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Show THE FIELHF SPORT. Tommy Miller Btsts Tommy Morgan in a Twenty-Six Ronnd Battle at Hew Orleans. WA3 THE MAN WHO FOUGHT WEIS. Some Mors Slush From Joe McAolife, the Overgrown Other Sport kg News. Tho dispatches this morning herald the fact that Tommy Miller, of Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, defeated .Tommy Morgan of Chicago before tho Audubon club of New Orleans, last night In a hard fought battle of tweuty si.x rounds. This will surprise the many admirers of tho manly art for since his light with Ike Weir, Miller has been practically unheard of. Miller is a protege of Herb Rothcry of Omaha, who "discovered" him. Thinking perhaps that thero might bo something in him. Herb pushed nim to tho front as rapidly as possible. When he left Omaha to g'o to the const he put Miller In charge of his brother Ed who at once set out to tind whether his man was auv good or not. When Ed Roiherv starts to build a man up be generally grows pretty rapidly. Ed trained him for thruo or four mouths and then made a match with Weir. It cost him 10(X) cold hnrd dollars, too. but he didn't mind that. Miller lot the tight in the seventh round built wasn't Rothery's fault. Tho bautam escaped from the hotel an hour before thoconteit and took several drinks, was the reason. Even Kothevy did not dispair but sent his man in and told him to lift Weir over' tho ropes. Little Tommy obeyed instructions aud gave the lieltsst Spider a crack in tho kisser that made him see more stars than cau bo viewed through tho Lick telescope Tho call of time saved W.Vir from a knock out. Seeing that there was a chance, Rothcry Roth-cry sponged his man and told him to go In'again. Miller did so and the smash he gave Weir reminded the spectators of a pile driver setting fence iols But Weir got in on little Tom's dinner basket and knocked not only tho nir, but all the courngo out of him. From that moment on Roihery was at a disadvantage and while bo exercised all his powers of f'eneralship It. was no go, his chlekeu-icarted chlekeu-icarted bantam was whipped and hn only stayed long enough to eel a side-wipe side-wipe under the ear which put hliu to sleep. Rothery would still have tried to make something out of Tommy but the latter's head was swelled. Ho bad stood np In front of Ike Weir and ho was all right. So ho quit tho man win- had made him and went to Indianapolis. His first ernp. there w is with a light weight farmer who knocked a balu uf. alfalfa uut of him. Then ho went back homo and made a match with an amateur, who led him out behind a Hainmondsport barn and made a monkey of him. But iu this light. at New Orleans he seems to havo regained a little of the horse sene that Roihery tried to bent into his thick head, and he made a good light against a fairly good man. If he keeps sober and places himself In the hands of a good trainer and manager he is the coming featherweight champion. |