Show WAlCOTT AND TRACY Fought Six Rounds In Chicago Last Night to a Draw DESCRIPTION BY ROUNDS HARD FIGHTING A LIVELT SLUGGING Number of Blows Landed About Even Tracy IkTore Clever I Keeping Out of the Way Walcott Landed Heavily When He R the Chance Sporting1 Intelligence Chicago Dec 27Joe Walcott and Tom Tracey met tonight for six rounds I in the Winter Circus building at Har mon Court and Wabash avenue The decision of the referee was a draw the decision being accepted a eminently a fair one by the crowd Before the fight it was announced that If Walcott won the fight he was open to fight for the middleweight championship of the r world And said Sol Van Praag who made the announcement he has posted 1000 with Louis Houseman of Chicago as forfeit and he prefers Kid McCoy This was greeted with jeers by the crowd and loud cries of La vigne Lavigne ORourke then authorized au-thorized the announcement that Wal cott was matched to fight Kid Lavigne at 137 pounds the fight to come off Feb 22 In San Francisco Wolcott was the first in the ring and was followed I quickly by Tracey In the latters corner cor-ner were Billy OConnell Joe Choynski and Billy Stilt Behind Walcott were Bob Armstrong Billy White and Tom ORourke George Slier acted as referee ref-eree Walcott weighed very close to 150 Tracey between 143 and 145 13 15 FIGHT BY ROUNDS Round Walcott led with left followed fol-lowed it up and caught Tracey with his left lightly on the body Tracey landed left on the face then a left on the Body and the men clinched both hitting ting hard with the free arm Walcott landed on the kidneys with his right Tracey got two rights to the breast as the gong sounded Round Walcott landed a right on the face and a left on the body Wal ott then rushed and a clinch followed both men fighting hard with the freer free-r Tracey landed a hard left in the face sending Walcotts head back Tracey landed a left on the breast then led with his right Walcott ducked duck-ed and landed both hands on the body as the gong sounded A HARD ROUND Round 3 Tracey landed a right on the body and Walcott came back at him with another of the same sort Tracey then sent his right to the bodv and Walcott put his left on the face Tracey rushed and the men clinched Vvalcottgettmsarlrardhltlo the baa ba-a Tracey closed in on him Tracey sent a bar left to the jaw and the men clinched Both were fighting hard with the free arm when the gong sounded and neither would let go Referee Siler having a hard time to part them Round 4Tracey landed his right on the body and then put his right on the jaw Tracey then sent his right to the body and got a left on the jaw Wal cott countered very neatly Tracey sent his right to the body again and out his left hard in the face and a clinch followed both men punching viciously with the free arm Walcott put his right on the body and the men clinched Tracey getting a left to the face in the breakaway LIVELY SLUGGING Round 5Tracey landed a hard left on the jaw as the men met in the center cen-ter of the ring He then rushed swinging swing-ing at Walcott with the left He slipped and went to the floor JValcott catching him with a left hook on the head as he went down Tracey was up in a tew seconds before the referee had any time to count Walcott landed land-ed a right on the body following it up with the left and a clinch followed Tracey sent his right hard to the body and a second later repeated the dose in a vigorous fashion Walcott rushed getting in a left and right on the body and both men slugged in a lively fashion fash-ion Tracey putting in a right and a left on the body in the mixup Walcott landed his right on the body as the gong sounded At the close of this round Tracey was bleeding slightly on the left cheek LAST ROUND Round 6The men went right at It as the gong sounded and both landed light rights on the body and a clinch followed Tracey put his left on the face Both led for the body with the left Both were blocked and a clinch followed Tracey who was somewhat inclined to keep away in this round got his right to the body and Walcott got in a stiff left to the breast rushing rush-ing Tracey to the ropes Walcott then landed a right on the body Trace got a light left to the face and ther sent his right hard on the body Wai cott then put left on the mouth and Tracey got a right hook on the jaw neither doing much damage The men fought hard throughout and the number of blows landed was about even Tracey reached Walcott nearly every time he went for him and was the more clever In keeping out of the way but Walcott landed heavily when he had Tracsy where he could get at himPRELIMINARY PRELIMINARY BOUTS The preliminary bout was between Harry Harris and David Rauch of Chicago the former at 100I pounds and the latter at 106 I was for six rounds and declared a draw Joe Sturch of Chicago and Steve Flanagan of Philadelphia met at 107 pounds Malachi Hogan of Chicago acting act-ing as referee The referee declared the bout a draw although the majority major-ity thought Flanagan should have had the decision he having landed five blows to one by Sturch Henry Los and Eddie Santry both of Chicago fought a sixround draw both men fighting hard throughout Directly after the close of this bout Tracey and Walcott entered the ring |