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Show utul tripping his antagonist. It was clever but failed t' produce the intended in-tended results. Hut Reese got in a few good blows. . ' When time was called for tiie sixth and last found Dempscv appeared to be anxious to finish his nppoi t, who was ((iiite lively. Both sli'gjed hard, the westerner doing most ut the rushing. Cries of "knock him out, Kid!" were heard ou cvervside, but when the round was over half 'finished Dempscv lauded a lol't-lini.dor under Reese's chill, and he fell backward into a policeman's 'arms. He -wan not stunned, and upon lie hasly call of timetrotled to his cor-' cor-' nor, unit the crowd dispersed.- Uempsey Uemp-sey had the best of it all the way through.-., Dempsey is the man who last winter was s) uiimeivifully thrashed by Jim Lindsay of Omaha in a light that broke up in a row. FOUGHT SIX ROUNDS, A Lively Little Mill In Denver, Colorado. Col-orado. Dkjvkr, May 13. A lively little set-to set-to took place at tho Ilaymarket theater Saturday night about 1 o'clock. Tho principals were Young Dempsey from 'Frisco and George Keeso the '"Montana '"Mon-tana Kid." J. W. Murphey acted as referee aud Billy Woods aud Jimmy Bates as seconds. Tho stage was alive with police to see that it was only a friendly sparring match. The conditions were that young Demusoy should slop the "Kid" m six rounds, which ho did. When lime was called both sprung to tho center, shook hands and took tho offensive, each waiting for an opening. The "Kid" made some vicious rushes, which Dempsey avoided by clever ducking. duck-ing. Several clinches occurred, tho "Kid" each time trying to get iu an upper cut, but invariably failed, ami the round eiulea w itli no damage dune. (lulled they were, for in lhc third Dempsey had Keeso almost at his mercy and fought him all over the stage, and could have finished him if lie had desired. de-sired. Tho police wero again undetermined as to what to do, but finally gave wax-to wax-to the eutri'aties of tho crowd.' A minute's rest and they wero at it again. Dempsey seemed' to hit the "Kid" with considerable regularity, ! and was evidently the most scienced man. During the round the Denver , lad .received a right-handed swing on ;. his left ear that almost staggered him, beside several other pretty hard raps, and just as tho round was' Hearing the end, Dempsey. gave him a left-hander, straight from the shoulder, and the "Kid" went backward in the tlies. Instead In-stead of resting hi ten seconds, he hastily gathered himself together arid came staggering ou the stage. A light blow would have put an end to the light, but the police interfered.' They w ere determined to stop it right there, but the friends of each assured the blue coals thiit it was mt accidental blew, and that It was only a friendly set-to-. Keese seemed lo have taken on board a Iresh supply of Kovkv mountmu zephyrs in the fourth and was more careful, but determined. 'Dempsey punished pun-ished him some, at the same' time avoiding a return blow bv ducking. The "Kid" got in a pretty' hard blow-on blow-on his opponent's neck 'just as the round closed. ' In the -fifth both seemed lo have regained re-gained a little strength. The "Kid'' Jed viciously for Deinpsev's nock, but the latter ducked, going to tho flour |