Show j VENTY T TO A DRAW Fast Fight I Bet e Christy and Francis CHRISTY WAS VERY CLEVER 1 1 Hnd the Colored Man Outsparred nt Every Stago of the Contest but Lacked the Necessary Strength to Put Francis OutFrancis Took His punishment Chesrfully end Almost Delivered a Knockout in Final Round Big Crowd Out to See the Fight nnd All Expressed Themselves Them-selves Satisfied S Tho twentyround glove contest between be-tween young Jack Christy and Jim Francis at Clark Langes clubrooms jaot night was pronounced by dozens of the experts who attended the finest and fastest thing of the kind ever seen in Salt Lako The fight went to the limit although Christy came near to passing to tho mysterious bourne In the last round He made a wonderful rally after going down twice and was In the business when the Same ended This was Christys first fight and he proved a veritable whirlwind Had the I kid who Is scarce 19 possessed the Pi rngth 1 of Francis the whole seance would have been over in less than five und s The speed and footwork of thS hid coupled with his magnificent dodging < were quite the finest Salt Lak < has teen for many a day Francis Fran-cis merely served as a loll to show off thf cleverness < of his opponent The I bo > hit him almost at will but hlrf blows Jacked ho force of the swings of Francis and when the colored man occasionally landed one of his attempts S It hurt LIGHTNINGLIKE DUCKS Had Christy devoted more time to placing for the wind he might have i won out his raps against the head and i JIPI Ik of Francis having only the effect pf making that colored individual Ghake himself grin and butt into one snore of them There was very little Jnllphllng during the contest and as Christy has a tremendous t reach and nw 19 like a fia h he gave a superb I exhibition of boxing Francis took I what came to him good naturedly in the main but he got one or two raps In the rib department that made him long I for home and mother Francis was glad to hear the bell once and onto on-to occasions It could not have founded harsh to Christy Christy stood punishment much better than his strongest admirers exported ex-ported He took some blows on the head and neck that would have made a leIs game or a man of less endurance for first So wild Ills generalship a light was grand and taking it all in all It may safely be said that if the 1 boy keeps on lives right and gets u little stronger with 1 his great clever Ittc tronSer ness he will be able to make a showing in any mails country FORCED BY CHRISTY The details of the fight by rounds i would he merely a repetition Christy forced tho fighting throughout and probably led five times to once by Francis The kid seemed to be able to land whenever he wanted but as elated above his blows lacked the force necessary to put Francis out llriio and Francis swung for the jaw opnln wunl never planted a full owing where it would do any good during dur-ing the entire fight The kid sent dozens of swings at Franciss jaw but the < black man kept inside oC them aha > s except once or twice and then tl vdid him little harm Ills bad time was In the fifteenth round when the kid sent him a foot Into the air with a punch In the wind probably the hardest blow struck during the fight lifting FrancIs about three feet fsht lftng backward The kid followed It up like a flach and sent In a couple more before be-fore < the gong stopped the doings FRANCISS ELBOW OVERWORKED i The first visible injury occurred In j the third when the kid got his lee le-e hurt Many thought tills was done b > the elbow of Francis Francis used this elbow too much and if he gtts into the same attitude he used last night with some veferpes heIs I 50 Inc to lose a light for fouling He was rained afiout the elbow several times In thl referee He struck low once doing not a great deAl of harm and ono hp made a deliberate punch in a clinch 1 despite the agreement to break clean With these exceptions the fight was a jumarkably clean one Christys hattie bjing noticeably so Not a motion mo-tion of his Favored of dirty and < he left the house last night with the ligartl of all those who witnessed his great work Francis realized after the first round that I he was outclassed so far OB Hparrlng went and watched for a chance for a knockout I was a longtime 0 long-time coming Time altei time the kid ould deliberately dance Into a corner and shoot out of it again under one of the wickPd swings Francis aimed at him Aftor the third round for r few rounds everyone looked momentarily for the boy eeryow go out Ho seemed to l > getting weak but as the light rolled steadily along and he continued the same wonderful dodging and marvelous marve-lous sparring the opinion changed and he continued the aggressor to the end I landing twIce two good blows Kfier being knocked down In the last round KNOCKDOWNS IN THE LAST The knoekd I ckdowir 1 blows c In I CIo the itt t r 1 ll round 1lfltJ after It had gone about 1 Franei mInut Ciirbity md fowled into corner and WS Jt little slow i tluellngtH careless only time during thc fight Tre Francis quickly bent 1 Short left l hook giarlclng over the sliouldor Wh ° Jaw and followed it wh a folowed right crosscounter hrl Christy cot them hath but ty with present of rare lreSeitce > 1 mind IC oj ihV iabbod Francis and clung t to hi hIm isty unti the latter shook him off liTWenl down and I took eight xeconds bv 3hJUlns Up and saving himself Ciilching rtffnB and vJrv ducking He wag Very dizzy and Irnncis soon shook aAln off iMBlllV sending him I down again with 1 right and left to the hew Christ again 1 took five sdconda and came up the hrn dodging and clinching When broke away again hc rushed and landed both rIght and loa l t on the face docJcd u return and wns Inching again clnching and getting stronger when the bong sounded Under the rules the bout tw was de ri dared draw a both men being on UUMI feeL Francis had the better of it as to condition Wh fio Christy was to far ahead of his > i pnm opponent on points no comparison could be made First blood bOl IOECd to Christy mnle blow in the face Chrsty a Sr faee In the > ninth round Causing Franciss both nose and lips to bleed but men bore steely a mark after a afcr the fight TnX1 Bnntt refereed the bout and Jack SicNamce acted ns official time tme keeper Denver Ed Smith and George Spivins werc In Franciss corner while Ed Mccoy and hind lJcCoy Steve Davis were be Christy Jack DUlleaey announced at the ringside that he desired to meet Fran cis ngaln the latter to welghyi at 151 at the ringside FOUR PRELIMINARIES There were fOUl > Preliminaries Kid Brown and Kid Thomas furnished the Ilrst bell onto Kid Kelly and Uy Camp tiriV who were down to furnish the first one were not present having been I given n stated number of minutes to Set out of town by Judge Timmony r George Condle of Salt Lake and Jack Durleavey of Boston furnished the furnlshec second preliminary They were fol lowed by the proprietpls Clark and Lange who produced their wellknown tworound turn to the delight of the crowd The laSt Pro11 mlnary was the h best The famous Black Pearl who so Immortalized himself last Saturday had a hrccround go with another black jewel who bore the romantic name at Douglas They slugged from the start until tle crowd laughed i itself faint frequently hitting each other ocr the shoulders ° C the referee who in vain tried to separate them The clubrooms were crowded to their utmost capacity over GOO being pres ent and themselves expressing as thoroughly satisfied |