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Show THE AIJ.KXOIrCOOLi: FIGHT. A Disgusting: and Bniti'.l Kx-hi Kx-hi bition. St, Louis, The prize fight between be-tween Tom Allen and Mike Met. 'cole took place this afternoon at a noin torty-tive miles alxive here and was. witnessed by a crowd of l2.0(l persons who went up in a steamer which conveyed con-veyed the contestants to the 'jrnur.d. Tiie fight was brief, fierce aud :Wdy, Allen w inning in seven rounds fought I in twenty minutes, and giUing lirst j blocl in the first round, and first knock down in the fourth. MeCoole ! was terribly battered: his face at the j end of the battle being swollen to a j 1 bloody mass of flesh and both eyes j j closed, while Allen eseaptd with i I scarcely a scratch, his antagonist I ! never having succeeded in touching j j his face. Arthur Chambers and ! Patsy Shepherd were Allen's seconds, 1 Tom Kelly and Dublin Tricks, Me-I Coolc's. The folio wing is a discrip- i lion of the last round fMcCcole pros- I en ted a horrible appearance and i seemed scarcely able to hold his j hands, his left eye was closed and he had a terrible cut under the riciit eye. , The richt side of the appeflip wa cut anil his nose broken. Before he toed the mark, Alien said -i It is a siiame to seed that man up to te punished ; if you don't take hun away I II disfigure lum fur lifts hei the ga most man I cermet." lhe crowd also called, " Take hhn away ! take him away !" The ron::d w.ia gone through with, but Allen refrained re-frained from striking his opponent any further. The tight had lasted ci'-rhtcn minutes, and when time w.is called for the eighth n-n. i K-.-iy thn-w un a while handkerv :.h f in token ol ids principal's u. i'e:ii. |