho
main ,event-the go that. was sup
posed to be a fast thing-between
Keller and Bliven was-but why hang
crepe?
AS a shadow boxing eveslf It was
wonderful. As a love fest 1t vas
beautiful, As a perfectly decent
dancing number 1t was ma As a
wrestling match it might have filled
the bill-BUT AS A BOXING MATCH
1T WAS BUNK
Keuor-BHyen.
Some delay before the main event
occurred while a trade Of tights was
effected but finally Keller and Bttven.
receiving ovations from the fans. took
their corners and Ben Blanchard was
the third man in the ring.
The. first W rounds Of the alleged
dent tw~o-stepping ability of both
men It looked as though one was
afraid and the other dastn't But the
crowd was patient, expecting that tho
men were feeling each other out
preparatory to some real mixing.
Along in the fourth or fifth round
it actually seemed that one Of the
men had deeply offended the other
and that someone might get angry
the sixth round Bliven asked Keller
for the next two-step and was ac-
copied. Keller clasped Bliven fond
1y around the neck but one-stepped
on the others toes and for a while
some rather snappy blows were ex-
changed. Both were highly ex-
a~sperated.
Later in the event the men seemed
TO make amends for their harshness
and they treated each other nicely for
the remainder of the evening. At the
end of the bout the gong sounded like
to tolling of a bell while slow and
mournful music would rave been ap-
propriate to usher the dead bout to
its grave. W.
11&O~GIDeft.
IaRo and Gilbert participated in a
slow f~our-round curtain raiser event.
Iago easily had the edge on Gilbert
four rounds, but Gilbert must have
been working by the hour and not
over-exerting himself.
Sanders-D. Bhven.
The first round of the Sanders
Bliven bou showed the only real
fighting Of the evening. Sanders had
the weight and ring experience
against D.. Bliven's evident eagerness
for the fray and pure nerve. The
bout ended In the second round when
Sanders planted several stiff ones on
his opponents head that put him to
his knees.
Bliven rose to hts feet staggering.
and as the outcome was evident, a
useless mawiing was prevented by the
referee and crowd who stopped the
bout from going any further. 1t
must be said of Donald Bliven that
his eagerness to mix was commenda-
able. He did not show the sailing
tendencies Of others on the card.
regular scrapper n it Is. likely that
he may be d OF the main pardci-
pants in the next exhibition +
Promoter Dtappoinhod
Dad Hayes voiced his keen disap-
potntnentr in the exhibition as fol-
lows: This fight was the biggest
disappointment Of any show I ever
proPoted. The boys failed me-: T
don't know what was the matter but
they certainly didn't put up a fight"
q Blanchard of Grand Forks
refereed the event and did his best to
prevent the ~so-called boxers from lov-
ing each other too much but they
were SO afectionate that Blanchard
had a hard time OF it.