Show Pugilism IL i FIGHT A DRAWl FOUGHT TWENTY + BOUNDS AND I wAS THEN = STpPPED Was a Game Performance On Part oft of-t Both Men Will Be Hatched i Again to Fight Soon If r SneclfJ to The Herald I L I Mercur Spcc uth Oct 14 Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the Inclemency of the weather a s large audience patronized the Cotton Rowan fight The fist preliminary was and Billy Lynott between Joe Dailey ad Biy I In which borne gx < d work was shown Wilson fur Condip Arthur Roy ana WIsn nshed the next auction and fought I and Their work called fast ad furious Ther The forth the cheers of fie audience main event was net called L William Holmes of Provo was chosen as referee Billy Lynolt Silent Rowan ti a rdere BU Lyott Sient and Jack Hanson were behind the Dummy Joe Daiesy Arthur Wilson and Smith were with Cotton Gore Starkey and Ortho Pricer acted a timekeepers l otton was the first to appear and ttn wa hLr frirnfjs raised < i howl of del ht rse Dumni starrivai was greeted with a lund ofJJipphuiee Henry Water an nounredSlhat Dummy offered to bet T5 that lie would v ip Cotton and in that case would met Joe Daile to ca rounds 250 or 1 top Dummy in ten runds fpr 20 500 In case of the Dummys defeat an unknown would meet Dailey for the same stakes In the first round the fighting started out in good shape both men got In am sape the I some god blows Cotton was quickest and was able to block most of the Dummys rushes and occasionally succeeded in landing Honors were about even aut second round was a repetition of the frt and in fact so were all the smrc ceding rounds The Dummy rushed the fighting and he didnt have to hunt around tor his opponent as Cotton Cot-ton stayed close In The Dummy succeeded suc-ceeded in landing same good blows on j the ribs md jaw but their effect was to some extent lost bv the cleverness I of the colored man I the third the Dummy got in some good work and the colored man injured god k olred jured his thumb and fought mostly on the defensive This round was decidedly In favor of the Dummy The fourth still showed the Dummy leading and Cotton cleverly blocking There were several mi ups and the Dummy again seemed to have the best I agn of it I In the fifth the Dummy seemed to be slightly winded and wheta he landed Ihs I-hs blows lacked force He played for his opponents wind and jaw and landed I land-ed several times In the sixth Cotton go In some good I work and landed several times but the Dummy faMed to tend and the round caused Cottons stock to rise in value The seventh and eighth were without Te any noticeable difference both did some sparring for wind and i began to look as if the fight might go on in defmiteh dcn Th ninth round was a hummer Both men went at It in dead earnest and there were some mar exchanges of J blows Thee werp several mixups and both men fell reyeatedlv In the tenth the Dummy led off with j a right in thp ribs dnton madp a wild lead and missed and was rewarded i v th a hard left on th jaw From then Ion I deal same I on the fight had a great of ness The Dmium rushed the lighting and beth men did good work The Dumnivs short ic ch wws against him and tIme after time he failed to land his bio vs Cot m allowed his opponent to do most of the rushing but occasion ally 5urcecded in finding his man After the teeth It looked a if neither could hit hard enough to knock the other ont Still they would recuperat and do some rood work In tN nineteenth and twentieth the lighting was fierce and as either would 1ghtn to have the best of it shouts would oome fiom the audience for their favorites When Holmes declared the fght a draw Holme but few dissenting dis-senting voices and all agreed that sentng bh men were good fighters and the fiEM one of the bqst they had ever itir Cotton declared he wanted to T caton fight the Dummy qnce more and his th > Henge was immediately taken up and the date will b fixed a soon a iwes bt The next sporting event will our Tuesday evening when Silent Rowan wiil meet Frank MOon of Denver in a twentyround g Both men are featherweights and both are very clever I promise to 1 > e as good a exliibitton as the fight tonight > The men a who fought tonight are well fout Te boxer matched Cotton 1 the better and haw the longest reach The Dummy ad lOIes hard flgJiter atod keeps coming He is a L Is a hard man to whip Both receIved a great deal of punishment and were apparently well ab e to take It Cotton agaInst tfltitude was aims that the attudE a anst h IP a he was not yet acclimated i |