| Show THE SPORTING WORLD The Athletic Exhibition at Electric Elec-tric Light Hall LYNOTT AND RICHARDS SPAR Referee Williams Make Them Fight Eleven Bounds Some Interesting Events TUK of War Spnrtins Splinters The benefit tendered to Herbert Slade the Maori at Electric Light hall last evening eve-ning attracted a fairsized crowd and the entertainment proved very interesting I opened with a fourround bout between Jack Hays and George Anderson two very clever lightweights They sparred with a great deal of dash and gave a pretty exhibition exhibi-tion At the end of the four rounds honors were about even and the referee called it a draw Next came aeatchascatchcan wrestling contest three In five between Gus Hard ing and Hebe Mackey The latter was not in it with Harding who had his man down for the first fall in about three seconds 1 Tao next tout was a repetition of the first except that it didnt last quite so long Mackey came up for the third somewhat more wary but Harding would not be denied and soon had his hold The struggle strug-gle lasted about half a minute when Mackey went down with three points on he carpet Captain C H Reilly then came on and gave one of the prettiest exhibitions of club swinging ever witnessed here The most difficult and beautiful evolutions were performed with a grace and ease teat greatly pleased the spectators The programme was now varied by a threeround sparring contest between champion Jim Williams and Jack Martin The latter of course was outclassed but 10 made it quite interesting for the champion cham-pion who showed up in magnificent form pVilliams exertions in this bout were not very fatiguing as he appeared in the next setto with Tom Mulligan a scrapper from Frisco The latter was not in condition and the affair only lasted a round Then came the most uninteresting setto of the night the principals being Lynott the plucky young fighter from the fort and Richards the colored cyclone Jim Williams acted as referee and at 035 time was called Lynott opened tee bal with 1 punch in the face and cautious sparring followed both men waiting for an opening Towards To-wards the end of the round Lynott tried for the stomach and landed lightly Tho coon opened hostilities in the second with a rive for the face but was short This was followed by an exchange Lynott retting in on the ear while Richards left his trade mark on his opponents body The third was interesting because Richards would not make a move off of the defensive Lynott aid everything in his power to tempt him but the coon do dined Lynott managed to land a light one on the body and Richards made one lead and the round ended In the fourth Richards became reckless and got in a couple of love taps on the shoulder Lynott made one lead for the body but was short The gladiators occupied occu-pied tno rest uf the time In making beautiful ful grand stand piays which brought forth a chorus of groans and hisses There was a decided improvement in the fifth Richards landing a pretty one on the mouth and catching a light one on the ribs i in return The coon again led and ga in two more in the face Lynott landing lightly on tho body The round closed wifi another an-other exchange which did no particular damage The sixth round opened with cautious I I sparring and finally Lynott got an opening I open-ing Then how he did wake up He followed fol-lowed up his advantage and planted four or live blows on the face Then the coon took a stand and returned every blow with interest in-terest At the end of the round honors wore even and Referee Williams ordered two more rounds This decision pleased the crowd immensely though the sparrers did not seem to be particularly pleased with it They commenced walking around the ring as usual and the three minutes went by without anything being done The referee kept them going however and finally fin-ally the men indulged in just enough sparring sparr-ing to break the monotony of the thing and time was called In the eighth Richards led with a drive for the body landed followed it up and got in on the face A moment later the coon got in another on the face and got away Lynott then commenced leading and landed three times on the face but each 1 ege cl lf y d follow his time he neglected to advantage I was the coons turn next and ho get home on the body a couple of times Mutters I Mut-ters zigzagged along in tr is way for about ten minutes when Referee Williams once more won the approbation of the audience by calling for two more rounds Nothing was done until some time in the ninth until the coon made a break and fought Lynott to the ropes landing several times in the face A rally followed and it was give and take hammer and tongs for about a minute The rest of the time was occupied in sparring and very tame sparring spar-ring it was i The tenth round was a repetition of the ninth and Referee Williams called for another announcing that if nothing was done this time neither party would get anything any-thing More applause i The men came up and as Lynott made two or three leads during the round the referee announced that he had a shade the i best of it and gave him the contest I The exhibition closed with a sotto be twten Slado and OBrien of Philadelphia This bout was simply for points and gave entire satisfaction TUG OF WAR I It was expected that there would bo some further pulls in the tug of war tournament I yesterday afternoon but only three of the teams put in on appearance and they found I some of the apparatus gone The standing of the teams is therefore as announced tOf I yesterday with Norway first v The American teamunder Captain Lange and a picked team of + m Scandinavians including Larson the gieat anchor of the Norwegians pull tonipit at Walkers pavilion pa-vilion for t200 a side and the entire gate M eipts The Scandinavians will be captained cap-tained by Al Ecklund of the Swedes The pull will commence at 8 sharp The teams entered in the second tug of war tournament are working enthusiastically enthusias-tically and thero will be some exciting contests when they come together SPORTING SPLINTERS I is expected that Peter Jackson Rior dan and Sam Fitzpatrick be hero about Wednesday night to give an exhibition and Colonel Kelly has hopes of arranging a meeting between Jk Williams and Fitzpatrick Fitz-patrick Next summer will witness considerable activity in boating Jim Williams is in splendid condition now hem and is fit to go against the best of |
