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Show JUST LIKE CAME COCKS. A Prli. Flfht the.t wu Ab.oltit.ly K.Tolt. Inr In Its Brutality. New York, July 20. A prize fight, remarkable for its astonishing brutality, toek place this morning at a sporting resort on Long Island between Tim Tomaldy and Bill Ilaggart, lightweights; light-weights; , . : Whou tjine was called thoy . wijnt at,, ech oSher tikd )amd"''cok'sf "bauruer aud tongs from beginning to end. For twenty rounds of tho twenty-eight the fight was nip and tuck. Kachpun. ished tho other severely but neither seemed to have any decisive advantage. advan-tage. The combatants were literally dripping with gore. There were ot.ly twelve persons pres-ent,including pres-ent,including the principals.and though they were old bardoned vetorans of many years of sporting experience, they winced at tho savagery they saw. It almost amounted to butchery. Roth tbe young lighters had terrilio hitting powers and they were absolutely merciless mer-ciless in using them. Finally when both had been banged into jelly in the twenty-eighth round, Tomaldy by a lucky blow caught Hog-gart Hog-gart ou the jugular, aud the latter reeled da.ed aud helpless for several seconds, nfier bo had been counted out. Neither onn was satisfied with the result. re-sult. It is thought they will meet again. |