| Show ON A FOUL The Great LightWeight Fight Between Bowen and Myer Is Awarded the Former In 1 the Twentyfourth Round on I Foul A Game Affair NEW ORLEANS May 19The great lightweight light-weight fight between Andy Bowen the Louisiana tornado and Billy Myer the Streator cyclone took place tonight in the famous Olympia club Nearly three thousand people witnessed the contest Betting was 100 on Myer to 30 on Bowen These men it will be remem bored met last May and fought twent six rounds at the end of which Myers manger man-ger Cheeney gave up tho fight Myer was not knocked out but bruised and knockef bloody and presented the appearancE of a man very nearly beaten Bowen was seconded tonight by Bob Farrell and Tom Kelly while Myer was seconded by Link Pope Andy Myer and Alf Kennedy Alexander Brewster was appointed referee In the first round Bowen was wary and Iyer aggressive Bowen hit Myer a smasher on the head knocking him down and repeated the knock down again in a short time 1 In the second round Myer continued to crowd Bowen and received a hard swing on the eye Bowen got a heavy left hander on the left ear Bowen landed with his right on Myers right eye sound ing all over the house In the third round Myers nose was bleed I lag freely and he received a smash on the ribs thatnearly knocked him down Bowen staggered Myer with a right hand swing and landed a right hand body punch the force of which was broken by Myers retreat In the fourth Myer kept pressing on in i spite of hard blows from Bowen and succeeded suc-ceeded in landing a righthander on Bowens nose In the fifth sixth and seventh sharp blows were exchanged but nothing decisive de-cisive In the eighth Myer tired of being the aggressor and tried to pull Bowen on but the latter was too cautions Finally when Bowen did lead Myer knocked him down In the ninth Myer was staggered by a righthander but kept pushing and ida id-a blow in the stomach a moment later In the the tenth eleventh and twelfth there were some sharp exchanges and Bowen was evidently getting angry He began to fight viciously but with bad judgment He smashed Myers eye with a righthander and it bled profusely In the thirteenth ana fourteenth Myer begged Bowon to lead Bowen responded with a smash onMyors stomach Myer landed his right solid on Bowens head In the fiteenth sixteenth and seventeenth seven-teenth there was sharp fighting both land ing heavy blows Bowen finishing the round with a heavy right on Myers jaw following one delivered on the stomach Myers stomach was looking very bad at this time He had a terrible black eye which was bleeding at one corner and a bloody nose Myer still continued his aggressive D ag-gressive tactics and in the next few rounds landed some hard blows seeming to get ground In the nineteenth after a sharp clinch Myer in breaking away fell In the twentieth Bowen landed knock inn Myer to the ropes Tho referee cau tioned Myer to fight fair The Streator boy was evidently eager to finish the fight 1 but could not land In the twentysecond Bowen landed a heavy righthander on Myers sore left eye and left on his stomach Myer landed a vicious righthander and committedjseveral fouls In the twentyfourth round Myer fouled Bowen several times and the crowd became be-came boisterous The referee awarded the 1 fight to Bowon on a foul President Nowell said a final decision would be rendered tomorrow Several Myer men think Myer lost the battle justly |
