Show A FOUR ROUND GO teddy Gallagher and Smith Enter the Ring at Denver I The Sprinting Ability and Cleverness of I the Former Saved Him A Very Tamo ConJcst DENVER July 4SpecialReddy Gallaghers sprinting ability and eden tulle cleverness saved his bacon in his four tfc round go with Smith at tho Broadway I Broad-way Athletic park this afternoon Smith could not under the conditions win the match There was a big crowd of veil dressed pominent people at the Broadway park this afternoon after-noon to witness the Gallagher Smith contest Among the Jot were all the local sports Early in the proceedings proceed-ings there were indications of a fake People regarded a squad ot twentyfive officers under command of Sergeant Nbrkett with suspicion The sergeant gave it out cold that he had orders to stop the affair I slugging was attempted The Intervals between the bouts were unnecessarily long and the bouts them selves not satisfactory to the crowd Baldwin the bookmaker gave up his task at making bets on the affair as the crowd was shy and would not bite Odds of 1 to 2 were offered on Gallagher to stay four rounds and even money on Smith putting him out in the prescribed time The ring was constructed of eight mas sive posts and heavy ropes 150 feet from the grand stand When the first contest came on at 3 p m there were 2500 people on the grounds Jim Baker acted as master of ceremonies Reddy Coogan and Spitz opened the programme with a three round bout which was entirely a clever exhibition of openhanded work in which the pair did some neat sparring I was a hippodrome act but one which caught the crowd The next event was between the Sailor Kid and Jack Livingston I was an exhibit ex-hibit of dodging and undercutting in which neither of them did any damage The first two rounds were exceedingly tame but in the last some heavy slugging was indulged in the Sailor Kid displaying display-ing his superiority The last bout was between Sheeny Ike and Robinson the colored slugger It was a pretty exhibition of clear sparring spar-ring and long reaching Time was called at 435 and Gallagher and Smith shook hands First Round Smith followed Gallagher all around the ring and the men clinched Reddy danced away from the lead of Smith Smith followed him about Smith feinted for an uppercut and landed on both feet and sized Gallagher up The men clinched twice Smith continued feinting and then lead hotly A clinch followed and the round closed folowed without a blow being landed Second Round Smith finally caught Reddy in the mouth Smith countered again on Reddys neck ileddy runs away from him Smith lands a body blow and Reddy parried a heavy body blow Smith again feinted and Reddi ducked The round closed tame Third Round Smith goes after Reddy and clinches Smith continues to follow Reddy Smite lands two heavy body blows and follows them up Reddy clinched each time Reddy runs away Smith lands another on Reddys neck and follows him again about the ring He lands another Smith lands on back of Reddys neck and ducks Smith leads and Reddy ducks Round closed tame Reddy running away Fourth Round Smith landed a heavy one and followed him about the ring leading at him but unable to land Reddy displaying too much science Smith aimed a vicious upper cut and fell short as Gallagher was too clever to be hit and ended the round with receiving a heavy blow |