The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-07

MolincauX had Iis first fight In
England July 20. 1910, a hundred and
twelve years ago. His opponent was
Bristol man, The fight lasted an
hour. at the end OF which time the
English fighter. to quote local ac-
count OF that day. was so severely
punished that 1t was impossible to
distinguish single feature OF his
face"
Next the negro fought Tom Blake,
known as tom Tough" who was
seconded by Tom Cribb. the English
champion. and Bin Gibbons. who
may have been an ancestor OF the
fighting Gibbons family
Mollneaux mnuled Blake for eight
rounds. finishing him with tre-
mendous hit ON the head that com
pletely took all recollection out OF
him. as an English sporting writer
quantity described II, lie knocked
out n number Of other opponents.
one OF whom was "Rimmer of Ian
caster" Molineaux knocked Rim
mer out with dreadful stom-
acher" In the fifteenth round upon
which the crowd broke down tho
ring and attacked Molincaux from
the antipathy felt against "A man OF
color proving the COnqueror."
Freeman. the American Giant.
'BoNiana' describes the scene as
follows.
"The confusion was beyond every
thing, sticks and whips at work In
all directions, 10000 people In one
rude Commotlon,"
Twenty minutes later. Rimmer be-
ing on his feet again. a ring OF men
surrounded the battlers and the
] A ~
beat Rimmer to a pulp. Later
MolincauN was twice defeated by
Tom Cribb, with some assistance
from the crowd, which had no mind
to see an English champion beaten
by foreigner
Charles Freeman Of New York, a
circus acrobat feet 10 inches tall.
went to England and become heavy
weight champion about hundred
years ago.
In later days John c, Hccnan, the
! Benccia Roy, went across to fight
| Snyers. the English heavyweight
| champion In the first formally ar
hanged match for the worlds cham
pionshlp. Heenan was a much big
| ger man than Sayers and in spite
OF the English champions fine SKIN,
was beating him badly when the
stopped the fight,
Tho referee called the bout
draw" and championship belts were
ordered given both men, Sayers re.
celved his. but Heenan's belt was not
paid for and he never got II.
Jake kilrain fought Jpm smith OF
| England for the championship along
In 1857 I'm Belgium. Tho fight went
lO6 rounds--I,ondon prize ring rules
and when Smith was VIII pped the
crowd broke down the ring and at
tackled kilraln to prevent a knock
out. The referee hurried back to
England and next day gave a de-
| layed decision, calling the fight a
draw" In the old days Americans
found tough going on the other side,
Jack OBricn's Champion.
John l.. sullivan went To England
ana challenged Jom Smith, but
couldn't get fight. lie claimed the
| International championship.
Rob FitZsimmOns went to England
on a trip, but they had heard OF
| Bob and nobody would give him a
| battle,
| In 1901 Jack O'Brien skipped over
| TO England and had wonderful
| time among the English heavy
weights O'Rrieu was a shifty light
heavyweight, cunning and skllful
| with fair punch and plenty OF
gamenoss aud audacIty, lie didn't
have much OF knockout record a.
home and was headed off from any
available championship by the ex-
istence OF Bob Fit2simmons. Tom
Sharkey, Jim Jcffries Kid Mccoy,
Gus Rubin and host OF good fight
ing heavyweights.
n a IA. a
cha mpion. lie cleaned up Harry
Smith in three rounds, Jack Thomp-
son IN 2, George Crisp in II, Ha ~
! Newmier In six. ''ck Scales( Cham
pion) In six, Dido Plumb in siN, Miku